Human Factors Engineering

Scientific Publications

Human-Robot Interaction

Designing resilient robots (with doctoral student Shanee Honig) – The overarching goal to develop resilient robots that provide good service to nonexpert users even when they fail. First, we aim to understand which robotic failures occur in domestic environments (RQ1), what influences the perceived severity of the failure (RQ2), and how robots can adapt to unexpected, high-impact failures (RQ3).

• Shanee Honig, Alon Bartal, and Tal Oron-Gilad. 2020. Using Customers’ Online Reviews to Identify and Classify Human-Robot Interaction Failures in Domestic Robots. In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 251–253.
• Honig S. Shanee & Oron-Gilad Tal (2018). Understanding and Resolving Failures in Human-Robot Interaction: Literature Review and Model Development, Frontiers.

Follow me

• Olatunji, Samuel, Fleischmann-Serna, Vardit, Honig, S. Shanee, Zaichyk, Hanan, Markovich, Tamara, Oron-Gilad, Tal, & Edan, Yael. (2018). User preferences for socially acceptable person-following robots: environmental influence case studies (Version Revised version before the accepted and published version.). Presented at the In Proceedings of Assistance and Service Robotics in a Human Environment Workshop, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Madrid, Spain. (IROS 2018), Madrid, Spain: Zenodo.
• Honig S. Shanee, Oron-Gilad Tal, Zaichyk Hanan, Fleischmann-Serna Vardit, Olatunji Samuel, Edan Yael (2018). Towards Socially Aware Person-Following Robots, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems.
• Honig S., Katz S D., Oron-Gilad T., and Edan Y., 2016. The Influence of the Following Angle on Performance Metrics of a Human-Following Robot. Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).
• Sarne-Fleischmann V., Honig S., Oron-Gilad T., and Edan Y. 2017. Multimodal communication for guiding a person following robot. Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man).

Interacting with robotic arms

• Chatterjee, S., Parmet, Y. & Oron-Gilad, T. Body Language for Personal Robot Arm Assistant. Int J of Soc Robotics (2021).
• Sridatta Chaterjee, Oren Shriki, Idit Shalev & Tal Oron-Gilad, 2016. “Postures of a Robot Arm – window to robot intentions?” 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).

Miscellaneous 

• Markovich T., Honig S., Oron-Gilad T. (2020) Closing the Feedback Loop: The Relationship Between Input and Output Modalities in Human-Robot Interactions. In: Ferraguti F., Villani V., Sabattini L., Bonfè M. (eds) Human-Friendly Robotics 2019. HFR 2019. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, vol 12. Springer, Cham.
• Shalev Idit, and Oron-Gilad Tal (2015). What do we think we are doing: principles of coupled self-regulation in human-robot interaction (HRI), Frontiers in Psychology (6) 00929.

