AVI   358
Human Factors
Introduction to human factors, ergonomics, engineering psychology, history of ergonomics, human-machine relations, displays and controls, human-computer interaction, industrial and aviation systems, physiology of work and anthropometrics, cognitive ergonomics, human reliability, human as manual controller, human-machine systems design, prototyping, professional practice and ethics, laboratory exercises. Same as PSYC 358, and IE 340.

Prerequisite: PSYC 100, PSYC 103, or consent of instructor. Priority given to Aviation, Industrial Engineering, and Engineering Psychology majors. Students must register for one lab and one lecture section. Credit: 4 hours.

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AVI   381
Cockpit Resource Management
Examines societal/cultural, industry, governmental regulatory agency, organizational, group, and individual influences on cockpit behavior and cockpit resource management. Two 90 minute lecture/discussion and one two-hour laboratory/flight periods each week. Laboratory and flight sections use multi-engine flight simulators and multi-engine aircraft. Students will gain experience flying preplanned scenarios in both aircraft and simulators. Materials from lecture/discussions will be emphasized in flights.

Prerequisite: Multi-engine instrument rating; junior standing and consent of director. Additional $1,107 Flight Fee, subject to Board of Trustee approval, is Required. Students must register for one lecture-discussion and one flight section. Credit 3 hours.

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PSYC   406
Statistical Methods I
Techniques in applied statistics used in psychological research, including simple linear regression, partial and multiple correlation, and nonparametric methods; thorough review of statistical estimation and significance tests; emphasizes applied statistics and statistical computing. Credit is not given for both PSYC 406 and SOC 586.

Prerequisite: Twelve hours in psychology and PSYC 235, or equivalent. Priority enrollment given to incoming graduate students in Psychology, Educational Psychology and Aviation. Students must register for one lab and one lecture section. Credit 4 hours.

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PSYC   407
Statistical Methods II
Continuation of PSYC 406. Experimental design, including Latin Squares, factorials, and nested designs; expected mean squares; analysis of covariance; emphasizes the general linear model. Credit is not given for both PSYC 407 and SOC 587.

Prerequisite: PSYC 406. Credit: 4 hours.

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AVI   429
Human Computer Interaction Lab
Examines basic concepts, methodology, and critical skills needed in conducting research, evaluating and designing human-computer interfaces. Laboratory includes performing experiments in human-computer interaction. Same as AVI 429 and IE 446.

Prerequisite: PSYC 224, PSYC 358, or PSYC 456; and a course in computer science; or consent of instructor. Credit: 4 hours.

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AVI   455
Aviation Accident Analysis
Fundamental concepts of aviation safety augmentation with emphasis on accident prevention through accident investigation, casualty reduction through crashworthy design, and safety enhancement resulting from litigation; accident investigation techniques and crash survival design factors.

Prerequisite: AVI 101 or consent of instructor. Credit: 3 undergraduate hours, 4 graduate hours.

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AVI   456
Human Performance and Engineering Psychology
Human capabilities and limitations in processing information; models and theories of signal detection, stimulus analysis, short-term memory, choice reaction time, decision-making, attention, and motor performance are evaluated with respect to experimental data; emphasizes theory, although implications for design of man-machine systems are considered. Same as PSYC 456, and IE 445.

Prerequisite: PSYC 100 or PSYC 103 or consent of instructor. Credit: 3 undergraduate hours, 4 graduate hours.

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CS   465
User Interface Design
A project-focused course that covers fundamental principles of user interface design, implementation, and evaluation. Small teams work on a semester-long project that includes: analysis of the problem domain, user skills, and tasks; iterative prototyping of interfaces to address user needs; conducting several forms of evaluation such as cognitive walkthroughs and usability tests; implementation of the final prototype. Non-technical majors may enroll in the course as non-programmers who participate in all aspects of the projects with the possible exception of implementation. Same as LIS 465.

Prerequisite: CS 225 or CS 400. Credit: 3 undergraduate hours, 3 or 4 graduate hours.

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PSYC   496
Aviation Physiology
We will explore various aspects of human physiology pertinent to aviation and aerospace operations. The focus of the course will be the understanding of these physiological factors and the mitigation of their adverse consequences to improve safety and performance in the aerospace environment.

Prerequisite: Credit: 3 undergraduate hours, 4 graduate hours.

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AVI   497
Human Factors Issues in Health Care Systems
The health care system is becoming increasingly complex, posing a variety of challenges to health care providers and patients. In this course we will review research that applies the methods and theories of cognitive psychology and human factors to develop design, instruction, and training interventions that help providers deliver care more safely and effectively. Topics include provider and patient errors related to the design of medical devices and the use of medication, interventions to improve patients’ comprehension of health information, and issues related to providers’ and patients’ use of technology in health care settings. We will begin with a brief introduction to problems and accidents in the health care system related to human factors, followed by an overview of basic concepts and methods from the fields of human factors and cognitive psychology. This overview provides a foundation for analysis of specific topics in health care and human factors.

Prerequisite: AVI 495 or equivalent and junior standing; or consent of instructor. Credit: 3 undergraduate hours, 4 graduate hours.

