Contact Information

Drs Rianne van Lambalgen (MSc) PhD student Agent Systems Research Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Department of Computer Science De Boelelaan 1081a 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands phone: +31 (0)20 598 5559 fax: +31 (0)20 598 7653 email: r.m.van.lambalgen @ vu.nl office: T-325

Research Project - Agent Models of Functional State in Demanding Circumstances

When people interact with the environment, errors are inevitable. This is even more apparent when people are working in dynamic industries (e.g. air traffic control or naval warfare) as such tasks often entail negative effects on a human’s functional state (i.e. workload, exhaustion, attention), leading to a decrease in performance quality. Especially in high demanding circumstances this can have disastrous consequences. My PhD project explores the influence of cognitive factors on the human functional state in demanding tasks and it aims at predicting performance by the design of agent models. Furthermore, ambient systems that support humans in their interaction with the environment are investigated. The agent systems that are used in this project use cognitive models to analyze a human’s current cognitive state and provide adequate support accordingly, which improves performance, thereby decreasing human error.

Current Project Participation:

Smart Bandits (funded by nlr)

Past Project Participation:

Human and cooperation modelling and support in highly demanding tasks (funded by Force Vision)

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Teaching

Research Interests:

Attention, Memory, Situation Awareness, Workload, Exhaustion, Human Error, Human Performance Models, Cognitive Models, Human Factors, Human Computer Interaction

Personal Interests:

Badminton, Squash, Running, Music, Writing, Reading