Areas of Interest	Interview
Canine Factors and Ergonomics “Working Dogs” Environmental Psychology Human Factors and Ergonomics	Interview with William Helton in the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Bulletin

Research

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Courses

Selected Publications

1. Helton, W.S. (in press). Sustained attention in mine detection dogs. In I. McLean (Ed.) Remote explosive scent tracing. Geneva, Switzerland; GICHD Press.
2. Helton, W.S. (2005). Canine factors: Bridging the gap between human factors and comparative psychology. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 49, 876-880. “One of the most interesting papers of 2005 according to the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.”
3. Helton, W.S. (2005). Animal expertise, conscious or not. Animal Cognition, 8, 67-74.
4. Helton, W.S., Fields, D., & Thoreson, J.A. (2005). Assessing daily stress with the Short Stress State Questionnaire (SSSQ): Relationships with cognitive slips-failures. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 49, 886-890.
5. Helton, W.S., Matthews, G., Warm, J.S., & Dember, W.N. (2005). Being optimistic may not always be advantageous: The relationship between dispositional optimism, coping, and performance. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 49, 1224-1228.
6. Helton, W.S., Hollander, T.D., Warm, J.S., Matthews, G., Dember, W.N., Wallart, M., Beauchamp, G., Parasuraman, R., & Hancock, P.A. (2005). Signal regularity and the mindlessness model of vigilance. British Journal of Psychology, 96, 249-261.
7. Helton, W.S., & Helton, N.D. (2005). Changing animal and environmental attitudes with evidence of animal minds. Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 4, 317-323.
8. Helton, W.S. (2004). Utilizing genetic algorithms and neural nets in expert systems: What animals teach us. Recent Advances in Soft Computing, 5, 177-182.
9. Helton, W.S. (2004) Expertise development: Animal models? Journal of General Psychology. 131, 86-96.
10. Helton, W.S. (2004). Validation of a short stress state questionnaire. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 48, 1238-1242.
11. Helton, W.S., Neu, J.M., Shell, T.A., Ramsey, A.J., & Myers, D.M. (2004). Assessing and improving user satisfaction in higher education: A role for human factors. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 48, 1054-1058. 
12. Helton, W.S., Shaw, T.H., Warm, J.S., Matthews, G., Dember, W.N., & Hancock, P.A. (2004). Workload transitions: Effects on vigilance performance, and stress. In D.A. Vincenzi, M. Mouloua, & P.A. Hancock (Eds.) Human performance, situation awareness and automation: current research and trends (pp. 258-262). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. 
13. Helton, W.S., Hollander, T.D., Warm, J.S., Matthews, G., Dember, W.N., & Parasuraman, R. (2003) Challenges to the mindlessness model of vigilance through signal regularity. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 47, 1663-1667. 
14. Helton, W.S. & Duerrschnabel, N.B. (2003) Animal minds: Changing environmental attitudes with psychology. Proceedings of the North American Association of Environmental Education, 32, 40-46.
15. Hollander, T.D., Helton, W.S., Tripp, L.D., Parsons, K., Warm, J.S., Matthews, G., & Dember, W.N. (2003) Cerebral vascularity and performance on an abbreviated vigilance task. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 47, 1673-1677.
16. Helton, W.S., Warm, J.S., Mathews, G., Corcoran, K., & Dember, W.N. (2002) Further tests of the abbreviated vigil: Effects of signal salience and noise on performance and stress. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 46, 1546-1550. 
17. Helton, W.S., Dember, W.N., Warm, J.S., & Matthews, G. (2000) Optimism-pessimism and false failure feedback: Effects on vigilance performance. Current Psychology, 18, 311-325.