Human Factors and Technology. Psychology. Management. Higher Education. Education in Modern Society.
Waldemar Karwowski, PhD, DSc, PE, is a professor and the
chairman of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
Systems at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida. He
is also the executive director of the Institute for Advanced
Systems Engineering at the University of Central Florida. He earned
a master's (1978) in production engineering and management from the
Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland, and his PhD (1982) in
industrial engineering at Texas Tech University. He earned a D.Sc.
(dr habil.) in management science at the State Institute for
Organization and Management in Industry, Poland (2004). He also
received honorary doctoral degrees from three European
universities. He is a past president of the Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society (2007) and the International Ergonomics
Association (2000-2003). Dr. Karwowski served on the Committee on
Human Systems Integration, National Research Council, the National
Academies, USA (2007-2011). He is a co-editor of the Human Factors
and Ergonomics in Manufacturing journal and the editor-in-chief of
Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science journal. He is an author
or editor of over 400 scientific publications in the areas of human
systems integration, cognitive engineering, activity theory,
systems engineering, human-computer interaction, fuzzy logic and
neuro-fuzzy modeling, applications of nonlinear dynamics to human
performance, and neuroergonomics.
Jussi Kantola is a professor in the Industrial Management
Department at the University of Vaasa, Finland. Before that, he was
an associate professor in the Knowledge Service Engineering
Department at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology. From 2003 to 2008, he worked at the Tampere University
of Technology, Finland, and the University of Turku, Finland, in
various research roles, including research director in the IE and
IT departments. He earned a PhD in industrial engineering at the
Univer
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