Projects
I FEEL SCIENCE: Innovative Flexible Experimental Environment for Learning in SCIENCE (Award No. DRL-0736221 )
The goal of the project, sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF), is to integrate haptic feedback into the I FEEL SCIENCE in a way that evokes tacit, embodied knowledge to support visually impaired students’ construction of knowledge, to reduce their misconceptions of scientific concepts, and to improve their attitudes toward science learning .
Experimental evidence on team coordination and collaboration within a distributed logistics network (Award No. HHMI 52005890)
The goal of the project, sponsored by Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), is to provide experimental evidence on team coordination and collaboration within a distributed medical logistics network by conducting a series of empirical experiments on psychological factors that may facilitate or hinder team effectiveness in medical logistics contexts.
A model-based risk map for roadway traffic crashes (Award No. MBTC-2098)
The primary objective of the project is to develop a model-based traffic risk mapping technique that can be used to estimate and visualize traffic crash risk in Arkansas at the county level for state-maintained rural, two-lane, low volume roads (fewer than 2,000 vehicles per day), as well as human factors in traffic accidents. This project is supported by both Mack-Blackwell Transportation Center (MBTC) and & Arkansas Highway Transportation Department (AHTD).
A human-centered approach to sense and respond logistics (Award No. FA9550-05-1-0182)
The main focus of this project, supported by Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), is to address important human factors (HF) issues involved in supporting teamwork in human-agent teams by systematically examining the appropriate form of interactions between the human user and agent teams, including the way that the human user instructs and controls the agent(s), the nature of the feedback from the agent to the user, and the manner by which the agent provides the user with information.
Development of a human performance simulation model to evaluate in-vehicle information and control systems (Award No. MBTC-2062): Completed
Cognitive modeling of group decision behaviors in multi-cultural contexts (Award No. EEC-0436687): Completed
It is expected that military logisticians will be increasingly operating with their counterparts in other Services and other countries in the future. Many studies have shown the efficiency of group work over individual activities. However, it is also true that there are many barriers to group performance such as C2 operations among multi-cultural and/or multi-Service teams. This project, supported by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), addresses one of these, cultural differences in cooperative work and group decision making, in that cultural background can significantly influence the way humans select, interpret, process, and use information. The main focus of the project is to identify cultural differences and their role in logistics-related group decision making in multi-culture contexts.