Dr. Patrick Stahl

My PhD project investigates anticipatory driving competence, that is the ability of drivers to predict on future traffic conflicts and act on them early. In this project, I have conducted experiments using a driving simulator and eye tracking, and have developed my competencies to plan and design experiments, and manada data gathering, reduction and analysis.

I was responsible for the research conducted in the Mine Traffic Optimization project, a collaboration with Barrick Gold, and funded through MITACS Accelerate. I conducted ethnographic research in several mining sites, analyzing especially the interaction between haul truck drivers and their dispatch system from a perspective of human-automation interaction. The project was succesfully completed in 2012. In 2011, I fast-tracked from the MASc program into the PhD program.

I assisted in the DFG Clusters of Excellence and the coordination and acquisition of projects, created and held workshops, wrote and edited scientific reports, translated materials (German to English and English to German), and aided in teaching and administrative tasks. Specific projects that I worked on included: • WeKnow: a semantic knowledge map for students • RELOAD: An e-learning concept for the do-it-yourself industry • KISSWIN: A platform for young researchers

Science Atlantic is a Canadian charity representing 18 post secondary and research institutes in Atlantic Canada, with a mandate to promote science education and research. I completed administrative and communications tasks including updating the youth internship program website (program now closed), assisting in the preparation of reports and fund raising applications, and general office support.

This position was a paid, full-time internship prior to my studies in Technical Communications. I got to know all operations of the company, absolving most of the practical side of the company's trainee program prior to working, among others, in their machining, assembly, and inspection and quality control sections. I also spent time in the company's technical office, working in production planning and reviewing and correcting technical drawings in AutoCAD.

- Driving Research: Driver Behaviour, Driver Feedback, Driver Distraction - Human Automation Interaction - Task Analysis, with focus on Cognitive Work Analysis

- Public Relations: Public Speaking - Psychology: Abnormal Psychology

- Industrial Engineering Courses with focus on Operations Research

Media Studies