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Congraduations!
May 1st, 2008From my inbox:
Subject: Dissertations
Dear Dr. Prada and Dr. Smith,
Signed, sealed, delivered! You are now “official” and can use your title. You should receive your diploma at graduation.
Congratulations!!
Debbie
_________________________
Deborah A. Boehm-Davis
Professor and Chair, Psychology Department
George Mason University
MSN 3F5, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
phone: 703-993-8735 fax: 703-993-1359
http://archlab.gmu.edu/people/dbdavis
Wow…
February 25th, 2008
A look inside the mind of a future Dr. Prada!
Congrats people!
January 31st, 2008Looks like a lot of us are experiencing big life events.
Congratulations!
Dissertations, $12.75.
September 29th, 2007While working on my dissertation, AdSense thought my needs might be met by a certain company that specializes in writing term papers for lazy students. “No plagiarism” and “EXPERT writers” the ad promised.
How could I not investigate further? Here’s a screenshot.
Go west, young psychologists…
July 10th, 2007Being from an east coast psychology program with deep–no, really deep–ties to Washington, D.C., I’m always saddened to see otherwise strong human factors students complaining about having to take internships at less-than-stellar Beltway companies.
No, people. Go west.
UCS: Science Idol
July 3rd, 2007The Union of Concerned Scientists is holding its annual editorial cartoon contest. This year’s topic: Politics and Science.
ISAP 2007 Panel
April 24th, 2007I just finished chairing a panel on Designing, Evaluating and Training Flight Decks of the Future at the International Symposium on Aviation Psychology in Dayton, Ohio. The title, although expansive, was meant to link together recent research on new flight deck designs, and address the training issues that have traditionally prevented innovation in aviation.
(Lately, […]
The Adaptive Digital Dashboard
November 29th, 2006
A year after the iDrive redesign, Carl Smith, Mohammad Rahman and I reunited for another automotive project. This one was a contest entry in the 2006 International Award in Design, Engineering and Innovation in the field of Automotive Human Factors.
The competition was sponsored by some prety big names, including the International Council of […]
Driving Design: Redesigning the iDrive
October 20th, 2006This was a project I completed with Carl Smith, Mohammad Rahman, and Nicholas Prada, to redesign BMW’s first automotive computer interface, the iDrive.
Evaluating Boeing’s Flight Deck of the Future
October 20th, 2006Most people don’t know that modern airliners run on autopilot almost all the time. In fact, newer planes are technically capable of completing an entire flight with almost no input from humans.
Sadly, the interfaces that control these incredibly complicated automated flight computers date back to the 1970’s, and many important human factors studies have uncovered […]