Editorial Review Board

Dr. Rabiul Ahasan
Research Associate, École Polytechnique de Montréal
Physiology, Cognition, Ergonomics, Heat stress, and Clothing

Ahasan is a multi-disciplinarian who enjoys HFs/ergonomic research and studies which are used to design equipment, tools and procedures to facilitate task performance and complement people's abilities, needs, and desires with individual workplaces and man-made environments. He has conducted research in the area of human performance and behavior in a variety of work environments involving such topics as the utilisation of high-demand muscle power, manual materials handling, task analysis and interface design, and has been involved with the evaluation of workstations and their postural operations. His other interests include virtual environments and cognitive modeling, spatial disorientation, motion sickness and human tolerance towards a hot-humid environment, night shifts and artificial lights. His research has resulted in a goal of developing ergonomic principles and support strategies and the special needs of HFs consideration in different work places. He has presented research findings at numerous scientific conferences and has authored over 70 technical papers, book chapters, and other publications on diverse facets of human/systems and dynamics that called for workplace improvement and the accessibility of ergonomic information for industrial workers and employers. Ahasan has also consulted with healthcare consulting firms in feasibility studies for hospital projects and has worked as an external referee in several project applications and directed research teams for workplace investigation, data analysis and the evaluation of work-related data and information in different work environments. He has also reviewed various research papers on OHS and ergonomic issues, including a series of articles dealing with the views of shift workers' psychosocial consequences and adaptation to night work, operator strategies in performance under extreme working conditions, time stress and design and the implementation of ergonomics principles. In addition to serving on the Editorial Board for HPEE, Ahasan is also on the consulting board of various journals such as Computers in Human Behaviour, Work Study, the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene and as a book reviewer for Taylor & Francis. He is an active member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), The Canadian Ergonomics Association, the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), and others that are developing HFs/ergonomic recommendations for industrial and other work organisations. He received the Distinguished Award in 1994 of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM, Brussels Representative) for the accomplishment of his Licentiate thesis. Presently, Dr. Ahasan is working with Professor Daniel Imbeau, École Polytechnique de Montréal. He can be reached at rabiul.ahasan@polymtl.ca

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Dr. Anthony D. Andre
Principal Scientist, Interface Analysis Associates
Engineering Psychology

Dr. Andre received his Ph.D. in Engineering Psychology from the University of Illinois in 1991. He was then hired as Principal Scientist of Western Aerospace Labs, through which he served as a Primary Investigator in NASA's Flight Deck Management and Human Factors Division until 1996. He is currently Founder and Principal Scientist of Interface Analysis Associates (IAA), a human factors/ergonomics consulting firm specializing in the design and analysis of software/hardware user interfaces, computer input devices and ergonomic products, high-tech consumer products, office environments and aerospace systems. As part of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Graduate Program at San Jose State University, Dr. Andre is an Adjunct Professor in the departments of Psychology and Industrial/Systems Engineering. He teaches graduate seminars and courses on ergonomics, engineering psychology, research methods/usability testing and human cognition.

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Dr. Sheryl L. Bishop
Coordinator for Preventive Medicine Research, University of Texas Medical Branch
Extreme Environments Social Psychology and Space Medicine

Dr. Sheryl Bishop is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch; Galveston, Texas, USA. Dr. Bishop has a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin and is a Diplomat and Board Certified Forensic Examiner in the American College of Forensic Examiners. She is the UTMB Institutional Point of Contact as an Affiliate Life Science Campus for the International Space University and Vice Chair/Chair of the ISU Affiliate Association for 1997-2001. In addition, Dr. Bishop is a faculty member, Co-Chair for the Departments of Space and Society and Life Sciences and frequent lecturer on psychosocial issues for the International Space University's Summer Session and Masters of Space Science Programs. Dr. Bishop is the Academic Coordinator for Preventive Medicine Research, Grants and Academic Programs Clinical Preventive Medicine Residencies Division of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at UTMB. UTMB is currently the only institution in the world with all three preventive medicine residencies in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine and general preventive medicine. Dr. Bishop has presented her research findings at numerous scientific conferences and in many scientific journals in both the medical and psychological fields. She has conducted research on groups in various analog environments and is frequently an invited speaker on psychosocial and selection issues for human performance in isolated, confined environments. In addition to serving as Associate Editor for HPEE, Dr. Bishop is also the Contributing Editor for Space Medicine for the Journal of Life Support and Biospheric Science and a reviewer for the Journal of Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine.

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Dr. Richard Bloom
Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Intelligence Operations and Analysis

Dr. Bloom is Editor of the International Bulletin of Political Psychology, past-President of the American Psychological Association's Military Psychology Division, and a diplomate in clinical psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology. For many years he has been an applied psychology consultant to government and business for intelligence and counterintelligence operations and analysis. His current research interests include psychological dynamics between intelligence case officers and agents, the selection and management of intelligence officers, the deception of self and others in counterintelligence operations, personnel security, fanaticism and political violence, and the psychology of law enforcement, intelligence, and security policy bureaucracies.

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Dr. Barrett S. Caldwell
Associate Professor, Dept. Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Human Factors Engineering

Dr. Caldwell received a B.S. in Psychology and Aeronautics and Astronauts from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of California, Davis. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Caldwell's research examines human factors engineering and computer-mediated communication and control systems. His research focuses on issues of information flow, task coordination, and team performance as affected by information technology. The origin of this interest came during his graduate studies, when he participated in a study of privacy and social issues in the design of the International Space Station. His interest in space exploration and development extends back to the Apollo program; his first scholarly research examined social aspects of long-duration spaceflight. Prof. Caldwell's intent has been to try to apply mathematical tools learned as an undergraduate engineer to the classes of problems encountered in his doctoral program in group dynamics and industrial psychology. His current research program focuses on advancing the state of the art in three specific domains of system performance enhancement: Defining quantitative characteristics of information flow in individual and team performance; Describing effects of tasks, situations, and technologies on effective information exchange in organizations; and Improving the accessibility of information for users working with computer system interfaces.

