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Waldemar Karwowski

Pegasus Professor

Department: Industrial Engineering & Management Systems
Email: wkar@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-2204
Office: Engineering II Room 312D
Website: http://www.iems.ucf.edu/about/faculty/karwowski.html
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Research Interests: Human factors, ergonomics, human systems integration, systems engineering, safety management, complex systems, nonlinear dynamics, neuroergonomics.

  • Ph.D. Texas Tech University Industrial Engineering
  • M.S. Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Production Engineering
ucf
  • Pegasus Professor
  • Chair, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
editorial
  • Editor-in-Chief, Human-Intelligent Systems Integration (Springer), 2019.
  • Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief, Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 2000 – present
  • Co-Editor, International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 1994 - present
  • Co-Editor, The Open Cybernetics and Systemics Journal, 2007- present
  • Co-Editor-in-Chief, Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 2000 - present.
  • Editor, Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries, 2009 - present.
  • Editor, Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing, 1997 - 2009.
  • Member, Advisory Board, Management and Production Engineering Review (Poland), 2010 - present.
  • Member, Editorial Board, ISRN Industrial Engineering, 2013 - present
  • Member, Editorial Board, The Open Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Journal, 2012 - present.
  • Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Strategic Change Management, 2010 - present.
  • Member, Editorial Board, Economics and Business Administration Journal (Poland), 2010 - present.
  • Member, Editorial Board, Human Factors, 1997 - present.
  • Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, 2006 - present.
  • Member, Editorial Board, Applied Ergonomics, 1998 - present
  • Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 1989 - present.
  • Member, Editorial Board, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 2002 - present.
  • Co-Editor, International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 1994 - present.
  • Member, Editorial Board, The Open Ergonomics Journal, 2007-present
  • Co-Editor, The Open Cybernetics and Systemics Journal, 2007- present.
  • Member, Editorial Board, The Open Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Journal, 2007 - present
  • Member, Editorial Board, Foundations of Control and Management Sciences (Poland), 2004 - present
  • Member, Editorial Board, Universal Access to the Information Society, 2000 - present.
  • sulting Editor, Occupational Ergonomics, 1997 - 2002; Editorial Board: 2003 - present.
  • Member, Editorial Board, Ergonomia (Italy), 2005 - present.
leadership
  • Chair, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems

  • Çakıt, E., Karwowski, W. and Servi., L., 2019. Application of Soft-Computing Techniques For Estimating Emotional States Expressed In Twitter Time Series Data. Neural Computing and Applications (accepted)

  • Karwowski, W., Kern, D., Murata, A., Ahram, T., Franco, E. G., Sapkota, and N., Marek, T., 2018. The Complexity of Human Performance Variability on Watchstanding Task. Applied Ergonomics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2018.07.006

  • Murata A. and Karwowski W., 2018. Automatic Lock of Cursor Movement: Implications for an Efficient Eye-gaze Input Method for Drag and Menu Selection. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, DOI: 10.1109 /THMS.2018. 2884737

  • Muhs, K., Karwowski, W. and Kern, D., 2018, Temporal Variability in Human Performance; A Systematic Literature Review, International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 64, 31-50.

  • Karwowski, W., 2012, A Review of Human Factors Challenges of Complex Adaptive Systems Discovering and Understanding Chaos in Human Performance. Human Factors, 54 (6), 983-995

  • Daraiseh, N., Cronin, S.N, Davis, L.S., Shell R.L. and W. Karwowski, 2010, Low Back Symptoms Among Hospital Nurses, Associations To Individual Factors And Pain In Multiple Body Regions International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 40 (1), 19-24.

  • Jang, R.L., Karwowski, W., Quesada, P.M., Rodrick, D., Sherehiy, B., Cronin, S.N. and Layer, J. K., 2007, Biomechanical Evaluation Of Nursing Tasks In A Hospital Setting. Ergonomics, 50 (11) 1835-1855

  • Sherehiy, B., Karwowski, W. and Layer, J. K., 2007, A Review of Enterprise Agility: Concepts, Frameworks and Attributes. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 37(5), 445-460

  • Karwowski, W., 2005, Ergonomics and Human Factors: The Paradigms for Science, Engineering, Design, Technology, and Management of Human-Compatible Systems. Ergonomics, 48 (5), 436 – 463.