News Archive
News Archive
Dec 22, 2025
Congratulations to Drs. Shiyu Deng, Gram Hsing, and Anirudh More on the 2025 Fall Commencement Day at Virginia Tech! They produced amazing research at SCEL in the domains of healthcare, virtual reality, and search & rescue. SCEL is proud of all their contributions to research!
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!
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).
SCEL recently published an article in the Ergonomics on the discussion on whether Human is Necessary (at workplaces).
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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!
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!
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.
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).