SPIDER: New Technology for Constructing Sociometric Networks from Personal Network Data
Hopkins, C.1, Young, A.2,and Borgatti, S.2 Presented at the XXXVI Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), Newport Beach, CA (April 2016) During the past two decades, there has been a surge in the number of studies applying social network analysis (SNA) to the study of infectious disease transmission. The mapping of […]
A Health Belief Model Approach to Men’s Assessment of a Novel Long-acting Contraceptive
King1, A., Kaighobadi2, F., and Winecoff3, A. Cogent Medicine, 3(1), 1250320 We investigated predictors of men’s attitudes towards and intent to use Vasalgel™, a long-acting reversible male contraceptive under development. The health belief model (HBM), with additional constructs of interpersonal factors and social norms, provided the framework. Heterosexual men (N = 146) living in Upstate New York (age: […]
Assessment and Diagnosis of Vestibular Indicators of Soldier Operational Readiness (ADVISOR)
Wollocko, A., Jenkins, M., Farry, M., and Irvin, S. Presented at the International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care: Shaping the Future, San Diego, CA (April 2016) Soldiers who suffer a potentially concussive injury or barotrauma need accurate, timely, in-theater assessment of symptoms. Often this initial assessment and diagnosis must be conducted by first-level […]
Virtual Reality System for the Assessment and Diagnosis of Vestibular Indicators of Soldier Operational Readiness (ADVISOR)
Wollocko, A., Jenkins, M., Irvin, S., and Farry, M. Presented at NextMed / Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR), Los Angeles, CA (April 2016) Soldiers who suffer a potentially concussive injury or barotrauma need accurate, timely, in-theater assessment of symptoms. Often this initial assessment and diagnosis must be conducted by first-level responders who attempt to assess vestibular symptoms […]
Migrating Real-World Stimulus to Controlled Virtual Reality Environments: Lessons Learned from Transitioning Medical Diagnostic Assessments to the Virtual Realm
Wollocko, A., Jenkins, M., and Farry, M. Presented at the 7th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2016), Orlando, FL (July 2016) Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) capabilities are becoming ubiquitous, with many traditional challenges (e.g., jitter, screen door effects, cost) being overcome as a result of major investments from consumer gaming […]
Demonstration of an Adaptable Toolkit for the Assessment and Augmentation of Performance by Teams in Real Time (ADAPTER)
Bracken1, B., Palmon1, N., Elkin-Frankston1, E., and Cooke2, N. Presented at the Global Health and Performance Summit, Columbus, OH (May 2016) Teams of individuals must multitask to perform their own work while maintaining shared attention across their teammates. Experimenters who study teams use advanced methods to understand physiological, neurophysiological, and behavioral correlates of individual and team performance, […]
Second Validation of a System to Monitor, Extract, and Decode Indicators of Cognitive Workload (MEDIC)
Bracken, B.1, Negri, A.1, Amazeen, P.3, Likens, A.3, Fedele, M.4, Demir, M.4, Palmon, N.1, deB Frederick, B.2, and Cooke, N.4 Presented at the Medical Health Systems Research Symposium (MHSRS), Kissimmee, FL (August 2016) Background: Military medical personnel are deployed to operational environments where their success saving lives depends on their ability to act quickly and effectively, both […]
Analysis and Comparison of Nurse and Physician Team Trauma Assessment Skills
Bauchwitz, B., Niehaus, J., and Weyhrauch, P. Presented poster at the Medical Health Systems Research Symposium (MHSRS), Kissimmee, FL (August 2016) Background: Trauma assessment is key to patient outcomes. One approach to training trauma assessment is simulation-based training using patient scenarios to allow trainees to practice skills. Training can be individual or team-based, depending on the […]
Junctional and Inguinal Hemorrhage Simulation: Tourniquet Master Training
Kwan, C. 1, Laufer, S. 1, Contreras, M. 1, Weyhrauch, P. 2, Niehaus, J. 2, Palmon, N. 2, Bauchwitz, B. 2, Pugh, C. 1 Stud Health Technol Inform, 2016 Hemorrhages are the leading cause of potentially survivable combat mortalities when patients are unable to reach a treatment facility in time. New tourniquet devices have been developed to combat hemorrhages in the field. However, […]
Monitoring, Extracting, and Decoding Indicators of Cognitive Workload (MEDIC)
Bracken, B.1, Palmon, N.1, Frederick, B.2, Cooke, N.3, Romero, V.1, Koelle, D.1, and Pfautz, J.1 Presented at the 2015 Military Health System Research symposium, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (August 2015). Background: US military medical personnel may be deployed to a variety of operational environments where their success saving lives depends on their ability to act quickly and effectively, […]
Monitoring, Extracting, and Decoding Indicators of Cognitive Workload (MEDIC)
Bracken, B.1, Palmon, N.1, Frederick, B.2, Cooke, N.3, Romero, V.1, Koelle, D.1, and Pfautz, J.1 Poster to be presented at Neuroscience 2015, Chicago, IL (October 2015) Background: The success of emergency medical personnel in saving lives depends on their acting quickly and effectively, as individuals and as teams. Training must go beyond individual skills to include team […]
An Unobtrusive System to Measure, Assess, and Predict Cognitive Workload