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Hugh Carson
Training Development Specialist, National Interagency Fire Center
Wildland & Aerial Firefighting Operations

Hugh is currently employed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as an Training Development Specialist at the National Interagency Fire Center at Boise, Idaho. Prior to that (1988-97) he was the Aviation Manager for the agency in Nevada. His wildland firefighting background includes 13 years on-line firefighting and helicopter crews, as well as dispatching and logistics coordination. He is the Air Operations Director for one of the 17 national Incident Management Teams that are dispatched to manage large fires throughout the United States. He has written or co-authored a number of manuals and handbooks for the wildland firefighting agencies, including the Interagency Helicopter Operations and Airspace Coordination Guides. Hugh attended Columbia University from 1966-69. From 1994 through 1997, he was the BLM Project Leader for the National Aerial Firefighting Safety and Efficiency Project, a joint NASA-Ames Research Center/BLM/U.S. Forest Service effort examining communications and airspace structure issues in the high-tempo, low-level environment of aerial firefighting. He is currently a member of the interagency Tactical Aerial Resource Management Study Group that is developing recommendations for organizational structures, roles and responsibilities, and potential technological applications for the aerial firefighting domain in the 21st century. His present areas of interest include pilot and aerial supervisor task saturation, transition briefings and communications in high intensity aerial operations.

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Dr. James Casler, P.E.
Business Development Manager, Veridian
Test Piloting and Flight Testing

James (Jim) Casler retired from the Marine Corps in 1992 after over 23 years of service, including three tours as an engineering test pilot at the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, MD. He has over 9 years experience as a test pilot and has served as project officer and project pilot on numerous performance and flying qualities test programs, as well as systems and flight test programs. While an instructor at the Navy Test Pilot School, he made principal contributions to the pioneering development of flight test methodology for helicopter evasive maneuvering testing for air combat. He was the senior test pilot on the first three Development Test periods of the V-22 Osprey and was the first military test pilot to fly the V-22. After spending two years in industry with Veda, Inc., Jim received his doctorate in engineering at North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND. His research area is diagnostic performance in the space-based manufacturing environment. In addition to HPEE, he is a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP), Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, AIAA, and AAS (American Astronautical Society). He can be reached at james.casler@veridian.com

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Dr. Mary Connors
Chief, Aviation System Safety Research Branch, NASA Ames Research Center
Aviation Human Factors

Mary Connors received her Ph.D. in communications from Stanford University and her M.A. in experimental psychology from Fordham U. She has authored over 50 scientific articles on a range of behavioral science topics, primarily related to space and aeronautical human factors. She is the senior author of the book Living Aloft. Human Requirements for Extended Spaceflight that is widely used as a primary source in the field of space human factors. She has served as reviewer for a number of scientific journals and government agencies. Her work in aeronautical human factors has emphasized the safety of aviation systems with emphasis on the role of air and ground crews. Her work in space human factors has emphasized the special needs of space crews in the isolated, confined and reduced-gravity environment of spaceflight, as well as the needs of ground-based support teams. Of particular importance are the requirements of advanced missions, and especially those missions of long duration where the capabilities of the crew to work with each other, the ground, and with non-human intelligent systems (automation), will be vital in determining mission success. In addition to aerospace human factors, Dr. Connors' research interests include communication/telecommunication and human-computer interaction. A common element of her work has been a concern for the impact of advanced technologies and how these technologies alter the way individuals work and live, and how the society as a whole is affected. The growing influence of communicating databases and intelligent systems, along with the recent emphasis on making information central to the nation's economic growth, has raised new issues concerning the effects of these technologies. Building on her telecommunication research and her general human factors experience, Dr. Connors has been working to include human factors considerations in assessing the value and the impact of proposed systems, including their effects on access, privacy, and related legal issues requirements. Dr. Connors is presently Chief of the Systems Safety Research Branch at NASA's Ames Research Center. In this capacity, she has management and scientific oversight responsibility for research activities in crew factors, fatigue and circadian rhythm, as well as data analysis, monitoring, modeling and simulation related to human factors aspects of system-wide safety.

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Dr. Joseph A. Davis, Ph.D., LL.D.
Director, Center for the Advancement of Trauma Studies CATS, San Diego, CA
Psychology of Trauma, Public Safety Psychology, and Psychology & Law

Joseph Davis is recognized as a national and international expert in the psychology of trauma, public safety psychology and psychology and law. He holds a B.S. in psychology with honors, M.S. in clinical psychology, a Ph.D., in clinical psychology and a LL.D. (doctor of law) in law and public policy. He achieved board certification as well as Diplomat and Fellow status in 1997. He is Vice-President and a member of the TAP Group (Threat Assessment and Prevention) located in San Diego and Long Beach. He is the founder of the Center for the Advancement of Trauma Studies (CATS) also in San Diego. Through CATS, as an expert in traumatic stress with 20 years of experience, he is published in the fields of clinical psychology, traumatology, and critical incident response. He is also a contributing author and editorial advisory board member to the Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments. He consults on case that involve traumatic incidents, i.e., workplace violence, school violence, mass casualty, stalking, PTSD, etc. He researches and professionally develops programs as well as educates and trains a variety of professionals in many disciplines on an international basis in the areas of critical incident stress response, trauma management and critical incident stress management, risk management and debriefing. He is a founding member of the American Board of Traumatology (ABT). He completed his stress management specialist training through the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in Washington, D.C. He is an on-call stress management and trauma specialist assigned to the Division of Human Services with FEMA as well as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NDMS, DMAT and DMORT teams. Dr. Davis holds faculty appointments at the University of Southern California, University of California, (School of Medicine), California State University and the Thomas Jefferson School of Law. He can be reached at: davis_scientific@juno.com.

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Dr. Jason Greenlee
Director, International Association of Wildland Firefighting
Wildland Firefighting

Jason Greenlee is editor of Wildfire Magazine and Director of the International Association of Wildland Fire, based in Fairfield, Washington. Jason started his career in 1972 as a consultant in prescribed burning in California and as a summer crew leader for the U.S. Forest Service. Setting fires in the spring and fall and fighting fires in the summer became a way of life for Jason and his crew for about ten hears in the 70s and 80s. In the mid 1980's Jason went to work for the California Department of Parks and Recreation, having responsibility for the fire management of 80 of the Department's units in Central California. In 1989, Jason and his family moved to Washington to start the Association and it's three magazines, library, and book store. Jason has a Ph.D. in biology. His current interests lie in the human errors found on firelines (he still fights fires each summer) and their mitigation through the use of human factors principals.

