Applied Attention: From Theory to Practice
Hosted by The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology
405 N. Mathews, Urbana, IL: June 16 – 18, 2005.

A tribute to Dr. Christopher D. Wickens for his many contributions (and decades of service) to the field of Human Factors and in honor of his retirement from the University of Illinois. See a Beckman Institute article, "Wickens Leaves a Legacy".

Conference Organizing Committee: Art Kramer, Alex Kirlik, Doug Wiegmann, Karen Ayers, and Mary Welborn.

Program

Thursday, June 16th

6:00 to 7:30 pmReception (Beckman Atrium)

Friday, June 17th

8:30 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast (Beckman Room 1003)

9:05 - 9:20 am Art Kramer - Conference Opening (Beckman Auditorium, Room 1025)

9:25 - 9:55 am Danny Gopher, Technion-IIT, Emphasis Change as a Training Protocol for High Demand Tasks

10:00 - 10:30 am Dan Fisk, Georgia Institute of Technology, Attention Goes Home

10:35 – 10:50 am Coffee Break (Beckman Room 1003)

10:55 - 11:25 am Wayne Gray, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Soft Constraints in Interactive Behavior: Bounded Rationality at the 1,000 msec Level of Analysis

11:30 - 12:00 pm Mica Endsley, SA Technologies, Situation Awareness: Attention Foundations, Disruptions and Design Implications

12:05 – 12:35 pm Lunch (Beckman Room 1003)

12:40 – 1:10 pm John Lee, University of Iowa, Attention, Attitudes, and Automation

1:15- 1:45 pm Pamela Tsang, Wright State University, The Dynamics of Attention and Aging in Aviation

1:50 – 2:20 pm Don Fisher, University of Massachusetts, Automatic Attention and Change Blindness: Their Role in Novice and Older Driver Crashes

2:25 – 2:40 pm Coffee Break (Beckman Room 1003)

2:45 – 3:15 pm Nadine Sarter, University of Michigan, Multiple Resource Theory as a Basis for Multimodal Interface Design: Success Stories and Qualifications

3:20 – 3:50 pm Raja Parasuraman, George Mason University, Individual Differences in Attention and Working Memory: A Molecular Genetic Approach

3:55 – 4:25 pm Sandy Hart, NASA Ames Res. Ctr., Managing "Resources" ... Avoiding Accidents

4:30 – 5:30 pm Poster session (Beckman Room 1215)

6:00 – 8:30 pm Cocktails (6:00 – 6:30) and Banquet (6:30 – 8:30 pm - Beckman Atrium)

Saturday, June 18th

8:30 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast (Beckman Room 1003)

9:05 – 9:20 am Chancellor Herman

9:25 - 9:55 am Tom Sheridan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fragments in Search of an Attention Model

10:00- 10:30 am Neville Moray, Tactics of Visual Attention

10:35 – 11:05 am Key Dismukes, NASA Ames Res. Ctr., Prospective Memory, Concurrent Task Management and Pilot Error

11:10 – 11:40 am Coffee Break (Beckman Room 1003)

11:45 – 12:15 pm Jan Theeuwes, Vrije Universiteit, Cross-modal Interactions Between Sensory Modalities: Implications for the Design of Multisensory Displays

12:20 - 12:50 am Dave Strayer, University of Utah, Multitasking in the Automobile

12:55 – 1:25 pm Chris Wickens, Applied Attention Theory: Research Agenda for the Future

1:30 pm Close of conference

2:30 pm Picnic at Human Factors Division, Willard Airport