Older Adults
Younger AdultsJenay Beer
Research Interests
I am working on the following projects in the HFA Lab:
- Investigating age-related differences in emotion recognition of facial emotion-expressive robotic and virtual agents.
- Using Knowledge Engineering techniques to gather and document the knowledge that operators rely on when performing system-specific tasks.
- Examining human factors issues faced by home healthcare providers, and the need for human factors intervention (including future technology) to ease the frustrations and difficulties related to daily caregiving.
Education
- Completing the requirements for Master of Science in Engineering Psychology
- Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, University of Dayton, OH, 2006
Affiliations and Professional Positions
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society National Chapter
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Aging Technical Group
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Georgia Tech Student Chapter, Webmaster 2009-2010
- American Psychological Association Division 21
Curriculum Vitae
- PDF version of CV
Contact Information
- Office Location : Psychology Building, Room B77
- Phone Number : 404-894-8344
- Fax: 404-894-8905
- E-mail: jbeer@gatech.edu
Selected Publications
- Beer, J. M., Rogers, W. A., & Fisk, A. D. (2009). Emotion recognition of virtual agent facial expressions: The effects of age and emotion intensity. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd Annual Meeting (pp. 131-135). San Antonio, TX: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
- Mitzner, T. L., Beer, J. M., McBride, S. E., Rogers, W. A., & Fisk, A. D. (2009). Older adults’ needs for home health care and the potential for human factors interventions. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd Annual Meeting (pp. 718-722). San Antonio, TX: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
- Cullen, R. H., Serrano-Baquero, D. Beer, J. M., McBride, S. A., Smarr, C., Rogers, W. A., Fisk, A. D. (2009). Developing a working model: An interim report of grove mowing operations (HFA-TR-0902). Atlanta, GA: Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Psychology, Human Factors and Aging Laboratory.
- Beer, J. M., Ezer, N. (October 2008). Human-robotic interactions: The development of “helping robots” for the older population. Signpost: Journal of Dementia and Mental Health Care for Older People.
