Dr. Yiqi Zhang

Associate Professor

Department: Industrial Engineering
College:  Engineering
Address: 209 Leonhard Building
Phone: 814-865-3529
E-mail: yuz450@psu.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/zhangyiqi2016/

 

 

 

Human-Technology Interaction Lab

Driver-Automated Vehicle Interaction in Mixed Traffic

With continued advances in automation technologies, automated vehicles (AVs) will change the way human drivers interact with vehicles dramatically. The changeover is likely to take place over time and for many years, there will be a mixed transportation system in which AVs share the road with human-driven vehicles. In this project, students will gain knowledge of how human drivers interact with automated vehicles in the mixed stage of transportation systems with driving simulator experiments. Students will assist in the experiment design, the design and programming of driving scenarios on the STISIM driving simulator, engage in data collection of human subjects’ data, data coding and statistical analysis.

Understanding Nurse Situation Awareness in Complex Inpatient Settings

Errors in healthcare management and administration are a leading cause of death in the United States each year. In dynamic and complex healthcare settings, such as Intensive Care Units (ICU), it is crucial for nurses to maintain adequate situation awareness (SA) of patients’ health status in order to reduce the likelihood of medical errors and improve patient safety. This project aims to conduct semi-structured interviews and behavioral experiments with ICU nurses to investigate and quantify influential factors of nurses’ situation awareness and to develop a conceptual framework for nurse SA. The undergraduate student’s primary responsibilities will include assisting in the questionnaire development, data collection, data cleaning, and statistical analysis.

The Cognitive Skills of Electronic Video Gaming Players

The project aims to understand cognitive skills of esports players and their impact on gaming performance. Although positions and opinions have been rising in the recent research regarding the psychological and physiological aspects of esports, empirical investigation is still limited. This project explores the theoretical foundation of esports performance by studying the cognitive skills and situation awareness of esports players. Primary responsibilities will include improving the designed questionnaire, building an experiment with an online experiment platform, data collection, statistical analysis, and report writing.