Bracken, B., Farry, M., Jenkins, M., and Monnier, C. Oral presentation at the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference, Maui, Hawaii (September 2015) Complex, computational capabilities are required for tracking, characterizing, and cataloging objects in space. However, the improved real-time highly-detailed space situational awareness (SSA) capabilities that the Air Force is trying to […]
A Program for Strengthening Health and Improving Emotional Defenses (SHIELD)
Elkin-Frankston, S., Romero, V., and Wollocko, A. To be presented at the 2015 Defense Energy Innovation Summit, Austin, TX (December 2015) The psychological stress experienced by Marines has a profound impact on health and performance that reaches beyond the individual; it affects job performance, interactions with family and peers, and may lead to increased prevalence of […]
Assessment and Diagnosis of Vestibular Indicators of Soldier Operational Readiness (ADVISOR)
Jenkins, M., Wollocko, A., Irvin, S., and Farry, M. Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS), Ft. Lauderdale, FL (August 2015) Soldiers suffering a traumatic brain injury (TBI) or barotrauma need accurate, timely, in-theater assessment of symptoms to inform appropriate return to duty (RTD) decisions. Often, this initial assessment and diagnosis must be conducted by first-level […]
Assessment and Diagnosis of Vestibular Indicators of Soldier Operational Readiness (ADVISOR)
Jenkins, M., Wollocko, A., and Irvin, S. Defense Energy Innovation Summit, Austin, TX (December 2015) Soldiers suffering a traumatic brain injury (TBI) or barotrauma need accurate, timely, in-theater assessment of symptoms to inform appropriate return to duty (RTD) decisions. Often, this initial assessment and diagnosis must be conducted by first-level responders (e.g., Medics, Corpsmen) who attempt […]
Changes in Cortical Thickness after tDCS-Enhanced Brain Training and Mindfulness Practice
Lieberman1, G., Hunter1, M., Bezdek2, M., Trumbo1, M., Jones1, A., Coffman3, B., McCallion1, E., Armenta1, M., O’Sickey1, A., Brown1, D., Roos1, C., Robinson1, S., Martin2, N., Schumacher2, E., Guarino4, S., Eusebi4, L., Elkin-Frankston4, S., Romero4, V., Witkiewitz1, K., and Clark1, V. Presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii (June 2015). The aim […]
Ensemble Prediction of Vascular Injury in Trauma Care
Metzger, M., Howard, M., Kellogg, L., and Kundi, R. Presented at the Mining Big Data to Improve Clinical Effectiveness Workshop at the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, San Jose, CA (October 2015). Trauma patients suffer from a wide range of injuries, including vascular injuries. Such injuries can be difficult to immediately identify, only becoming detectable after […]
Translating Clinical Vestibular Function Assessment Procedures to a Portable, Low-Cost, Virtual Reality Solution
Wollocko, A., Jenkins, M., Irvin, S., and Farry, M. To be presented at the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge and Software Engineering (ICKSE 2015), Rome, Italy (December 2015) Assessment of vestibular function in adult populations is typically conducted in controlled clinical environments by trained otolaryngologists using costly, specialized medical screening equipment. This limits the ability of […]
Physiological Synchronization is Associated with Narrative Emotionality and Subsequent Behavioral Response
Bracken, B.1*, Alexander, V.2*, Zak, P.2, Romero, V.1, and Barraza, J.2 Accepted to Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8534:3-13, and presented at the 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII), Crete, Greece (June 2014). Neurophysiological compliance is a correlation of neurophysiological measures (synchronicity) between individuals. Higher compliance among team members is related to better performance, and higher synchronicity occurs […]
Interpreting Cognitive and Physiological States from Biometric Sensors to Predict Performance Degradation
Bracken, B.1, Guarino, S.1, Dorin, W.1, Romero, V.1, Pfautz, J.1, DiZio, P.2, and Lackner, J.2 Presented at the 44th Annual Society for Neuroscience Conference, Washington, DC(November 2014) Biometric techniques for sensing peripheral nervous system indicators (e.g., heart rate, blood pressure, and galvanic skin response), when analyzed and interpreted correctly, provide an opportunity to objectively assess and forecast […]
Interpreting Cognitive and Physiological States from Biometric Sensors to Predict Performance Degradation
Bracken, B.1, Palmon, N.1, Romero, V.1, Pfautz, J.1, and Cooke, N.2 Teams of individuals working together toward a common goal must be skilled at multi-tasking to perform their own work while maintaining shared attention across the team. Experimenters who study team performance can use cutting edge methods to assess physiological, neurophysiological, and behavioral underpinnings of […]
Supporting Procedural and Perceptual Learning in Laparoscopic Surgery
Lou, Y.1, Flinn, J.1, Ganapathy1, S., Weyhrauch, P.2, Niehaus, J.2, Myers, B.1, and Cao, C.1 To be presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Chicago, IL (October 2014) Expertise in surgical performance requires mastery of both technical skills such as suturing, and nontechnical skills such as perceptual and procedural knowledge. […]
Visual Detection Improvements with Frontal Beta Patterns of Rhythmic Non-invasive Neurostimulation Demonstrated by Shifts of the Psychometric Function
Quentin, R.1, Vernet, M.1, Elkin-Frankston, S.3,4, Chanes, L.1, Toba, M.1, and Valero-Cabre, A.1,2 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA (April 2014) Rhythmic Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) has demonstrated an ability to enhance brain oscillatory activity at the input frequency. Using this approach, we recently reported that uniform 30 Hz TMS patterns delivered pre-target on […]