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Dr. Vadim Gushin
Principal Investigator, Institute of Biomedical Problems, Moscow, Russia
Spaceflight Psychology

After graduating from Moscow Medical Institute in 1980, Dr. Gushin completed postgraduate study at the Institute for Biomedical Problems, Moscow. Since 1983, Vadim has served as a researcher and now lead researcher at the Institute for Biomedical Problems in the area of aerospace psychology. He has participated in all activities comprising cosmonaut psychological support and the monitoring of Russian spaceflights. Additionally, he has designed several original computerized methods for conducting psychological, cognitive, and attitudinal team-performance monitoring and support of human operators in extreme environments. Dr. Gushin has taken part as a principal investigator for many scientific experiments simulating spaceflight conditions (extended isolation, polar wintering), organized by the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, and the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems. He has also worked as a Scientific Coordinator in the international scientific projects HUBES and ECOPSY with simulated spaceflight conditions. Dr. Gushin took part in the creation of the Russian Space Medical Laboratory Medilab project for space station Mir. He currently serves as a Co-PI from the Russian side in the Mir/NASA psychological experiment "Crew Member and Crew-Ground Control Interactions" during NASA/Mir onboard Mir space station. He has over 30 scientific publications abroad and 35 publications in Russia. Vadim was recently honorably mentioned in the Space Medicine Branch Young Investigator Award at the Aerospace Medical Association conference in Chicago, May 1997.

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Dr. Peter A. Hancock
Provost Distinguished Research Professor, University of Central Florida
Human Factors Engineering & Psychology

Peter Hancock is Provost Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Psychology and at the Institute for simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida. He currently holds a courtesy appointment as a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and as an Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at the Transportation Institute of the University of Michigan. Professor Hancock is the author of over three hundred refereed scientific articles and publications. He has been continuously funded by extramural sources for every year of his professional career, including support from NASA, NIH, NIA, FAA, FHWA, the US Navy and the US Army as well as numerous State and Industrial agencies. He is the Principal Investigator on the recently awarded Multi-Disciplinary University Research Initiative. In 2000, he was awarded the Sir Frederic Taylor Award of the Ergonomics Society of Great Britain for lifetime achievement. In 2001, he won the Franklin V. Occupational Safety and Ergonomics from the International Ergonomics Association. He was recently awarded a Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) degree from Loughborough University and he was awarded the Jastrzebowski Medal of the Polish Ergonomics Society for contributions to world ergonomics. Any additional information concerning Dr. Hancock and his research program can be found at www.mit.ucf.edu

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Dr. Robert L. Helmreich
Professor of Social Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
Human Factors in Aviation and Medicine

Robert Helmreich is a professor of psychology at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught since 1966. Currently, he is principal investigator of a research project, initially funded by NASA and currently supported by the Federal Aviation Administration, that investigates individual and team performance, as well as the influence of organizational and national culture in a variety of high-stress environments including aviation and medical-team operations. Dr. Helmreich has conducted research in the area of human performance and behavior in a variety of extreme environments including spaceflight, aviation, Antarctic, and underwater. He also serves as a visiting professor at the University of Basel/Kantonsspital in Switzerland, where he is studying interpersonal issues in medicine. Dr. Helmreich received his bachelor's, masters and doctoral degrees from Yale University. He is former editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and a member of the Committee on Human Factors of the National Academies of Science. He received the Flight Safety Foundation Distinguished Service Award in 1994 for his contributions to aviation safety through the study and development of team training techniques for flightcrews. He received the David S. Sheridan Award from Albany Medical College in 1997 in recognition of his "distinguished service to mankind in the fields of science, medicine, and teaching." He is co-author with Ashleigh Merritt, of the forthcoming book Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational, and Professional Influences to be published by Ashgate Publishing.

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Dr. Albert W. Holland
Chief of Psychology, Medical Operations, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
Space Psychology and Extreme Environments Psychology

Albert W. Holland, Ph.D., is the Chief of Psychology, Medical Operations, at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas (USA). He has been working in the field of psychology since 1974 and has specialized in space psychology and extreme environments psychology since 1984. During that time, he has worked with a wide variety of organizations fielding individuals and teams into extreme conditions and environments, such as space, polar, undersea, high-demand sports, and specialized military operations. Prior to his present position, Dr. Holland held related consulting and line positions with NASA, including Visiting Scientist at the Center for Advanced Space Studies (Universities Space Research Association) and was Chief of the NASA Behavior and Performance Laboratory. During that time, he worked on a number of projects including analysis of shuttle flight tasks, methodology for collecting psychological data from Antarctica and other field sites, testing and interviewing astronaut applicants, fielding a thirty-day underwater testbed for psychological support and monitoring methods, and training methods for multinational teams. With the announcement of Dr. Thagard's mission aboard Mir 18, Dr. Holland moved from science to operations to establish a psychology group dedicated to operational support of a U.S. space program. Since the onset of long-duration U.S. spaceflight, Dr. Holland has been involved in the design and implementation of procedures for astronaut psychological selection, mission training and preparation, inflight monitoring, consultation to mission management, inflight support of crewmembers and their families, and postflight debriefings of long-duration astronauts. He has been involved in the selection of all U.S. astronauts since 1989. On the terrestrial side, he was responsible for the design and implementation of these same functions for the series of extended duration, confined missions of the Lunar-Mars Life Support Test Project. He also consults to a number of non-space organizations with interests in placing personnel into extreme conditions.

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Dr. Richard S. Jensen
Director, Aviation Psychology Laboratory, The Ohio State University
Aviation Psychology

Dr. Jensen is Director of the Aviation Psychology Laboratory at The Ohio State University. In this position, he coordinates the acquisition and direction of industry and government research contracts in the area of human factors in aviation. He is currently directing a five-year aviator decision-making research program for the FAA. He teaches courses in human factors, crew resource management, and simulation and training. He is also Editor of The International Journal of Aviation Psychology. Dr. Jensen convened the First through the Ninth Biennial Symposia on Aviation Psychology. This symposium series has gained international recognition for dissemination of the latest in scientific aviation human factors and safety research. He has published numerous research papers and has edited special issues on "Aviation Psychology" for Human Factors; Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine; Ergonomics; and Applied Ergonomics. He edited the book Aviation Psychology based on papers from the Fourth Symposium. Together with Dr. Stan Trollip he wrote the book Human Factors for General Aviation. He has recently completed the book, Pilot Judgment and Crew Resource Management. Dr. Jensen has served as a consultant to several government and industry organizations in the area of human factors. He has provided expert witnessing in various aviation litigation and NTSB investigations involved in pilot training, human factors, and pilot judgment. He has served two terms on sub-committees of the National Academy of Sciences Human Factors Committee. Dr. Jensen is an experienced airline transport certificated pilot (2,400+ hours). He holds an airline transport certificate with multiengine and seaplane ratings, a flight instructor certificate with airplane, instrument, and multiengine ratings, a hang glider rating, and an aircraft mechanic certificate with airframe and powerplant ratings.

