Farzaneh Shahini
User Experience/ Human Factors Researcher
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About
Ph.D. candidate in Human Factors and Ergonomics with a minor in applied statistics, skilled in performing statistical and machine learning techniques to analyze human behavior and decision. Extensive experience with human-centered research including subjective responses (think-aloud, interview, survey, focus group meeting), performance/behavioral measurements (performance, utilization, observation, body tracking, eye tracking), and user experience analysis (design of experiment, data collection, data analysis and visualization). Interested in a job working on human factors, mixed-methods UX, or ergonomics design issues in technology.
Experience
Responsibilities
-Leading graduate student team at A&M branch as part of NC OSHERC Grant, NSF Secure America Grant, and SAFE-D Grant
-Designing and simulating human-subjects driving simulator experiments to measure driver performance
-Conducting research on driver workload through pupil-core eye-tracking glasses
-Analyzing and interpreting performance and workload data
-Designing specific navigation app interface for people with disabilities using Adobe-XD
-Conducting user testing sessions and focus group meetings with usability experts and disabled users to improve the app interface
-Conducting an online survey with 73 police officers to evaluate their opinions on ADAS features
-Designing a driving simulator experiment to evaluate officers’ performance with different types of ADAS
-Conducting focus group meeting with 16 police officers to understand their opinions towards mobile computer terminal apps
Skills
-Leadership
-Experiment design and simulation
-Research and data analysis
-User interface design
-Usability testing and focus group evaluation
-Survey design and administration
-Human-computer interaction
-Data interpretation and presentation
-Academic writing and publication
Education
Texas A&M University
PhD Industrial Engineering 8/2023
- Human Factors and Ergonomics
- GPA=4/4
- Applied Statistics Certificate 12/2021
05/2021
MSc Industrial Engineering
- Human Factors and Ergonomics
- GPA=3.9/4
Sharif university of technology
BSc Industrial engineering 05/2019
- GPA=3.8/4
