Human Protection and Performance
The human is the basic element of all technological solutions. Systems must interact with humans and the human needs to be considered as part of the overall solution. This theme is currently engaged in areas such as:
- Cognitive modeling for situation awareness
- Visual and acoustic perception
- Psychological modeling and decision-making
- Mental health and protecting factors
- The research has strong relevance to defence and national security including enhancing situation awareness, fatigue monitoring, cognitive workload for ADF members on ships, aircraft and for our soldiers in operations.
Theme Leaders
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Psychological Sciences
The University of Melbourne
Dr Jason Forte is interested in understanding human visual perception using behavioural techniques and computational modelling. His recent research focus has been on binocular and colour perception and its relationship to primate cortical physiology. In particular Dr Forte is interested in how the brain combines colour signals from the eyes when those colour signals are conflicting. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of Psychology and maintain collaborations on colour vision with researchers at the University of Rochester, the University of Sydney, and the University of Melbourne. Research interests include: Colour Vision, Binocular Vision and Computational Neuroscience.