Presentations

Selected Presentations by the Atlantic Human Factors Team

As part of an ongoing commitment to the advancement of the science of human factors, the Atlantic Human Factors team has authored over 200 papers that have been published and/or presented at professional meetings. Here a selected list of presentations at professional conferences and invited talks:

• Elgin, P. D. (2002). Decision-making with cockpit weather displays. Presentation at the Decision Support System Workshop, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
• Elgin, P. D., & Thomas, R. P. (2004). An integrated decision-making model for categorizing weather products and decision aids. NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA. NASA/TM – 2004 – 212990.
• Elgin, P. D., Jones, K. S., Anders, B. A., & Farris, J. S. (2001). An investigation of Web writing styles for distance education. Presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 45th Annual Meeting.
• Farris, J. S. (2001). Using micro-worlds to study team decision-making in dynamic environments. Presented at the Oklahoma Kansas Judgment and Decision-Making (OKJDM) Conference.
• Farris, J. S., & Jones, K. S. (2004). The Human-Web Interaction (HuWI) Cycle: A Framework of Users’ Perception, Action, and Cognition on the Web. Presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 48th Annual Meeting.
• Farris, J. S., Jones, K. S., & Anders, B. A. (2001). Acquisition speed with targets on the edge of the screen: An application of Fitts' law to commonly used web browser controls. Presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 45th Annual Meeting.
• Farris, J. S., Jones, K. S., & Anders, B. A. (2002). Using impenetrable borders in a graphical Web browser: Are all angles equal? Presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 46th Annual Meeting.
• Farris, J. S., Jones, K. S., & Elgin, P. D. (2001). Mental representations of hypermedia: An evaluation of the spatial assumption. Presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 45th Annual Meeting.
• Farris, J. S., Raacke, J., & Shanteau, J. (2002). Evaluating user interfaces with CWS: Competitive usability testing of monitor sizes. Presented at the Oklahoma Kansas Judgment and Decision-Making Conference.
• Friel, B. M., & Shanteau, J. (2000). CWS analysis of longitudinal development of skills in a low-fidelity ATC task. Invited presentation at the FAA Technical Research Center.
• Friel, B. M., & Tran, T. Q. (2004). Rhyming orthographic neighborhood density effects and nonword context in lexical decision. Poster presented at the 16th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society.
• Friel, B. M., Thomas, R. P, Shanteau, J., Raacke, J. (2001). CWS assessment in an ATC microworld environment. Paper presented at the 11th Annual International Symposium on Aviation Psychology.
• Friel, B. M., Thomas, R. P., Raacke, J. D., & Shanteau, J. (2002). Planes, training, and automaticity: Measuring training efficacy in ATC simulations with CWS. Paper presented at the 40th Annual Bayesian Research Conference.
• Friel, B. M., Thomas, R. P., Raacke, J. D., & Shanteau, J. (2002). Assessing skill development with the CWS measure of expert performance. Poster presented at the 14th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society.
• Friel, B. M., Thomas, R. P., Raacke, J., & Shanteau, J. (2001). Utilizing CWS to track the longitudinal development of expertise. Paper presented at the 45th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
• Friel, B. M., Tran, T. Q., & Harris, R. J. (2003). Rhyming Orthographic Neighborhood Effects and Nonword Context in Lexical Decision: A Test of the MROM-p Model. Poster presented at the 44th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
• Johnson, B. R., Jones, K. S., & Farris, J. S. (2004). Is Practice Necessary to Speed the Selection of Web Browser Controls That Have Impenetrable Borders? Presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 48th Annual Meeting.
• Jones, K. S., & Farris, J. S. (2004). Empirical Tests of the Human-Web Interaction (HuWI) Cycle. Presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 48th Annual Meeting.
• Jones, K. S., Elgin, P. D., Johnson, B. R., Swan, B. A., & Farris, J. S. (2004). Internet-Based Distance Education Materials: Does Writing Style Matter? Presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 48th Annual Meeting.
