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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!
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.
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).
SCEL recently published an article in the Ergonomics on the discussion on whether Human is Necessary (at workplaces).
SCEL recently published an article in the Sensors on gaze-based knowedlgement of alarms.
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.
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.
We are collaborating with VT CS, VT School of Medicine and University of Toledo, OH, to start develop AI to support medical professionals in performing acute cardiac life support funded by National Science Foundation - Smart and Connected Health (NSF-SCH).
We are collaborating with Raytheon, Bull Runs Group, New York University, University of Southern California, and Northeaster University to start a cybersecurity project funded by Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA).
With Ms. Watson, Forest Middle School, we are starting a new project funded by the Virginia Space Grant Consortium to develop an education module called Experiential Learning in Integrated Health Technology Engineering (ELIHTE).
With Drs. Williams, ECE and Foti, Psychology at VT, we are starting a new NSF project titled - Leadership Emergence for Synchronous Human-Autonomy Teaming (LEESH).
With Dr. Bairaktarova at VT Engineering Education, our article - Revealing Individual Differences of Engineering Students in Cognitive Processes between Spatial Dimensions with Eye-gaze Metrics - is published in Journal of Engineering Education.
Congratulations to Abdul Alhaider on his PhD graduation with the dissertation on A Distributed Situation Awareness Framework to Assess and Design Complex Systems!
We just published four conference papers on cybersecurity, spatial ability, driving, and surgery at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
With the Carilion Clinic and University of Virginia, our article - Scene Dependent, Feedforward Eye-gaze Metrics can Differentiate Technical Skill Levels of Trainees in Laparoscopic Surgery - is now published in the Surgical Endoscopy.
With Dr. Antin at VTTI, our article - Modeling of Older Adults’ Driving Exposure and Avoidance Using Objective Driving Data in a Naturalistic Driving Study - is published in Accident Analysis & Prevention.