Military and Law Enforcement Applications

Scalable displays for dismounted soldiers

• Katzman Nuphar & Oron-Gilad Tal (2018). Towards a Taxonomy of Vibro-Tactile Cues for Operational Missions, Eurohaptics 2018 proceedings (Work in progress).
• Oron-Gilad, T.  & Oppenheim I.(2017). Use of Graphic Imagery as a Mean of Communication Between Operators and Unmanned Systems in C3Fire Tasks. D. Harris (Ed.): EPCE 2017, Part I, LNAI 10275, pp. 1–20, 2017. Book: Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics: Performance, Emotion and Situation Awareness, Chapter No: 28. Springer International Publishing AG.
• Oron-Gilad T. and Parmet Y. (2016), Close target reconnaissance: a field evaluation of dismounted soldiers utilizing video feed from an unmanned ground vehicle in patrol missions, Journal of Cognitive Ergonomics and Decision Making.
• Tactile Interfaces for Dismounted Soldiers: User-perceptions on Content, Context and Loci
  Nuphar Katzman, Tal Oron-Gilad, and Yael Salzer
  Reviews of Human Factors and Ergonomics. 2015; 59:421-425.  [Abstract] [PDF]
• Interfaces for dismounted soldiers: an examination of non-perfect visual and tactile alerts in a simulated hostile urban environment
  Tal Oron-Gilad, Yisrael Parmet, and Daniel Benor
  Reviews of Human Factors and Ergonomics. 2015; 59:145-149.  [Abstract] [PDF]
• Oron-Gilad Tal and Parmet Yisrael (2014). Is more information better for dismounted soldiers? Display-layout considerations of multiple video feed from unmanned vehicles, Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 58^th Annual meeting.
• Tal Oron-Gilad, “Evaluation of display devices for dismounted soldiers utilizing intel from unmanned vehicles“, 11^th NDM Conference, May 22-24, 2013 Marseille, France.
• Yaniv Minkov, Ronny Ophir-Arbelle and Tal Oron-Gilad (2012). Display type effects in military operational tasks using Unmanned Vehicle (UV) video images: comparison between color and B/W video feeds, Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 56^th Annual meeting
• Ophir-Arbelle, R., Oron-Gilad, T., Borowsky, A.  and Parmet, Y. (2012). Is more information better? How dismounted soldiers utilize video feed from unmanned vehicles – attention allocation and information extraction considerations. Journal of Cognitive Ergonomics and Decision Making on online first as of May 2012.
• Ronny Ophir, Tal Oron-Gilad, Avinoam Borowsky and Yisrael Parmet, Single versus Dual Video Feed Displays for Dismounted Soldiers: Performance and Attention Allocation (eye tracking), Human Factors and Ergonomics Society’s 55th Annual Meeting. Las Vegas September 2011.
• Oron-Gilad, T., Redden, E. and Minkov, Y. (2011). Robotic Displays for Dismounted Warfighters: A field study, Journal of Cognitive Ergonomics and Decision Making. Volume 5 Issue 1 March 2011 pp. 29 – 54.http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1555343411399076
• Minkov, Y., Lerner Y., Oron-Gilad, T. and Ophir, R. Display type effects in military operational tasks using UAV video images: Comparison between two types of UAV feeds, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society’s 54th Annual Meeting. California, September 27-October 1, 2010.
• Minkov and  Oron-Gilad, Display type effects in military operational tasks using UAV video images. Proceeding of the 53rd HFES Annual meeting 2009.
• Minkov Yaniv, Perry Shay and Oron-Gilad Tal , The effect of display size on performance of operational tasks with UAVs, Proceedings of the 51^th HFES Annual Meeting, Baltimore, October 2007. Winner of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Aerospace Technical Group Student Paper Award.

UAV operators Command and control (C2) maps

• Zak Y., Parmet Y. and Oron-Gilad T. (2018). Operator Workload Reduced in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Making Command and Control (C2) Maps More Useful, Proceeding of the HFES Annual meeting, Philadelphia.

UAV operators and MOMU (multiple operators multiple UAVs)

• Porat T, Oron-Gilad T, Rottem-Hovev M and Silbiger J (2016). Supervising and controlling unmanned systems: A multi-phase study with subject matter experts. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:568. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00568.
• Tal Oron-Gilad, Talya Porat, Lisa Fern, Mark Draper, Jacon Silbiger, Michal Rottem Hovev and Jay Shively. Tools and Techniques for MOMU (Multiple Operator Multiple UAV) Environments, for the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society’s 55th Annual Meeting.
• Tal Oron-Gilad, Talya Porat, Jacob Silbiger, and Michal Rottem-Hovev. Decision Support Tools and Layouts for MOMU (multiple operator multiple UAV) Environments. ISAP Dayton OH, May 2-May 5, 2011.
• Talya Porat, Tal Oron-Gilad, Jacob Silbiger, and Michal Rottem-Hovev. Switch and Deliver: Decision Support Tools for MOMV (Multiple Operator Multiple Video feed) Environments, COGSIMA, Miami, FL. Feb. 22-24, 2011.
• Porat T., Oron-Gilad T., Silbiger J, and Hovev M. ‘Castling Rays’ a Decision Support Tool for UAV-Switching Tasks. CHI EA ’10 Proceedings of the 28th of the international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (April 10-15, 2010 Atlanta GA) .
• Hancock P.A., Mouloua, M., Gilson, R., Szalma, J., & Oron-Gilad, T. (2007). Is the UAV control ratio the right question? Ergonomics in Design, 15 (1), 7, 30-31.

Warnings

• Oron-Gilad T., Hancock, P.A., & Helmick-Rich J. (2014). Coding warnings without interfering with dismounted soldiers’ missions, Applied Ergonomics, 45 (5), 1343-1352

Police

• Oron-Gilad, T., Hancock P.A., Stafford S.C. & Szalma J.L. (2008).On the Relationship between Workload and Performance, Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics (JOSE), 14(2), 119–131.
• Oron-Gilad, T., Szalma, J.L., Stafford, S., and Hancock, P.A. (2005). Police Officers Seat Belt Use While on Duty, Transportation Research part F, 8(1),1-18.

