Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
140 University of North Texas (142028)
Principal Investigator: Niranjan,Suman
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 149,860
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): No
Start and End Dates: 9/1/22 - 8/31/23
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Logistics & Operations Mgmt
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Ryan College of Business
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: FW-HTF-P: Supporting the Future Industrial Operators Workforce in Warehouse & Distribution Centers within Material Handling Industry and Logistics
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
National Science Foundation
CFDA Link: NSF
47.041
Program Title:
none
CFDA Linked: Engineering Grants
Note:
The proposed research seeks to develop a framework that determines IOs major attention lapses, further broken by population and gender and collecting and connecting the IOs physiological data with psychological and telemetric data. The focus of this project will be to overcome a Major Gap in our knowledge with regards to what extent IO?s cognitive load, stress, fatigue, emotional stimuli, psychological, and planned behavior influence IO?s major attention lapses and distractions. The primary idea of this proposed project is to better prepare Future IO Workers by examining how they perceive and interact with their dynamic working environment that necessitates use and manage advanced technology. We propose to study how Future Technology can be used in a way that will help IOs to function well in presence of autonomous and semi-autonomous equipment. As part of the Future Work the project will focus on understanding and identifying major factors that are impeding the sustainability of IO as a career across the nation. Assessing specific disparities in IO workforce occur based on age, race, and gender, and devising strategies on how these disparities can be reduced. The project will use an integrative research approach that combines multiple disciplines. The major outcome of this project is to develop several metrics for IOs as part of a framework, where psychological and physiological variables are used in reducing distractions in advanced technology WDC. BROADER IMPACTS: The proposed research will help WDC sector broadly from policy level down to individual IO. The work conducted here will have implications on other MHI sectors other than WDC where forklifts are used. PI and Co-PI?s will engage and support underrepresented STEM researchers at both graduate and undergraduate level. Results will be disseminated through conference proceedings, journal articles, poster, and oral presentations at professional meetings. PI and Co-PI?s will be conducting workshops integrate research into senior level undergraduate electives and doctoral seminars taught to logistics, learning technologies, and engineering students.
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