Fatigue is one of the factors that significantly affect transportation safety. Our research focuses on evaluating the effects of fatigue on driver performance using an EF-CAR driving simulator. The aims of this research are to investigate the behaviors of fatigue drivers and enhance road safety,

Human beings play an important role in a smart manufacturing economy. The repetitive and cognitive demanding task operations of smart manufacturing require the development of system models for measuring and predicting human performance, including oil refinery monitoring tasks. Our research showed that visual behaviors can indicate specific internal states of participants, including their cognitive workload, attention, and situation awareness in a real-time manner. The findings provide additional support for the value of using visual behavior to predict responsiveness of oil refinery operators and for future applications of smart manufacturing monitoring systems.

Online education is an efficient and cost-effective way to train workforce for the industry. Virtual reality technology offers an immersive environment to attempt to improve the learning effectiveness for the workers. In this project, we aim to evaluate the effects of virtual reality technology in online learning effectiveness by using performance and physiological measurements.