MacroErgonomics Safety and Health Laboratory

Calvin Or

Contact Information

3217 Mechanical Engineering Building
1513 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706-1572

Tel: 608-263-3610
E-mail: or@wisc.edu

About Me

Calvin is currently working on a research that examines factors that predict acceptance and use of computerized health technology by homecare patients with chronic disease. Understanding technology acceptance by patients is important because this could have implication on the usability and design of the technology as well as patient health outcomes.

Program Affiliations

• Industrial and Systems Engineering

Education

• BEng 2001, Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
• MS 2004, Industrial Engineering, Mississippi State University
• PhD 2004-present, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Fields of Interest

• Patient Safety
• Health Systems Engineering
• Macroergonomics

Publications

RECENT JOURNAL ARTICLES

Or, C.K.L. , & Duffy, V.G. (2007). Development of a facial skin temperature-based methodology for non-intrusive mental workload measurement. Occupational Ergonomics. ACCEPTED.

Karsh, B., Holden, R.J., Alper, S.J., & Or, C.K.L. (2006). A human factors engineering paradigm for patient safety: designing to support the performance of the healthcare professional. Quality and Safety in Health Care, 15(suppl_1), 59-65.

Duffy, V.G., Or, C.K.L. , & Lau, V.W.M. (2006). Perception of safe robot speed in virtual and real industrial environments. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing, 16(4), 369-383.

RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS

Or, C.K.L. , & Karsh, B. (2006). The patient technology acceptance model (PTAM) for homecare patients with chronic illness. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting (pp.989-993).

Or, C.K.L. , Severtson, D.J., Karsh, B., Brennan, P.F., Casper , G.R., Sebern, M., & Burke, L.J. (2006). Development of an instrument to measure technology acceptance among homecare patients with heart disease. In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of American Medical Informatics Association (pp.1053), Washington , DC , November 11-15, 2006. Poster Presentation.

Kossman, S.P., Casper , G.R., Severtson, D.J., Grenier, A.S., Or, C.K.L. , Carayon, P., & Brennan, P.F. (2006). Designing study nurses' training to enhance research integrity: a macroergonomic approach. In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of American Medical Informatics Association, (pp.439-443), Washington , DC , November 11-15, 2006.

Grenier, A.S., Carayon, P., Casper , G.R., Or, C.K.L. , Burke, L.J., & Brennan, P.F. (2006). Usability evaluation of an Internet-based health information/communication system for CHF patients. In Proceedings of the16th Triennial World Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, Maastricht , the Netherlands , July 10-14, 2006.

Casper , G.R., Kossman, S.P., Severtson, D.J., Carayon, P., Burke, L.J., Wilke, M., Morales, M., Or, C.K.L. , Grenier, A.S., & Brennan, P.F. (2006). Designing study nurses' training to enhance research integrity. 30th Annual MNRS Research Conference, March 31-April 3, 2006, Milwaukee , Wisconsin .

Or, C.K.L. , Casper , G.R., & Karsh, B., et al. (2005). Work system analysis of home nursing care and implications for patient safety. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 49th Annual Meeting (pp.1052-1056).

Casper , G.R., Karsh, B., Or, C.K.L. , Carayon, P., Grenier, A.S., Burke, L.J., Sebern, M., & Brennan, P.F. (2005). Designing a technology enhanced practice for home nursing care of patients with congestive heart failure. In C. Friedman, J. Ash, & P. Tarczy-Hornoch (Eds.), Biomedical and Health Informatics: From Foundations to Applications to Policy (pp.116-120). American Medical Informatics Association: 2005 Proceedings; Washington , DC , October 22-26, 2005.

Sebern, M., Brennan, P.F., Burke, L., Casper , G.R., Karsh, B., Carayon, P., Or, C.K.L. , & Grenier, A.S. (2005). HeartCare: custom computer support for home care. Translating Research into Practice Symposium at Gerontology Society of America, Annual conference, November 2005.

Or, C.K.L. , & Duffy, V.G. (2005). A methodology for non-intrusive mental workload measurement in simulated and on-road driving. In Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Las Vegas , July, 2005; in special session of HCII 2005.

Or, C.K.L. , & Duffy, V.G. (2004). A paradigm for the display- and control-intensive vehicle. In P.T. McCabe (Ed.), Contemporary Ergonomics, pp. 258-262. CRC Press.

Or, C.K.L. (2004). Enacting law to ban using cellular phones during driving. In Proceedings of the IIE Annual Conference 2004, 15-19 May 2004, Houston , Texas . Extended Abstract in CD-ROM.

Li, K., Or, C.K.L. , Duffy, V.G., & Rowland, Z. (2004). Universal access and ATM design using the virtual build methodology. In Proceedings of the 7th Annual Applied Ergonomics Conference, March 9-11, 2004, Orlando , Florida , USA .

Or, C.K.L. (2003). Human factors issues for the by-wire vehicle. An International Conference on Engineering Human Factors Solutions: People in Control, November 4-6, 2003, Hilton, Amsterdam , The Netherlands .

Li, K., Or, C.K.L. , & Zheng, L. (2003). Ergonomic issues for automatic teller machine in China . In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Association of Canadian Ergonomists, October 15-18, 2003, London , Ontario , Canada . Association of Canadian Ergonomists, Toronto , Canada . Available in CD-ROM Format.

Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

Awards and Honors

•  Elected, Outstanding Student Honor Society , member with highest honor
•  Elected, Alpha Pi Mu Honor Society , member
•  Elected, Alpha Theta Chi Honor Society , member
•  2006, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Honor Student Award
•  2006 (December) University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept of ISyE Fellowship
•  2003 (June) Barrier Graduate Engineering Fellowship
•  2002 (May) Honda Barrier Fellowship
•  2002 (May) Honda Fellowship
•  2002 (February) Barrier Graduate Engineering Fellowship
•  1998 Intertek Testing Services Scholarship
•  1998 Polywell Scholarship
•  1997 Enthone- OMI ( Hong Kong ) Co. Ltd. Scholarship

Societies

•  Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
•  American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
•  The Hong Kong Ergonomics Society
•  Institute of Industrial Engineers
•  Hong Kong Institution of Engineers
•  Outreach Committee Chair (2005-2006), Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Student Chapter, University of Wisconsin-Madison