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Aug 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 2025 - SCEL recently co-published an article in the Ergonomics on the discussion on whether Human is Necessary.
Alhaider, A. A., Lau, N., Alotaik, O., & Davenport, P. B. (2025). Discrete event simulation and agent-based modelling of distributed situation awareness in patient flow management. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 30068. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-15344-7
See, J. E., Gilpin-McMinn, J., Dorton, S. L., Cooke, N. J., Lee, J. D., Lau, N., & Li, R. (in press). Are humans still necessary? Expanding the discussion. Ergonomics, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2025.2496949
Herdt, K., Hildebrandt, M., LeBlanc, K., & Lau, N. (2025). Employing Eye Trackers to Reduce Nuisance Alarms. Sensors, 25(9), 2635. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25092635
Jamshid Nezhad Zahabi, S., Islam, M. S., Kim, S., Lau, N., Nussbaum, M. A., & Lim, S. (2025). Cognitive workload assessment during VR forklift training. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 107, 103718. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ergon.2025.103718
Deng, S., Kulkarni, C., Oh, J., Parker, S. H., & Lau, N. (2025). Comparison Between Scene-Independent and Scene-Dependent Eye Metrics in Assessing Psychomotor Skills. Human Factors, 67(7), 673-694. https://doi.org/10.1177/00187208241302475
Islam, M. S., Zahabi, S. J. N., Kim, S., Lau, N., Nussbaum, M. A., & Lim, S. (2024). Changes in forklift driving performance and postures among novices resulting from training using a high-fidelity virtual reality simulator: An exploratory study. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 104, 103648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ergon.2024.103648
Hsing, H., Bairaktarova, D., & Lau, N. (2022). Revealing individual differences of engineering students in cognitive processes between spatial dimensions with eye-gaze metrics. Journal of Engineering Education. https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20495
Kulkarni, C. S., Lau, N., Wang, T., Deng, S., Hartman-Kenzler, J., Barnes, L. E., Parker, S. H., & Safford, S. D. (2022). Scene dependent, feedforward eye-gaze metrics can differentiate technical skill levels of trainees in laparoscopic surgery. Surgical Endoscopy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-022-09582-3
Liang, D., Lau, N., & Antin, J. (2022). Modeling of older adults’ driving exposure and avoidance using objective driving data in a naturalistic driving study. Analysis and Prevention, 174, 106728. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2022.106728
Chen, X., Lau, N., & Jin, R. (2021). PRIME: A Personalized Recommender system for Information visualization Methods via Extended matrix completion. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 11(7), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1145/3366484
Lau, N, Hartman-Kenzler, J., Fichtel, E., Park, J., Ponnala, S., Parker, S. H., Fitzgibbons, S., & Safford, S. D.(2021). Attending surgeons demonstrate greater correlations of skill assessment and anticipation of adverse events than residents during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Journal of Surgical Research, 262, 140-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2020.12.064
Huang, W., Chen, X., Jin, R., & Lau, N. (2020). Detecting cognitive hacking in visual inspection with physiological measurements. Applied Ergonomics, 84 (103022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2019.103022
Zhang, X., Mahadevan, M., Lau, N., & Weinger, M. B. (2020). Multi-source information fusion to assess control room operator performance. Journal Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 194 (106287). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2018.10.012
Liang, D., Lau, N., Baker, S., & Antin, J. (2020). Examining senior drivers’ attitudes towards advanced driver assistance systems after naturalistic exposure. Innovation in Aging, 4(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa017
Alhaider, A., Lau, N., Davenport, P.B., & Morris, M.K. (2020). Distributed situation awareness: A health-system approach to assessing and designing patient flow management. Ergonomics, 63(6), 682-709. https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2020.1755061
Park, J., Ponnala, S., Fichtel, E., Tehranchi, K., Fitzgibbons, S.C., Parker, S.H., Lau, N., & Safford, S. (2019). Improving the intra-operative educational experience: Understanding the role of confidence in the resident-attending relationship. Journal of Surgical Education, 76(5), 1187-1199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2019.02.012
Fichtel, E., Lau, N., Park, J., Parker, S.H., Ponnala, S., Fitzgibbons, S., & Safford, S. D. (2019). Eye tracking in surgical education: gaze-based dynamic area of interest can discriminate adverse events and expertise. Surgical Endoscopy, 33(7), 2249-2256. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-018-6513-5
