Human Factors Committee

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The Human Factors Committee provides guidance throughout the OSAC on the influence of systems design on human performance and on ways to mitigate errors in complex tasks.

Human Factors Committee roles and responsibilities

• William C. Thompson, Ph.D., Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society and Psychology and Social Behavior and Law, University of California Irvine, Committee Chair
• Thomas David Albright, Ph.D., Professor, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
• Hal R. Arkes, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Ohio State University
• Deborah A. Boehm-Davis, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George Mason University
• Deborah Davis, Ph.D., Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
• John F. Holloway, Associate Dean and Exec. Dir., Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice, University of Pennsylvania
• Richard Lempert, Ph.D., Eric Stein Distinguished University Professor of Law & Sociology, emeritus, Self-employed
• Erin Morris, Ph.D., Behavioral Sciences Research Analyst, Los Angeles County Public Defender
• D. Michael Risinger, Seton Hall University School of Law
• Scott Shappell, Ph.D., Human Factors and Systems Department Chair, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Dan Simon, Professor of Law and Psychology, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, and Department of Psychology