- Associate Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Affiliated Faculty, Environmental & Occupational Health
- Phone: 979-458-2340
- FAX: 979-458-2340
- Email: tferris@tamu.edu
- Office: ETB 4081
- Website: Research Website
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Industrial & Operations Engineering (Cognitive Ergonomics), University of Michigan – 2010
Research Interests
-
- Human factors and cognitive ergonomics (the study of cognition in human-machine engineered systems)
- Human information processing
- Decision making under time pressure
- Design to support attention and interruption management
- Human error
- Human-automation interaction
- Novel interface design techniques/employing alternative display modalities (such as the sense of touch)
Awards & Honors
- Distinguished Achievement Award, University of Michigan College of Engineering – 2010
- World Haptics '09 Award for Best Paper in Haptics Science – 2009
- Student Member with Honors, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society – 2009
- Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation (NSF) – 2005-2008
- Alphonse Chapanis Best Student Paper Award, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society – 2007
- First place, Oral presentation competition, University of Michigan Engineering Grad Symposium – 2007, 2009
- Dwight F. Benton Departmental Fellowship, University of Michigan – 2004-2005
- Engineering Class Valedictorian, University of Iowa – Dec 2003
Selected Publications
- Ferris, T., et al. 2011. "Continuously-informing vibrotactile displays in support of attention management...." Human Factors, 53(6), 600-611.
- Ferris, T., et al. 2010. "Cockpit automation: Still struggling to catch up..." Human Factors in Aviation (Second Edition), Academic Press, 2010, Pages 479-503, ISBN 9780123745187.
- Ferris, T., et al. 2010. "When content matters: The role of processing code in tactile display design." IEEE: Transactions on Haptics, 3(3), 199-210.
- Ferris, T., et al. 2009. "Using informative peripheral visual and tactile cues to support task and interruption management." Human Factors, 51 (2), 126-135.
- Ferris, T., et al. 2008. "Crossmodal links among vision, audition, and touch in complex environments." Human Factors, 50 (1), 17-26. 135.