I am a human factors engineer, and my focus is on human-system integration (HSI) and interaction design. How can we facilitate the interaction of humans with technology, intelligent systems, and robots? How can we design to improve well-being, understandability, and willingness to use?
My research can be divided grossly into domains:
- Human-robot interaction (HRI) for service and domestic robots (Aging, robots at home, socially assistive robots, robots for well-being, utilitarian robots, and collaboration among robots), design considerations for socially assistive robots, design for attachment, understandability, and trust.
- Human Factors in Transportation and Traffic Safety Drivers’ skill and style, professional drivers, novice drivers, fatigue and passive fatigue, autonomous vehicles), Pedestrian behavior and movement, child pedestrians’ crossing behavior, older pedestrians, and distraction of pedestrians. Recently, I have dealt more with automation and autonomous driving, the comfort of autonomous vehicle occupants, and mediating the driving tasks between human and automated drivers. With regard to pedestrians, we look at how pedestrians interact with autonomous cars.
- Walkability and safety of pedestrians – mobility User eXperience (UX).
- Affective design, Hedonomics, and well-being, Design for Attachment
- Human factors engineering in agriculture
- Human Factors and Decision support tools and techniques for the operational domains.
- Tactile, Attention and Multimodal Displays
In my research work, I combine theoretical and applied research. Applied research can be conducted on many levels, from Wizard of Oz techniques (WoZ), simulation, laboratory, and field studies.
We constantly develop and improve our state-of-the-art Ergonomics laboratory complex at BGU.
Human Factors Engineering 