Interfaces on the Road: Rapid Evaluation of In-Vehicle Devices

Speaker
Bonnie John
Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

When
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Where
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)

Description

People spend more time in their cars today than ever before, and the use of in-vehicle devices has jumped dramatically over the past decade. We have developed a cognitive modeling-based approach in ACT-R that allows designers to rapidly prototype new devices, model behavior on these devices, and evaluate them using recognized real-world measures of driver distraction. We compare the predictions of our models to human performance data in a variety of driving-related tasks.

This work in collaboration with Dr. Dario Salvucci, Drexel University.

Speaker's Bio

Bonnie John is an engineer (B.Engr., The Cooper Union, 1977; M. Engr. Stanford, 1978) and cognitive psychologist (M.S. Carnegie Mellon, 1984; Ph. D. Carnegie Mellon, 1988) who has worked both in industry (Bell Laboratories, 1977–1983) and academe (Carnegie Mellon University, 1988–present). She is an Associate Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and the Director of the Masters Program in HCI. Her research includes human performance modeling, usability evaluation methods, and the relationship between usability and software architecture. She consults for many industrial and government organizations.

Speaker's Website
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bej/