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Human Machine Systems Engineering Research Laboratories

Interdisciplinary Research Center


The Human-Machine Systems Engineering Laboratory (HMSEL) is a research and instructional unit in the College of Engineering and is housed in the Interdisciplinary Research Center IRC). 

HMSEL has the following research facilities: 

  1. Simulation Laboratory 

    • a flight simulator
    • five Silicon Graphics Machines (INDIGO 400 maximum impact)
    • MicroSaint Simulation
    • MATRIXtm  Rapidtm

    • Manual Control Laboratory (MCL) software

  2. Visual Cognition &Perception Laboratory 

    • equipment for research in eye movement studies

    • Some apparatus available are ISCAN Eye and True Depth Display

  3. Virtual Reality and HCI Laboratory 

    • equipment for research in human-computer interaction (HCI)
    • virtual environment design
    • information display and visualization studies
    • cognitive systems engineering

Designs are achieved with Rapid Prototyping Software, MATB, FITT, Spyglass Slicer and Transform, SGI UNIX and many NT machines. 

A second facility is used to study

  • biometric
  • ergonometric indicators of human workload using EEG and EMG data
  • Apparatus include Lafayette BIOPACK ,EEG lab set from GRASS, EKG and EMG

Researchers use simulation, neural network and fuzzy set models as tools to develop workload metrics.

 

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Click for a larger view of the vision apparatus
 

 

 

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