Publications and Presentations

Journal Articles

  1. Giang, W.C.W., Donmez, B., Ahghari, M., MacDonald, R.D. (2014). Impact of Precipitation on Interfacility Land Critical Care Travel Times. (Journal Article) Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. 29(6). 1-7.
  2. Giang, W.C.W., Donmez, B., Fatahi, A., Ahghari, M., MacDonald, R.D. (2014). Supporting Air versus Ground Vehicle Decisions for Interfacility Medical Transports Using Historical Data. (Journal Article) IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 44(1), 55-65.

Manuscripts Submitted

  1. Giang, W.C.W., Chen, H-Y.W., Donmez, B. (submitted, Dec. 2015). Smartwatches vs. Smartphones: Notification engagement while driving. (Journal Article) International Journal of Mobile Human-Computer Interaction.

Manuscripts in Preparation

  1. Giang, W.C.W., Ho, A., Burns, C.M. (in preparation). Is This Data Connected? Showing Data Links in Multimodal Interfaces Using Temporal Synchrony.
  2. Giang, W.C.W., Chen, H-Y.W., Donmez, B. (in preparation). Smartwatches, a novel and different source of driver distraction.

Conference Papers with Proceedings (Fully Refereed, Presenter Underlined)

  1. Giang, W.C.W., Hui, L., Donmez, B., Ahghari, M., & MacDonald, R.D. (2016). Dispatch Decision Making in an Air Medical Transport System. (Conference Paper) In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Washington DC, Sept. 19-23, 2016.
  2. Giang, W.C.W., Shanti, I., Chen, H-Y.W., Zhou, A., Donmez, B. (2015). Smartwatches vs. Smartphones: A Preliminary Report of Driver Behavior and Perceived Risk while Responding to Notifications. (Conference Paper) In Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, Nottingham, UK. Sept. 1-3, 2015.
  3. Giang, W.C.W., Donmez, B. (2015). Interpreting Visualizations of Historical Variability for Estimating Future Events. (Poster) In Proceedings of International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making 2015, McLean, VA, June 9-12, 2015.
  4. Giang, W.C.W., Hoekstra-Atwood, L., Donmez, B. (2014). Driver Engagement in Notifications: A Comparison of Visual-Manual Interaction between Smartwatches and Smartphones. (Conference Paper) In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Chicago, Oct. 27-31, 2014.
  5. Hoekstra-Atwood, L., Chen, H-Y.W., Giang, W.C.W., Donmez, B. (2014). Measuring Inhibitory Control in Driver Distraction (Conference Paper) In Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, Seattle, WA, Sept. 17-19, 2014.
  6. Saffarian, M., Giang, W. (2013). Improving Perceived Fairness of Task Assignments in Cardiovascular Intensive Nursing Care Unit with Simple Queuing Mechanism. (Conference Paper) In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, San Diego, Sept. 30-Oct. 4, 2013.
  7. Arrabito, G.R., Ho, G., Li, Y., Giang, W., Burns, C.M., Hou, M., Pace, P. (2013). Multimodal Displays for Enhancing Performance in a Supervisory Monitoring Task: Reaction Time to Detect Critical Events. (Conference Paper) In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, San Diego, Sept. 30-Oct. 4, 2013.
  8. Giang, W., Burns, C.M. (2012). Sonification Discriminability and Perceived Urgency. (Conference Paper) In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Boston, Oct. 22-26, 2012.
  9. Giang, W., Masnavi, E., Burns, C.M. (2011). Perceptions of Temporal Synchrony in Multimodal Displays. (Conference Paper) In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Las Vegas, Sept. 19-23, 2011.
  10. Giang, W., Keefe, A. Keillor, J. (2010). Effects of Brightness of Assisted Target Detection Cues in a Simulated Search and Rescue Task. (Conference Paper) In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, San Francisco, Sept. 27-Oct. 1, 2010.
  11. Giang, W., Keillor, J. (2009). Effects of Cue Saliency in an Assisted Target Detection System for Search and Rescue. (Conference Paper) In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference – Science and Technology for Humanity, Toronto, Canada, Sept. 26-27, 2009.

Conference Papers with Proceedings (Abstract Refereed, Presenter Underlined)

  1. Giang, W.C.W., Donmez, B., Zakir, A., Ahghari, M., MacDonald, R.D. (2015). Supporting Dispatch Decisions in Interfacility Medical Transfers: Understanding the Roles of Uncertainty and Reliability. (Poster) Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare 2015, Baltimore, MD, April 26-29, 2015.
  2. Momtahan, K., Burns, C.M., Sherrard, H., Labinaz, M., Mesana, T., Caves, W., Enomoto, Y., Giang, W., Ho, V., Pajek, D., Saunders, C (2006). Personal Digital Assistants and Decision Support Software: New Mechanisms to Improve Access to Cardiac Care Best Practices. e-HEALTH 2006, Victoria, Canada, May 1-4, 2006.

