Publications

Commitment to Scientific and Product Excellence

Human factors is a multidisciplinary applied science that aims to optimize the relationship between humans and technology. As new technologies are introduced, or new problems are identified, it is the responsibility of the human factors practitioner to study, analyze, and share findings with the rest of the human factors community. Indeed, the science of human factors would not survive if its practitioners did not actively contribute.

In accord with this model, the Atlantic Human Factors team is committed to advancing the science of human factors while providing the highest level of quality consulting to our customers by actively publishing papers in academic journals and conference proceedings. All of this is done while maintaining the confidentiality of our clients and their products.

Selected Publications by the Atlantic Human Factors Team

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 publications in books, technical reports, professional journals, and proceedings:

• Elgin, P. D., Jones, K. S., Anders, B. A., & Farris, J. S. (2001). An investigation of Web writing styles for distance education. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 45th Annual Meeting, 1215-1219.
• Elgin, P. D., Raddatz, K. R.& Uhlarik, J. (2003). Combining usability methodologies to assess weather avionics systems. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 47th Annual Meeting, 124-128.
• Farris, J. S., & Jones, K. S. (2004). The Human-Web Interaction (HuWI) Cycle: A Framework of Users’ Perception, Action, and Cognition on the Web. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 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. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 45th Annual Meeting, 1205-1209.
• Farris, J. S., Jones, K. S., & Anders, B. A. (2002). Factors affecting the usefulness of impenetrable interface element borders. Human Factors, 44, 578-591.
• Farris, J. S., Jones, K. S., & Anders, B. A. (2002). Using impenetrable borders in a graphical Web browser: Are all angles equal? Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 46th Annual Meeting, 1251-1255.
• Farris, J. S., Jones, K. S., & Anders, B. A. (2002). Using impenetrable borders in a graphical Web browser: How does distance influence target selection speed? Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 46th Annual Meeting, 1300-1304.
• Farris, J. S., Jones, K. S., & Elgin, P. D. (2001). Mental representations of hypermedia: An evaluation of the spatial assumption. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 45th Annual Meeting, 1156-1160.
• Farris, J. S., Jones, K. S., & Elgin, P. D. (2002). Users' schemata of hypermedia: What is so spatial about a website? Interacting with Computers, 14, 487-502.
• Friel, B. M, & Kennison, S. M. (2001). Identifying German-English cognates, false cognates, and non-cognates: Methodological issues and descriptive norms. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 4, 249-274.
• Friel, B. M., & Harris, R. J. (2004). Operationalizing cognates and false cognates: Using translation elicitation to generate stimuli in six languages. International Journal of Cognitive Technology, 9, 40-54.
• Friel, B. M., Thomas, R. P., Raacke, J., & Shanteau, J. (2001). Utilizing CWS to track the longitudinal development of expertise. Proceedings from the 45th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1810-1814. Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN.
• Friel, B. M., Thomas, R. P., Shanteau, J., Raacke, J. (2001). CWS applied to an air traffic control simulation task (CTEAM). Proceedings from the 11th Annual International Symposium on Aviation Psychology. Columbus, OH.
• Hancock, P. A., Murphy, L. L., and Pepe, A. A. (Under Review). A theoretical approach to Hedonomics . Theoretical Issues In Ergonomics Science, in review.
• Hancock, P. A., Pepe, A., Murphy, L. L. (In Press). Hedonomics: The power of positive and pleasurable ergonomics. Ergonomics In Design.
• 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? Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting.
• Jones, K. S., & Farris, J. S. (2001). Are affordances perceived? In G. Burton and R. Schmidt (Eds.), Studies of Perception and Action. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 85-88.
• Jones, K. S., & Farris, J. S. (2004). Empirical Tests of the Human-Web Interaction (HuWI) Cycle. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 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? Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting.
