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Frank
M. Marchak
Frank
M. Marchak is a human factors engineering psychologist with interdisciplinary
knowledge and technical skills in visual perception and cognitive
science, experimental design and analysis, and usability engineering.
He has over twenty five years of experience in applied research, user
interface design, and information visualization applied to interactive,
state-of-the-art human-machine systems. He is President and Senior
Principal Research Scientist at Veridical Research and Design Corporation
and adjunct faculty in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Montana
State University.
Prior
to founding Veridical Research and Design, Dr. Marchak was Principal
Human Factors Engineer at TASC, where he provided management and
technical expertise for user interfaces, web sites, and human performance
models. While at TASC, he directed the user requirements analysis,
user interaction design & rapid prototyping of the vessel scheduling
component of the Enhanced Vessel Traffic Management System for the
Panama Canal. He was responsible for the conceptual, visual, and
user-interaction design of internet and intranet sites, including
secure, commerce-based on-line transactions and corporate-wide intranet
sites. Dr. Marchak led the operator interface development effort
for an advanced sonar processing system, and accompanied the system
for a two-month sea-trial aboard a Trident class submarine.
Dr.
Marchak has taught courses in Human-Computer Interaction Design
and Web Design at Boston University Metropolitan College and the
TASC Institute, as well as Ergonomics and Professional Practice
and Reponsibility at Montana State University. He received
the B.A. degree in Psychology from Muhlenberg College in 1982 and
received the Ph.D. degree in 1988 from Dartmouth College in Experimental
Psychology - Cognition and Perception.
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