Human Factors and Ergonomics Seminar

One Friday per Month, 1 - 5 pm, room Bayou 1124
University of Houston-Clear Lake

Spring 2009--Syllabus <pdf>

Day
Date
Event/Topic
Papers
Friday
January 23, 2009
Presentation and meetig with Atkins Global <map>
Review Syllabus and schedule <pdf>
Review company website before the meeting
Monday
January 26, 2009
H-HFES and HAIOP <more info>
meeting with Eduardo Salas
Stagl, K. C., & Salas, E. (2008). Best practices in building more effective teams. In R. Burke & G. Cooper (Eds.), Building more effective organizations (pp. 160-182). Cambridge, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. <pdf>

Salas, E., Stagl, K.D., Burke, C.S. & Goodwin, G.F. (2007). Fostering team effectiveness in organizations: toward an integrative theoretical framework of team performance. In W. Spaulding & J. Flowers (Eds.), Modeling complex systems: Motivation, cognition and social processes. Lincoln,NE: University of Nebraska Press. <pdf>
Friday
February 20, 2009

Curriculum Vita Development
Guidelines from University of North Florida

Fitts, P.M. (1954). The information capacity of the human motor system in controlling the amplitude of movement. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 47, 381-391. <pdf>

Vertegaal, Roel (2008). A Fitts Law comparison of eye tracking and manual input in the selection of visual targets. Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Multimodal interfaces, Chania, Crete, Greece, Pages 241-248 <pdf>
Friday
March 13, 2009
Ethics
Each student should read two papers of his or her choice from:
Cooke, N. and Salas, E. (2008) Best of Human Factors: Thirty Classic Contributions to Human Factors/Ergonomics Science and Engineering, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society <pdf of table of contents> (book available from Dr. Peres)
Friday
April 24, 2009
Houston HFES One Day Conference