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Dr. Nick Kanas
Professor of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco
Space Psychology & Psychiatry

Dr. Kanas is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and the San Francisco VA Hospital, where he directs the group therapy training program and does research on therapy groups as well as on groups of people interacting under novel and stressful conditions. In 1970, he worked at the NASA/Johnson Space Center and was the senior author of a NASA technical Memorandum entitled: "Behavioral, Psychiatric, and Sociological Problems of Long-Duration Space Missions." Since that time, he has continued with his studies of interpersonal factors that affect astronauts working in the space environment, with the goal of developing training and support strategies that can be used to minimize the negative impact of these factors during long-duration space missions. He has met with members of the cosmonaut psychological Support Group in Moscow, was a member of the European Space Agency Space Psychology Group, and was a psychiatric evaluator for the NASA Astronaut Selection Program. In 1997, he served on a panel on human behavior for the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences. He has published a number of papers on the psychosocial and psychiatric aspects of long-duration space missions, including a series of three articles dealing with the views of 54 astronauts and cosmonauts on intra-crew and crew-ground communications. He was the principal investigator of an ESA/Russian Space Agency study on the interactions of three crew members who were confined for 4.5 months in the Mir simulator at the IBMP in Moscow (Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine, October, 1996). He also was the principal investigator of a 4.5 year NASA-funded study assessing crew member and crew-ground interactions during five of the joint NASA/Mir missions. Currently, he is the principal investigator of a NASA-funded study assessing crew member and crew-ground interactions and cultural and language issues involving participants of five International Space Station missions.

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Dr. Raymond E. King
Chief of Collaborative Systems Technology, USAF Research Laboratory
Aerospace Psychology

Major Raymond E. King is a licensed psychologist and Chief of the Collaborative Systems Technology Branch of the Crew System Interface Division, Human Effectiveness Directorate, USAF Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. Dr. King received his BA from Rutgers College, his MA from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and his doctorate from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology. After being commissioned in the US Air Force, he was assigned to USAF Regional Hospital, Sheppard AFB, TX and served as the flight psychologist for the fighter-oriented Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT) program. Dr. King developed and implemented treatment programs to aid fledgling pilots cope with airsickness and other adaptational and stress responses to the demands of flight. In Dec. 1990, Dr. King was assigned to the Clinical Sciences Division of the School of Aerospace Medicine; it reorganized into the Armstrong Laboratory before he reported for duty. Undeterred, he served as the Director of Education and Training for the Neuropsychiatry Branch and guided the development of the Aircraft Mishap Investigation and Prevention Course (AMIPC) and served as Associate Course Director. AMIPC trains psychologists, along with physiologists and flight surgeons, to serve as human factors consultants to aircraft mishaps. Dr. King has been a consultant to Aircraft Mishap (to prevent reoccurrence) and Accident (culpability) Boards. He has also served as a psychiatric evaluator to numerous astronaut selection cycles at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. After successfully establishing the psychological screening and research portion of the USAF Enhanced Flight Screening program, he was appointed Chief of Neuropsychiatry Research and served as the principal investigator for two Defense Women's Health Research Program-funded grants, investigating the stressors, career goals, and personality/cognitive characteristics of male and female aviators. He was honored to be selected the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Clinical Psychologist of the Year in 1994 and as the Air Force Association Texas Clinician of 1995-1996. Dr. King's 6 year-old son, Elliot, has decided to be an astronaut or a "mad scientist" ("just like daddy").

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Dr. Gerald P. Krueger
Colonel, United States Army (Retired), Principal Research Ergonomist, Wexford Group International
Military Psychology

Dr. Krueger obtained his Ph.D. in Experimental and Engineering Psychology from Johns Hopkins University in 1977; he is also a 1988 graduate of the U.S. Army War College. He has 36 years of experience as a practicing research psychologist and is a certified professional ergonomist. Dr. Krueger began his career conducting psychological research as an Army Military Police Officer. He is the former Commander and Technical Director of the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, known internationally for its work in occupational, environmental, and preventive medicine research. He has directed substantial human factors research and consulting work for a wide variety of military communities including work for the U.S. military's Special Forces community. Dr. Krueger is a recognized expert on soldier and pilot performance under stressful and sustained operating conditions, especially those involving untoward work/rest schedules, sleep deprivation, and operator fatigue. Dr. Krueger has lectured widely at national and international scientific conferences and is the author of more than 85 technical papers, book chapters, and other publications. He is presently the Principal Scientist and Ergonomist at the Wexford Group International, in Vienna, VA ( www.thewexfordgroup.com ) . He can be reached at JerryKrueg@aol.com or gkrueger@thewexfordgroup.com

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Dr. Corinna Lathan
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Catholic University of America
Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Lathan received her M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and her Ph.D. in Neurosciences (1994) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC (http://www.ee.cua.edu/~lathan/). Dr. Lathan also holds appointments at the National Rehabilitation Hospital and the Georgetown University Medical Center, both in Washington, DC. Dr. Lathan is currently director of the Advanced Human Computer Interface Technologies Laboratory and co-directs the Laboratory for Human Performance and Rehabilitation Engineering. Her research areas include advanced human-computer interface design, telecare technologies, and human performance in simulated environments. Dr. Lathan has worked on NASA-funded projects for 10 years and has recently completed a usability evaluation of NASAs Internet-based telemedicine project, Spacebridge to Russia. In the past, Dr. Lathan's research has included many space life science related projects including neurovestibular experiments on two space shuttle missions. Dr. Lathan is also an invited Life Sciences lecturer at the International Space University (ISU).

