Cognitive Engineering Research Group

CERG members study human-system integration in complex sociotechnical systems, focusing on critical care medicine, air traffic control, power systems, and air defence. CERG is associated with the Schools of ITEE, Psychology, and Medicine at UQ. The leader of CERG is Professor Penelope Sanderson.

UQ hosts a Student Chapter of the USA-based Human Factors and Ergonomics Society: see the HFES-UQ website for their activities.

Honours thesis topics for 2012

Recent News

1 Jan 2012	Sanderson becomes Associate Editor of JEP: Applied After five years on the editorial board, Penny becomes one of three Associate Editors of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, the APA journal for engineering psychology and other applied research.
29 Nov 2011	Dr Michelle Grech from DSTO visits CERG and HFES-UQ Michelle Grech visits UQ, her PhD alma mater. She presents some of her maritime human factors fieldwork at DSTO to HFES-UQ and discusses cognitive work analysis with CERG members.
29 Nov 2011	Congratulations to Dr Itsik Nadler on his PhD Heartiest congratulations to Itsik Nadler on the award of his PhD. Itsik's thesis deals with finding efficient and objective ways to measure team performance. He has used neonatal resuscitation as a test domain.
18 Nov 2011	Sanderson talks at CRE-PS Practical Human Factors seminar Penny discusses healthcare field research methods and their application at the Practical Human Factors seminar hosted in Melbourne by Monash University's Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Safety.
15 Oct 2011	CERG at ANZICS 2011 in Brisbane Christina Beltan Orihuela presents a poster at the ANZICS 2011 conference about our CERG (ARC DP) and NICTA PICTE activities on video-based data collection and analysis in healthcare environments.
19-23 Sept 2011	Recognition for CERG and UQ students at HFES 2011 Congratulations to Itsik Nadler, finalist in the HFES Alphonse Chapanis student paper award and 2nd place in HC TG student paper award, and to Anita Vuckovic for 3rd place in CEDM TG student paper award.
19-23 Sept 2011	CERG at HFES 2011 UQ has its usual strong contingent at HFES 2011 in Las Vegas, NV. Stitzlein, Hassall, Nadler, Vuckovic, and Sanderson together present four papers plus a UQ Lab poster. (See HFES-UQ website)
15-16 Sept 2011	NSF workshop "From OpenSHAPA to Open Data Sharing" Prof Karen Adolph of NYU and Sanderson run an NSF workshop on tools and techniques for data coding, management and sharing. NYU's Jesse Lingeman and NICTA's Clinton Freeman play key roles.
5 Sept 2011	Congratulations to Dr David Crone on his PhD Warm congratulations to David Crone on the award of his PhD. David has completed his PhD long-distance and part-time while working at DSTO, which is a great challenge. This is an excellent outcome.
1-2 Aug 2011	Dr Dal Vernon Reising visits UQ and CERG Dal Vernon Reising of Human Centered Solutions visits his academic brothers and sisters at UQ. He gives a UQ seminar on human factors in petrochemical systems and an HFES-UQ Student Chapter talk.
16 July 2011	Itsik Nadler submits PhD thesis Working recently from his native Israel, where he has returned with his family, Itsik submits his PhD thesis for examination. His topic concerns methods for measuring teamwork in neonatal resuscitation.
1 June 2011	Sanderson gives keynote address at NDM 2011 Penny gives a keynote address at the 10th Naturalistic Decision Making conference (NDM 2011) in Orlando, FL, on natural vs naturalistic studies on attention in critical care contexts, focusing on recent CERG research.

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