Advance Program
Note: This advance program is subject to changes and modifications without notice. For comments and special requests please contact Mr. Christopher Lee at ctlee@mail.ucf.edu. The Final Program may be significantly changed due to speakers attendance.

Monday: July 14, 2008 Pre-conference Tutorials

Opening Plenary Session

Keynote Address

Conference Reception

Tuesday: July 15, 2008 Technical Sessions

Wednesday: July 16, 2008 Technical Sessions

Interactive Poster Sessions

Thursday: July 17, 2008 Technical Sessions

Monday: July 14, 2008

Pre-conference Tutorials

8:30 - 5:00

Tutorial 1: Multimodal and Adaptive Display Design
Presenters: K. M. Stanney and K. S. Hale, USA

8:30 - 12:00

Tutorial 2: The Working Back
Presenter: B. Marras, USA

Tutorial 3: AugCog-Enabled Ergonomics: Design and Application Examples for Researchers
Presenters: D. Nicholson and D. Schmorrow, USA

1:30 - 5:00

Tutorial 4: Principles of stimulus response compatibility
Presenters: R. Proctor and K. Vu, USA

Tutorial 5: Conducting cognitive work analysis: supporting novices and experts with a software tool
Presenters: D. P. Jenkins and N. Stanton, UK

Tutorial 6: The four pleasures: understanding users holistically
Presenter: P. Jordan, UK

Monday: July 14, 2008

17:30 - 18:45

Opening Plenary Session

Chair: D. Koradecka, Poland

Introductory Remarks:
G. Salvendy, General Chair
W. Karwowski, Program Chair

Keynote Address

Revolutions Colliding: The emergence of modern ergonomics,
the pioneering of future ergonomics

Dylan Schmorrow, USA

Short biography:
Dr. Dylan Schmorrow is the Founder and Chairman of the Augmented Cognition International Society. He has been a champion of improving human-systems integration and applying advanced technology solutions in applied ergonomics. He is a recipient of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Leland S. Kollmorgen Spirit of Innovation Award for his contributions to the field of Augmented Cognition and the Society of United States Naval Flight Surgeon Sonny Carter Memorial Award in recognition of a career of improving the health, safety, and welfare of operational forces. In addition to conducting his research work, Dr. Schmorrow is a Commander in the U.S. Navy and serves as the Executive Assistant to the Chief of Naval Research at the Office of Naval Research. He has also worked at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Naval Research Laboratory, and the Naval Postgraduate School. In addition to his PhD. in Experimental Psychology, he also holds four Masters’ degrees ranging from operations analysis to philosophy.

Summary:
The industrial age heralded change across the world with scientific discoveries, novel tools, and sophisticated technologies breaking through the barriers of what was considered the art of the possible. During the past several decades, the world has been experiencing a “confluence of revolutions” in science and technology continuously accelerating this rate of change. A significant number of converging scientific and technological innovations led to a series of paradigm changing events. These events, or revolutions, include the cognitive revolution, the biomedical revolution, the information age, and the computer revolution. These revolutions collided in the 21st century and culminated in the rise of mega-disciplinary fields of study that transcend traditional constructs (i.e., inter-, intra-, and multi-disciplinary). One such mega-disciplinary field is Augmented Cognition. AugCog emerged as a field of science in early 2002 by bringing together leading scientists and engineers in the fields of neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, human factors, physics, decision science, autonomy, neuro-computation, and signal noise processing, to name a few, with one common objective. AugCog pioneers focused on developing tools to extend a user’s abilities via computational technologies that are explicitly designed to address that individual user’s cognitive bottlenecks, limitations, and biases, resulting in improved decision making capabilities. The targeted application of the significant AugCog achievements in support of maximizing human performance and optimizing human-system interaction, based on individual differences, has brought about the emergence of modern ergonomics.

Ergonomics is, loosely defined, the design of systems and technologies to optimize human comfort, efficiency, and safety for ease of use. The traditional applied science of system design, intended to maximize productivity by reducing operator fatigue and discomfort, is colliding with AugCog’s focus on individual differences (neuro-cognitive) when designing systems to optimize performance. Modern ergonomics is the emerging convergence of traditional ergonomics and AugCog’s focus on individual difference; however, more importantly, modern ergonomics begins also to recognize and address the social, cultural, and behavioral characteristics at both an aggregate and individual level, and apply those discoveries to system design and development. The goal of this keynote address is to foster ideas from you, the experts in human-computer interaction and applied ergonomics, on how to remove the burdens of technology by developing systems that respond to the cognitive, social, cultural, behavioral, and environmental differences of individual users, thereby pioneering the next revolution in the future of ergonomics.

Conference Reception: 19:00

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Advance Program Note: This advance program is subject to changes and modifications without notice. For comments and special requests please contact Mr. Christopher Lee at ctlee@mail.ucf.edu. The Final Program may be significantly changed due to speakers attendance.

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