Improving transportation safety with eye tracking

Speakers

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  Asst. Prof. Dario Babić, Ph.D.

  Assistant Professor, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb

  Dario Babić is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb, with more than 10 years of experience in the field of road safety. He conducted his postdoctoral research at the Transportation Research Institute, University of Hasselt, and at Michigan State University as a Fulbright research scholar. Among his research interests is a focus on the use of eye tracking in driver behaviour studies.

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  Dylan Amerson

  Research Engineer at the Raspet Flight Research Laboratory at Mississippi State University

  Dylan Amerson is a Research Engineer at the Raspet Flight Research Laboratory at Mississippi State University, where he has been heavily involved with FAA related research through the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE) for the future of uncrewed aircraft systems. He has conducted over 80 flight tests to study pilot workload and visual acquisition performance over the course of his three years at Raspet and currently helps lead efforts to leverage these results for future aviation regulations.

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  Assc. Prof. Ziho Kang

  Associate Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Oklahoma (OU)

  Ziho Kang is recognized in human factors, most recently as a recipient of a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Dr. Kang is discovering new smart learning methods in the multi-person virtual reality space through the multimodal engagement analysis of eye movements, haptic interactions and brain activities. Dr. Kang’s specialty is in developing algorithms that can discover significant patterns from real-time and spatial-temporal eye movement networks, which can be used to inform the design of systems and develop training intervention methods. Prior and current research areas include air traffic control, weather forecasting, commercial advertisement, driving, piloting, Deepwater Horizon offshore oil drilling, and education. Dr. Kang’s four years of industry experience as an engineer at Samsung and the Korea Stock Exchange preceded his doctoral degree from the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University in 2012. He then served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at two Universities, University of Virginia and Drexel University, before serving as a faculty member in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Oklahoma (OU) in 2014. He has been the institution co-PI at the Center of Excellence for Technical Training and Human Performance, and the PI of many projects in human factors research and/or eye tracking research. Dr. Kang is currently a tenured Associate Professor at OU.

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  Dr. Marisa Biondi

  Senior Research Scientist and Funding and Support Manager, Tobii

  Dr. Biondi has a Ph.D. in Psychological & Brain Sciences from Texas A&M University and used fNIRS and eye tracking to study the functional organization of the developing human brain.