Human Factors

Exploring cognition & decision making



  • Human factors engineering; Distributed human supervisory control; Team coordination and performance using information technology (Barrett Caldwell)

  • Neurotrauma; Assistive Technology/Rehabilitation Engineering Physiological Control (Bradley Duerstock)

  • Digital human modeling; Safety engineering; Work methods and measurement; Ergonomics (Vincent Duffy)

  • Construction safety; Risk management; Decision making (Behzad Esmaeili)

  • Complex Systems; Graph Theory and Network Science; Information Theory; Neuroimaging and Brain Connectomics (Joaquín Goñi Cortes)

  • Health Outcomes; Program Evaluation in Health Services research for Older Adults (Zachary Hass)

  • Decision-making under uncertainty, applied to climate change adaptation and environmental policy; Flood risk modeling; Sustainable agriculture; Environmental risk communication and decision support tools; Multi-criteria tradeoff analysis (David Johnson)

  • Human Factors; Technical Assistance Program (TAP); Safety engineering; Hazard Communication and Decision Support Systems (Mark Lehto)

  • Cognitive ergonomics; Human-automation interaction; Multimodal/multisensory information processing; Adaptive displays; Aging and technology (Brandon Pitts)

  • Design, monitor, and control of complex systems; Behavior-based dynamic control; Process/system model, analysis, and improvement; Machine learning and artificial intelligence; Healthcare system re-engineering (Yuehwern Yih)

  • Quantifying intraoperative workload; Developing patient factors based workload models; Medical device design and usability testing; Integrating wearable sensor devices to develop intelligent health systems (Denny Yu)