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AVI   497
Current Topics in Aviation
This course examines a cross-section of aviation jobs for pilots, from instructional positions, to corporate/charter positions, to the airlines. Pros and cons of each position are discussed along with current industry trends. Secondly, a number of advanced avionics and navigations systems are described and discussed. Course recommended for seniors in aviation.

Prerequisite: Junior status

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AVI   497
Crew Resource Management: Research in Team Decision Making
Examines societal/cultural, industry, governmental regulatory agency, organizational, group, and individual influences on cockpit behavior and cockpit resource management. Graduate students will attend two 90-minute lecture/discussion sessions and observe one two-hour flight laboratory (simulator training) each week. Students will learn the principles of observational/ethnographic research in addition to team dynamics and will observe students ' simulated flight laboratories from AVI 381 (Cockpit Resource Management) as their research subjects. Laboratory flight sections use multi-engine flight simulators.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing only. May not be substituted for AVI 381.

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AVI   497
Aviation Physiology
We will explore various aspects of human physiology pertinent to aviation and aerospace operations. The focus of the course will be the understanding of these physiological factors and the mitigation of their adverse consequences to improve safety and performance in the aerospace environment.

Prerequisite: Credit: 3 undergraduate hours, 4 graduate hours.

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PSYC   504
Theories of Attention
Systematic study of the psychology of attention, including focused and divided attention, dual-task performance, attention and memory, attention and automatization, and skilled performance. The emphasis is primarily theoretical, focusing on current approaches and the historical developments that led to them.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Psychology or consent of instructor. Credit: 2 or 4 hours.

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AVI   527
Engineering Psychology
Experimental psychology applied to the study of man-machine systems; considers research issues, methodological matters, and principles of design and training in terms of contemporary aircraft, highway, industrial, and health-care systems. Same as PSYC 527.

Prerequisite: PSYC 358 or PSYC 456, or consent of instructor. Credit: 4 hours.

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CS   565
Human-Computer Interaction
In-depth coverage of advanced topics in human-computer interaction (HCI). Topics include applied models of human performance and attention, design tools for creative design tasks, interruptions and peripheral displays, gestures, and bimanual input, and usability evaluation techniques. Students complete a research-oriented semester project of their choosing.

Prerequisite: CS 465. Credit: 4 hours.

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AVI   590
Individual Research
For graduate students who wish to conduct research on special problems not included in graduate thesis. Approved for S/U grading only. May be repeated to a maximum of 32 hours.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor. Credit: 0 to 16 hours.

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CS   591
Seminar in Human-Computer Interaction


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CS   591
Computing and Creativity Seminar


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PSYC   593
Human Factors in Surface Transportation
Introduction to human factors issues in surface transportation, with topics including (but not limited to): driver behavior, highway and vehicle design, railroad systems, and transit systems

Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Credit 4 hours.

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PSYC   593
Safety Informatics
An interdisciplinary course for graduate students in Human Factors, LIS, IESE, Psych, Sociology, and Speech Communication. This course will explore the nature of safety and information in normal and safety critical, high risk environments. We will explore the nature of distributed cooperative practice including the organization of and access to information, systems management, language and communication, distributed cognition, computer supported cooperative work, safety culture and activity in a variety of domains. Students are responsible for reading, discussing, and critiquing the works. Students will also prepare research papers.

Prerequisite: Graduate only.

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PSYC   593
Literacy and Health Care - A Human Factors Perspective
We will explore dimensions of health-related literacy, including how it relates to broader concepts of literacy and cognition, as well as how it is measured. We will also review the literature on who is at risk for low health literacy and its impact on health care (e.g., patient self-care, health resource utilization). Most important, we consider human factors approaches to improving access to health care by patients with low health literacy (e.g., improving document design and provider/patient collaboration).

Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

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PSYC   593
Attention and Eye Movements


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PSYC   593
Distributed Cognition and Interactive Behavior
This seminar will include theories and empirical research focuses on situations in which cognition is not confined to the individual, but distributed across individuals and/or objects in our environment. Interactive behavior is defined as the patterns of activities that emerge from the co-ordination between individuals and artifacts in various complex socio-technological systems. Topics will include how characteristics of the environment may interact with low-level perceptual-motor and cognitive operations and higher level behavior such as learning, information-seeking, and decision making at both the individual and social levels. Implications to designs of interactive environments will be discussed.

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PSYC   593
Advanced Cognitive Modeling Seminar
This seminar focuses on advanced computational cognitive modeling techniques to characterize human learning and performance in a wide range of realistic settings. Students are expected to have some background in cognitive modeling. Students will develop a computational cognitive model in their own research areas throughout the course.

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PSYC   593
Human Factors Proseminar
The purpose of the seminar is to present the student with an understanding of the methodology, content, and research process in engineering psychology and human factors. One aspect focuses on the current content of engineering psychology research with an emphasis on faculty research on this campus. The second aspect examines the process of human factors/engineering psychology research, addressing the particular issues in experimental design, data analysis, write up, and presentation, that are relatively unique to applied experimental research. Prior background in human factors or engineering psychology is neither a requirement, nor even expected. It is however important that the student be interested in the applications of psychology theory to applied problems.

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AVI   599
Thesis Research
Individual direction of research and Master’s thesis writing under the supervision of members of the faculty. 3 hours; More hours may be taken but only 3 hours will count as hours toward the degree requirements

Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor. Credit: 0 to 16 hours.

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