Curriculum Vita

Research Interests:

My primary interests focus on two broad areas: applied and basic fields. Specific areas of interest include: Driving Safety and Human Factors, Action Selection and Stimulus-Response Compatibility, and Attention Theory and Multiple-Task Information Processing. I am also enthusiastic about the interdisciplinary area between human performance in multiple task conditions and stimulus-response compatibility. How a response is coded is very important in training with instructions and interface designs. I am particularly interested in how responses are coded when response features that are opposite to each other exist and also the role that instructions play in the process of response feature selection. Driving safety has been a concern, especially with the addition of variety in-vehicle information systems, e.g., navigation systems, collision avoidance systems, and vision enhancement systems. Currently, I am using a driving simulator (STISim Model 100) to evaluate driver performance with in-vehicle information systems (e.g., navigation systems or collision avoidance system). The outcome of this research will help to understand and enlarge of knowledge about the cost of mixing tasks on driving.