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From: Elizabeth Raskob <Raskob_Eliz at LNMTA.bentley.edu>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 6:15 PM
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Subject: [bentleyhfid] For those of you who are free Thursdays


The MIT HFES will present
our very first seminar of this year on this Thursday, Jan. 9th,
"Modeling Human Error in an Air Traffic Control Environment," by
Dr. Dick Pew of BBN Technologies.

Following part includes the abstract and the speaker bio of this
seminar.

Please help us spread the words!  Feel free to forward this message
to anybody who would be interested.  The seminar is open to public.

Thank you!  See you all on Thursday!

Miwa

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"Modeling Human Error in an Air Traffic Control Environment"

Dr. Richard Pew, BBN Technologies
Jan. 9th (Thu), 3-4:30 pm
MIT Room 33-116
(map to the building 33: http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?
locate=bldg_33)

Abstract:

There is growing interest among NASA and the Department of Defense in
developing simulation models of human performance  to represent the
behavior of crew members in relatively complex task environments.  I
will describe what we mean by a simulation models and explain
conceptually how, using our Distributed Operator Modeling
Architecture (D-OMAR), such models "work."  NASA Ames sponsored a
project to model the behavior observed in simulator data on aircrew
landing and taxi behavior at O'Hare airport that included an
unusually large number of errors in following ATC taxi instructions.
I will describe our approach to this simulation modeling problem and
a sample of the results obtained.

Bio:

Dr. Pew holds a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from
Cornell University (1956), a master of arts degree in Psychology from
Harvard University (1960) and a PhD in Psychology with a
specialization in Engineering Psychology from The University of
Michigan (1963). He has been at BBN Technologies since 1974 where he
is a Principal Scientist. From 1976 to 1997 he was also Manager of
the Cognitive Sciences and Systems Department.  He is currently
working part time for BBN. He has 35 years of experience in human
factors, human performance and experimental psychology as they relate
to systems design and development.  Throughout his career he has been
involved in the development and utilization of human performance
models and in the conduct of experimental and field studies of human
performance in applied settings. Before BBN, he spent 11 years on the
faculty of the Psychology Department at Michigan where he was
involved in human performance teaching, research and consulting.. The
University has recently created a Collegiate Chair in his name. He
was the first Chairman of the National Research Council Committee on
Human Factors, and has been President of the Human Factors Society
and President of Division 21 of the American Psychological Assn., the
division concerned with engineering psychology.  He has also been
chairman of the Biosciences Panel of the Air Force Scientific
Advisory Board and was recently Chairman of the Soldier Systems Panel
of the Army Research Laboratory Technical Advisory Board.  In 1999 he
was awarded the Arnold M. Small Distinguished Service Award of the
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society for career long contributions to
the field and to the Society. Dr. Pew has more than 70 publications
as book chapters, articles and technical reports.



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