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David presented at VTSOM TEACH Day 2025.

Oct 23, 2025

Virginia Tech School of Medicine (SOM) hosted the TEACH Day 2025 and David co-presented our latest NSF research on developing cognitive assistant to support healthcare providers performing Acute Cardiac Life Support.

Virginia Tech at HFES!

Oct 20, 2025

Virginia Tech Human Factors faculty and students attended the 2025 ASPIRE/HFES Conference in Chicago, IL, USA. Congrats to the VT Student Chapter on their Gold Awards! SCEL celebrates Shiyu Deng on her HFES Student Member with Honors and Healthcare Technical Group Best Student Paper awards.

SCEL Celebrating Shiyu and Gram's Defense!

Sep 30, 2025

SCEL celebrates the successful final PhD defense of Shiyu Deng and Gram Hsing at Eastern Divide! Congratulations to Drs Deng and Hsing.

CEED Summer Pre-College Student Outreach

July 23, 2025

SCEL delivered another amazing outreach experience for the Virginia Tech Summer Program for pre-college students. We are exposing students on the benefits of minimal-invasive surgery, challenges in acquiring surgical skills, and human factors research and solutions!

Seminar at Duke-NUS Medical School

July 4, 2025

Dr. Lau presented SCEL research on eye-tacking in surgical training at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. Thanks to Dr. Shanqing (SQ) Yin hosting! Checkout this LinkedIn post.

Human-AI Collaboration Panel at ICQSR '25

July 2, 2025

Dr. Lau presented his perspectives on the impacts of Human-AI collaboration for industries and the economy with Dr. David Wang, IMF, and Dr. Zhou, U of Wisconsin - Madison at the INFORMS Conference on Quality, Statistics and Reliability (ICQSR).

Oct 7, 2025

Co-edited by Drs, Chockalingam, Colomo-Palacios, Jee, and Lau, the special issue on Human Factors in Cybersecurity in the journal - Computer Standards and Interface - is finally available online!

Aug 18, 2025

In collaboration with Carilion Clinics, SCEL recently published an article in Scientific Reports on combining discrete event simulation and agent-based modeling of Distributed Situation Awareness for patient flow management (Open Access).

May 13, 2025

SCEL recently published an article in the Ergonomics on the discussion on whether Human is Necessary (at workplaces).

April 22, 2025

SCEL recently published an article in the Sensors on gaze-based knowedlgement of alarms.

Mar 27, 2025

SCEL recently co-published an article with VT Occupational Ergonomics and Biomechanics Laboratories (OEB) in the International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics on EEG measurements for workload assessment in VR.

Dec 24, 2024

SCEL recently published an article in Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society on comparing scene- independent and dependent metrics in training for laparoscopic surgery.

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