Technical Reports

  1. Chen, H-Y.W., Marulanda, S., Hoekstra-Atwood, L., Donmez, B., Giang, W.C.W. (2014) Designing feedback to Induce Safer driving Behaviors: A Laboratory Study of Driver Characteristics and Susceptibility to Driver Distractions. Technical report submitted to Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center.
  2. Giang, W., Li, Y., Burns, C., Arrabito, G.R. (2013). Baseline and Multimodal UAV GCS Interface Design: Progress Report May, 2011 – December, 2011. (DRDC-RDDC-2014-C129). Toronto, Ontario: Defence R&D Canada. July, 2013.
  3. Giang, W., Masnavi, E., Rizvi, S., Morita, P., Burns, C., Arrabito, G.R. (2011). Baseline and Multimodal UAV GCS Interface Design. (DRDC-RDDC-2014-C128). Toronto, Ontario: Defence R&D Canada. December, 2011.
  4. Giang, W., Santhakumaran, S., Masnavi, E. Glussich, D., Kline, J., Chui, F., Burns, C., Histon, J., Zelek, J. (2010). Multimodal Interfaces: Literature Review of Ecological Interface Design, Multimodal Perception and Attention, and Intelligent Adaptive Multimodal Interfaces. (DRDC-Toronto-CR-2010-051). Toronto, Ontario: Defence R&D Canada. May, 2010.

Theses

  1. Giang, W.C.W. (2012) Applications of Crossmodal Relationships in Interfaces for Complex Systems: A Study of Temporal Synchrony (Master’s Thesis). University of Waterloo.
  2. Rampal, A., Liang, S., Giang, W. (2009) Concurrent Individual and Group Information Control System (Undergraduate Thesis). Systems Design Engineering Annual, pp. 19-20. University of Waterloo.

Invited Conference Presentations (Presenter Underlined)

  1. Giang, W.C.W., Donmez, B., Ahghari, M., MacDonald, R.D. (2013). Making medical transfer mode decisions under time pressure: Understanding how decision makers interpret historical data (Presentation). 2013 Joint Statistical Meetings, Montreal, Aug. 3-8, 2013.

Other Presentations (Presenter Underlined)

  1. Giang, W.C.W., Donmez, B., MacDonald, R.D. (2014). Interpreting Visualizations of Historical Variability (Presentation). 15th Annual Human Factors Inter-University Workshop, Buffalo, New York, Nov. 2014. Won Best Speaker Award.
  2. Giang, W.C.W., Donmez, B., MacDonald, R.D. (2013). The Influence of Uncertainty Information about Continuous Data on Decision Making: A Proposed Study (Presentation). 14th Annual Human Factors Inter-University Workshop, Waterloo, Ontario, Nov. 2013. Won Best Speaker Award.
  3. Giang, W.C.W., Donmez, B., MacDonald, R.D. (2012). Supporting Evidence-based Time-Critical Decisions. (Presentation). 13th Annual Human Factors Inter-University Workshop. Toronto, Ontario, Nov. 2012.
  4. Giang, W., Burns C.M. (2011). Temporal Rate Synchrony Perception in Unimodal and Multimodal Interfaces. (Presentation). 12th Annual Human Factors Inter-University Workshop. Buffalo, New York, Nov. 2011.
  5. Giang, W., Burns C.M. (2010). Use of Temporal Synchrony as a Method for Showing Crossmodal Data Relationships. (Presentation). 11th Annual Human Factors Inter-University Workshop. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Nov. 2010.
  6. Giang, W., Sathananthan, G., Lamb, M., Keillor, J (2007). Assisted Target Detection: Does Cue Brightness Matter? (Presentation). 8th Annual Human Factors Inter-University Workshop. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Nov. 2007.
  7. Momtahan, K., Burns, C., Sherrard, H., Labinaz, M., Mesana, T., Enomoto, Y., Ho, V., Caves, W., Giang, W., Pajek, D., Saunders, C.(2006). The CARDIO Project (Cardiac Algorithms Research and Development in Operation). Poster presentation at the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Celebrating Innovations in Health Care Expo, Toronto, April 19 – 20.
  8. Momtahan, K., Burns, C., Sherrard, H., Labinaz, M., Mesana, T., Enomoto, Y., Ho, V., Caves, W., Giang, W., Pajek, D., Saunders, C. (2005). Decision support tools for nurse practitioners. Poster presentation at the Ontario Nurse Practitioners conference, Toronto, November 11 – 12.