Improving health technology by factoring how people will engage with it.
Health and Human Systems
Research in health & human systems seeks to improve human-system interactions for everyone involved – health care professionals, patients, and family members – by connecting data, people, and systems. Engineers at Speed School are committed to innovative research to transform the healthcare system and experience. Enhancing the safety and usability of health information technology and virtual care tools, along with improving the larger healthcare delivery and organizational structure through data analytics and optimization, are key focus areas.
Faculty StoryIn our Center of Human Systems Engineering (CHSE), we integrate sensing technology and extended reality to study cyber-physical-biological systems with the goal of developing decision support tools for manufacturing and healthcare applications.
- Dr. Faisal Aqlan
News
Dr. Xiaomei Wang, assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has earned her second National Science Foundation grant this year for a project examining how artificial intelligence is reshaping the way engineering students learn to code.
A research team led by Dr. Fasal Aqlan, associate professor in the University of Louisville's J.B. Speed School of Engineering, has received the Best Paper Award from IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors.
In a summer where I-65 is closed for repairs, the viaduct at the Third Street and Eastern Parkway intersection known as the "can opener" is having its busiest season on record.
Facility Center for Human Systems Engineering
The Center for Human Systems Engineering houses a multidisciplinary human science laboratory to conduct research and applied projects in cognitive, physical, and organizational ergonomics.
Featured Publications
Provider burnout has reached epidemic levels, especially with primary care-oriented specialties such as Family Medicine. Guided by a sociotechnical systems perspective, we investigated...
Person-centered care and assessment calls for measurement tools that help researchers and providers understand people with dementia, their social relationships, and their experience of the care environment. This paper reviewed available measures and evaluated their psychometric properties.