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Dr. Dietrich Manzey
Principal Scientist, Department of Aviation and Space Psychology, German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR)
Cognitive and Space Psychology

Dietrich Manzey received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Kiel, Germany, in 1988. From 1982 to 1987 he worked as a post-graduate scientist at the University of Kiel and conducted research in the areas of cognitive psychophysiology, human performance, and attention. In 1987 he joined the Department of Aviation and Space Psychology of the German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR) in Hamburg, Germany, where he is currently responsible for the domain of space psychology. From 1990-1991 and 1994-1995 he worked as an acting professor for occupational and organizational psychology at the Universities of Wuppertal and Marburg, Germany. His current research projects include investigating human performance during spaceflight, particularly during German-Russian and Russian space missions to Mir, as well as during ground-based simulations. Other research interests concern multiple-task performance, mental workload, and training of complex skills. For the last eight years he has also been involved in psychological selection and training of airline pilots, astronauts, and air traffic controllers.

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Colonel Geoffrey W. McCarthy
United States Air Force (Retired)
Aviation Medicine

Recently retired from the US Air Force, Colonel Geoff McCarthy was one of few Pilot-Physicians who actively flew military aircraft and simultaneously held Flight Surgeon status. After graduating from the USAF Academy, he flew fighters for several years, including a combat tour in Viet Nam. Later while in medical school, he resumed flying the F-100 and later A-10 in the Massachusetts Air National Guard and continued flying while in private medical practice. A chance to be the first F-16 Pilot-Physician brought him back to active duty. He analyzed the problem of G-Induced Loss of Consciousness and minimized fatal accidents from this previously obscure phenomenon. Later while an exchange officer with the Royal Air Force at Farnborough, UK, he verified that previous negative G-force exposure exacerbates this problem. His other interests include spatial disorientation, motion sickness, human tolerances to impact, and fear of flying. He has flown over 4000 hours in single-seat jets, and is author of several papers, plus numerous articles in the Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments, Flying Safety, and other periodicals. A Fellow of both the Aerospace Medical Association and the American Academy of Family Practice, he is also a Diplomat in Aviation Medicine, Royal College of Physicians and an elected member of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and an Assistant Professor of Community Health, Wright State University.

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Dr. Michael D. McNeese
Senior Scientist, Crew Systems Interface Division of the United State Air Force Research Laboratory
Human-Computer Interaction & Cognitive Engineering

Michael D. McNeese received an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from Vanderbilt University under USAF scholarship. He also received an M. A. in Experimental-Cognitive Psychology from the University of Dayton. His undergraduate work focused on Psychology and Engineering Design. He has over 20 years experience in the areas of cognitive science, collaborative computing systems, and engineering design; and has over 60 publications on diverse facets of human / systems dynamics. Currently, he is a Senior Scientist participating in the C3I, Uninhabited Air Vehicle, and Multi-Crew Performance programs at the Collaborative Systems Technology Branch within the Crew Systems Interface Division of the United State Air Force Research Laboratory. As the past Director of the Collaborative Design Technologies program at the laboratory he has investigated various aspects of user-centered design, group problem solving, and cognitive engineering with respect to understanding potential group-computer interfaces in complex environments. His research has resulted in the design of several group-centered research paradigms, cognitive engineering methods and tools, and the development of collaborative computing technologies. His current interests include (1) the cognitive coupling of team members through the use common virtual environments, ubiquitous computing, and affective computing elements and (2) cognitive modeling of fighter pilots. Dr. McNeese is appointed to the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Aviation Psychology and is the Guest Editor of an upcoming special issue of the Journal of the American Society of Information Science on "User-Centered Cooperative Systems." Recently, he also chaired the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society Colloquium on Multi-Crew Performance in Complex, Military Systems. Dr. McNeese is currently editing a new book, Group Situational Awareness: New Views of Complex System Dynamics (McNeese, Salas, and Endsley, Eds.). His latest venture will be to serve in the role of recorder / summarizer for the 1998 NATO (RTO) Human Factors and Medicine Panel Symposium on the topic of Collaborative Crew Performance in Complex Operation Systems to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Dr. Lloyd G. Meyer
Research Physiologist, Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory
Extreme Environments Physiology

Dr. Meyer is a research physiologist at the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory (NAMRL) in Pensacola, Florida. During the past thirteen years, he has been the principal investigator on projects including: G-tolerance enhancement, chemical defense pre-treatment and antidote pharmaceutical countermeasures, development of anthropometrical measuring systems, hydration beverages and work performance in hot environments, endocrine and circulatory response to cold exposure, performance-based occupational strength testing for pilots, modified aircrew equipment leading to increased accommodation, test and evaluation of personal microclimate cooling systems for aircrew, and a health risk appraisal of naval special forces. Dr. Meyer is an adjunct professor at the University of West Florida and is active in the Aerospace Medical Association, the Association of Military Surgeons, and the American College of Sports Medicine. He is a Commander in the Navy Reserve and served with U.S. Central Command in Southwest Asia during Operation Desert Storm. Previously, Dr. Meyer worked at NASA, Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, as an experiment support scientist. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in physiology from the University of Illinois, a Master of Science degree in exercise physiology from the University of Houston, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in exercise physiology from Florida State University.

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Linda M. Plush
Executive Director, Space Nursing Society
Space Nursing & Health

Linda is an advanced practice nurse-CNS (clinical nurse specialist) in adult nursing and nephrology. She has been active in nephrology nursing serving in various positions over the years from staff nurse to Director of Nurses, and has been an adjunct instructor for several nursing programs. Linda is a student pilot with an avid interest in healthcare in extreme environments. Linda is a founding member of the Society of Rogerian Scholars (nurse scientist society), and the founder of the Space Nursing Society which was established in 1991. Linda served as the founding President of the society and is currently the Executive Director for SNS. In addition, she was named to the Council of Regents for the United Societies in Space in 1996, and later elected to the Board of Directors for USIS in 1997. She has been a topic coordinator for the Life Support & Biosphere Science: Earth and Space Journal since its founding. She is a life member of the Aerospace Medical Association, and a student member of the American Society for Gravitational & Space Biology. She is currently attending a post-masters nurse practitioner's program at Azusa Pacific University, California, and is also the owner of 2 businesses. She opened Plush Systems Inc., a health education and consulting business in 1991 and West Palm Inc., a mobile acute dialysis service in 1995.

