[visionlist] Final Announcement: Registration Info for The Eye and The Auto International Conference

[Cynthia Owsley]

This is the final announcement for registration to attend The Eye and  
the Auto.  All pertinent information is below including an exciting  
list of speakers and presentations.  Hope to see you there.
International Conference on the Relationship Between Vision and the  
Safe Operation of a Motorized Vehicle
September 16-18, 2009
Conference Site:  General Motors’ Research and Development Auditorium
GM Technical Center Campus, Warren, MI  48090
The Eye and The Auto, sponsored by the Detroit Institute of  
Ophthalmology, is an international research meeting dedicated to  
improving our understanding of the relationship between vision and the  
safe operation of motorized vehicles. Sessions will be devoted to a  
variety of topics including:  visual processing, visual attention, and  
driving tasks, human factors and design issues relevant to the driver,  
roadway, and/or vehicle design; vision impairment, eye conditions, and  
driver safety; policies that address vision and driving; driver  
assessment and rehabilitation strategies for the visually impaired  
driver.  This meeting will be of keen interest to many types of  
professionals from the fields of vision science, driver safety and/or  
performance including scientists, engineers, clinicians, designers,  
and policy specialists.  A highlight of the meeting will be a tour of  
the GM Driving Simulation and Human/Machine Interface Laboratory.  The  
conference will take place in the Detroit area at the GM Technical  
Center Campus.   Conference speakers and topics listed below.  All  
conference web site information is at the end of this email.

Keynote Speakers:
Lawrence Burns, PhD, Vice President Research & Development, General  
Motors, Warren, MI
"The Eye, The Brain and The Auto Industry"
Alan Taub, PhD, Incoming Vice President Research & Development,  
General Motors, Warren, MI
"Collaborative Research and Development with the New GM"
Michael Merzenich, PhD, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Posit  
Science Corporation, San Francisco, CA
"The Driver’s Brain"

Conference Presenters (in alphabetical order):
Karlene Ball PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL- Cognitive  
Training:  Impact on Driving & Everyday Function
Timothy Brown, PhD, National Advanced Driving Simulator, Iowa City, IA  
- Driving Simulator Advances for Vision Testing of Contact Lenses
John D. Bullough, PhD, FIES, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,  
NY - Methods of Predicting Visual Performance in Driving Situations
James Davis, MS, Human Factors Specialist, Army Research Laboratory,  
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD - A Paradigm for Assessing Threat  
Detection & Local Area Awareness for Vehicle Research and Design
Peter DeGraef, PhD, University of Leuven, Valaams-Brabant, Belgium -  
Virtual Navigation Training and Gaze Guidance
Peter Delahunt, PhD, Posit Science, San Francisco, CA - Reducing Crash  
Risk in a Population of Older Automobile Insurance Policyholders Using  
a Computer-based Visual Training Program
Ann M. Dellinger, PhD, MPH, National Center for Injury Prevention and  
Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA - The  
Issue of Older Drivers From a Public Health Perspective: Injury  
Burden, Risk, and Prevention Strategies
Jamie Dow, MBA, MD, SSAQ, Quebec, Canada – Visual Field Defects May  
Not Affect Safe Driving
Michael Flannagan PhD, University of Michigan Transportation  
Institute, Ann Arbor, MI - New Light Sources, Automotive Lighting, and  
the Purkinje Shift
Rob Gray, PhD, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ – Multisensory Rear- 
End Collision Warnings During Cell Phone Use
Jonathan Hankey, PhD, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute,  
Blacksburg, VA – Improving Transportation Safety – The Role of  
Naturalistic Driving Data
Shirin E. Hassan, PhD, BAppSc, Indiana University School of Optometry,  
Bloomington, IN – Can Pedestrians Make Correct Street-Crossing  
Decisions with Impaired Vision?
Lisa Keay, PhD, Dana Centre for Preventive Ophthalmology, Johns  
Hopkins University, Sydney, Australia – Urban and Rural Differences in  
Older Drivers – Failure to Stop at Stop-signs
Dean McConnell, BS, MBA, Continental Automotive Systems, Auburn Hills,  
MI – ContiGuard-How Blind Spot Elimination  and Crash Avoidance Can Be  
Realized with Sensors and Sensor Fusion
Gerald McGwin Jr. MS, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL –  
Visual Field Impairment in Glaucoma and Motor Vehicle Collision Risk
Thomas M. Meuser, PhD, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO – Vision  
Data in Drivers Reported as Unfit:  The Missouri Experience
James B. Nolan, PhD, Envision, Wichita, KS – Current Perspectives on  
Bioptic Driving:  A Review of State Licensure Regulations
Cynthia Owsley PhD, MSPH, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL –  
Older Adults and Dashboard Design:  A Qualitative Assessment
Eleni Papageorgiou, MD, Institute of Ophthalmic Research, University  
of Tuebingen, Baden-Wuertemmberg, Germany –  Visual Exploration in  
Patients with Homonymous Visual Fields Defects
Eli Peli, M.Sc., OD, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard  
University, Boston, MA – Simulator Studies of Driving with Impaired  
Vision
Bryan Reimer PhD, AgeLab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  
Cambridge, MA – Aging Drivers:  A Need for             Developing  
Advanced Driver Workload Measurements?
Matthew Rizzo MD, University of Iowa. Iowa City, IA – In-Car  
Technology to Alert Attention Impaired Drivers
Kathy J. Sifrit, PhD, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,  
Washington, DC – Driving with Peripheral Visual Field Loss
Janet Szlyk, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL – Evidence- 
based Vision Requirements for Safe Driving and Solutions for Deficit  
Compensation
Todd Horowitz, PhD, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard University,  
Cambridge, MA – Where is Basic Attention Research Driving Us Next?
Joanne Wood, PhD, MCOptom, Queensland University of Technology,  
Queensland, Australia – Effects of Vision and Age on Night-time  
Driving Visibility


Conference web site:
www.eyeson.org
To register, go to:
  www.acteva.com/go/eyeson
$350/three days, $150/individual day
Includes conference sessions, materials, breakfast, lunch, and coffee  
breaks.
Please feel free to direct any questions to Carolyn Barth, Ph.D.
clbarth at dioeyes.org
Phone 313-824-4710
Travel Arrangements can be made thru AAA at 800-854-5044.
Or email negc at aaane.com
Hotel Reservations:
Please contact hotel directly.
Somerset Inn
2601 Big Beaver Road
Troy MI 48084
Phone: 248-643-7800 or
800-228-8769
Fax: 248-643-2220
Conference Code for Reservations: TEATA
Room Rate: $109/night + Hotel Fee


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