The Board on Human-Systems Integration

Current Membership

Nancy J. Cooke, Ph.D., Chair
Professor, Cognitive Science and Engineering,
Arizona State University
Science Director,
Cognitive Engineering Research Institute
Nancy J. Cooke is a professor of applied psychology at Arizona State University and is science director and on the Board of Directors of the Cognitive Engineering Research Institute in Mesa, AZ. Dr. Cooke is also a section editor of Human Factors and serves on the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and National Research Council Soldier Systems Panel. Dr. Cooke received a B.A. in psychology from George Mason University and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in cognitive psychology in 1983 and 1987, respectively, from New Mexico State University. Currently, she supervises post doctoral, graduate and undergraduate research on team cognition with applications in design and training for military command-and-control systems, emergency response, medical systems, and uninhabited aerial systems. In particular, Dr. Cooke specializes in the development, application, and evaluation of methodologies to elicit and assess individual and team cognition. Her most recent work includes the development and validation of methods to measure team coordination, team communication, and team situation awareness and research on the impact of cross training, distributed mission environments, intact vs. mixed teams, workload stress on attention and memory, as well as team knowledge, process, and performance more generally. Dr. Cooke is the 2006 recipient of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's O. Keith Hansen Outreach Award. Dr. Cooke has served as a member of BOHSI since 2007 and has participated in two study panels on Human-System Design Support for Changing Technology (2005-7) and the Safety and Security of Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage (2004-5).
Pascale Carayon, Ph.D.
Procter & Gamble Bascom Professor in Total Quality
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Director of the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Pascale Carayon is Procter & Gamble Bascom Professor in Total Quality and Associate Chair in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Director of the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement (CQPI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She leads the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her Engineer diploma from the Ecole Centrale de Paris, France, in 1984 and her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988. Her research examines systems engineering, human factors and ergonomics, sociotechnical engineering and occupational health and safety, and has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes for Health (NIH), the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the Department of Defense, various foundations and private industry. She is the North American editor for Applied Ergonomics, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Patient Safety, Behaviour and Information Technology, and Work and Stress. She is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the International Ergonomics Association. Between 2006 and 2009 she was the Secretary General of the International Ergonomics Association. Dr. Carayon was a member of the Institute Of Medicine Committee on Resident Hours. She is the editor of the Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety.
Don B. Chaffin, Ph.D, NAE
R.G. Snyder Distinguished University Professor (Emeritus)
Operations Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Environmental Health Sciences
University of Michigan
Don B. Chaffin (NAE) is the R.G. Snyder Distinguished University Professor (Emeritus) in Industrial and Operations Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Michigan. Dr. Chaffin received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from GMI (now Kettering University) in 1962, his M.S. in IE from the University of Toledo in 1964, and his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1967. His research has resulted in six books, over 140 peer reviewed journal articles, and over 300 Proceedings, book chapters and reports. He and his graduate students and staff have developed a set of widely used software programs to assist engineers who are involved in designing workplaces and vehicles to accommodate various groups of people, and to assure that people do not suffer overexertion injuries during the performance of manual tasks of all kinds. In 1998 he founded and directed the Human Motion Simulation Laboratory in the Center for Ergonomics until his retirement in 2007. His work has resulted in his election to Fellow status in seven different international, professional and scientific organizations, and in 1994 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He has received many national and international awards for his teaching, research and service, including the 2008 National Engineering Award from the American Association of Engineering Societies, for his lifetime achievements and leadership in the field of ergonomics.
Mary (Missy) Cummings, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Aeronautics & Astronautics Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mary (Missy) Cummings is an Associate Professor in the Aeronautics & Astronautics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her B.S. in Mathematics from the United States Naval Academy in 1988, her M.S. in Space Systems Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1994, and her Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2003. A naval officer and military pilot from 1988-1999, she was one of the Navy's first female fighter pilots. Her previous teaching experience includes instructing for the U.S. Navy at Pennsylvania State University and as an assistant professor for the Virginia Tech Engineering Fundamentals Division. Her research interests include human interaction with autonomous vehicle systems, modeling human interaction with complex systems, decision support design for time-pressured, uncertain systems, and the ethical and social impact of technology.
