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Yi-Ching Lee

Yi-Ching Lee

Dr. Lee joined George Mason University in the Fall of 2016. Her areas of research interest include social interaction and communication in intelligent systems, human-automation interaction, human factors in transportation and medical systems, and behavior change, with a focus on improving quality of ...

Pamela M. Greenwood

Pamela M. Greenwood

Dr. Greenwood received her PhD at SUNY Stony Brook under Michael Gazzaniga. She went on to a post-doctoral fellowship at the West Haven VA and Yale University to learn event-related potential techniques with Truett Allison and W.R. Goff and conduct basic research on somatic event-related potentials. ...

Human Factors/Applied Cognition concentration in the MA in Psychology

Students in our MA program can elect to focus on either professional training or preparation for a doctoral program. Both tracks stress the analytic and empirical methodologies that are used in all phases of interactive systems design (where this is broadly defined to include any human-machine system...

Gerald Matthews

Gerald Matthews

Gerald Matthews is Professor of Psychology at George Mason University.  He previously held faculty positions at the University of Dundee, in Scotland, and the University of Cincinnati. He was also Research Professor at the Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida. Hi...

Liam Kettle

Liam Kettle

Liam is a doctoral student in George Mason University’s Human Factors and Applied Cognition program under Dr. Yi-Ching Lee. Prior to his PhD studies, Liam received his BSc (Hons) and MSc in Psychology from the University of Otago, New Zealand. During his previous studies, he taught a range of applied...

William S Helton

William S Helton

Engineering Psychology and Human Performance Breaks: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/01/break.aspx The Evolution of Vigilance:  https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/01/break-spiders-sidebar.aspx Working Dogs:  https://www.amazon.com/Canine-Ergonomics-Science-Working-Dogs/dp/1420079913/ref=sr_1_1?...

Alumni

Name Advisor Graduation Where are they now? Dennis Leedom Holt 1989 Scott & White Healthcare Beverly Messick-Huey Boehm-Davis 1989 National Research Council Mark Barnes Allen 1991 Vencore Eric Neiderman Allen 1992 Federal Aviation Administration R...

Our Program

The graduate program in Human Factors and Applied Cognition (HFAC) provides instruction and research training (MA and PhD) for students wishing to pursue careers in the academic, public, and private sectors. A certificate program in usability is also offered.  Across all areas, a strong emphasis is p...

History

Acquiring a Name The Arch Lab is the research arm affiliated with the Human Factors and Applied Cognition Program at George Mason University. At the time the Lab was founded, Wayne Gray and Deborah Boehm-Davis were the only two faculty members primarily identified with the human factors and applied ...

Health Behaviors Lab

We focus on behaviors and social interactions in the board context of health, human-technology, and transportation domains. Currently, our research interests are: 1) driver behavior, attention, and emotion regulation, 2) diagnostic driving as used in detecting unsafe behaviors, 3) experiential learni...