• Jones, K. S., Farris, J. S., Elgin, P. D., Anders, B. A., & Johnson, B. R. (2002). Examining information searching on the World Wide Web with a screen-reader: A verbal protocol analysis. Presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 46th Annual Meeting.
• Jordan, K., McCann, R. S., & Tran, T. Q. (2001). Stimulus density affects search time in complex visual displays. A paper presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
• Jordan, K., Raddatz, K. R., & Uhlarik, J. (2001). Geometric perspective cues affect perceived size in virtual pictorial arrays. Paper presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association.
• Murphy, L. L. Smith, K (2002). Task demand, workload, and performance. Paper presented at the 11th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology.
• Murphy, L. L.( 2002). Toward an autonomic indicator of performance, Paper presented at the 17th Annual Oklahoma Judgment and Decision Making Conference.
• Murphy, L. L., Stanney K., and Hancock, P. A. (2003). The Effect of affect: a hedonomic evaluation of human computer interaction. Paper presented at the meeting of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
• Murphy, L. L., Szalma, J. L., and Hancock, P. A. (2003). Comparison of fuzzy signal detection and traditional signal detection theory: Approaches to performance measurement. Paper presented at the meeting of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
• Raacke, J. D., Thomas, R. P., Friel, B. M., & Shanteau, J. (2002). There is no “I” in team performance: An analysis of teams in a dynamic stimulus environment. Paper presented at the 40th Annual Bayesian Research Conference.
• Raddatz, K. R., & Uhlarik, J. (1999). The effect of terrain rendering algorithms on perceived relative distance. Poster presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 43rd Annual Meeting.
• Raddatz, K. R., & Uhlarik, J. (2001). Cockpit displays of digital weather and operational information. A briefing presented to FAA certification and NASA officials at NASA Langley Research Center.
• Raddatz, K. R., Elgin, P. D., & Uhlarik, J. (2003). Weather avionics usability assessment tool. Invited presentation at the 1st meeting of the FAA-Volpe Coordination Effort, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center.
• Raddatz, K. R., Elgin, P., Prey, C. M., & Thomas, R. P. (2002). Landing GA aircraft in IMC using VFR skills: Supporting expert performance by SATS pilots. Paper presented at the NASA Technical Forum at the Experimental Aviation Association Convention.
• Raddatz, K. R., Uhlarik, J., & Elgin, P. D. (2003). Usability methodology applied to on-board graphical weather displays. Paper presented at the 12th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology.
• Raddatz, K. R., Elgin, P. D., & Uhlarik, J. (2003). Weather avionics usability assessment tool. Invited presentation at the 1st meeting of the FAA-Volpe Coordination Effort, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center.
• Raddatz, K. R., Tran, T. Q., Foura, J. E., & Barlett, C. P. (2004). Examination of color population stereotypes in visual search. Poster to be presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
• Raddatz, K. R., Uhlarik, J., & Elgin, P. D. (2003). Usability methodology applied to on-board graphical weather displays. Paper presented at the 12th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology.
• Shanteau, J., Weiss, D., Thomas, R. P., Friel, B. M., Raacke, J. D., Farris, J. S., & Crow, J. (2001). Application of a continuous performance-based description of expertise in an air traffic control. Invited presentation at the Civil Aeromedical Institute (CAMI).
• Tran, T. Q., & Raddatz, K. R. (2004). The use of red and automatic attention capture in information displays. A poster presentation accepted at the meeting of the 48th Annual Human Factors and Ergonomic Society.
• Tran, T. Q., Cady, B. T., Friel, B. M., & Slick, R. F. (2004). Using a driving simulator to train teens swerving strategies to reduce vehicle collisions. Paper presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
• Tran, T. Q., Friel, B. M., Huntsman, L. A., & Harris, R. J. (2001). Progressively demasking the neighborhood rhyme effect. Poster presented at the 42nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
• Tran, T. Q., Jordan, K., & Huntsman, L. A. (2001). Searching for mood congruent words in a word search task. A poster presented at the meeting of the 81st Western Psychological Association.