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Dr. Gro M. Sandal
Associate Professor, Personality Division, University of Bergen, Norway
Personality and Social Psychology in Extreme Environments

Dr. Sandal acquired her Ph.D. at the University of Bergen, and works as an associate professor at the Personality Division at the University of Bergen, Norway. She has conducted research for the European Space Agency, the military, and national polar institutions in areas involving personality and team performance in Antarctic, military (divers, submarines, special forces, flight crews) and spaceflight operations. Additionally, she has been a principal investigator in all of the space simulation studies conducted for the European Space Agency (ESA) where teams have been isolated in hyperbaric chambers for prolonged periods. During the latest space simulation study in Moscow (1995), she coordinated the 14 group psychology experiments, and was responsible for crew training and debriefing. In addition to psychological research in a variety of extreme environments, she is currently conducting research in the area of personality predictors for leadership performance in general organizations.

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Dr. Patricia A. Santy
Asst. Dean for Center for Aerospace Medicine & Physiology, University of Texas Medical Branch
Space Psychiatry

Patricia A. Santy, M.D., M.S. is currently the Co-Director of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Center for Aerospace Medicine & Physiology. She is also the Assistant Dean for Continuing Education and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Santy was formerly a Medical Officer at the NASA Johnson Space Center, where she was the crew surgeon for many Shuttle flights, including the last Challenger mission. She founded the Behavioral Laboratory at the NASA Johnson Space Center. Dr. Santy is the author of numerous scholarly articles on space psychology, psychiatry, and medicine; as well as the author of the book Choosing the Right Stuff: The Psychological Selection of Astronauts and Cosmonauts. In 1994, she was the recipient of the Aerospace Medical Association's Raymond Longacre Award for "Outstanding accomplishment in the psychological and psychiatric aspects of aerospace medicine."

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Dr. Mark Sheehan
Chief of Psychiatry
United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine

Dr. Sheehan was born and raised in New Bedford, MA, and is a graduate of Dartmouth College, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and the psychiatric residency at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. After residency he was assigned to Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, TX and, while there, was deployed to the United Kingdom, where he served on the staff of a hospital activated in anticipation of the Persian Gulf War. He subsequently attended the Aerospace Medicine Course at Brooks AFB in San Antonio and became a flight surgeon. Since 1994 he has been assigned to Brooks as the Chief of the Psychiatry Section of the Aeromedical Consultation Service at the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine. Currently he is an associate investigator of the Collaborative Study to Assess Cognitive Deficits and Seizure Risks in Aviators with Closed Head Injuries. The objective of the study is to improve understanding of the natural history of closed head injuries, and specifically to identify early reliable predictors of the risk of developing late complications of head injury, such as seizures, in hopes of allowing for earlier aeromedical disposition than is now possible. He is now attending the Aerospace Medicine Residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX.

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Dr. Jack Stuster
Vice President, Anacapa Sciences
Human Factors Psychology

Jack Stuster is a Vice President and Principal Scientist at Anacapa Sciences, Inc., a human factors and applied behavioral sciences research firm, located in Santa Barbara, California. Dr. Stuster received a bachelor's degree in experimental psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology from the same institution. Dr. Stuster is a Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE), specializing in the measurement and enhancement of human performance in extreme environments. In addition to his work for NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), Dr. Stuster has analyzed the tasks performed by US Navy SEALs, explosive ordnance disposal technicians, the crews of high-speed hovercraft, maintenance personnel, and military leaders. Also, he has directed several full-mission simulations involving military personnel confined and isolated to remote-duty habitats for extended durations. The results of Dr. Stuster's research are used to design equipment and procedures to facilitate task performance under unusual environmental conditions. He also conducts traffic safety research and instructs law enforcement and national security personnel in the use of advanced techniques for the analysis of criminal intelligence. Dr. Stuster's work for NASA has included a study of space shuttle (orbiter) refurbishing procedures and studies of conditions on Earth that are analogous to space missions. He presently is conducting analyses of journals maintained by the leaders and physicians at French remote duty stations in the Antarctic and on small islands in the South Indian Ocean. He has developed design and procedural recommendations to enhance the habitability of the International Space Station, future space craft, and planetary facilities. Dr. Stuster recently completed a study of Antarctic winter-over experiences, and expeditions and voyages of discovery, which is documented in his book, Bold Endeavors: Lessons From Polar and Space Exploration, published by the Naval Institute Press.

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Dr. Norman E. Thagard
Professor, Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering, NASA Astronaut (retired)
Spaceflight

Dr. Thagard is a retired U.S. Astronaut whose flights include numerous trips on the Space Shuttle, in addition to a long-duration (115 day) stay in space aboard the Russian Space Station Mir. He was the first American to have ridden on board a Russian Launch vehicle (March 14, 1995). He has been instrumental in expressing to NASA the psychological and psychosocial stressors concerning long-duration spaceflight. Dr. Thagard is currently a Professor in the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, and the Director of College Relations. As a Marine fighter pilot, Norm was awarded 11 Air Medals, the Navy Commendation Medal with Combat "V," the Marine Corps "E" Award, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Palm. He flew 163 combat missions in Vietnam from January 1969 to 1970, and upon his return to the United States, held an assignment as an aviation weapons division officer and F4B maintenance test pilot at the Marine Corps Air Station, Beaufort, South Carolina. He received his BS and MS in engineering science, and upon returning from his military duties, Dr. Thagard resumed his academic studies in 1971, pursuing additional studies in electrical engineering, and his M.D. in 1977 from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He was later selected as a NASA astronaut and reported to Johnson Space Center in July 1978. He was presented with Russia's Friendship Medal by President Boris Yeltsin, National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Space Flight Medal, Distinguished Service Medal, and Sustained Superior Performance Award. He has logged over 2,200 hours flying time -the majority in high-performance jet aircraft.