Xu, J., Anders, S., Pruttianan, A., France, D., Lau, N., Adams, J. A., and Weinger, M.B. (2018). Human performance measures for the evaluation of process control human-system interfaces in high-fidelity simulations. Applied Ergonomics, 73, 151-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2018.06.008
Wang, H., Lau, N., & Gerdes, R. (2018) Examining cybersecurity of critical infrastructures through work domain analysis. Human Factors, 60(5), 699-718. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018720818769250
Liu, S., Lau, N., Perez, M. (2018). The impact of sleep disorders on driving safety – Findings from the SHRP2 naturalistic driving study. Sleep, 41(4), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsy023
Lau, N., Jamieson, G. A., & Skraaning Jr., G. (2016). Situation awareness acquired from monitoring process plants – The Process Overview concept and measure. Ergonomics, 59(7), 976-988. https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2015.1100329
Lau, N., Jamieson, G. A., & Skraaning Jr., G. (2016). Empirical evaluation of the Process Overview Measure for assessing situation awareness in process plants. Ergonomics, 59(3), 393-408. https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2015.1080310
Lau, N., Jamieson, G. A., & Skraaning Jr., G. (2014). Inter-rater reliability of query/probe-based techniques for measuring situation awareness. Ergonomics, 57(7), 959-972. https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2014.910612
Lau, N., Veland, Ø., Kwok, J., Jamieson, G. A., Burns, C. M., Braseth, A. O., & Welch, R. (2008). Ecological Interface Design in the nuclear domain: An application to the secondary subsystems of a boiling water reactor plant simulator. IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science, 55, 3579-3596. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2008.2005979
Lau, N., Jamieson, G. A., Skraaning Jr., G., & Burns, C. M. (2008). Ecological Interface Design in the nuclear domain: An empirical evaluation of ecological displays for the secondary subsystems of a boiling water reactor plant simulator. IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science, 55, 3597-3610. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2008.2005725
Burns, C. M., Skraaning Jr., G., Jamieson, G. A., Lau, N., Kwok, J., Welch, R., & Andresen, G. (2008). Evaluation of Ecological Interface Design for nuclear process control: situation awareness effects. Human Factors, 50, 663-679. https://doi.org/10.1518/001872008X312305
Bahodi, MT., Lau, N., van Berkel, N., Grøntved, K.A.R., Skov, M.B., Merritt, T. (2026). Before It Falls: Supporting Drone Fleet Management Through Battery Visualizations. In: Ardito, C., et al. Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2025. INTERACT 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 16109. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05002-1_19
Oh, J., Chen, P.-Y., Hsing, H.-W., Lau, N., Wu, P., Srivastava, K., Gurney, N., Molinaro, K., & Trent, S. (2025). Understanding Cybersecurity Skill Levels Through Psychological Measures: Clustering Hackers with Traits Questionnaires. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 0(0), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1177/10711813251371034
Hsing, H.-W., Chen, P.-Y., & Lau, N. (2025). Developing VR Training Platform for Recognizing Basketball Tactics: A Qualitative Study from Recreational Basketball Players’ Perspective. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 0(0), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1177/10711813251367732
Deng, S., Oh, J., Parker, S. H., & Lau, N. (2025). Changes in Visual Attention Allocation During Psychomotor Skill Training in Laparoscopic Surgery: A Longitudinal Eye Tracking Study. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1177/10711813251364793
Liang, D., Lau, N., & Antin, J. (2025). Decoding Driving Words: A Holistic Exploration of Older Drivers’ Early-stage ADAS Adaptation Using Structural Topic Modeling on Naturalistic Driving Data. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1177/10711813251360998
Oh, J., Deng, S., Parker, S. H., & Lau, N. K. C. (2025). A Comparative Analysis Between Medical and Non-Medical Students in Laparoscopic Skill Development. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care, 14(1), 242-243. https://doi.org/10.1177/2327857925141060
Du, D., Lau, N., Ojeifo, O. A., Upthegrove, T., Baber, A., Jones, N. A., & Parker, S. H. (2025). Not All Noises Are Equal: Investigating Auditory Distraction in Emergency Care Using the Tesseract Simulation Platform. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care, 14(1), 232-236. https://doi.org/10.1177/2327857925141058
Cao, Y., Chi, E., Chen, Y., Wu, J., Oh, J., Deng, S., & Lau, N. (2025). Identifying Self-Reported Strategies to Acquire Proficiency in Laparoscopic Surgery Training Simulation. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care, 14(1), 237-241. https://doi.org/10.1177/2327857925141059
Oh, J., & Lau, N. (2024). Quantitative Analysis of Eye-gaze Metrics in Differentiating Surgical Expertise. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 68(1), 624-626. https://doi.org/10.1177/10711813241264200
