Human Factors Engineer

Eric Jones designs and evaluates complex sociotechnical systems across commercial and military domains, including undersea warfare, command and control, and space operations. His work focuses on the investigation and identification of information requirements, decisions, and processes that enable teams and individual operators to perform missions successfully. He then formalizes this knowledge in useful ways to achieve various ends, whether to design a new interface with which an operator interacts, create a model of user behavior, or construct tools that capture the performance of people, technology, and the connections between them. Mr. Jones also has experience designing human performance studies, performing statistical analysis, working in product design and development, and exploring technological entrepreneurship.

Mr. Jones holds a S.M. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park.  He is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), and Executive Council member and Past President of the HFES New England Chapter.

Publications

Pfautz, S., Jones, E., Ganberg, G., Chang, A., Diedrich, F., Scerri, P., Brooks, N., & Steed, R. (2012). Adaptive Decision-making for Distributed Assets (ADDA). In Proceedings of the 21st Behavior Representation in Modeling Simulation Conference (pp. 215-216).

Chester, S., Jones, E., Jackson, C., & Diedrich, F. (2011). Future Naval Capabilities Measures Support: Evolution of Measure Hierarchy. Technical Report, Aptima, Inc., Woburn, MA.

Gabriel, J.R., Jones, E., Wasserman, S.A., Chester, S., & Jackson, C. (2011, September). Framework for Submarine Command Team Performance Measurement. Paper presented at the National Defense Industrial Organization Joint Undersea Warfare Technology Conference, Groton, CT.

Jones, E., Steed, R., Diedrich, F., Armbruster, R., & Jackson, C. (2011). Performance-based metrics for evaluation submarine command team decision-making. Proceedings of the 6th International Human Computer Interaction Conference, FAC 2011. Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011 (pp. 308-317).

Jones, E., Steed, R., Pfautz, S., Armbruster, R., Diedrich, F., & Marquet, D. (2011, September). Resilience Matrix: Improving Warfighter Performance by Assessing Dynamic Decision Making. Paper presented at the National Defense Industrial Organization Joint Undersea Warfare Technology Conference, Groton, CT.

Levchuk, G., Bobick, A., & Jones, E. (2010). Activity and function recognition for moving and static objects in urban environments from wide-area persistent surveillance inputs. Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Orlando, FL.

Picciano, P., Kaber, D., Gil, G., Bruni, S., Howard, D., Jones, E., Roberts, R., Kim, S., & Kaufman, K. (2010). Designing for designers: A prototype to support human-automation interaction decisions. In Proceedings of HCI Aero 2010. Cape Canaveral, FL.

Dean, C., Jefferson, T., Horn, Z. N. J., Jones, E., Beltz, B. C., Puglisi, M., & Diedrich, F. J. (2009). Impact on Rifle Marksmanship Training. In G. Riccio and F.J. Diedrich (Eds.), An initiative in outcomes-based training and education (pp. 106-123). Technical Report, U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group, Ft. Meade, MD.

For more information about Mr. Jones’s publications, please contact aptima_info@aptima.com.