Presenter

Dr. Kapil Chalil Madathil is a Wilfred P. and Helen S. Tiencken Assistant Professor of Civil & Industrial Engineering. He is the director of Center for Workforce Development. Dr. Chalil Madathil’s area of expertise is in applying the knowledge base of human factors engineering to the design and operation of sustainable human-computer systems that involve rich interactions among people and technology. His research covers the entire spectrum of system design: from identifying the user needs to designing and developing computing systems that inform and motivate user behavior and empirically evaluating the efficacy of these interventions. Using qualitative and quantitative methodologies, his research attempts to understand how humans perceive, make sense of, and interact with human-machine systems. His work is funded by the United States National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Department of Defense, Department of Labor, National Institutes of Health and several other industry and state agencies.