Chi, E., Cao, Y., Chen, Y., Wu, J., Oh, J., Deng, S., & Lau, N. (2024). K-12 Outreach: Experiential Learning in Human Factors with Laparoscopic Surgery Trainer Box. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 68(1), 1608-1612. https://doi.org/10.1177/10711813241260748
More, A., & Lau, N. K. C. (2024). Exploratory Literature Review on Shared Leadership to Aid Collaboration and Function Allocation in Human-Autonomy Teams. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 68(1), 1491-1495.. https://doi.org/10.1177/10711813241273500
Islam, M. S., *Hsing, H.-W., Kim, S., Lau, N., Nussbaum, M., & Lim, S. (2024). Multimodal Feedback to Improve Performance of Order Picker Truck Drivers Using a Virtual Reality Simulator. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 68(1), 1039-1041. https://doi.org/10.1177/10711813241272128
Hollister, M. A., Hsing, H.-W., Luo, J., Lau, N., & Srinivasan, D. (2023). Comparison of Augmented Reality Rearview And Radar Head-Up Displays for Increasing Situation Awareness During Exoskeleton Operation. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 67(1), 1537-1540. https://doi.org/10.1177/21695067231192268
Islam, M. S., Jamshid Nezhad Zahabi, S., Kim, S., Lau, N., Nussbaum, M. A., & Lim, S. (2023). Forklift Driving Performance of Novices with Repeated VR-based Training. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 21695067231193664. https://doi.org/10.1177/21695067231193664
Jamshid Nezhad Zahabi, S., Shafiqul Islam, M., Kim, S., Lau, N., Nussbaum, M. A., & Lim, S. (2023). Cognitive Workload of Novice Forklift Truck Drivers in VR-based Training. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 21695067231192864. https://doi.org/10.1177/21695067231192864
Spain, R., Goldberg, B., Bailey, S., Fussell, S., Bayro, A., Hale, K., Jones, A., Regina, R., Thomas, B., Owens, K., Lau, N., Dam, A., Chen, K., Sturgeon, L., Vaughn-Cooke, M., & Enebechi, N. C. (2023). Human Factors Extended Reality Showcase. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 67(1), 1495-1500. https://doi.org/10.1177/21695067231192432
Wang, T., & Lau, N. (2023). Level of detail in visualization for human autonomy teaming: Speed, accuracy, and workload effects. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 21695067231193673. https://doi.org/10.1177/21695067231193673
Ayele, Y. Z., Chockalingam, S., & Lau, N. (2023). Threat Actors and Methods of Attack to Social Robots in Public Spaces. HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust, 262-273. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35822-7_18
Alhaider, A. A., Lau, N., Davenport, P. B., Smith, S. R., & DeWeese, D. W. (2023). Modeling and simulation for situation awareness distribution and transactions for intrahospital patient transports. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care, 12(1), 40-42. https://doi.org/10.1177/2327857923121010
Liang, D, & Lau, N (2022). A structural equation model of older adults’ driving exposure and avoidance using objective driving records. Proc. the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 6-7. https://doi.org/10.1177/1071181322661152
Wang, H., & Lau, N (2022). DURESS SCADA: A simulation platform to study user interface design for cybersecurity of industrial control systems. Proc. the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 115-119. https://doi.org/10.1177/1071181322661173
Deng, S., Wang, T., Hartman-Kenzler, J., Parker, S. H., Safford, S. D., Barnes, L., & Lau, N (2022). Predicting laparoscopic surgical skills of trainees with eye metrics associated with focused attention and workload. Proc. the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 216-220. https://doi.org/10.1177/1071181322661156
Hsing, H., Bairaktarova, D., & Lau, N. (2022). Relationships of eye gaze metrics between cognitive processes and strategy in spatial problem-solving. Proc. the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 480-484. https://doi.org/10.1177/1071181322661125
Lau, N. & Boring, R.L. (2022). Design of Gaze-Based Alarm Acknowledgement by Parameter Characteristics. In C. Stephanidis, M. Antona, & S. Ntoa (Eds.), HCI International 2022 Posters. (pp. 63-70). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06417-3_9
Lau, N. & Boring, R.L. . (2022). Towards a consequential validity framework for selecting participant groups in testing and evaluation studies for complex systems. In: Julia Wright and Daniel Barber (eds) Human Factors and Simulation. AHFE (2022) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 30. AHFE International, USA. http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001487
Deng, S., Kulkarni, C., Wang, T., Hartman-Kenzler, J., Barnes, L., Parker, S. H., Safford, S. D., & Lau, N. (2021). Differentiating laparoscopic skills of trainees with computer vision based metrics. Proc. the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 304-308. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1071181321651263
More, A., Anders, S., & Lau, N. (2021). Schedule risk indicators and visualizations for re-allocating resources for emergent work. Proc. of the 12th American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT), 1046-1055.