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Dr. Patrick Veillette
CRM Researcher/Course Developer, Pilot HS-125
Firefighting, Aviation Psychology, & Flight Safety

Dr. Veillette graduated from the US Air Force Academy in 1983 with a B.S. in aeronautical engineering. Thereafter, he acquired his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical and Civil Engineering respectively. He has extensive flight experience and holds airline transport pilot, flight instructor ratings in all categories of fixed-wing aircraft, with type ratings in the SD3 and HS-125. He was also a designated pilot examiner. His flight experience includes over 14,000 hours in 120 different types of aircraft, from supersonic jets to biplanes, balloons, gliders and seaplanes, and includes various flight duties ranging from military jets to crop dusting, charter, aerial fire fighting, emergency medical service, major air carrier and business jets. His graduate research examined the role of pilot performance and human error in major airline operations, particularly using automated cockpits, and was published by the National Research Council. He is currently an instructor and CRM course developer for a large air carrier. He is also a contributing editor to Aviation Safety Journal, as well as a frequent contributor to the Flight Safety Digest and other aviation industry safety journals. His current area of interest is minimizing human error in high risk operations.

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Dr. James A. Wise
Principal Scientist, Eco*Integrations
Ecological Psychology & Architectural Design

James A. Wise, Ph.D. has pursued an interdisciplinary career for almost three decades as a university professor, government research scientist, and consultant to major corporations. After taking his Ph.D. in Experimental and Mathematical Psychology from the University of Washington in l970, he turned his attention to the general problem of the design of complex systems in order to better fit them to people's abilities, needs, and desires. He pursued this kind of research through professorships in Departments of Psychology, Architecture and Management at major universities, with adjunct appointments in Industrial Design, Environmental Studies, and Industrial & Systems Engineering. He has won national and international research awards in Industrial Design and Architecture, and a 1996 R&D 100 Applied Technology Award. He currently still teaches in the Environmental Sciences program at Washington State University, Tri-Cities. In l997, he founded Eco*Integrations, Inc. It's purpose is to provide advanced design research and assessment services that 'integrate the people, technology, information and environment' of high technology workplaces. In this venture, he emphasizes a 'Human Ecology' approach to the mutual fit of people and organizations with the built environment that incorporates theory from evolutionary psychology and the operation of natural ecosystems.

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Reviewers

John Spencer Cobb
iXL / Air National Guard Human Factors Engineering
Aviation Usability

Lieutenant John Cobb is training to become a B-1B pilot in the Georgia Air National Guard. John holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. in Engineering Psychology from Georgia Tech, where his research focused on the effects of task load on human perceptual performance. John has worked for Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems as a crew systems engineer on the C-130J and C-5AMP programs. His work included the design of cockpit interfaces and the evaluation of crew workload in the operational environment. John is currently on extended military leave from iXL, where he is a consultant specializing in the usability of internet applications. John may be contacted at: jcobb@iname.com.

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Dr. Steve Fadden
Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
Engineering Psychology and Human Factors

Steve Fadden is an Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton, working with the Human Centered Systems Engineering team on aviation and aerospace human factors and human-computer interaction projects. Steve has formerly worked with PeopleSoft, Intel, and Lockheed Martin, where he specialized in conducting research, design, and testing activities to develop cockpit displays and aircraft systems, hardware and software networking products, and enterprise web applications. Steve may be reached at sfadden@yahoo.com

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Robert J. B. Hutton
Research Associate, Klein Associates
Cognitive Engineering and Operational Decision Making in Stressed Environments

Rob Hutton is currently a Research Assistant at Klein Associates Inc. in Dayton, Ohio. He holds a B.A. in psychology with a specialization in ergonomics. His undergraduate work included work on stress reactions on a three-month tropical expedition. He received his M.S. in human factors psychology from Wright State University where his thesis work addressed the role of active perception in human-technology integration. His work at Klein Associates involves the application of field research to decision making in complex systems. These applications include cognitive and decision skills training, interface design, team and cooperative system organizational design, and the design of decision aids to support performance in complex, dynamic systems. His research has been conducted in various environments including: air traffic control, combat weather forecasting, avionics troubleshooting, military command and control environments, and minimally invasive surgery. Rob is an active member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) as well as the Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making technical group of HFES. His outdoor experiences include wilderness backpacking experiences in the Himalaya, the Amazon Basin, Europe and North America.

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Devorah Klein
Cognitive Psychology, University of Illinois
Human Factors Design & Cognitive Psychology

Devorah Klein is a third year graduate student in the Psychology Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois. Her research projects have examined context and semantic ambiguity resolution in linguistic areas in conceptual combinations and polysemy. Her human factors background includes internships with GTE and IDEO - jobs which put her right in the design process, talking to potential users and integrating their opinions into the product. She is currently the co-president of the University of Illinois Human Factors and Ergonomics Society student chapter.

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Patricia Lake
Klein Associates
Operational Decision Making in Stressed Environments

Patricia Lake is currently working as a Research Assistant at Klein Associates in Fairborn, Ohio. Her work there involves researching decision making in naturalistic environments such as nursing, firefighting, and the military. Prior to joining Klein Associates Ms. Lake worked as a Research Assistant at Wright State University assisting a doctoral student in researching decision making and expert/novice differences in surgeons conducting laparoscopies (through the use of minimally invasive techniques). Ms. Lake then added to this area of research with her senior thesis: Dissecting Expertise: An Exploration of Decision Making in Surgery. Patricia Lake obtained her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio in June of 1997.

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JoanneMallett, M.D
Senior Executive Officer
Surgtrain (Surgical Performance Enhancement Resources) Dr. Mallett is interested in the use of new technologies in the operating room. She is developing a fully integrated program for improving surgical performance, using "Crew Resource Management" of the aerospace industry as a paradigm for part of the program. Her focus is on both individual and team performance, and on both psychomotor and psychosocial skills. She graduated from Austin College, Sherman, Texas, with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. She received her M.D. degree from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, and is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She practiced obstetrics and gynecology, including both open pelvic and laparoscopic surgery, for 22 years. She welcomes contact with others who view the operating room as an extreme environment and can be reached at Surgtrain@aol.com

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Captain Janelle Viera O'Brien
Occupational Analyst, Air Force Occupational Measurement Squadron, Randolf AFB
Occupational Analysis and Aerospace Human Factors

Captain Janelle Viera O'Brien graduated from the USAF Academy in 1993 with a B.S. in Behavioral Science. Janelle's first Air Force assignment was in the Human Resources Directorate at Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks AFB, TX, where she worked as a Research Scientist from 1993 to 1995. Sponsored by the Air Force, she attended the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, graduating in May 1997 with an M.S. in Applied Personnel Psychology. While at the University of Illinois, she also conducted research in the area of cockpit displays to support Free Flight (the initiative to move air traffic management responsibility from air traffic controllers to pilots in the cockpit). She is currently assigned as an Occupational Analyst in the Air Force Occupational Measurement Squadron, Randolph AFB, TX.

