K. Woodcock, J. Tsao, 2005. Proceedings of the Association of Canadian Ergonomists. [CD-ROM] 5 pgs.
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Dr. Kathryn Woodcock is Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, teaching, researching, and consulting in the area of human factors engineering / ergonomics particularly applied to amusement rides and attractions, including broader safety issues of performance, error, investigation and inspection, and assessment of eligibility to participate.
Measuring the Effectiveness of Error Investigation and Human Factors Training
Technical report; C.G. Drury, J. Ma, K. Woodcock, 2002. Federal Aviation Administration Human Factors Workbench
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Woodcock, K., 2002. Remote CART: How I survived my PhD research. J. Court Reporting. May: 70–72.
May be a bit hard to find as this volume is no longer on JCR / NCRA website.
A New Model of How People Investigate Incidents
Technical report; Drury, C. G.; Woodcock, K.; Richards, I.; Sarac, A.; Shyhalla, K., 2001. SUNY at Buffalo.
Continue reading “A New Model of How People Investigate Incidents”Do Job Aids Help Incident Investigation?
Technical report; Drury, C. G.; Ma, Jiao; Woodcock, K. 2001. SUNY at Buffalo.
Continue reading “Do Job Aids Help Incident Investigation?”Deafened People: Adjustment and Support
Baby signs
This piece was written in 1995-1997, when my daughter was small. “Baby signs” have become more popular with hearing parents with hearing children nowadays and I thought I would post this again. My observation of our experience is that we used her signs until she picked up ours. We did not badger her with repetitive signs in a gestural version of “you can say Ma-ma can’t you?” Instead, we used the advantage of deafness to be attuned to her signs. As you will see, she started producing purposeful gestures before she had control of her hands! Those gestures would quite surely have been extinguished if we did not reward them with a response.
Continue reading “Baby signs”Ergonomics and automatic speech recognition applications for deaf and hard-of-hearing users
Woodcock, K., 1997. Ergonomics of automatic speech recognition applications for deaf and hard-of-hearing users. Technology and Disability 7, 147–164.
Continue reading “Ergonomics and automatic speech recognition applications for deaf and hard-of-hearing users”The Association of Late-Deafened Adults: rationale, highlights, history
Woodcock, K., 1996. The Association of Late-Deafened Adults: rationale, highlights, history. In Deafness: Historical Perspectives, A Deaf American Monograph 46, M.D. Garretson (Ed.) pp. 155-160.
Continue reading “The Association of Late-Deafened Adults: rationale, highlights, history”Cochlear Implants vs. Deaf Culture?
Woodcock, Kathryn, 1992. Cochlear Implants vs. Deaf Culture? In Mervin Garretson (Ed.), Viewpoints on Deafness: A Deaf American Monograph. Silver Spring, MD: National Association for the Deaf. pp. 151-155.
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