Tactile and Multimodal Displays

• Katzman Nuphar & Oron-Gilad Tal (2018). Towards a Taxonomy of Vibro-Tactile Cues for Operational Missions, Eurohaptics 2018 proceedings (Work in progress).
• Katzman N. and Oron-Gilad T.. 2017. Who’s with me? A Tactile Interface for Identification of Separation/Cutoff of Squad Members from their Team in an Urban Environment Mission. 2017. Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) Annual meeting, October 2017, Austin Texas.
• Tactile Interfaces for Dismounted Soldiers: User-perceptions on Content, Context and Loci
  Nuphar Katzman, Tal Oron-Gilad, and Yael Salzer
  Reviews of Human Factors and Ergonomics. 2015; 59:421-425.  [Abstract] [PDF]
• Salzer Y.  and Oron-Gilad T. (2015). Evaluation of an “On-Thigh” Vibrotactile Collision Avoidance Alerting Component in a Simulated Flight Mission, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine System 45, 2, 251-255.
• Salzer Y., Oron-Gilad, T. and Henik, A. (Available online May 2014), Evaluation of the Attention Network Test using Vibrotactile Stimulations, Behavior Research Methods.

• Salzer, Y., Aisenberg, D., Oron-Gilad, T., & Henik, A. (2013, October 24). In Touch With the Simon Effect. Experimental Psychology. Advance online publication. doi:10.1027/1618-3169/a000236

• Yael Salzer and Tal Oron-Gilad (2012). The Costs and Benefits of the “On-Thigh Vibrotactile Alerting System for the Cockpit” in High-Workload Environment, Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 56^th Annual meeting

• Shira Yosef, Yael Salzer and Tal Oron-Gilad. Vibrotactile ‘on thigh’ alerting system in the cockpit. Proceeding of the ISAP Dayton OH, May 2-May 5, 2011.
• Salzer, Y., Oron-Gilad, T., Ronen, A., and Parmet, Y. (2011), VibroTactile “On-Thigh” Alerting System in The Cockpit, Human Factors.
• Yael Salzer, Daniela Aisenberg, Tal Oron-Gilad&  Avishai Henik, In Touch with the Simon Effect,Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning (CSAIL), Hood River, Oregon, July 2010.
• Yael Salzer, Tal Oron-Gilad, Adi Ronen: Vibrotactor-Belt on the Thigh – Directions in the Vertical Plane. EuroHaptics (2) 2010: 359-364
• Porat, T., Oron-Gilad, T., & Meyer, J. (2009). Task-dependent perceptual processes in tables and graphs. Behaviour & Information Technology, 28(3), 293-307.
• Yael Salzer, Tal Oron-Gilad, Adi Ronen: Thermoelectric Tactile Display Based on the Thermal Grill Illusion.EuroHaptics ’08 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Haptics: Perception, Devices and Scenarios.
• Oron-Gilad, T., Downs, J.L., Gilson, R.D. & Hancock, P.A. (2007), Vibrotactile Guidance Cues for Target Acquisition, , IEEE SMC part C,37(5), September 2007. This paper won the Andrew P. Sage Best IEEE Transactions Paper Award 2007.
• Oron-Gilad T., Meyer J., and Gopher D. (2001). Monitoring Dynamic Processes with Alphanumeric and Graphic Displays, Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 2 (4), 368-389.

Transportation and Safety

Pedestrian behavior and movement while crossing

• Kalantarov_, S. , Riemer, R., Oron-Gilad, T. (2018).  Pedestrians’ road crossing decisions and body parts’ movements. Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behaviour, 53, 155-171.

Hazard Perception and environmental distraction and other distractions among child pedestrians