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Marilyn Dudley-Rowley
Research Assistant, Department of Social Psychology, University of South Carolina
Behavior in Extreme Environments

Marilyn Dudley-Rowley is a multidisciplinarian who enjoys synthesizing data across the sciences to aid human adaptation to extreme environmental conditions. Her educational background includes structural sociology, social psychology, anthropology, geoarchaeology, remote sensing, and clinical counseling. The Arctic set the tone for her extreme environmental interests. She first arrived in Alaska in 1975 with the U.S. Army where she was assigned to the first-ever gender-integrated mountain climbing venture. This led to selection to the Northern Warfare Training Center, then later to editing and writing for The Snow Hawk, the training journal of the Army in the Arctic, supervised by H. Norman Schwartzkopf. Stints in Army and Air Force ROTCs and the several research institutes of the University of Alaska-Fairbanks (a NASA site) followed. Affiliated now with The University of South Carolina and OPS-Alaska, a private research company, her active research interests include the structural and ecological correlates of deviant behavior in extreme environments; catastrophic analogs of Martian surface water features; and small biosphere systems. She has been an active participant in various NASA space sciences programs since 1988, and is a repeat applicant to the US. astronaut candidate program.

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Nadine B. Sarter, Ph.D.
Department of Industrial, Welding, and Systems Engineering
The Ohio State University

Dr. Sarter is currently an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Aviation at the University of Illinois where she also holds zero-time time appointments in the Department of Psychology, the Department of Mechanical Engineering/Industrial Engineering, and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. She received her M.S. degree in Experimental/Applied Psychology from the University of Hamburg (Germany) in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Ohio State University in 1994. Dr. Sarter's fields of professional interest include the development of multimodal feedback in support of data-driven monitoring and mode awareness, strategies for automation management, attention allocation in highly dynamic multi-display environments, human error, and the development of new approaches to training for advanced automated cockpits. Her work is grounded in the field of Cognitive Systems Engineering which emphasizes the need for an ecological, problem-driven, and principle-based approach to the design and evaluation of modern technology. She is the editor (together with Dr. Rene Amalberti) of a recent volume on "Cognitive Engineering in the Aviation Domain" and the author of several journal articles on human-machine collaboration. She can be reached at sarter.l@osu.edu.

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Bryan Sexton
Research Associate, University of Texas
Aerospace Crew Research Project Team Performance in Aerospace and Medical Environments

Bryan Sexton is a Research Associate at the University of Texas Aerospace Crew Research Project. He is currently working on his Ph.D. in Social Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, and shares much of his time between the cockpits of commercial aviation aircraft, and medical operating rooms conducting research supported by NASA, the FAA, and the Swiss National Science Foundation. He has systematically observed hundreds of teams in both aviation and medicine. Bryan recently served as a research fellow at the University of Basel, Kantonsspital Department of Anesthesia, in Basel, Switzerland. While in Switzerland, he worked on numerous projects including: anesthesia resident selection, systematic observation of surgical teams, the creation of a Critical Incident Reporting System (reporting medical accidents and incidents via the internet), and the training of operating room personnel using Basel's high fidelity full-scale operating room simulator. Bryan has worked on Astronaut, Pilot, and Medical Resident selection projects, and has cultivated a fascination with the interpersonal dynamics of team members in extreme environments. HPEE members should feel free to contact Bryan anytime with comments of questions: sexton@psy.utexas.edu. Bryan also manages the University of Texas Aerospace Crew Research Project website located at: www.psy.utexas.edu/psy/helmreich/nasaut.htm

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Terry Stanard, Ph.D.
Research Associate, Klein Associates Inc.
Human Factors, Industrial and Perceptual Psychology

Terry Stanard is a Research Associate at Klein Associates Inc., Dayton, Ohio. His interdisciplinary background spans industrial psychology, perceptual psychology, and human factors research and design. He completed his B.A. in Psychology at West Virginia University, where he assisted in several applied behavioral analysis projects with healthcare personnel. He completed his M.A. at University of Akron in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. His thesis work studied organizational predictors of nursing burnout. While working toward the degree, he also consulted with two human resources consulting firms on the construction and evaluation of selection systems for hiring practices. He completed a Ph.D. in Human Factors from Wright State University. While there, he performed numerous studies on the role of vision and the control of vehicles. Terry's work at Klein Associates involves the use of cognitive task analysis to study the decision making in real-world settings. This includes supporting decision making through training program development and the design of human computer interfaces. He is an active member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) and the HFES Surface Transportation Technical Group. He holds a SECRET clearance. Terry may be reached at terry@klein-inc.com.

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Michelle Yeh
Human Factors Psychology, University of Illinois
Virtual Environments

Michelle Yeh is a third year Ph.D. student in Human Factors Psychology at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. She works with Chris Wickens examining issues in display design for virtual environments. Currently, she is investigating the effects of a variety of display parameters on the presentation of information with an HMD (head-mounted display) and how superimposing symbology from the near domain to the world in a land environment influences tasks of focused and divided attention. She has interned with NCSA, Compaq Computer Corporation and Microsoft and worked as a consultant with Trilogy Development Group. She has served as the Vice President/Treasurer of the student chapter of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society for the past two years.

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Dr. Li Min Zhang
Research Assistant, Dept. of Aerospace Medicine, Wright State University
Aerospace Medicine and Human Factors

Li Min received his B.S. in medicine, M.S. in aviation physiology, and M.D. from the Fourth Medical University in Xian, China. He is currently obtaining an M.S. in Aerospace Medicine from the civilian aerospace medicine residency program at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He was an assistant research fellow at the Institute of Aviation Medicine in Beijing, China. His main area of study was research on pilot workload and health maintenance. He has conducted research for more than ten years and published more than 30 papers. As a principal investigator, he received awards for his research projects through both the Chinese Scientific and Technology Committee and the Aerospace Medical Association. He is a member of the Aerospace Medicial Association (AsMA), the Aerospace Human Factors Association (AsHFA), the Wright Brothers Chapter of the SAFE Association, and the Chinese Aerospace Medical Association.

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