Neilly talk addresses role of techology
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m Vicente, a leader in the field of cognitive engineering who has lectured around the world on how technology can be more responsive to the needs of people, will speak at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 15, as part of the ongoing Neilly Series. Vicente's talk in the Welles-Brown Room of Rush Rhees Library is free and open to the public. Renato Perucchio, associate professor of mechanical engineering, will introduce Vicente.
Author of The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology, Vicente's research as a cognitive engineer has brought much attention to how technology can be enhanced in complex work environments rather than expecting people to adapt to complex machines. He was chosen by Time magazine as one of 25 Canadians expected to shape that country's future in the 21st century, and has been a consultant to private industry and government agencies in the United States and Canada.
In The Human Factor, Vicente asserts that innovation is controlling lives instead of people managing innovation. He also is the author of Cognitive Work Analysis: Toward Safe, Productive, and Healthy Computer-Based Work.
Vicente is the first engineering professor to receive the $100,000 McLean Award, the University of Toronto's most prestigious prize for outstanding research and only the second Canadian researcher to be invited to serve on the Committee for Human Factors of the U.S. National Research Council/ National Academy of Sciences. He is the winner of the 2003 E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, Canada's prize for young academics in all areas of science and engineering.
Vicente is professor of engineering at the University of Toronto and founding director of the Cognitive Engineering Laboratory there.
The yearlong Neilly Series is supported by the Andrew H. Neilly and Janet Dayton Neilly Endowment, and the River Campus Libraries. For more information, contact x5-4461.
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