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Donald I. Tepas Title: Professor Emeritus of Industrial Psychology Departmental Program: Industrial & Organizational E-mail: donald.tepas@uconn.edu Office Phone: (860) 486-5928 Lab Phone: (860) 486-5557 Web site: http://www.iopsychology.uconn.edu/tepas.htm Department of Psychology 406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269-1020 Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail

Research Interests:

• Current active research projects include: the development and evaluation of workware decision support systems;the study of differences between nations in worker perceptions of fatigue and age; methods for estimatingtransportation operator fatigue and crashes; and, the forensics of transportation human factors and ergonomics.

Representative Publications:

• Tepas, D. I. (1998). Work shift usability testing. In W. Karwowski and W. S. Marras (Eds.), The Industrial Ergonomics Handbook. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
• Tepas, D., Paley, M., & Popkin, S. (1997). Work schedules and sustained performance. In G. Salvendy (Ed.), Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics, Second Edition. New York: John Wiley.
• Tepas, D.I. and Price, J.M. (2001). What is stress and what is fatigue. In: P.A. Hancock and P.A. Desmond, Stress, Workload, and Fatigue. Mahawah, NJ: Lawrence Erlpaum Associates. Pp. 607-622.
• Tepas, D. (2000). Should a general recommendation to nap be made to workers? In: S. Hornberger, P. Knauth, G. Costa and S. Folkard, Shiftwork in the 21st Century. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. Pp. 25-30.
• Tepas, D.I. (2003) Workware decision support systems: A comprehensive methodological approach to work scheduling problems. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 4, 319-326,
  

Other:

• Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society.
• Member: Sleep Research Society, Psychonomic Society, Human Factors & Ergonomics Society.
• Professional Activities:
• Member, Executive Committee, Scientific Committee on Night and Shift Work of the International Commission on Occupational Health.
• Member, International Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Work & Stress.
• Founding-President, Society for Computers in Psychology.
• Past-member, Executive Committee, Sleep Research Society.
• Secretary, Scientific Committee on Night and Shift Work of the International Commission on Occupational Health.
• Current active research projects include studies of: the safety practices of trucking companies; intra-individual differences in driving simulator performance; forecasting the impact of irregular work schedules on locomotive engineers; inter-individual differences in alertness and mood scale use; and, the identification of new databases for assessing the impact of long work hours and shift work on the health and safety of workers
• Founding-Secretary, Working Time Society.