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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches
Pages 291-306
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He has 35 years of experience in human factors, human performance and experimental psychology as they relate to systems design and development. Throughout his career he has been involved in the development and utilization of human performance models and in the conduct of experimental and field studies of human performance in applied settings.
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AgeLab's industry sponsors are from around the world and include information technology and telecommunications firms, pharmaceutical companies, consumer products manufacturers, financial services, and the automotive industry.
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Dr. Coughlin consults regularly and has assisted numerous organizations including AT&T, IBM, the American Business Collaborative for Quality Dependent Care, Johnson & Johnson, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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In a recently completed series of studies, they found that not only do adaptive training strategies that emphasize cognitive flexibility reduce age-related performance differences on the trained tasks, but the performance strategies that are learned transfer to novel sets of concurrently performed tasks.
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Her research interests are in artificial intelligence: For many years, she has conducted research on plan generation, plan management, temporal reasoning, and cognitive models of rationality. More recently she has been interested in the uses of Artificial Intelligence technology to support elderly and disabled people, and in particular she has been developing assistive technology for people with memory impairment, with funding from the NSF and the Intel Corporation.
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He is the year 2000 recipient of the Kleemeier Award for research on aging given by the Gerontological Society of America, and in 2003 he received the Developmental Health Research Award from the American Psychological Association. Charles T
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His research interests include software engineering for interactive systems, with particular focus on mobile and ubiquitous computing applications. He leads a research group in the College of Computing focused on the development of prototype future computing environments that emphasize mobile and ubiquitous computing technology for everyday uses.
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She is also the principal investigator of a project concerned with the impact of Aricept on the functional performance of patients with Alzheimer's disease, and is leading a project concerned with evaluating the feasibility of applying engineering and operations research analytic techniques to psychosocial intervention research.
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He is the chair of the Intel Research Council Health Subcommittee, which funds university grants on consumer health and wellness technologies. His team's current fieldwork and technology prototyping efforts focus on the home activities of elder and boomer populations who are dealing with cognitive disability, physical disability, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and nutrition and fitness concerns.
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Werley New Investigator Award from the Midwest Nursing Research Society, an Undergraduate Mentorship Recognition Award from Wayne State University, and a Junior Scholar Fellowship to attend the Sapio Summer School of Methodology and Research Strategies in Developmental Studies at the Sapio Research Institute in Sofia, Bulgaria. Most recently, she was the recipient of the Springer Award for outstanding contributions to geriatric nursing through the Gerontological Society of America.
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Caroline, in addition to her work at ASU, spent the summer of 2000 abroad conducting research at the Imperial College School of Medicine-Charing Cross Hospital in London collaborating with neuroscientists on spatial memory in Parkinson's disease patients. Caroline has been a research assistant on, and an integral part in writing, several NIH grants awarded to Dr.
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Joachim Meyer is an associate professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel, and a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AgeLab, where he helped to establish the driving simulator laboratory.
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For many years prior to that, she held the Ferris Family Professorship in Life Course Studies at Cornell University, serving also as founding director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center, codirector of Cornell Gerontology Research Institute, and director of the Cornell Careers Institute. Her research (published in six books as well as in leading academic journals)
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Dr. Stelmach has also been elected to fellow in the American Psychological Association -- Divisions of Experimental Psychology and Engineering Psychology, American Psychological Society, and American Society of
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She was honored by the Pennsylvania State University's College of Health and Human Development in 1992 with the Pattishall Distinguished Research Award; in 1999 she was awarded the Pennsylvania State University's Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement, and in 2001 she was honored with the Pennsylvania State University's College of Health and Human Development Pauline Schmitt Russell Distinguished Research Career Award.
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