Wichita Auditory Research Group (WARG) Lab
Director: Carryl L. Baldwin Professor and Director
First it should be noted that the A in WARG stands for not only auditory research
but also aging, attention, aviation, alarms and automation. These are all active
research interests for members of our lab.
Our lab has on-going externally funded research involving human interaction with automation,
particularly related to attention in partially automated vehicles. Much of our work
intersects with neuroergonomics using physiological metrics of brain based activity
to design and evaluate complex interfaces and systems. Much of our work has been funded
by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Additional externally funded
projects have successfully been completed for NIH-NIA, NASA Ames, NASA Langley, Wright
Patterson Airforce Base, AFOSR, as well as private companies such as Toyota, Northrup
Grumman and Lockheed Martin. We have completed and published work involving auditory
and multimodal alarms, an driver and pilot attention, mind wandering, workload, and
communication.
Research Focus Areas:
- Aging
- Alarms
- Attention
- Auditory Cognition
- Automation and Performance
- Aviation
- Driver Vehicle Interface Design and Optimization
- Neuroergonomics
Current Research Funding
- Driver Vigilance with Level 2 and Level 3 Vehicle Automation for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Impact of Pandemic on Social Isolation Among Older Adults for the 蹤獲扦 Regional Institute on Aging
- Evaluation of the Rigil Training Technology Platform Mobile Applicatons for FAA ATO Technical Training
Lab Members (in alphabetical order):
- Steven Chong
- Keven Morales
- Shivani Nagrecha
- Taylor Shupsky
Selected Publications
- Greenwood, P.M., and Baldwin, C.L. (2020). Editorial: Cognitive and Brain Aging: Interventions to Promote Well-Being in Aging. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience.
- Foster, P.P., Greenwood, P.M., Baldwin, C.L., Thompson, J.C., Epeseth, T., and Jiang, X. (2019) Editorial: Cognitive and Brain Aging: Interventions to Promote Well-Being in Aging. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience.
- Calvo, J.*, Baldwin, C. L. and Phillips, B. (2020). Effect of Age and Secondary Task Engagement on Motor Vehicle Crashes in a Naturalistic Setting. Journal of Safety Research, 73, 297-302
- Cisler, D.*, Greenwood, P. M., Roberts, D. M., McKendrick, Ryan, & Baldwin, C. L. (2019). Comparing the Relative Strengths of EEG and Low-Cost Physiological Devices in Modeling Attention Allocation in Semiautonomous Vehicles. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2019.00109
Faculty
Dr. Carryl L. Baldwin
Office Location: Jabara Hall room
Email: carryl.baldwin@wichita.edu