HFES XRTG Officers
Chair
Shannon Bailey
Shannon Bailey, PhD, is a Sr. Human Factors Scientist at the University of South Florida’s (USF) Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, as well as an Assistant Professor in the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine’s Department of Medical Education. She specializes in human factors and extended reality technologies, leading research efforts to investigate educational best practices and cutting-edge simulation technologies for clinical training. Dr. Bailey received her Ph.D. in Human Factors and Cognitive Psychology from the University of Central Florida.
Program Chair
Stephanie Fussell
Dr. Stephanie G. Fussell is an assistant professor at Kent State University and acting graduate program coordinator. Her research has focused on using extended reality (XR) technologies for aviation training. As a proponent of using XR efficiently and effectively, Dr. Fussell’s research concentrates on XR usability, user experience, and transfer of training. Dr. Fussell is also interested in the factors that influence a user’s intention to use XR technologies in a dynamic learning environment.
Program Chair-Elect
Randall Spain
Randall is a Research Scientist at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, Soldier Center, Simulation and Training Technology Center where he conducts research that focuses on designing, developing, and evaluating adaptive training technologies. For the last several years he has led the “Me and My VE’' (newly named XR Showcase), an alternative session which has become a popular HFES series to showcase how Human Factors researchers and practitioners use virtual, mixed, and augmented reality-based technologies to investigate human performance in health care, aviation, forensics, and in the military. His goals are to continue to work closely with the XRTG’s leadership to increase our presence at next year’s meeting.
Secretary
Ziho Kang
Ziho Kang is an Associate Professor in the School of Industrial Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Virginia and Drexel University. Dr. Kang's specialty is in developing eye movement analysis algorithms and designing training intervention methods. He has received research grants awarded by the NSF, FAA, NAS, and Microsoft Corporation. Dr. Kang is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, which focuses on developing smart learning methods within virtual reality.
Treasurer
Hy Kim
Hyungil Kim is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is currently leading the Human-Centered Engineering lab (https://sites.google.com/view/human-centered-engineering) where his team explores new methods for the requirements analysis, design, prototyping, and evaluation of extended reality applications with an emphasis on human-technology partnerships at future workplaces. He has published over 30 papers on extended reality in top conferences and journals including HFES, IEEE VR, IEEE ISMAR, IEEE TVCG, and Human Factors.
Webmaster
Saeid Alimoradi
Saeid is a Ph.D. student and Human Factors researcher at the Virginia Tech Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. His work involves need analysis through focus group studies and survey research, human-centered design, and qualitative and quantitative usability testing in XR to ensure effective incorporation and implementation for online learning in higher education. He has a passion for integrating new technologies to improve everyday life of users is evident. He is the VP for the HFES Student Chapter at VT.
Newsletter Editor
Lilian Garza
Lilian Garza, M.S. is a Human Factors Scientist at Explicit Inc, a consulting firm consisting of experts, engineers, and other scientist assisting in litigation cases, where she leads about 20 plus cases. Her work specializes in human factors topics, cognitive psychology, and applies extended or virtual reality to accurately visualize and communicate important findings, data and scientific analyses, that are often misunderstood in a courtroom setting in an easy to grasp, visual manner. She attained her master degree form the Universität Ulm in Germany.
Communications Director
Md Shafiqul Islam
Shafiqul is a Ph.D. candidate at the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Virginia Tech. His research combines principles from HF/E with data analytics to create innovative approaches for enhancing human performance and wellbeing in interconnected systems, occupational settings, and constructed environments. He focuses on diverse populations to emphasize his research philosophy of inclusive and accessible system design. His future research and career goal is to develop an accessible home-based exercise and rehabilitation system. For this, he will integrate wearable technologies, computer vision, and AR, further developing his system to ensure participation from people with different socioeconomic backgrounds and functional capabilities.
Social Media Manager
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