Surface Transportation Technical Group

7th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training and Vehicle Design The Sagamore Resort on Lake George Bolton Landing, New York June 17-20, 2013      This symposium is focused on providing an interdisciplinary forum for scientific exchange between users of driving assessment tools, applications and technology. Attendees will include researchers and practitioners working on applications of driving assessment from the perspective of engineering, psychology, medicine, and public health. For more information, please visit: http://drivingassessment.uiowa.edu/

Ergonomics in Design (EID) is planning a special issue on human factors/ergonomics solutions to global warming and climate change. EID is soliciting article contributions to this special issue on any topic related to how human factors/ergonomics principles and practices have been applied, or are being applied, in efforts to address global warming and climate change. Articles should show how critical the science of human factors was for the project or research, provide useful information to practitioners, and show how the results of the project or research addresses the problem of global warming and climate change. Information for how to submit articles is below. Pascala and Socolow (2004, Stabilization wedges: Solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies. Science, 305 (5686), 968-972.) proposed that the fundamental scientific, technical and industrial solutions to global warming and climate change were already available, and, if i...

STTG member Anthony McDonald received dual honors at the 2012 HFES annual meeting for his lead role in the paper titled “Real-Time Detection of Drowsiness Related Lane Departures Using Steering Wheel Angle.” After being named Best Student Paper by the Surface Transportation Technical Group, the article also won the Alphonse Chapanis award, the top honor for student-authored submissions to the conference. The paper’s co-authors are Chris Schwarz, John Lee, and Timothy Brown. An abstract is included below. Tony is a graduate student in the School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. You can learn more about him at his website, https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/admcdonald/web/. Real-Time Detection of Drowsiness Related Lane Departures Using Steering Wheel Angle Anthony D. McDonald (1), Chris Schwarz (2), John D. Lee (1), Timothy L. Brown (2) (1) University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA (2) National Advanced Driving Simula...

Battelle’s Center for Human Performance & Safety (CHPS) is currently seeking a Research Scientist to join their team in Seattle, Washington.  CHPS human factors staff provide a human-centered approach to the development and evaluation of programs, systems, and products. The human factors researchers at Battelle combine human factors tools and techniques with behavioral science, computer science, and engineering expertise to address the needs and requirements of users, operators, and maintainers. Clients include both government and industry organizations in the transportation, energy, and national security domains. Human Factors Research Scientists work with our technical staff to conduct human factors research with general direction, but limited supervision. Primary activities include literature searches and reviews, field data collection and analysis, laboratory data collection and analysis, and execution of human factors analyses based upon available data. ...