November 5, 2021
Paper published in JAMA Network Open
Sensors can help measure team performance during robotic surgeries
News & Events
October 7, 2021
HFES 2021 Human Factors Prize goes to Purdue
"An Adaptive Human-Robotic Interaction Architecture for Augmenting Surgery Performance Using Real-time Workload Measurement" has been selected as the winner of the HFES 2021 Human Factors Prize.
September 1, 2021
Team led by Wachs and Yu wins Distinguished Interdisciplinary Research Award
Recent MSIE graduate, Juan Antonio Barragan, and Daniela Chanci Arrubla won the RSJ/KROS Distinguished Interdisciplinary Research Award at IEEE's RO-MAN 2021 for their work, titled "SACHETS: Semi-Autonomous Cognitive Hybrid Emergency Teleoperated Suction".
July 10, 2021
HEAL and Nursing collaboration publishes paper on pandemic impacts on nurse decision-making
Congrats Nick (HEAL PhD student), Megan (HEAL undergraduate), and nursing team!
June 14, 2021
HEAL team presents at the International Ergonomics Association 21st Triennial Congress (virtual)
Presentations showcase HEAL collaborations with Stefanidis from IU Surgery and Sasangohar from Texas A&M
June 3, 2021
Awarded 1st Place Research Talk at Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference
Congrats Cloris. Well-deserved recognition for her talk on "Prolonged Standing in the Operating Room”!
June 3, 2021
Yu invited panelist for The Future of Telemedicine in Emergency Medicine and Training Workshop
Yu will be discussing the human factors implications in the context of technological needs and innovation for emergency response providers
May 22, 2021
Yu and Kang organize panel on computer vision in human factors at 2021 IISE Annual Meeting (virtual)
Many thanks to Li, Peng, Wang, Radwin, and Li for joining the panel!
May 10, 2021
HEAL and RCHE collaboration publishes paper on infusion pump disruptions to nursing workflow
Yu, Obuseh (HEAL student), and Delaurentis (RCHE) leveraged big infusion datasets to identify factors that impact infusion pump alerts and alarms