Dr. Gitte Lindgaard recently gave an invited talk to about 100 hospital CEOs and CTO in Abulferia, Portugal. Her talk was entitled “MedPost: A management support system for large adverse events.”
Dr. Jackie Ellis, as the lead, and Dr. Avi Parush, as the co-lead, along with a other researchers from CHEO and Carleton University have been awarded a research grant from the Canadian Patient Safety Institute to develop and test a computerized double-check application to prevent high-alert medication errors.
Professor Marilyn Tremaine will be giving a talk on Thursday from 11am – noon in the Hotlab, SSRB 210. Professor Tremaine is a very distinguished professor with a long history in HCI. Her talk is entitled “Where is “it”? Event Synchronization in Gaze-Speech Input Systems.” All interested individuals are welcome to attend this session.
Avi Parush, founder and editor of the Journal of Usability Studies (JUS), and Associate Professor of Psychology, Human Oriented Technology (HOT) Laboratory at Carleton University, recently announced the appointment of Joe Dumas as co-editor-in-chief of JUS. Dumas is a leading pioneer in the usability field and has published the Practical Guide to Usability Testing and Moderating Usability Tests and many other articles. “We are delighted to announce Joe’s appointment,” said Parush. “He has been on the editorial board of JUS since it’s inception in November, 2005. His knowledge and experience will continue to be a great asset to JUS,” said Parush.
JUS is a peer-reviewed, international, online publication dedicated to promoting and enhancing the usability practice. In addition to Dumas, a search is on for an additional co-editor-in-chief. “We will continue looking for another person to become the other co-editor in chief allowing me to move on to other activities and new initiatives,” said Parush. “This gradual change can also be a great opportunity to increase the visibility of the journal.”
To apply or to recommend someone as co-editor-in-chief please send an email to Avi Parush. Read the most recent issue of JUS.
Patrick Noonan will be presenting a paper tomorrow at the 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), May 2-5.
Lindgaard, G., Sen, D., Dudek, C., Tsuji, B., Noonan, P., Stojmenovic, M., Lundahl, S., MacMillan, D. & Seguin, P. (2010). Deriving user requirements for a CBRNE support system.
Stephanie Pineau and Mila Stojmenovi are currently working with Dr. Gitte Lindgaard on NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award projects entitled “Verifying the features that render a homepage visually appealing” and “Identifying User Requirements for a CBRNE management support system”, respectively.
Dr. Gitte Lindgaard is currently a visiting professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. She will be giving a public talk today entitled “predicting visual appeal of web pages”.
Cathy Dudek and Mila Stojmenovic will be attending the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE) simulated terrorist attack in St. John on Friday, May 7th.
Patrick Noonan passed his MA Prospectus on April 6th entitled “Tempo, Arousal and the Underlying Mechanisms of the Mozart Effect.” Congratulations Patrick!
The following papers will be presented at the First International Conference on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare, July 2010, Miami, FL, USA:
Kramer, C., Parush, A., Brandigampola, S, and Momtahan, K. (2010). Analysis of Cross-Professional Communication in Thoracic Operating Rooms. To appear in the proceeding of the First International Conference on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare, July 2010, Miami, FL, USA.
Parush, A., Campbell, C., Ellis, J., Vaillaincourtt, R., Lockett, J., Lebreux, D., Wong, E. and Pascuet, E. (2010). A human factors approach to evaluating morphine administration in a pediatric surgical unit. To appear in the proceeding of the First International Conference on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare, July 2010, Miami, FL, USA.