Browsing by Author "Justiss, Michael"

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    Transportation Active Safety Institute
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2010-04-09) Ainslie, Paul; Chen, Yaobin; Justiss, Michael; Koskie, Sarah; O’Connor, Sean
    Since its founding in February 2006, the mission of the Transportation Active Safety Institute (TASI) has been to advance the use of active safety systems to reduce vehicle crashes and save lives. TASI was one of 10 centers awarded IUPUI Signature Center funding in January, 2008. With core faculty drawn from ten departments representing eight schools, the Transportation Active Safety Institute (TASI) is a university-wide interdisciplinary center for advanced automotive-safety research and development on the IUPUI campus. Partnership with industry, government, and non-profit agencies ensures that university research activities complement existing technologies and address existing and future needs. TASI aims to provide a neutral forum for pre-competitive discussion and development of standards and test methodologies for establishing objective benefits of active-safety systems. TASI has established a driving simulator laboratory for research into driver behavior and for testing active-safety system performance. The state-of-the-art DriveSafety DS-600c Driving Simulator is providing a flexible and realistic driving environment for industry, government, and internally sponsored research. This reconfigurable platform allows TASI to test various sensors and driver interfaces, in order to determine effective and convenient solutions to challenges in enhancing safety. TASI held its third workshop, the International Workshop on Research in Active Safety Technology, August 10-11, 2009, in Indianapolis and is currently planning an international workshop on human factors for August 2010. TASI has established an active dialog with other vehicle safety centers around the world through our Global Academic Network for Active Safety.
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    Transportation Active Safety Institute
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2011-04-08) Chen, Yaobin; Justiss, Michael; Koskie, Sarah; O’Connor, Sean
    Since its founding in February 2006, the mission of the Transportation Active Safety Institute (TASI) has been to advance the use of active safety systems to reduce vehicle crashes and save lives. TASI was one of 10 centers awarded IUPUI Signature Center funding (second round) in January, 2008. With core faculty drawn from ten departments representing eight schools at IUPUI, IUB and PUWL, the Transportation Active Safety Institute (TASI) is an interdisciplinary center for advanced transportation safety research and development on the IUPUI campus. Partnership with industry, government, and non-profit agencies ensures that university research activities complement existing technologies and address existing and future needs. TASI aims to provide a neutral forum for pre-competitive discussion and development of standards and test methodologies for establishing objective benefits of active-safety systems. TASI has established a driving simulator laboratory for research into driver behavior and for testing active safety system performance. The state-of-the-art DriveSafety DS-600c Driving Simulator is providing a flexible and realistic driving environment for industry, government, and internally sponsored research. This reconfigurable platform allows TASI to test various sensors and driver interfaces, in order to determine effective and convenient solutions to challenges in enhancing safety. Faculty members, research staff and graduate students have been working on several funded research projects such as human factors for semi-autonomous driving systems, intelligent human vehicle interfaces, real vehicle testing for crash-imminent braking system (autonomous braking system), distracted and impaired driving assessment, teen and older driver safety research, dealing with uncertainty in autonomous braking system, etc. TASI has also established an active dialog with other vehicle safety centers around the world through our “Global Academic Network for Active Safety.” Currently, global academic partners include Center for Automotive Research at the Ohio State University, National Advanced Driving Simulator at University of Iowa, University of Wisconsin, Tsinghua University in China, and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.
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    Understanding intention to use telerehabilitation : applicability of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)
    (2017-11-09) Almojaibel, Abdullah; Munk, Niki; Fisher, Thomas; Comer, Amber; Miller, Kristine; Justiss, Michael; Bakas, Tamilyn
    Background: Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) has the potential to reduce the symptoms and complications of respiratory diseases through an interdisciplinary approach. Providing PR services to the increasing number of patients with chronic respiratory diseases challenges the current health care systems because of the shortages in health care practitioners and PR programs. Using telerehabilitation may improve patients’ participation and compliance with PR programs. The purpose of this study was to examine the applicability of the technology acceptance model (TAM) to explain telerehabilitation acceptance and to determine the demographic variables that can influence acceptance. Methods: A cross-sectional survey-based design was utilized in the data collection. The survey scales were based on the TAM. The first group of participants consisted of health care practitioners working in PR programs. The second group of participants included patients attending traditional PR programs. The data collection process started in January 2017 and lasted until May 2017. Results: A total of 222 health care practitioners and 134 patients completed the survey. The results showed that 79% of the health care practitioners and 61.2% of the patients reported positive intention to use telerehabilitation. Regression analyses showed that the TAM was good at predicting telerehabilitation acceptance. Perceived usefulness was a significant predictor of the positive intentions to use telerehabilitation for health care providers (OR: 17.81, p < .01) and for the patients (OR: 6.46, p = .04). The logistic regression outcomes showed that age, experience in rehabilitation, and type of PR increased the power of the TAM to predict the intention to use telerehabilitation among health care practitioners. Age, duration of the disease, and distance from the PR center increased the power of the TAM to predict the intention to use telerehabilitation among patients. Conclusion: This is the first study to develop and validate a psychometric instrument to measure telerehabilitation acceptance among health care practitioners and patients in PR programs. The outcomes of this study will help in understanding the telerehabilitation acceptance. It will help not only to predict future adoption but also to develop appropriate solutions to address the barriers of using telerehabilitation.