Michael W. Boyce, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

I am a Human Factors Specialist for Human Systems Integration, for the Veterans Healthcare Administration, Office of Health Informatics (OHI), Clinical Information and Data Management Office (CIDMO) - 105CIDM

New Haven, Ct, Us

I supported the Cyber Operations Research and Engineering (CORE) Team as the Liaison Between Soldier Center and the ACI

Apg, Md, Us

I supported the Cyberspace Warfare for Training (CyWar-T) program which focused on Cyber for Others training, meaning people who weren't specifically trained in cyber. I also supported our 6.2 (applied research) and 6.3 (advanced prototype development) research efforts to include our cyberspace brokering architecture.

Adelphi, Md, Us

I worked as a liaison between the Army Research Laboratory and the engineering psychology program Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at West Point. I assisted in the development of cadet research projects, supported ARL research collaboration with West Point, and ran my own studies supporting the adaptive training research program and the Battlespace Visualization and Interaction (BVI) research program.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Was a Contracting Officer Representative in charge of multiple efforts supporting the adaptive training research program. Also completed research study developed during postdoctoral fellowship.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Served as the Human Factors Engineering lead on the integration between the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT) and the Augmented Reality Sandtable (ARES). Responsibilities included the development of a research testbed that can be used for assessment and learning, design and execution of a research experiment to demonstrate how testbed can support learning transfer for military tactical decision making, and expanding both technologies into a new domain of interest.PSYCHOLOGY: Applied knowledge of human factors engineering to develop a performance assessment on a relevant learning activity to support military cadet training. Leveraged knowledge in terms of user cognition, training, and instructional design to take two existing systems and merge them to address new research objectives.STUDIES AND EXPERIMENTS: Multi-phase experimental study using GIFT, ARES, and physiological sensors. In charge of end to end development and providing foundation for larger experimental efforts in the future.ADMINISTRATION: Organized and coordinated work to meet the research effort needs and requirements, and to provide written documentation and oral presentation to receive buy-in from stakeholders on the research plan. Verified existing experimental study research plans, providing emphasis on measurement and research design.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Served as project and technical lead on Department of Defense Autonomy Research Initiative (DoD ARPI) in developing understanding between robotic and human teammates. Research responsibilities include definition, design, and experimentation of Agent Transparency concepts for complex displays. PSYCHOLOGY: Applied knowledge of research methodology to develop interactive displays to support mental models and pre-attentive cueing of soldiers in stressful environments dealing with robotic assets. Translate psychological principles to related fields such as computer science to work with multiple DoD stakeholders to deliver a measurable product upon completion of product. STUDIES AND EXPERIMENTS: Worked on first year of a three year 6-1(basic research) project. In charge of development of research design, empirical procedure, data collection, and reporting results. Interacted with SPSS statistics on a daily basis performing analysis based on the human performance data.

Washington, Dc, Us

Participated in psychology and ergonomics systems engineering in support of the Science and Technology (S&T) Human Factors and Behavioral Sciences Division programs pertaining to human factors engineering and human performance studies while receiving continued on-the-job training in fulfilling Human Systems Integration objectives, as determined to be in line with supporting the agency’s objectives. Performed research, development, testing, and evaluation of new technologies and systems. PSYCHOLOGY: Applied knowledge of psychology and systems engineering principles toward the utilization of the development and/or implementation of laws, policies, and regulations as well as the resolution of planning, evaluation, control, and resource allocation problems. Used qualitative and quantitative skills to plan and conduct straightforward program analyses and studies, and to participate in complex analytical projects.STUDIES AND EXPERIMENTS: Planned evaluation details based on procedures and precedents established in evaluations. Devised specific plans and execution schedules for studies, including making logistics arrangements, data collection, and reduction and analysis of data using standard descriptive statistics to summarize project data, when required by the study design. Optimized use of statistical data-analysis techniques. ADMINISTRATION: Organized and coordinated work to meet the organization’s planning needs and requirements, and provided written and oral reports with conclusions, alternatives, and recommendations on policies, projects, or studies for the agency. Conducted fact finding of studies geared to the solution of immediate problems or as segments of systematic investigations related to agency and human performance. Maintained the agency’s repository of research findings and the human systems research and engineering agenda, lessons learned, and feedback files. Searched reference materials for relevant background data and information.

Washington, Dc, Us

Served as a research trainee and acted as an integral part of the team, focusing on the process management/usability system development; resourcefully tracked the utilization of the system through regular site visits, thus enhancing the understanding of existing/potential user issues to consequently develop effective solutions; spearheaded system updates as a process developerServed as a liaison to manage the outages between law enforcement, the FBI, and DHS stakeholders

Did my Dissertation in the Applied / Experimental Human Factors Psychology ProgramDissertation was initiated at the request of the Undersecretary of the Science and Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security after it was identified that personnel did not have an accurate understanding of evacuation devices and that training could not be assumed in the event of an emergency.This research examined the effects of instructions for emergency stair travel devices on untrained or novice users. It was hypothesized that through redesign of the evacuation instructions, untrained individuals would be able to successfully prepare an evacuation chair and secure someone with a disability more effectively and efficiently. A pre-post study design was used with an instructional redesign occurring as the manipulation between phases. There was an improved subjective understanding and improved performance metrics, such as reduced time on task and a reduction of the number of instructional glances, across three evacuation chairs when using the redesigned instruction sets. The study demonstrated that visual instruction style can account for a significant portion of explained variance in the operation of emergency stair travel devices. It also showed that improvements in instruction style can reduce time on task across device type and age group. The study failed to demonstrate that there was a performance decrement for older adults in comparison to younger adults because of the cognitive slowing of older adult information processing abilities. As a way of furthering the research from this dissertation information is being provided as a member of the RESNA Emergency Stair Travel Devices Standard Committee for incorporation into future iterations of the ED-1 standard.

Served as the secretary and an academic committee member.

Atlanta, Georgia , Us

Worked with the Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA) at Georgia Tech. My focus was dealing with an application wizard to help human resource professionals determine workplace accommodations for people with disabilities.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Automation testing for J2ME mobile application devices.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied / Experimental Human Factors Psychology

Master Of Science - Ms

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Science, Technology And Culture