Alhaider, A. A., Lau, N., Davenport, P. B., & Morris, M. K. (2020). Resilience to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Distributed Situation Awareness Perspective. 2020 Resilience Week (RWS), 126-132. https://doi.org/10.1109/RWS50334.2020.9241308
Alhaider, A. A., Lau, N., Davenport, P. B., & Morris, M. K. (2020). Quantitative evidence supporting distributed situation awareness model of patient flow management. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care, 9,(1), 238-241. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2327857920091000
Williams, R., Abaid, N., McClure, J., Lau, N., Heintzman, L., Hashimoto, A., Wang, T. Patnayak, C., and Kumar, A. (2020). Collaborative multi-robot multi-human teams in search and rescue. The 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 973-983.
Kulkarni, C., Hsing, HW., Kandil, D., Kommaraju, S., Lau, N., & Srinivasan, D. (2020). Designing an augmented reality based interface for wearable exoskeletons. Proc. the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 38-41. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1071181320641012
Wang, T., Mellis, A.M., Bickel, W.K., & Lau, N. (2019). Integrating episodic future thinking into virtual reality to mitigate substance use disorders. Proc. the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2282-2286. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1071181319631026
Lau, N., Hildebrandt, M., Althoff, T., Boyle, L. N., Iqbal, S.T., Lee, J. D., Mehta, R. K, & Poore, J.C. (2019). Human in focus: Future research and applications of ubiquitous user monitoring. Panel session to be presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (pp. 168-172), October 28 -November 1, 2019. Sheraton Grand Seattle, WA, USA. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1071181319631317
Huang, W., Xu, Y., Hildebrandt, M., & Lau, N. (2019). Comparing Eye-Gaze Metrics of Mental Workload in Monitoring Process Plants. In D. Harris (Ed.), Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics. HCII 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 11571, (pp. 55-65). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22507-0_5
Lau, N., Wang, H. St. Germain, S., Harvey, A. S. Weinger, M. B., & Anders, S. (2019). Interactive visualization for advanced outage control center: A literature review. Proc. of the 11th American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2019), 664-673.
Cochran, J., Lau, N., & Sarin, R. (2019). Scheduling of nuclear power plant outages and work during an outage - A review. Proc. of the 11th American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2019), 1672-1690.
Gobbel, G.T., Reeves, R.M., St. Germain, S., Pierson, M., & Lau, N. (2019). Natural language processing for information retrieval to assist nuclear power plant outages. Proc. of the 11th American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT), 1558-1567.
Alhaider, A. A., Lau, N., Davenport, P. B., & Morris, M. K. (2019). Command and control for managing patient flow. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care, 8, 273-274. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2327857919081065
Lau, N., Pastel, R., Chapman, M. R., Minarik, J., Petit, J., & Dale, D. (2018). Human factors in cybersecurity – Perspectives from industries. Panel session presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (pp. 139-143), October 1-5, 2018. Philadelphia Marriot Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, USA. https://doi.org/10.1177/1541931218621032
Lau, N., Boyle, L., Fridman, L., Borghetti, B. J., Lee, J. D., & Hildebrandt, M., (2018). Machine learning and human factors: status, applications, and future directions. Panel session presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (pp. 135-138), October 1-5, 2018. Philadelphia Marriot Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, USA. https://doi.org/10.1177/1541931218621031
Kennedy, L., Lau, N., Pappada, S., & Parker, S. H. (2018). Selecting, evaluating, and translating psychophysiological measures into clinical settings: From lab to practice. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care, 7(1), 232-236. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2327857918071054
Alhaider, A., Lau, N., Tuck., C. R., Morris, M. K., & Davenport, P. B. (2018). Distributed Situation Awareness in Patient Flow Management. Proc. the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 563-567. https://doi.org/10.1177/1541931218621129
Wang, H., Lau, N., & Gerdes, R. (2017). Application of Work Domain Analysis for Cybersecurity. In T. Tryfonas (Ed.), Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy and Trust: 5th International Conference, HAS 2017, held as Part of HCI International 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 9-14, 2017, Proceedings (pp.384-395). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58460-7_27
Pruttianan, A., Lau, N., Weinger, W.B., & Anders, S. (2017). An ontology to guide scenario design to evaluate new technologies for control room modernization. Proc. of the 10th American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT), 206-214.