• Jones, K. S., Farris, J. S., & Johnson, B. R. (In Press). GUI Objects with impenetrable borders: Instructions (not practice) makes perfect. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.
• 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. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 46th Annual Meeting, 1310-1314.
• Jones, K. S., Farris, J. S., Elgin, P. D., Anders, B. A., & Johnson, B. R. (In Press). A report on a novice user's interaction with the Internet through a self-voicing application. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness.
• Kennison, S. M., Friel, B. M., & Sieck, J. P. (1999). Understanding the bilingual mind. Review of de Groot and Kroll (eds.), Tutorials in bilingualism: Psycholinguistic perspectives. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 13, 187-188.
• Murphy, L. and Smith, K. (1999). Traffic Management Unit Structures, Positions, and Uses of the Traffic Situation Display. Prepared for the Chief Scientific and Technical Officer for Human Factors of the Federal Aviation Administration, KSU HFRL Report 99-G-020-2.
• Murphy, L. L., Smith, K., and Hancock, P. A. (2004). Task demand and response error in a simulated air traffic control task: Implications for ab initio training. International Journal of Applied Aviation Studies, 4(1), 91-106.
• Murphy, L. L. Smith, K (2002). Task demand, workload, and performance. Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Columbus, OH.
• Murphy, L. L., Stanney K., and Hancock, P. A. (2003). The Effect of affect: a hedonomic evaluation of human computer interaction. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Denver, CO, 764-768.
• Murphy, L. L., Szalma, J. L. and Hancock, P. A. (2004). Comparison of traditional signal detection and fuzzy signal detection theory: Analysis of duration discrimination of brief light flashes, Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, New Orleans, LA, 2494-2498.
• 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. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society: Denver, CO, 1967-1971.
• Peterson, D. A., Uhlarik, J., Raddatz, K. R., & Ward, J. N. (1999, October). The role of situational factors and display cues on collision detection and avoidance using a terrain enhanced primary flight display. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 43rd Annual Meeting, 1275-1279.
• Raddatz, K. R., Uhlarik, J., & Jordan, K. (2001). Perceived size in virtual environments: The role of pictorial depth cues. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 45th Annual Meeting, 1404-1408.
• Raddatz, K. R., Uhlarik, J. & Foura, J. E. (2004, September). Signal detection theory applied to a size comparison task. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting, 1813-1817.
• Shanteau, J., Friel, B. M., Thomas, R. P., & Raacke, J. (In press). Development of expertise in a dynamic decision-making environment. In Betsch, T., & Haberstroh, S. (Eds.), The routines of decision making. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Shanteau, J., Thomas, R. P., Friel, B. M., Raacke, J., & Farris, S. (In press). The dynamics of decision making: Analysis of air traffic control. In A. Kirlik (Ed.), Working with technology in mind: Brunswikian resources for cognitive science and engineering. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum
• Shanteau, J., Thomas, R. P., Friel, B., Weiss, D. J., & Pounds, J. (2001). Identifying expertise without a gold standard: Four applications. Proceedings from the 11th Annual International Symposium on Aviation Psychology. Columbus, OH.
• Thomas, R. P., Willems, B., Shanteau, J., Raacke, J., & Friel, B. M. (2001). CWS applied to controllers in a high-fidelity simulation of ATC. Proceedings from the 11th Annual International Symposium on Aviation Psychology. Columbus, OH.
• Thomas, R. P., Willems, B., Shanteau, J., Raacke, J., & Friel, B. M. (2001). Measuring performance of expert controllers. Proceedings from the 45th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 286-290. Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN.
• 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. Proceedings from the 48th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. New Orleans, LA.
• Tran, T. Q.& Raddatz, K. R. (2004). The use of red and automatic attention capture in information displays. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting, 2202-2206
• Wichman, A. L., Friel, B. M., Harris, R. J. (2001). The effect of lexical, pragmatic, and morphological violations on reading time and deviance ratings of English and German sentences. Memory and Cognition, 29, 493-502.