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    Frank Drews Ph.D.    
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Utah
 
 
Contact Information
Education
Research Interests
Home & Cross Area Specializations
Selected Publications
Curriculum Vitae
My Classes
Cognition in context, medical decision making, human error in medicine, human factors, visualization, and visual attention.
Contact Information
 
Frank Drews Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Utah
380 South 1530 East, Room 502
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 -0251

Office: 1102 Social And Behavioral Science Building
Office Phone: (801) 585-1977
E-mail: drews@psych.utah.edu
Fax: (801) 585-9175
 
Education
 
Post-Doc University of Utah (2000-2002)
Ph.D. Technical University Berlin Germany (1999)
 
Reseach Interests
 
Cognition in context, medical decision making, human error in medicine, human factors, visualization, and visual attention.
 
Home & Cross Area Specializations
 
Cognitive Clinical Neuropsychology
Persuasion and Decion Making
 
Selected Publications
 
Publications (Journal)

Drews, F.A., Picciano, P., Agutter, J., Syroid, N., Westenskow, D.R. & Strayer, D.L. (in press). Development and evaluation of a just-in-time support system. Human Factors, XX, XX-XX.

Drews, F.A., Syroid, N., Agutter, J., Strayer, D.L., & Westenskow, D.R. (2006). Drug delivery as control task: Improving patient safety in anesthesia. Human Factors, 48, 85-94.

Strayer, D. L., & Crouch, D., and Drews, F.A. (2006). A Comparison of the Cell-Phone Driver and the Drunk Driver . Human Factors, 48, XX-XX.

Drews, F.A., Westenskow. D.R. (2006). Display design in Anesthesia. Human Factors, 48, 59-71.

Bermudez, J., Agutter, J., Foresti, S., Westenskow, D., Syroid, N., Drews, F.A., Tashjian, E. (2005). Between art, science and technology: Data representation architecture. Leonardo, 38, 4.

Strayer, D. L. & Drews, F.A. (2004). Profiles in distraction: Effects of cell phone conversations on younger and older drivers. Human Factors, 46, 640-50.

Strayer, D. L., Drews, F.A., & Burns, S. (2004). The development and evaluation of a high-fidelity simulator training program for snowplow operators. UDOT. Technical Report.

Strayer, D. L., Drews, F.A., & Johnston, W. A. (2003). Are we being driven to distraction? In: Center for Public Policy and Analysis Annual Newsletter.

Agutter, J., Drews, F.A., Syroid, N.D., Westenskow, D. R., Albert, R. W., Strayer, D. L., Bermudez, J. C., & Weinger, M. B. (2003). Evaluation of a graphical cardiovascular display in a high fidelity simulator. Anesthesia & Analgesia, 97, 1403-13.

Wachter, S.B., Agutter, J., Syroid, N., Drews, F.A., Westenskow, D., and Weinger, M. (2003). The employment of an iterative design process to develop a pulmonary graphical display. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 10, 4, 363-372.

Strayer, D. L., Drews, F.A., & Johnston, W.A. (2003). Cell phone induced failures of visual attention during simulated driving. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 9, 23-52.

Drews, F.A., Zhang, Y., Westenskow, D., Foresti, S., Agutter J., Bermudez, J., Blike, G., & Loeb, R. (2002). Effects of Integrated Graphical Displays on Situation Awareness in Anesthesiology. Cognition, Technology and Work. 4, 82-90.

Strayer, D. L., Drews, F.A., & Albert, R. W. (2002). Negative priming and stimulus repetition: A reply to Neill and Joordens (2002). Perception and Psychophysics, 64, 861-865.

Syroid, N., Agutter, J., Drews, F.A., Westenskow, D., Bermudez, J., Albert, R., Strayer, D., Prenzel, H., Loeb, R., & Weinger, M. (2002) Development and evaluation of a graphical anesthesia drug display. Anesthesiology, 96, 556-74.

Wachter, S.B., Syroid, N.D. Agutter, J., Drews, F.A., & Westenskow, D.R. (2002).The Development of a Pulmonary Metaphor. Anesthesiology, 96: A523

Wachter S.B., Agutter, J.A., Syroid, N.D., Drews, F.A., and Westenskow, D.R. (2002). A New Metaphor to Display Critical Pulmonary Events during Anesthesia. J Am Med Inform Assoc,9, (6):S108-9.

Publications (Chapters)

Strayer, D. L. & Drews, F.A. (2006). Multi-tasking in the Automobile. In: A. Kramer, D. Wiegmann, & A. Kirlik (Eds.), Applied Attention: From Theory to Practice.

Strayer, D. L., & Drews, F.A.(in press). Attention. In F. Durso, R. Nickerson, S. Dumais, S. Lewandowsky and T. Perfect (Eds.), Handbook of Applied Cognition, Second Edition pp. xx-xx). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK

Picciano, P, & Drews, F.A. (2006). Just-in-time support (JITS). A framework to enhance human performance. In: W. Karwowski (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors. Taylor and Francis.

Drews, F.A., & Westenskow, D.R. (2006). Human-Computer Interaction in Healthcare. In: P. Carayon (Ed.) Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare and Patient Safety. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Drews, F.A., Strayer, D. L., Uchino, B. N., & Smith, T. W. (in press). On the fast lane to road rage. In Gale, A. G., Taylor, S. P., & Castro, C. (Eds) Vision in Vehicles X. Elsevier (pp xx-xx).

Strayer, D. L., Drews, F.A., & Johnston, W. A. (in press). To see or not to see: Cellular communication causes inattention blindness behind the wheel. In Gale, A. G., Taylor, S. P., & Castro, C. (Eds) Vision in Vehicles X. Elsevier (pp xx-xx).

Strayer, D. L., Drews, F.A., Crouch, D. J., & W.A. Johnston (2005). Why Do Cell Phone Conversations Interfere With Driving? In: W. R. Walker and D. Herrmann (Eds.) Cognitive Technology: Transforming Thought and Society. McFarland and Company Publishers: Mayfield.

Strayer, D. L., Drews, F.A., & Crouch, D. J. (2004). Comparing the cell-phone driver and the drunk driver. In D. V. McGehee, J. D. Lee, & M. Rizzo (Eds.) Driving Assessment 2003: International Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design. Published by the Public Policy Center, University of Iowa (pp. xx-xx).

Drews, F.A., Strayer, D. L., Smith, T., & Uchino, B. N. (2003). On the road to road rage. To appear In D. V. McGehee, J. D. Lee, & M. Rizzo (Eds.) Driving Assessment 2003: International Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design.

Dolan, D. M., Rupp, D. A., Allen, J. R., Drews, F.A., & Strayer, D. L. (2003). Simulator training improves driver efficiency: Transfer from the simulator to the real world. To appear In D. V. McGehee, J. D. Lee, & M. Rizzo (Eds.) Driving Assessment 2003: International Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design.