Sara J. Czaja, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Industrial Engineering
Co-director, Center on Aging
Director of the Center on Research and Education for Aging and Technology Enhancement (CREATE)
University of Miami
Sara J. Czaja is professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Industrial Engineering at the University of Miami. She is also the co-director of the Center on Aging at the University of Miami and the director of the Center on Research and Education for Aging and Technology Enhancement (CREATE). CREATE is funded by the National Institute on Aging and it involves collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology and Florida State University. The focus of CREATE is on making technology more accessible, useful, and usable for older adult populations. Dr. Czaja has extensive experience in aging research and a long commitment to developing strategies to improve the quality of life for older adults. Her research interests include: aging and cognition, caregiving, human-computer interaction, training, and functional assessment. Dr. Czaja is very well published in the field of aging and has written numerous book chapters and scientific articles. She recently co-authored a book with other members of the CREATE team concerning the design of technology for older adult populations. In addition, she is fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and the Gerontological Society of America. She is the past chair of the Risk Prevention and Behavior Scientific Review Panel of the National Institutes of Health.
Andrew S. Imada, Ph.D.
President
A.S. Imada and Associates
Andrew S. Imada is the president of the International Ergonomics Association, which represents 49 federated societies and networks and 25,000 ergonomists around the world. He is a specialist in human and organizational change and a Certified Professional Ergonomist. Dr. Imada was a professor of Ergonomics and Safety Sciences at the University of Southern California for 19 years. He also served as the director of the USC Safety Science Center and the International Distance Learning Liaison at the university’s Center for Scholarly Technology. Dr. Imada won the 1998 Liberty Mutual Prize and the 2000 Liberty Mutual Medal in international competitions for occupational safety and ergonomics research. His work focuses on helping people and organizations change to improve productivity, safety, quality, and work systems. He was a visiting scholar at Luleå University in Sweden, teaching graduate courses on implementing participatory strategies for improving safety, ergonomics and productivity and has served on the Board of Consulting Editors for the Journal of Applied Psychology. He has served as a director on the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics and is a fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the International Ergonomics Association. Dr. Imada earned his Bachelor of Arts in psychology and business from the University of San Francisco and his masters and doctoral degrees from The Ohio State University in industrial and organizational psychology.
David Rempel, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Professor of Engineering
Director, Ergonomics Graduate Training Program
University of California, Berkeley
David Rempel is Professor of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley, and director of the Ergonomics Graduate Training Program at UC Berkeley. His research fouses on understanding how tendons, muscles, and nerves are injured at work and how workplace tools, workstations and tasks can be designed in order to prevent musculoskeletal disorders. His research is funded by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, the National Institute of Health and industry. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals, 10 book chapters, and over 300 proceedings papers. He is board certified in internal medicine, occupational medicine, and ergonomics. In the past 10 years the graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in his group have conducted laboratory biomechanics and usability studies on tools and devices used in the workplace and carried out randomized controlled trials of workplace ergonomic interventions in the office, garment, dental, and construction sectors.
Matthew Rizzo, M.D.
Professor of Neurology, Engineering, and Public Policy
Director of the Division of Neuroergonomics
University of Iowa
Matthew Rizzo is Professor of Neurology, Engineering, and Public Policy, at the University of Iowa. He has an M.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the Vice Chair for Clinical/Translational Research, and Director if the Division of Neuroergonomics, its Visual Function and (SIREN) Laboratory. and its instrumented vehicles, all in the Department of Neurology. His clinical interests and activities include behavioral neurology and cognitive neuroscience and memory disorders. His research interests include behavioral disturbances resulting from CNS injury, neural substrates of human vision (including attention and visuomotor control), aging and dementia, driving performance in neurological disease, and driving simulation. Dr. Rizzo is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Neurological Association, and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Society for Neuroscience, and the Vision Sciences Society.