Xu, J., Anders, S., Pruttianan, A., France, D. J., Lau, N., Adams, J. A., & Weinger, M. B. (2017). Human performance measures for the evaluation of nuclear power plant control room interfaces: a systematic review. Proc. of the 10th American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT), 1212-1225.
Lau, N., & Powers, D. (2016). System-task analytical framework for monitor assessment. 2016 Resilience Week (RWS), 184-189. https://doi.org/10.1109/RWEEK.2016.7573330
Boring, R., & Lau, N. (2017). Measurement sufficiency versus completeness: Integrating safety cases into verification and validation in nuclear control room modernization. In M. S. Cetiner, P. Fechtelkotter, & M. Legatt (Eds.), Advances in Human Factors in Energy: Oil, Gas, Nuclear and Electric Power Industries: Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Human Factors in Energy: Oil, Gas, Nuclear and Electric Power Industries, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA, 79-90. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41950-3_7
Lew, R., Lau, N., Boring, R. L., & Anderson, J. (2016). The Role of HCI in cross-sector research on grand challenges. In F.-H. F. Nah & C.-H. Tan (Eds.), HCI in Business, Government, and Organizations: eCommerce and Innovation: Third International Conference, HCIBGO 2016, held as Part of HCI International 2016, Toronto, Canada, July 17-22, 2016, Proceedings, Part I, 519-530. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39396-4_48
Lau, N. & Skraaning Jr, G. (2015). Exploring sub-dimensions of situation awareness to support integrated system validation. Proc. of the 9th American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT), 1071-1081.
Demas, M., Lau, N., & Elks, C. (2015). Advancing human performance assessment capabilities for integrated system validation - A human-in-the-loop experiment. Proc. of the 9th American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT), 1051-1064.
Bailey R., Elks, C. & Lau, N. (2015). Progress and lessons learned in establishing the integrated control room and operator performance laboratory (INCONTROL) for Digital Instrumentation and Control and Human Factors Research in Nuclear Power. Proc. of the 9th American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT), 2109-2120.
Lau, N., Jamieson, G. A. & Skraaning Jr, G. (2013). Distinguishing three accounts of situation awareness based on their domains of origin. Proc. the 57th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 220-224. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1541931213571049
Gallahan, S.L., Golzar, G.F., Jain, A. P., Samay, A.E., Trerotola T.J., Weisskopf, J. G. & Lau, N. (2013). Detecting and Mitigating Driver Distraction with Motion Capture Technology: Distracted Driving Warning System. Proc. of the 2013 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering and Design Symposium, 76-81. https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2013.6549497
Lau, N., Jamieson, G. A. & Skraaning Jr, G. (2012). Inter-rater reliability of expert-based performance measurements. Proc. of the 8th American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT), 1974-1982.
Lau, N., Jamieson, G. A. & Skraaning Jr, G. (2012). Situation awareness in process control: A fresh look. Proc. of the 8th American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT), 1511-1523.
Elks, C., Guerlain, S., Lau, N., Johnson, B., Bailey, B. MacBeth, A., Boire, R., & Zakaib, G. (2012). A reconfigurable control room simulation facility for human performance, human-machine interface research. Proc. of the 8th American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT), 934-938.
Skraaning Jr, G., Eitrheim, M. H. R. & Lau, N. (2010). Coping with automation in future plants. Proc. of the 7th American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT) [CD-ROM, no pagination].
