Year started in the program: 1988

Year graduated: 1993

Research interest:

Starting with my doctoral dissertation, I became interested in conducting research that explores human operators' loss of trust that occurs after a number of false alarms, and the behavioral consequences of that alarm mistrust. To date, I have created a research laboratory at UAH devoted to the study of alarm mistrust, and am collaborating with scientists from a variety of other institutions.

While working for the Army Research Institute in graduate school, I became involved with research that investigated the use of virtual reality for training. After graduation, I continued that work by exploring the use of VR to train firefighters to navigate unfamiliar buildings. During 1996, I directed behavioral research that involved the use of VR for training surgical skills, peacekeeping operations, teamed navigation training, cultural recognition training, and a variety of other applications. Currently, I am working at UAH conducting follow on VR training research.

Publications over the past two years:

Bliss, J.P., & Grounds, C. (2000). An evaluation of HumanTech's Risk Priority Management software. Ergonomics in Design, 8(1), 29-31.

Pathak, S., & Bliss, J.P. (2000). The effectiveness of human anatomy instruction as a function of media style. Proceedings of the 2000 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA.

Current employer: Old Dominion University.

Significant past employers: University of Houston, Army Research Institute, Valencia Community College, Honeywell.

Email address and web-page: blissj@email.uah.edu