BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.3//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:31@shulab.mie.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191205T121000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191205T133000 DTSTAMP:20191119T183205Z URL:https://shulab.mie.utoronto.ca/events/psycheng-rsvp-5dec2019-donmez-dr iver-distraction-and-technologies/ SUMMARY:PsychEng Seminar Reservation: Prof. Birsen Donmez Dec 5: Young Driv ers\, Distraction\, and Advanced Vehicle Technologies DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nDistraction is a significant contributing factor to young driver crashes. Crash risk is known to decrease with driving experi ence\, partly because of the improved skills to control the vehicle\, but also because of the improved capability to distribute attention\, even whe n distracted. A series of empirical studies will be presented evaluating y oung drivers’ attention allocation both for manual driving (i.e.\, no or low level of automation) and for high levels of vehicle automation.\n\nSt udies evaluating different distraction mitigation techniques for young dri vers’ manual driving will also be presented.\n\n \;\n\nBio\n\nProfes sor Birsen Donmez joined the Department of Mechanical &\; Industrial En gineering in January 2010. She received her BS in Mechanical Engineering f rom Bogazici University in 2001\, her MS (2004) and PhD (2007) in industri al engineering\, and her MS in statistics (2007) from the University of Io wa. Before joining the University of Toronto\, she spent two years as a po stdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the Canada Research Chair in Human Factors and Transportation.\n\nProfesso r Donmez’s research interests are centered on understanding and improvin g human behavior and performance in multi-task and complex situations\, us ing a wide range of analytical techniques. In particular\, her research fo cuses on operator attention in multitask activities\, decision support und er uncertainty\, and human automation interaction\, with applications in v arious domains including surface transportation\, healthcare\, mining\, an d unmanned vehicle operations. Professor Donmez received an NSERC Discover y Accelerator Supplement (2016)\, the inaugural Stephanie Binder Young Pro fessional Award from the HFES Surface Transportation Technical Group (2014 )\, an Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Economic Development an d Innovation of Ontario (2015)\, the Early Career Teaching Award from the U of T Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (2013)\, a Conn aught New Researcher Award from the University of Toronto (2011)\, the Dr. Charles H. Miller Best Paper Award from the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (2010)\, and a Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Fello wship from the U.S. Department of Transportation (2006). She has served on multiple committees of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies\, as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems\, and as the General Chair for AutomotiveUI’18. Her research has been featured by the CBC\, Global TV News\, Globe and Mail\, and Toronto Star.\n\n \;\n\nWhen: Thursday\, December 5th\, 2019 from 12:10pm-1:30 pm\n\nWhere: Room 2135\, Bahen Centre for Information Technology\, 40 St G eorge St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4\n\nRSVP by: 12 noon on Wednesday\, Decembe r 4th\, 2019 using the below form to be included in the catering order.\n\ n \;\n\nContacts: \n\nRSVP-changes: Alex Sahar at psych_eng@mie.utoron to.ca\n\nAcademic: Prof. Li Shu at shu@mie.utoronto.ca\n\nIf fully booked\ , you may add your name to the waitlist:\n\nhttp://shulab.mie.utoronto.ca/ events/psycheng-seminar-waitlist-prof-birsen-donmez/ LOCATION:Bahen Centre for Information Technology\, Room 2135\, 40 St George St\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 2E4\, Canada GEO:43.6596184;-79.39692079999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=40 St George St\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 2E4\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bahen Centre for In formation Technology\, Room 2135:geo:43.6596184,-79.39692079999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR