Nancy Franklin (Principal Investigator) is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY). She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1989. Her research interests include human memory (particularly memory errors and the influence of emotion on memory processes), medical errors, and performance under chaotic and demanding circumstances.
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Benjamin Swets (Co-PI) is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Grand Valley State University (Allendale, MI). He received his Ph.D. at Michigan State and did his post-doctoral research at Stony Brook University. His research concerns how language can allow people to flexibly adapt to internal and external limitations. His studies have focused on incrementality in language production, working memory constraints on language processes.
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Asa (Peter) Viccellio (Co-PI) is Professor, Vice Chairman, and Clinical Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stony Brook University. He received his M.D. at Harvard University. The protocol that Dr. Viccellio instituted at SBUH in response to hospital overcrowding serves as a national model, and this innovation led to the 2005 National ACEP Colin C. Rorrie, Jr. Award for Excellence in Health Policy. His other areas of research include patient safety, medical errors, head and cervical spine injuries, and residency education. Dr. Viccellio is the editor of Handbook of Toxicology (Lippincott & Raven).
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Lazlo Ring (Simulation Programmer) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science Department at Northeastern University. He is working with Timothy Bickmore, developing and studying relational agents (i.e., computer agents designed to build and maintain long-term, social-emotional relationships with people). Lazlo developed the intricate and complex simulation programs for us from scratch, and as a side project, while he was an undergraduate at Stony Brook University.
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