BRIMS Paper Accepted

The manuscript titled Identification and Application of Neurophysiologic Synchronies for Studying the Dynamics of Teamwork has been accepted for the 19th Behavior Representation in Modeling & Simulation (BRIMS) Conference which will be held March 22-25, 2010 at the Charleston Harbor Resort and Marina, Charleston, SC.
In this paper we describe a process for collecting and combining neurophysiologic signals derived from individual members of a team to develop pattern categories showing the normalized expression of these signals at each second for the team as a whole. The expression of different neurophysiologic synchrony patterns is sensitive to changes in the behavior of teams over time and perhaps to the level of expertise. The utility and limitations of using this approach are demonstrated for three tasks including a team emotion recall research study, an educational study where teams of high school students solved substance abuse simulations and a complex training study where Submarine Officer Advanced Candidate trainees performed submarine piloting and navigation exercises.
Ron Stevens and Trysha Galloway from the IMMEX Project as well as Chris Berka and Adrienne Behneman from Advanced Brain Monitoring are co-authors of the paper. Once the proceedings are published we will link a copy of the paper at our Publications site.

Learning Trajectories

Authors: Ron Stevens, Carole Beal, and Marcia Sprang had their paper published in the Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computers in Education, Hong Kong: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education.

Titled Tracking the Development of Problem Solving Skills with Learning Trajectories this manuscript includes analyses of problem solving approaches for 1,650 chemistry students using multiple measures. The manuscript can be found in our publications list or link here

HFES 2009

Ron Stevens, Director of the IMMEX Project will present at a technical session at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd Annual Meeting, October 19-23, 2009, San Antonio, TX.
In the session that covers Human Performance Modeling, Ron will present findings on Neurophysiologic Collaboration Patterns During Team Problem Solving.

A copy of the manuscript accepted for publication in the meeting's proceedings can be found at our publications link.

HCI International 2009

Ron Stevens, Director of the IMMEX Project presented at the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (July 19-24, San Diego, CA). In the Augmented Cognition category under the topic; Adaptive Instruction, Dr. Stevens presented Can Neurophysiologic Synchronies Provide a Platform for Adapting Team Performance?
The poster session was attended by Trysha Galloway from the IMMEX Project. A scaled version of her poster Can Neurophysiologic Synchronies be Detected During Collaborative Teamwork is available here.