Nathan Lau

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Virginia Tech

United States

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Dr. Nathan Lau is an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech in the United States. His research focuses on the application of virtual reality and eye tracking technologies in training and skill assessment, with recent articles exploring topics such as basketball tactics, laparoscopic surgery, and cognitive workload in VR environments. Dr. Lau's work also addresses human-autonomy collaboration and the performance improvement of drivers using simulation techniques.

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NRI: INT: Balancing Collaboration and Autonomy for Multi-Robot Multi-Human Search and Rescue

Open Date: 2018-10-01

Close Date: 2022-09-30

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FW-HTF: Whole-body Exoskeletons for Advanced Vocational Enhancement (WEAVE)

Open Date: 2018-09-15

Close Date: 2023-08-31

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SMART-COM – Scalable Multi-Agent Adaptive Resolution Tools for Collaborative Outage Management

Open Date: 2016-10-01

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Situation Awareness Performance Model and Measures for Process Control: Applications to Design and Evaluation of Control Rooms

Open Date: 2009-04-01

Close Date: 2010-03-31

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Empirical investigation of situation awareness in nuclear process control operations

Open Date: 2008-04-01

Close Date: 2009-03-31

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Nancy Cooke

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Arizona State University

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Ruixuan Li

University of Minnesota

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Maury Nussbaum

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Virginia Tech

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Are humans still necessary? Expanding the discussion

Cognitive workload assessment during VR forklift training

Developing VR Training Platform for Recognizing Basketball Tactics: A Qualitative Study from Recreational Basketball Players’ Perspective

Changes in Visual Attention Allocation During Psychomotor Skill Training in Laparoscopic Surgery: A Longitudinal Eye Tracking Study

Decoding Driving Words: A Holistic Exploration of Older Drivers’ Early-stage ADAS Adaptation Using Structural Topic Modeling on Naturalistic Driving Data

Comparison Between Scene-Independent and Scene-Dependent Eye Metrics in Assessing Psychomotor Skills

Employing Eye Trackers to Reduce Nuisance Alarms

Exploratory Literature Review on Shared Leadership to Aid Collaboration and Function Allocation in Human-Autonomy Teams

Multimodal Feedback to Improve Performance of Order Picker Truck Drivers Using a Virtual Reality Simulator

Quantitative Analysis of Eye-gaze Metrics in Differentiating Surgical Expertise

Scene-dependent, feedforward eye gaze metrics can differentiate technical skill levels of trainees in laparoscopic surgery

Using eye gaze to reveal cognitive processes and strategies of engineering students when solving spatial rotation and mental cutting tasks

Differentiating Laparoscopic Skills of Trainees with Computer Vision Based Metrics

Attending Surgeons Demonstrate Greater Correlations of Skill Assessment and Anticipation of Adverse Events Than Residents During Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

PRIME: A Personalized Recommender System for Information Visualization Methods via Extended Matrix Completion

Designing An Augmented Reality Based Interface For Wearable Exoskeletons

Quantitative Evidence Supporting Distributed Situation Awareness Model of Patient Flow Management

Detecting cognitive hacking in visual inspection with physiological measurements

Distributed situation awareness: a health-system approach to assessing and designing patient flow management

Ergonomics in AI: Designing and Interacting With Machine Learning and AI

Collaborators (3)

Nancy Cooke

Ruixuan Li

Maury Nussbaum

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