Thomas Sheridan, Ph.D., NAE
Ford Professor of Engineering and Applied Psychology, Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thomas B. Sheridan (NAE) is Ford Professor of Engineering and Applied Psychology Emeritus, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, he chaired the National Research Council's Committee on Human Factors, and has served on numerous other NRC, government and industrial advisory committees and several editorial boards. He has also served as a visiting professor at University of California Berkeley, Stanford, Delft University in the Netherlands (from which he received an honorary doctorate), Kassel University in Germany, and Ben Gurion University in Israel. He was president and is a Fellow of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, received their Norbert Wiener and Joseph Wohl awards and Third Millennium Medal. He was also president and is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, recipient of their Paul M. Fitts and President's Distinguished Service Awards. He also received the National Engineering Award of the American Association of Engineering Societies and the the Oldenburger Medal of ASME. His research interests are in experimentation, modeling, and design of human-machine systems in air, highway and rail transportation, space and undersea robotics, process control, arms control, telemedicine, and virtual reality. Sheridan authored or edited five books on human performance modeling, telerobotics and human-automation interaction.
David Wegman, M.D., M.Sc.
Professor Emeritus
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
David H. Wegman is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Work Environment at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Adjunct Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He was founding chair of the Department of Work Environment as well as Dean of the School of Health and Environment. He received his BA from Swarthmore College and both his MD and MSc from Harvard University. Dr. Wegman’s epidemiologic research includes study of acute and chronic occupational respiratory disease, occupational cancer risk and occupational musculoskeletal disorders with special interests in study of subjective outcomes as early indicators of health effects and in surveillance of occupational conditions and risks. He is a National Associate of the National Academies and has served on or chaired several Academy committees, most recently chairing the committees for Review of NIOSH Research Programs, the Role of Human Factors in Home Health Care, and the External Evaluation of the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Dr. Wegman chaired the MSHA Advisory Committee on the Elimination of Pneumoconiosis Among Coal Mine Workers and previously served on the Boards of Scientific Counselors for NIOSH and for the National Toxicology Program as well as on the EPA Science Advisory Board. In 2006, in response to a request initiated by the Swedish Parliament, he was appointed chair of the International Evaluation Group for an analysis of Occupational Health Research in Sweden. He is co-editor of Occupational and Environmental Health: Recognition and Prevention of Disease and Injury, the 6th edition of which will be published in 2010.
Howard Weiss, Ph.D.
Professor and Department Head
Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University
Howard M. Weiss is Professor and Department Head in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. He has a Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from New York University. Dr. Weiss’ research focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of emotional experiences at work. Specifically, his research examines variation of emotional states at work, effects of immediate emotional states on job performance, and the cumulative effects of emotional experiences on job satisfaction and burnout. He also studies the effect of attentional focus on work performance. He is co-founder of the Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University and currently serves as a Senior Research Scientist. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Behavior and currently seves on the Society’s Executive Committee. He is also a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association, where he is also a member of APA Council. His research has been funded by the Army Research Institute, the Office of Naval Research, the Department of Defense and the Spencer Foundation.
Barbara Wanchisen, Ph.D.
Director
National Research Council
Barbara Wanchisen received a B.A. in English and Philosophy from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, an M.A. in English from Villanova University, and her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Temple University. She is a long-standing member of the Psychonomic Society, the Association for Behavior Analysis, and the American Psychological Association. In January 2004, she became a Fellow of Division 25 (Behavior Analysis) of the American Psychological Association. She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and The Behavior Analyst while also serving as a guest reviewer of a number of other journals. From November 2001 until April 2008, Wanchisen was the executive director of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, & Cognitive Sciences in Washington, DC. In 2004, she was instrumental in the founding of the Federation's Foundation for the Advancement of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, a non-profit organization that assumed the educational mission of the Federation. Previously, Wanchisen was Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of the college-wide Honors Program at Baldwin-Wallace College, near Cleveland, Ohio.
Past Chairs of BOHSI