• Hagai Tapiro, Tal Oron-Gilad and Yisrael Parmet, (2018). The Effect of Environmental Distractions on Child Pedestrian’s Crossing Behavior. Safety Science, 106, 219-229.
• Rokni D., Tapiro H., Parmet Y.  and Oron-Gilad T.. 2017. Crossing the road while playing a mobile game App – effects of age, environmental load and game complexity. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) Annual meeting, October 2017, Austin Texas.
• Tapiro, H., Oron-Gilad T., and Parmet Y. (2016). Cell phone conversations and child pedestrian’s crossing behavior; a simulator study. Safety Sci. (2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2016.05.013.
• H. Tapiro, T. Oron-Gilad and Y. Parmet (2015). Towards understanding the influence of environmental distractors on pedestrian behavior,  Procedia Manufacturing, Volume 3, 2015, Pages 2690–2697.
• Meir Anat, Oron-Gilad and Parmet Yisrael (2015). Can child pedestrians hazard perception skills be enhanced? Accident Analysis and Prevention, 83, 101–110.
• Meir Anat, and Oron-Gilad Tal  and Parmet Yisrael (2015). Are child-pedestrians able to identify hazardous traffic situations? Measuring their abilities in a virtual reality environment. Safety Science, Vol. 80, pp.33-40.
• Meir A., Parmet Y., & Oron-Gilad T. (2013). Towards understanding child-pedestrian’s hazard perception abilities in a mixed reality dynamic environment. Transportation Research part F, 20, 90-107
• Meir, A., Tapiro,H.,  Oron-Gilad T. and Parmet Y., Hazard perception abilities among child-pedestrians in a Dome-settings Environment, ICTTP, 5th International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology, August 2012
• Meir, A., Oron-Gilad, T., Borowsky, A., & Parmet, Y. (2012). Towards understanding hazard perception abilities among child-pedestrians. In De Waard, D., Merat, N., Jamson, H., Barnard, Y., & Carsten, O. (Eds.), Human Factors of Systems and Technology. Maastricht, the Netherlands: Shaker Publishing, pp. 277-290.
• Meir Anat, Oron-Gilad Tal, Borowsky Avinoam, & Parmet Yisrael, Towards understanding hazard perception abilities among child-pedestrians, Proceeding of the HFES Europe Chapter, Leeds, October 2011.

Cyclists

• N. Haworth , D. Shinar & T. Oron‐Gilad (2014). Developing an international survey of bicycle and helmet usage, Proceedings, International Cycling Safety Conference 2014 18‐19 November 2014, Göteborg, Sweden.

Hazard Perception among young-novice drivers

• Avnieli Shani, Borowsky Avinoam, Parmet Yisrael and Oron-Gilad Tal (2014). Are globality and locality related to driver’s hazard perception abilities? HFES EU Annual meeting, October 6-8, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Parmet Y.  Borowsky A., Yona O., and Oron-Gilad T. ( 2014). Driving speed of young-novice and experienced drivers in simulated hazard anticipation scenes, Human Factors
• Oron-Gilad T. and Parmet Y. ^PI (2014). Can a driving simulator assess the effectiveness of Hazard Perception training in young novice drivers? Advances in Transportation Studies – An International Journal Special Issue – Vol. I, 65-76.
• Borowsky A., & Oron-Gilad T. ( 2013), Exploring the Effects of Driving Experience on Hazard Awareness and Risk Perception via Real-Time Hazard Identification, Hazard Classification, and Rating Tasks, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 59,548–565 .
• Meir, A., Borowsky, A. & Oron-Gilad T. (2014) Formation and Evaluation of Act and Anticipate Hazard Perception Training (AAHPT) intervention for young-novice drivers, Traffic Injury Prevention, 15(2), 172-180
• Omri Yona, Avinoam Borowsky, Tal Oron-Gilad and Yisrael Parmet (2012). The use of a homogeneity measure to identify hazard perception abilities of novices and experienced drivers in a driving simulator, Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 56^th Annual meeting
• Oron-Gilad, T. and Borowsky A. (in production). Hazard Awareness in Driving. The Handbook of Applied Perception Research, Edited by: James L. Szalma, Mark Scerbo, Raja Parasuraman, Peter A. Hancock, and Robert R. Hoffman.

• Borowsky, A., Oron-GIlad,T. , Meir, A. & Parmet, Y. (2012). Drivers perception of vulnerable road users: A hazard perception approach, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 44(1), The Effect of Hazard Perception Training on Traffic-Scene Movies Categorization160-166.
• Borowsky, A., Oron-Gilad, T.,Meir A. and Parmet Y. The effect of hazard perception training on traffic-scene movies categorization. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society’s 54th Annual Meeting. California, September 27-October 1, 2010.pp 2101-1205.
• Borowsky, A. Oron-Gilad, T. and Shinar, D. (2010). Age, skill and hazard perception in driving, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 42, 1240-1249.
• Borowsky, A., Oron-Gilad, T. & Parmet, Y. (2009). Age and Skill differences in classifying hazardous traffic scenes, Transportation Research part F,12, 277-287.

