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Dr. Samuel directs the User Performance Lab (UPL) at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Samuel’s research broadly spans surface transportation human factors, healthcare human factors and safety. Dr. Samuel utilizes a variety of experimental techniques to measure human performance and study human behavior. The core theme of his work is centered around the etiology of crashes (or errors) or the study of crash (error) causation. The goal is to advance user safety by accounting for the limitations of both, infrastructure and interface device design.

Research interests: Automotive Human factors, Aging, Attention & Cognition

Publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2476-9319

Research interests: Transportation, healthcare, technology, UX/UI

Publications:

• Cao, S., Samuel, S., Murzello, Y., Ding, W., Zhang, X., & Niu, J. (2022). Hazard Perception in Driving: A Systematic Literature Review. Transportation Research Record, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981221096666
• Samuel, S., Murzello, Y.  (2022). Global Changes to Driver Behavior Amid COVID-19. In: Katie Plant and Gesa Praetorius (eds) Human Factors in Transportation. AHFE (2022) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 60. AHFE International, USA.
  http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002458

Research interests: Human-AV interaction, Driver preference for semi-AVs 

Research interests: Eye tracking behavior analysis; Machine Learning on human-generated data; Human Factor in Driving.

Publications:

• S. Cao, S. Samuel, Y. Murzello, W. Ding, X. Zhang, J. Niu, “Hazard Perception in Driving: A Systematic Literature Review”. Transportation Research Record (Accepted); 
• W. Ding, S. Kim, D. Xu, I. Kim, “Can Intelligent Agent Improve Human-Machine Team Performance Under Cyberattacks?”. Intelligent Human Systems Integration 2019; 
• X. Guo, L. Cui, W. Ding, M. Lockhart, I. Kim. “How Will Humans Cut through Automated Vehicle Platoons in Mixed Traffic Environments? A Simulation Study of Drivers' Gaze Behaviors based on the Dynamic Areas-of-Interest”, 2018 Conference on Systems Engineering Research;

Research interests: Virtual Reality, Human-centered AI, Lv. 5 Autonomous Driving

Publications:

• Sun, C. , & Samuel, S. . (2022). Micro scenarios – A Theory-based Intervention to Alleviate Simulator Sickness for Older Drivers in Driving Simulators. In International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics and the Affiliated Conferences.
   

Research interests: Drivers Drowsiness, transportation, driver distractions, ML, human factors 

Publications:  

• Sneha Srinivasan Rammanoharan, Jose Alguindigue, Siby Samuel, Apurva Narayan (2022) SHRP2 Naturalistic Data Analysis of Older Drivers’ Gap-Acceptance Behaviour 

Research interests: Distracted driving and human factors, ML, Data analysis & Visualization, Autonomous driving

Research interests: autonomous driving, human factors, driver distraction 

Research interests: UX/UI, Autonomous Driving, Human-Centered AI, ML, Human Factors

Publication:

• P. Kunumpol, W. Umpaipant, N. Kanchanaranya, T. Charoenpong, S. Vongkittirux, T. Kupakanjana, C. Tantibundhit (2017) Automated Age-related Macular Degeneration screening system using fundus images, 39th EMBC 2017, IEEE