Bolstad, C., Connors, E., Cuevas, H., Foltz, P., Gonzalez, C., Lau, N., & Warwick, W. J. (2010). Advances in modeling situation awareness, decision making, and performance in complex operational environments. Proc. of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1047-1051. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F154193121005401310
Jamieson, G. A. & Lau, N. (2010). Scaling up Ecological Interface Design: Tackling large work Domains with international project teams. Proc. of the 12th Large Scale Systems: Theory and Applications Symposium of International Federation of Automatic Control [CD-ROM, no pagination].
Lau, N., Skraaning Jr., G., & Jamieson, G. A. (2009). Metacognition in nuclear process control. Proc. of the 17th Triennial World Congress on Ergonomics [CD-ROM, no pagination].
Lau, N., Skraaning Jr., G., Jamieson, G. A., & Burns, C. M (2008). Enhancing operator task performance during monitoring for unanticipated events through Ecological Interface Design. Proc. of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 448-452. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F154193120805200452
Lau, N., Jamieson, G. A., Skraaning Jr., G., & Burns, C. M (2008). Providing operator support during monitoring of unanticipated events through Ecological Interface Design. Proc. of the 29th Annual Canadian Nuclear Society Conference [On-line, no pagination].
Burns, C. M., Jamieson, G. A., Skraaning Jr., G., Lau, N., & Kwok, J. (2007). Supporting situation awareness through ecological interface design. Proc. of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 205-209. https://doi.org/10.1177/154193120705100413
Lau, N. (2007). A signal processing approach to auditory alarm design and evaluation: An analysis of melodic medical equipment alarms. Proc. of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2606-2612. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2007.4413647
Lau, N. & Jamieson, G. A. (2006). Ecological Interface Design for the condenser subsystems of a boiling water reactor. Proc. of the 27th Annual Canadian Nuclear Society Conference [On-line, no pagination].
Lau, N. & Jamieson, G. A. (2006). Ecological Interface Design for the condenser subsystems of a boiling water reactor simulator. Proc. of the 16th Triennial World Congress on Ergonomics [CD-ROM, no pagination].
Lau, N. & Jamieson, G. A. (2006). Numerical models in representation design: Computing seawater properties in an Ecological Interface. Proc. of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 245-249. https://doi.org/10.1177/154193120605000308
Lau, N., & Boring, R.. (2023). “Work analysis methods to determine cognitive engineering requirements for complex industrial systems” Chap. 29 in Maynard’s Industrial Engineering Handbook. 6th ed., edited by Kjell B. Zandin. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 9781260461565
Lau, N., Wang, H., Ten, CW. & Gerdes, R. (2018). Securing supervisory control and data acquisition control systems. In A. Mo (Ed.), Human Computer Interaction in Cyber-security Handbook (pp. 237-255). Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press.
Lau, N. & Boring, R. (2017) Situation Awareness in Complex Systems. In H. M. Cuevas, J. Velázquez. & A. R. Dattel (Eds.), Human Factors in Practice: Concepts and Applications (pp. 55-70). Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press.
Boring, R. & Lau, N. (2015). Verification and Validation of Digitally Upgraded Control Rooms (No. INL/EXT-15-36704). Idaho Falls, IN, USA: Idaho National Laboratory.
Lau, N., Skraaning Jr., & Jamieson, G. A. (2015). Situation Awareness in diagnosis and reasoning of process disturbances: The Scenario Understanding concept and measures (No. HWR-1132). Halden, Norway: OECD Halden Reactor Project.
Gaba, D. M., Lau, N. & Desaulniers D. (2013). “Chapter 6: Human Factors and Human Reliability in Healthcare and Nuclear Power in Risk and Reliability” in Healthcare and Nuclear Power Learning from Each Other (Eds). Arlington, VA, USA: Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation.
Lau, N., Skraaning Jr., G., Karlsson, T., Nihlwing, C. & Jamieson, G. A. (2011). The Process Overview Measure: Methodological developments to enhance inter-rater reliability (No. HWR-971). Halden, Norway: OECD Halden Reactor Project.
Lau, N., Skraaning Jr., G., Eitrheim, M. H. R., Karlsson, T., Nihlwing, C. & Jamieson, G. A. (2011). Situation awareness in monitoring nuclear power plant: The Process Overview concept and measure (No. HWR-954).
Halden, Norway: OECD Halden Reactor Project.
Eitrheim, M. H. R., Skraaning Jr., G., Lau, N., Nihlwing, C. & Karlsson, T. (2011). Out-of-the-loop performance: Results from the 2009 HAMMLAB experiment (No. HWR-977). Halden, Norway: OECD Halden Reactor Project.
