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ISE researchers and their collaborators from five other institutions will soon engage in research on new construction safety and health
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Dr. Christian Wernz and Andrew Henry won Third Place in the INFORMS Service Science Section Best Paper Award
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ISE Takes First Place in APM Outstanding Chapter Competition for 2008-09!
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2008-2009 Material Handling Student Design Competition won by ISE students
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Winchester's summer research program focuses on diversity, science of human computer interaction
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Woodrow Winchester

Dr. Woodrow W. Winchester III

Assistant Professor

546 Whittemore Hall
Phone: 540-231-5936
Email: wwwinche@vt.edu

Biographical Information

Education

  • Attendee, 5th Convivio International Interaction Design Summer School. Napier University, Edinburgh, UK 2006
  • Ph.D., North Carolina A&T State University, 2005
  • M.S., North Carolina A&T State University, 1994
  • B.S., North Carolina A&T State University, 1992

Major Responsibilities

Teaching Faculty
Laboratory Director, LUCID
Program Coordinator, Virginia Tech HCI Research Experience for Undergraduates (HCI REU)

Research Accomplishments

Creative application of user-centered design principles
Development and application of novel tools and methods in user interface, interaction, and experience design and evaluation
Exploration of enabling technologies in systems design and improvement
Promotion of scholarship and learning related to interactive product and service design

Recent Course Responsibilities

  • Industrial Ergonomics
  • Intro to Human Factors
  • Human Computer Systems

Selected Recent Publications

Winchester, W., Baldev, Darshan, Smith-Jackson, T., and Kleiner, B., “Contextual Designing of Technology-based Safety Interventions for the Small Contractor: Outcomes of a Pilot Study of a Design Model,” To be presented at the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2007 Proceedings, Beijing, China. To be presented as a poster in July 2007 by Winchester.
Lee, W., Winchester, W., and Smith-Jackson, T., “An Exploratory Study of an Affective Sociotechnical Framework for Addressing Medical Errors,” Presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting Proceedings, San Francisco, CA, October 2006.
Winchester, W., and Jordan, S., “Socially-Valid and Affordable Design for the Cognitively Impaired,” 2006 IERC Conference Proceedings, Orlando, FL, May 2006.
Soh, B., Smith-Jackson, T., and Winchester, W., “Scenario-based Questionnaire to Probe Sensemaking Process,” 7th HICS and 1st Topical Symposium on Sensemaking Proceedings, Greenbelt MD, November 2005.
Winchester, W., Ntuen, C., Jiang, X., Mountjoy, D., and Perry, A., “Effects of Attentional Cueing on Change Detection Performance in a Simulated Augmented Reality Environment,” Presented at the 2005 Industrial Engineering Research Conference Proceedings, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2005.
Winchester, W., and Ntuen, C., “Ergonomics of Augmented Cognition System Design and Application,” 2004 Industrial Engineering Research Conference Proceedings, Houston, Texas, May 2004.
Dorneich, M., Olofinboba, O., Ververs, P., Winchester, W., and Krishnamurthi, S., “Alerting and Notification of Conditions Outside the Aircraft (ANCOA): Integrated Alerting Guidelines and Conceptual Design,” Technical report prepared for NASA Langley Research Center under contract NAS1-00107, Honeywell Laboratories, September 30, 2002.
Good, M., Kantamneni, P., Winchester, W., Plocher, T., and Ververs, P., “ISIS: Information Requirements and Collision Countermeasure Technology Solutions: An Interim Report,” Technical report prepared for Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC, Honeywell Laboratories, December 26, 2001.
Application of Context-based Design in the Identification and Design of Technology-based Safety Interventions for the Small Builder. Virginia Tech Center for Innovation in Construction Safety and Health. 11 August 2005.
Petcare Awareness System (PAwS). 2005/2006 Procter and Gamble/The Industrial Designers of America (IDSA) Interdisciplinary Design Collaborative (The Aging Consumer). 8 December 2006.
CRI: Interfaces for the Embodied Mind. National Science Foundation (NSF). 15 March 2006.
REU Site: Building Interfaces for Tomorrow's Technology--The Virginia Tech Undergraduate Research in Human-Computer Interaction Program. National Science Foundation (NSF), 15 February 2006; 50% Responsibility with co-investigator, D. Scott McCrickard, Computer Science.
Embodied Communication: Vivid Interaction with History and Literature. National Science Foundation (NSF), 28 March 2006; Duration: 24 33.33% Responsibility with co-investigators, Francis Quek and Deborah Tatar.
Systems Safety Approach for Driver Competency and Safety Training for UPS Driver Delivery Providers. UPS. 8 June 2006; 16% Responsibility co-investigators, Kari Babski-Reeves, Thurmon Lockhart, Brian Kleiner, Maury Nussbaum, Tonya Smith-Jackson, John Casali, and Jeff Lancaster.

Industries Serviced

Service
Information Technology (IT)
New Media and E-commerce

Scientific and Professional Societies of Which a Member:

  • Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
  • National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
  • American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
  • Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
  • Alpha Pi Mu National Industrial Engineering Honor Society
  • Member, College of Engineering Diversity Committee
  • Member, Think Tank on the Office of Graduate Student Diversity and Recruiting
  • Member, ISE Faculty Study Group
  • Member, ISE Departmental Ingersoll Rand Lecture Series Committee

Additional links

http://www.lucid.ise.vt.edu/