Hazard Perception among elderly drivers

• Bromberg, S., Oron-Gilad T., Ronen, A., Borowsky, A. & Parmet Y. (2012), The perception of pedestrians from the perspective of elderly-Experienced and Experienced drivers, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 44(1), 48-55.

Elderly Pedestrians

• Tapiro H., Borowsky A., Parmet Y. and Oron-Gilad T. 2016. Where do older pedestrians glance before deciding to cross a simulated two-lane road A pedestrian simulator paradigm, Proceeding of the HFES 2016 International Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, September 19-23. Winner of the Arnold Small Award (Aging TG).

Fatigue and Alertness maintaining

• Ronen, A., Oron-Gilad, T. and Gershon, P. (2014).The combination of short rest and energy drink consumption as fatigue countermeasures during a prolonged drive of professional truck drivers,  Journal of Safety Research, 49, 39-43.
• Gershon, P., Shinar, D., Oron-Gilad, T., Parmet, Y. & Ronen, A., (2011). Usage and perceived effectiveness of fatigue countermeasures for professional and non professional drivers, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 43(3), 797-803.
• Gershon, P., Ronen, A., Oron-Gilad, T. & Shinar, D. (2009). The Influence of Interactive Cognitive System (ICS) in suppressing fatigue symptoms on a Prolong Drive, Transportation Research part F, 12, 21-28.
• Oron-Gilad T., Ronen, A. & Shinar, D. (2008). Alertness Maintaining Tasks while Driving. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 40, 851-860.
• Oron-Gilad, T. & Ronen A. (2007). Road Characteristics and driver fatigue: a simulated study. Traffic Injury Prevention, 8, 1-10.
• Oron-Gilad T.and Shinar D (2000). Driver Fatigue among Military Truck Drivers. Transportation Research: part F, 3(4), 195-209.

In-Vehicle devices

• Bar-Gera H., Oron-Gilad T. & Musicant O. (accepted), In-vehicle stopping decisions advisory system for drivers approaching a traffic signal”, to be published in the 2013 Transportation Research Record series (Journal of the American Transportation Research Board)
• Bar-Gera Hillel, Oron-Gilad Tal & Musicant Oren (2013). In-vehicle stopping decisions advisory system for drivers approaching a traffic signal”, TRB’s Vehicle User Characteristics Committee (AND10).
• Whitmire J. II, Morgan, J.F., Oron-Gilad T. & Hancock P.A. (2011). The Effect of In-Vehicle Warning Systems on Speed Compliance in Work Zones, Transportation research part F, 14, 331-340.
• Lavie, T., Oron-Gilad, T. & Meyer, J. (2011), Aesthetics and usability of in-vehicle navigation displays, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 69 (1-2), 80-99

Autonomous Partially autonomous driving and “driver in the loop”

• Cohen G. , Borowsky A. and Oron-Gilad T.. 2017. The Effects of Continuous Driving-Related Feedback on Drivers’ Response to Automation Failures. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) Annual Meeting, October 2017, Austin Texas. This paper was selected as one of the three finalists for the HFES best paper Chapanis award.
• A. Borowsky, and T. Oron-Gilad (March 2016). The effects of automation failure and secondary task on drivers’ ability to mitigate hazards in highly or semi-automated vehicles, accepted for publication in RSS2015 Special Issue of ATS – Advances in Transportation Studies, an International Journal.

Gender role in  driving

• Ilit Oppenheim, Tal Oron-Gilad, Yisrael Parmet  and David Shinar  (2016). Can traffic violations be traced to gender-role, sensation seeking, demographics and driving exposure? Transportation Research Part F, Accepted July 2016.

Affective Design & Human computer interaction

• Guy Cohen-Lazry and Tal Oron-Gilad (2016). Is Staying out of Bomb-Shelters a Human-Automation Interaction Issue? Technology in Society, 47, 25-30.
• Lavie, T., Oron-Gilad, T. & Meyer, J. (2011), Aesthetics and usability of in-vehicle navigation displays, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 69 (1-2), 80-99.
• Lavie, T. and Oron-Gilad, T., (2012) Perception of navigation displays, Behaviour & Information Technology, published online March 2012.
• Weinstock A., Oron-Gilad T. and Parmet Y. (2012). The effect of system aesthetics on trust, cooperation, satisfaction and annoyance in an imperfect automated system, Work, 41(1), 258-265. http://iospress.metapress.com/content/2438772400737724/

Patents
Thermoelectric tactile display, submitted July 2008

see also: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/F-1500-2012