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Marita O'Brien
Marita.OBrien@gatech.edu

 

Currently I am working on the following projects in the lab:

  • Studying the features of a virtual keyboard that affect text entry with a rotary device, particularly to understand features that vary by age;

  • Examining how affordances affect device usage;

  • Reviewing elements of medical devices that affect use errors, particularly those relating to user characteristics such as age and attentional variables;

  • Investigating the characteristics of technology that is likely to be adopted and the user characteristics of likely adopters.

Education:

  • Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, Engineering Psychology (expected December, 2008)

  • M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, Engineering Psychology, 2006

  • MS in Telecommunications, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1994

  • AB in Math/Economics, Duke University, 1988

Professional memberships:

  • American Psychological Association

  • Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

  • Human Factors and Ergonomics Society student chapter

 

Contact Information:

  • Office:  Psychology Building, Room G18

  • Tel:  404-894-8344

  • Fax:  404-894-8905

Select Publications:

O’Brien, M.A., Rogers, W. A., & Fisk, A. D. (In Press).  Text entry on a virtual keyboard: Evaluating shape and practice effects.  Proceedings of the 50th Annual Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Meeting.  San Francisco, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

 Park, S., O'Brien, M. A., Caine, K. E., Rogers, W. A., Fisk, A. D., Van Ittersum, K., Capar, M. & Parsons, L. J. (In Press). Acceptance of computer technology: understanding the user and the organizational characteristics. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

 O’Brien, M.A., & Kaye, R. (October, 2006). UPCARE:  A structured approach to describe and analyze medical device use-related problems, To be presented at Human Factors in Health Care conference, Rochester, MN: Mayo Clinic.

 O’Brien, M.A., Caine, K.E., Seifert, E.M., Rogers, W.A. & Fisk, A.D. (April, 2006).  Developing a model of technology acceptance and aging.  Presented at the 10th Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.

 *A full list of my presentations can be found in my CV

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