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Date：June 7, 2010 (Monday)
Time: 2PM-3:30PM
Venue：F310, Mechanical Building
 
Topic: Behavioral effects of time and culture on human performance
 
Abstract: In many control situations where human life is at stake, minor errors can result in dire consequences and hence it is essential to analyze user’s behavior and task characteristics carefully in order to improve task performance and safety. Time usage behavior is related to how people manage time when handling many jobs in multiple task situations. Researchers have classified the differing time orientations of people as Monochronicity and Polychronicity. These types of behavior can influence the manner in which an operator interacts with complex systems. Differences among cultures have already been shown using differing measurement scales. This talk attempts to show differences between the two groups in terms of control strategy and control performance in a process control domain and presents a hypothetical model for the potential causes of these differences using performance resource functions, all of which can have important implications for the training and selection of personnel in multitask situations, such as industrial process control.
 
About the Speaker: Ravi Goonetilleke is currently a Full Professor in the department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He has been at HKUST since 1994. Prior to that he was a Human Factors Manager at Nike at their world headquarters in Portland, USA. He has also worked as a consultant for Biomechanics Corporation of America in Long Island New York where he conducted many innovative studies related to design, human factors and ergonomics. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Master's degrees in Industrial Engineering and Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a PhD in Human Factors Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was the inventor of the first Intelligent Seat and has numerous publications on product design and culture-friendly user interface design. He is also the editor of the International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics and an Associate Editor of Ergonomics in Design.