Human Coordination

Using Multiple-Degree of Freedom Input Devices

Maurice Masliah Ph.D. Candidate   resume    curriculum vitae	email: moman@sakura.rose.utoronto.ca
Ergonomics and Teleoperation in Control Laboratory Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Toronto	postal address: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Unversity of Toronto 5 King's College Road Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8 Canada phone number: (416) 730-9744

Write-ups of my research on human coordination using multiple-degree of freedom input devices can be found on this page. All research on this page is work in progress, and comments, questions, and suggestions are welcomed.

My research has four goals:

1. to define what coordination is with respect to input devices
2. to design experiments, collect data and to measure coordination
3. to analyze experimental data, and quantify coordination
4. to model human coordination

Research:

Teaching

• MIE448F Cognitive Ergonomics

Departmental Examinations

• Dissertation [Adobe PDF version]
• Qualifying Proposal     [postscript version]
• Seminar Exam      [postscript version]

Selected Publications

• Masliah, M. R., and Milgram, P. "Measuring the Allocation of Control in a 6 Degree-of-Freedom Docking Experiment", CHI 2000 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM Press, Conference Proceedings, 2000, pp. 25-32. [Adobe PDF version]
  [Online CHI 2000 Presentation]
• Masliah, M. R., and Milgram, P. "Measuring the Allocation of Control Across Degrees-of-Freedom." Graphics Interface (GI) '99. Poster Abstracts, 1999, pp. 5-6    [postscript version]
• Masliah, M. R. "Quantifying Human Coordination in HCI." CHI '99 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , ACM Press, Extended Abstracts, 1999, 300-301.   [postscript version]
• Masliah, M. R., and Albrecht, R. W. "The Mobile Robot Surrogate Method for Developing Autonomy", IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 14 , 2 (1998), 314-320 [Adobe PDF version]

Informal Write-ups

These papers are mainly for keeping a record of different ideas that I've worked on, mostly for historical purposes. If some of the images are not easily viewable, try printing the file or viewing the image file separately.

• A Theoretical Discussion of Coordination in a Tracking Task
• Defining Coordination
• Pilot Experiment on Measuring Coordination
• Exponential Smoothing Analysis Applied to a Tracking Task 
• Stationarity/Non-stationarity Identification of Tracking Data
• Coordination: In Time and Space
• Input & Output Methods for Mobile Clients -An edited version of this paper was successfully rejected from ACM's Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction