Presenter

Jackie Cha, PhD CPE is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and with the Biomedical Data Science and Informatics Program at Clemson University and Faculty Scholar in the Clemson University School of Health Research. Her research focus within the field of human factors and ergonomics is on measuring physical human-robot interactions, particularly in healthcare environments, to improve worker performance, safety, and system efficiency. Her team investigates applications of robotics – both surgical robotic systems and wearables – in clinical environments and the changes of physical and cognitive interactions between human teams and robots.