Resume for Jason Laberge

• Specialized training in human factors, user-centered design, experimental psychology, and cognitive aging.
• Experience evaluating user-interfaces using a variety of techniques, including heuristic evaluation, walkthroughs, and usability testing.
• Proven record of success on independent and team projects in a variety of academic and professional settings.
• Strong leader with experience integrating information across multiple disciplines and working effectively in cross-functional teams.
• Six Sigma Green Belt certified for software design and development.
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• User interface design
• Cognitive work analysis
• Automation
• Supervisory control
• Medical human factors
• Cognitive aging
• Gerotechnology
• Transportation human factors
• Trust in technology
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• Conduct usability analyses, user and task modeling, user-interface design, and research to support the development of building and process control systems.
• Lead human factors researcher for $1.2 million dollar Abnormal Situation Management consortium program (www.asmconsortium.com).
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• Responsible for literature reviews, requirements gathering, report writing, running experiments, and analyzing data for projects related to transportation human factors.
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• Designed experiments, analyzed and interpreted results, and authored reports for a variety of projects resulting in several publications and presentations.
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Teaching Assistant: Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.

• Course taught: Experimental Design and Quantitative Methods for Psychology.
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• Course taught: Advanced Web Design and Evaluation.
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Consultant and Independent Contractor: Calgary, AB, Canada.

• Provided design input on a way-finding system for a provincial mental health hospital. Resulted in a more intuitive and satisfactory system for all users.


• Developed documents for the purpose of user testing a handheld medical device. Allowed client to user-test off site in a cost-effective and efficient manner.
  
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• Gathered requirements for design, wrote style guides, applied standards and guidelines, and led user testing and design of GUIs resulting in a more effective design process and more usable products.


• Consulted clients on user-centered design leading to a wider range of services offered and greater customer satisfaction.
  
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• Designed, analyzed, and presented the results of usability tests.
• Resulted in more usable products and a greater appreciation of usability engineering by developers.
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• As a part-time position, coordinated and created instruments for the purpose of evaluating over 50 different pieces of educational psychology software.
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• For two separate projects, responsibilities included participant recruiting for Masters level research project and completing a literature review for a professor in preparation for research work.
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• Responsibilities included data entry, questionnaire interpretation, and participant response coding.
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• Major: Perception, Aging, and Cognitive Ergonomics.

• Major: Human Factors.
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• Laberge, J., Ward, N., Rakauskas, M., & Creaser, J. (2005). Rural stop-controlled intersection decision support systems. Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Orlando, FL, USA.
• Laberge, J., Hajdukiewicz, J., & Kow, Y.M. (2005). An integrated approached to competitive usability assessments. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Usability Professionals' Association, Montreal, QC, Canada.
• Laberge, J., & Scialfa, C. (2005). Predictors of web navigation performance in a lifespan sample of adults. Human Factors, 47(2), 289-302.
• Laberge, J., Scialfa, C., White, C., & Caird, J. (2004). The effect of passenger and cellular-phone conversations on driver distraction. Transportation Research Record, 1899, 109-116.
• Grahame, M., Laberge, J., & Scialfa, C. (2004). Age differences in search of web pages: The effects of link size, link number, and clutter. Human Factors, 46(3), 385-398.
• Laberge, J., & Ward, N. (2004). Cannabis and driving: Research needs and implications for transport policy. Journal of Drug Issues, 34(4), 971-989.
• Scialfa, C., Ho, G., & Laberge, J. (2004). Perceptual aspects of gerotechnology. In S. Kwon & D. Burdick (Eds.), Gerotechnology: Research and practice in technology and aging (pp. 18-41). New York: Springer Publishing Company.
• Scialfa, C., Laberge, J., & Ho, G. (2004). Design of a wayfinding system for geriatric long-term care: Using human factors to make living environments more accessible. Ergonomics in Design, 12(2), 5-11.
• Gagnon, R., Laberge, J., Lamsdale, A., Histon, J., Hudson, C., Davies, J., & Caird, J. (2004). A user-centered evaluation of three intravenous infusion pumps. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, New Orleans, LA, USA.
• Laberge, J., Ho, G., & Scialfa, C. (2002, Sept). The distribution of attention while reading from a web page. Poster session presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Associaton of Canadian Ergonomists, Banff, AB, Canada.
• Thom, J., Laberge, J., & Scialfa, C. (2002, April). The role of texture segmentation in age differences in saccadic averaging. Poster session presented at the annual student conference for the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
• Laberge, J., & Caird, J.K. (2000). Trusting the online banking interface: Development of a conceptual model relevant to E-commerce transactions. Presented at the workshop entitled Designing Interactive Systems for 1-to-1 E-commerce at the ACM SIG CHI Conference, The Hague, Netherlands.
• Greenberg, S., Boyle, M., & Laberge, J. (1999). PDAs and shared public displays: Making personal information public, and  public information personal. Personal Technologies, 3(1), 54-64.
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• Quest for Excellence Award (2005) - Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions - $100
• Technical Achievement Award (2004) - Honeywell Advanced Technology - $1000
• Graduate Research Scholarship (2003) - University of Calgary - $3920
• Graduate Student Scholarship (2003) - Alberta Learning - $2000
• Graduate Teaching Assistantship (2002/2003) ­ University of Calgary - $11,870
• Province of Alberta Government Scholarship (2002/2003) - University of Calgary - $9300
  
• Graduate Research Scholarship (2002) - University of Calgary - $3920
• Graduate Teaching Assistantship (2001/2002) ­ University of Calgary - $11,870
• Faculty of Graduate Studies Award (2001) ­ Faculty of Graduate Studies - $500
• Net Value Award (2000) ­ Net Perceptions, Inc. - $1000
• Net Value Award (1999) ­ Net Perceptions, Inc. - $1000
• Owen Family Scholarship (1999) ­ University of Calgary - $500
• Student Youth Bursary (1998) ­ Faculty of Continuing Education - $250
  
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• Human Factors and Ergonomics Association - HFES (Jan 99 - Present)
• Association of Computing  Machinery Special Interest Group in Computer Human Interaction ­ ACM SIG CHI (Aug 99 ­ Present)
• Usability Professionals' Association - UPA (June 2005 - Present)
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• Operating Systems: Windows 3.X / 95 / 98 / NT / XP, Mac OS 9.0
• Databases: MS Access, MS SQL Server 6.0 / 7.0
• Programming Languages: HTML, JavaScript
• Prototyping Tools: Visual Basic 6.0, Visual InterDev 6.0, Macromedia Dreamweaver 3.0 / 4.0, Photoshop 6.0, Paint Shop Pro, Visio Professional, Netscape Page Composer
• Applications: MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook), Corel Suite 7.0, SPSS
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