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Industrial Engineering Program
Human Factors Area
Faculty
in the Human Factors Area are concerned with the interaction of people
with engineering systems, such as automobiles, airplanes, robots, and
medical simulators and measurement equipment. Many faculty and students
in this area at Iowa are affiliated with the Center
for Computer-Aided Design (CCAD) and the Public
Policy Center. They also interact with the transportation group within
the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, the mechanical systems
group in Mechanical Engineering Program, and with the Neuroscience Department
in the University of Iowa Medical School.
Faculty
The faculty affiliated with the Human Factors Area are listed below. Descriptions of specific research projects in this area can be accessed through research links on the individual faculty pages.
Human Factors Faculty with Primary Appointments in MIE
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Research Interests: Human factors, modeling driver behavior, user acceptance of new technology, commercial vehicle operations and transportation safety. |
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Research Interests: Human factors, driver response to in-vehicle technology, computer models of driver performance, trust in automation. |
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Research Interests: Human factors, driver behavior assessment and measurement, accident analyses, perception and information processing, sensory capabilities and limitations, industrial hygiene; computer simulation (traffic engineering or manufacturing), statistical analysis and modeling, software and database design, intelligent systems, image processing and vision systems. |
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Research Interests: Virtual reality, robotics, human-computer interaction. |
Human Factors Faculty with Secondary Appointments in MIE
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Research Interests: Behavioral disturbances resulting from CNS injury, neural substrates of human vision (attention and visuomotor coordination), aging and dementia, driving performance in neurological disease, driving simulation. |
Courses
Numerous graduate courses in the Human Factors Area are offered at both the 100- and 200-levels.