Eitrheim, M. H. R., Skraaning Jr., G., Lau, N., Karlsson, T., Nihlwing, C., Hoffmann, M., & Farbrot, J. E. (2010). Staffing strategies in highly automated future plants: Results from the 2009 HAMMLAB experiment (No. HWR-938). Halden, Norway: OECD Halden Reactor Project.
Skraaning Jr., G., Eitrheim, M. H. R., Lau, N., Nihlwing, Hurlen, L., & Karlsson, T. (2010). Coping with automation in future plants: Results from the 2009 HAMMLAB experiment (No. HWR-937). Halden, Norway: OECD Halden Reactor Project.
Lau, N., Skraaning Jr., G., Jamieson, G. A., & Burns, C. M. (2008). The impact of ecological displays on operator task performance and workload (No. HWR-888). Halden, Norway: OECD Halden Reactor Project.
Welch, R., Braseth, A. O., Nihlwing, C., Skraaning Jr., G., Teigen, A., Veland, Ø., Lau, N., Jamieson, G. A., Burns, C. M., & Kwok, J. (2007). The 2005 Ecological Interface Design process and the resulting displays (No. HWR-847). Halden, Norway: OECD Halden Reactor Project.
Skraaning Jr., G., Lau, N., Welch, R., Nihlwing, C., Andresen, G., Brevig, L. H., Veland, Ø., Jamieson, G. A., Burns, C. M., & Kwok, J. (2007). The Ecological Interface Design experiment (2005) (No. HWR-833). Halden, Norway: OECD Halden Reactor Project.
Kulkarni, C.S., Wang, T., Lau, N., Hartman-Kenzler, J., Parker, S.H., Rajamohan, R., Barnes, L.E., & Safford, S.D. (2021). Applying deep learning to provide eye-gaze guidance for the peg transfer task. The 16th Annual Academic Surgical Congress, February 2-4, 2021. Virtual/online event.
Lau, N., Wang, T., & More, A. (2020). Visualizations of a lost person model for extending unmanned aerial vehicles for search and recuse in wilderness. The 2020 Annual Meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Nov 8-11th, 2020, Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, MD, USA.
Hartman-Kenzler, J., Lau, N., Fichtel, E., Park, J., Ponnala, S., Parker, S.H., Fitzgibbons S.C., & Safford, S.D. (2020). Surgical judgment of attending surgeons is more stable than residents across surgical situations. The 15th Annual Academic Surgical Congress, February 4-6, 2019. Hilton Orlando Buena Vista Palace, Orlando, FL, USA.
Holla, E., Parker, S.E., Lau, N., & Safford, S.D. (2019). Near real time prediction of eye-gaze using deep neural network in endoscopic surgeries. The 14th Annual Academic Surgical Congress, February 5-7, 2019. Hilton Americas-Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.
Fichtel, E., Park, J. Parker, S., Lau, N. & Safford, S.D. (2018). Eye-tracking in educational assessment: an automated procedure to define dynamic areas of interest. The 13th Annual Academic Surgical Congress, January 30- February 1, 2018. Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront in Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Liu, S., Lau, N., & Perez, M. (2018). Sleep and driving habits associated with sleep disorders – Findings from SHRP2 naturalistic driving study. Poster session presented at the Transportation Review Board 97th Annual Meeting, January 7-11th, 2018. The Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington, D.C., USA.
Park, J., Ponnala, S., Henrickson-Parker, S., Fitzgibbons, S., Lau, N., & Safford, S. (2017). Utilizing eye-tracking technology to understand the importance of confidence on education. Poster session presented at the Conference for Higher Education Pedagogy, February 15th, 2017. The Inn at Virginia Tech & Skeleton Conference Center, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
Lau, N., Schertz, E., Barnett, C., Robic, J., Wakeman, C., Ponnala, S., & Brown, B. (2016). electronic Diabetes Artificial Pancreas Training (eDAPT) – Development and user study. Poster session presented at the 16th Annual Diabetes Technology Meeting, November 10-12, 2016. Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Lau, N., McElwee, M., Wakeman, C., DeBoer M., & Cherñavvsky, D. (2014). Real Time Remote Monitoring with Artificial Pancreas - A family-centered pilot trial. Poster session presented at the 74th Scientific Sessions of American Diabetes Association, June 13-17, 2014. The Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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