Nadine Barbara Sarter (born 1959)[1] is a German-Americanindustrial engineer interested inmultimodal interaction,touch user interfaces, aircraftcockpit controls, and theergonomics of human-machine interfaces.[2][3][4] She is Richard W. Pew Collegiate Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering at theUniversity of Michigan, where she directs the Center for Ergonomics and is also affiliated with the Robotics Institute and Department of Aerospace Engineering.[5]
Sarter earned bachelor's and master's degree in psychology at theUniversity of Hamburg in Germany, in 1981 and 1983 respectively.[6] She worked inhuman factors and ergonomics in Germany for several yearsbefore emigrating to the US with her husband,[3] psychologistMartin Sarter,[4] and returning to graduate study in engineering.[3] She completed a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering atOhio State University in 1994,[6] under the supervision of David Woods.[4]
After completing her doctorate, she became an assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering in theBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, affiliated with the Institute of Aviation there. In 1999 she returned to Ohio State University as a faculty member, with joint appointments in the Department of Industrial, Welding, and Systems Engineering and Department of Psychology.[6] She moved again to the University of Michigan in 2004.[6][4]
Sarter is a coauthor of the bookBehind Human Error (Ashgate, 2011),[7] and a coeditor ofCognitive Engineering in the Aviation Domain (CRC Press, 2020).[8]
Sarter was named a Fellow of theHuman Factors and Ergonomics Society in 2017.[9] She was elected a member of theNational Academy of Engineering in 2019 in recognition of her "innovation in the design and use of tactile displays for improved safety in aviation, automobiles, and healthcare".[10]
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