Dr. Joseph Houpt received the William K. Estes Early Career Award at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology this year! He is invited to speak about his research career at the next annual meeting.
Joseph W. Houpt (Ph.D., 2012, Indiana University) is an assistant professor of psychology at Wright State University. His research utilizes mathematical models of cognition and perception to assess human performance. His current AFOSR-funded research applies SFT to model the perception of static and dynamic multispectral fused imagery, and to model the processing mechanisms with 3D perception. He further collaborates with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) on rational analysis modeling of visual search and target identification.
Read more about Dr. Houpt’s research.
Women of Mathematical Psychology Award
Betsy Fox received the Women of Mathematical Psychology Travel and Networking Award! This award is provided to help enhance professional development at the Annual Meeting for Mathematical Psychology in New Brunswick, NJ (2016).
Fox is a graduate student in the Human Factors and Industrial Organizational Psychology program at Wright State University. In the Mathematical Modeling Laboratory of Dr. Joseph Houpt she uses mathematical models to assess the cognitive properties of multispectral fused imagery and multi-modal redundant signals. Her dissertation research involves the measurement of mental workload in a multi-tasking environment using psychophysiological indices and the capacity coefficient.
Human Factors, Recognizing Excellence
The 2016 Human Factors Prize Recognizing Excellence in Human Factors/Ergonomics Research went to Andrew Hampton and Dr. Valerie L. Shalin, associate professor, Department of Psychology for "Lexical Choice as a Measure of Urgency in Social Media." This year's topic was big data/analytics.
The Human Factors Prize was established in 2010 by Editor-in-Chief William S. Marras. The prize recognizes excellence in Human Factors and Ergonomics research through an annual competition in which authors are invited to submit papers on a specific topic for that year. The topic is selected by the editor in chief in consultation with a Board of Referees chaired by the immediate past Human Factors editor.
The prize carries a $10,000 cash award and publication of the winning paper in the Society's flagship journal, Human Factors. The award will be formally conferred at a special session at the HFES International Annual Meeting, where the recipient will present his or her work.
Dr. Valerie Shalin specializes in human workplace expertise and communication, and associated empirical and analytic methods to support the design and evaluation of coordinated work and workplace technology in: space exploration, medicine and surgery, disaster response, and manual labor. She is an active member of the Knowledge enabled computing (KNOESIS) Center of Excellence at Wright State. Read more about Dr. Shalin's work.
Andrew Hampton studied at the University of Central Florida and the Burnett Honors College on a full National Merit scholarship. After graduating with a B.S. in psychology and a minor in cognitive science, he moved back to his hometown of Cincinnati where he began working as an assistant to Dr. Shalin and Dr. Gilkey on an investigation of spatialized audio technology at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Eventually, Andrew became the lead data collector and authored or co-authored several papers and conference presentations on the project.
