Wickens, Christopher
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prof emeritus of  Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign = UIUC
 
now at Alion Science and Tech in Boulder, Colo.
 
BA Harvard  1967
PhD  Univ of Mich  1974  Psych
 
<strong>Special Interests</strong>
Aviation psychology; 
the relevance of <b>theories of attention and spatial cognition to the performance of people in complex 3D environments</b>, and to the design of displays to support that performance. 
The effects of automation on <b>attention deployment and trust</b>.
 
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models of human interaction iwth complex systems...
role of perception, attention, and cognition in design of pilot display systems.
 
He has developed a model of the cognit processes that humans use to understand and
nagivate thru spatial enviros.
 
applie dto pilots flying thru space and scientists navigating thru virtual enviros rnedering of science data.
 
models makes predictions and guides design of optimal interace.
 
Head of NRC Panel of design of national air traffic control.
 
he has developed<b> two theories or models of attention</b>: 
<b>multiple resources theory developed in the early 1980</b>s; and 
<b>Salience, Effort, Expectancy and Value (SEEV) theory elaborating the selective aspects of attention</b> in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
 
 
 
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