Publication statistics

Pub. period:1977-1995
Pub. count:8
Number of co-authors:18



Co-authors

Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:

Vicktor Hampel:1
Sergio Guarro:1
Charles Cresson Wood:1

 

 

Productive colleagues

William W. Banks's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Colin G. Drury:32
David Meister:22
Hal W. Hendrick:15
 
 
 
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William W. Banks

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Has also published under the name of:
"Wm W. Banks"

Current place of employment:
Oxford Research Institute Inc.

William W. Banks is currently the President and CEO of the Oxford Research Institute Inc. which accredits University Programs in Ergonomics or Human Factors Engineering as well as certifies professionals in these fields. Bill retired from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (University of California) where he served as both a Group Leader In the Advanced Research Engineering Division and as a Deputy Associate Program Leader in the Nuclear Systems Safety Program. He previously held management positions at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Westinghouse and the Sperry Rand /Univac Corporation. He received his BS degree from The University of Maryland and his Masters degree from Towson University. He also attended Johns Hopkins University while working as a research associate at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and served as Chief, Human Factors Accident Investigation at the Maryland Medical Legal Foundation, a component of the Maryland Chief Medical Examiners Office.

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1995
 
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Banks, William W. (1995): Human Factors: Designing for the Future. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 39th Annual Meeting 1995. .

1992
 
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Banks, William W. (1992): Effective Computer Display Design. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall

1989
 
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Banks, William W. and Pihlman, Michael (1989): MIPS and BIPS are Megaflops: Limits of Unidimensional Assessments. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 33rd Annual Meeting 1989. pp. 597-601.

We believe that a failure to incorporate human performance measures into system test protocols will result in imprecise and incomplete data when an attempting to estimate field test performance from a total systems perspective. Traditional methods of evaluating local area network performance generally refer to the network's throughput, time delays, data rate (BIPS), or media access protocol efficiency. These measures are quite acceptable when determining point-to-point benchmark network performance but do not take into account the more global man-machine performance issues associated with people using network systems to perform tasks and execute functions concurrently within a "total systems" context. This paper experimentally compares differences in human productivity/efficiency while using: 1) an existing data gathering system consisting of several geographically distributed, unconnected, and disparate mainframes; and 2) a prototype Intelligent Gateway (Local Area Network) connecting mainframes and offering the user less complexity in procedure execution and an easy to use interface. Tests were conducted with volunteer users in a repeated measures experimental design. Each test subject was randomly assigned to each of two conditions and required to execute routine tasks with each of two systems. ANOVA results revealed significant differences in task completion times and human error rates between the two systems. An increase in human productivity/efficiency was observed using the gateway LAN. We propose to extend the traditional computer performance measurement (monitoring) boundaries, which now encompass only the network hardware, to include an overall "input-to-output" local area network performance measure, combining both measures of user productivity and network performance. A discussion of trade-offs between unidimensional assessment methods using large sample sizes and multiple methods with small sample sizes is also presented. We further believe that without the addition of specific behavioral measures, MIPS and BIPS are truly Megaflops.

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1987
 
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Smith, Leighton L., Banks, William W., Chapanis, Alphonse, Drury, Colin G., Hendrick, Hal W., Laveson, Jack I., Meister, David and Cott, Harold P. Van (1987): The Case of the Missing Human Factors Data. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 31st Annual Meeting 1987. pp. 1042-1043.

Human factors practitioners are continuously running into inadequate or missing data. This situation prevents or impedes the resolving of design dilemmas at hand. Why is this so? Is it because there are not enough researchers working in the empirical community? Are the empiricists not generating enough data? Perhaps the data that are being compiled are unusable. Is it because the data are redundant? Is it because the data are incompatible with other data sets? Are the current data sets too specific, i.e., ungeneralizable to broad applications? Or are the data that are available invalid, i.e. generated improperly? Are there any avenues that human factors specialists can pursue which would resolve this problem? Are there any policies or practices which could be developed which, if followed, would ensure more effective and usable data in the future? Is there any interest among Human Factors Society members to advocate any of the suggested activities? If so, how should this interest be best utilized? The panel will be represented by members from the practitioning community, the research community, and the academic community. The panel will be comprised of members of the Human Factors Society who will bring with them over a century of accumulated experience and thousands of published pages on human factors topics.

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Wood, Charles Cresson, Banks, William W., Guarro, Sergio and Hampel, Vicktor (1987): Computer Security: A Comprehensive Controls Checklist. Berkeley, California, John Wiley and Sons

This material was developed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contarct with the US Department of Energy and the Air Force Logistics Command at WPAFB, OH. The materials presented allow and facilitate the execution of a Probabilistic Risk Assessment to identify and classify various risks and vulnerabilities in any Information Management System and identify the necessary controls to reduce, mitigate or eliminate the risks involved.

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1982
 
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Petersen, Rohn J., Banks, William W. and Gertman, David I. (1982): Performance-Based Evaluation of Graphic Displays for Nuclear Power Plant Control Rooms. In: Nichols, Jean A. and Schneider, Michael L. (eds.) Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems March 15-17, 1982, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States. pp. 182-189.

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Banks, William W. and Coan, George B. (1978): Manager Effect on Customer Behavior: An unobtrusive Assessment. In American Journal of Small Business, 1 (0) pp. 5-18.

The described interaction between managers and customers regarding specific greetings was observed to impact the amount of time and money spent in the place of business. There was a significant relationship between the amount of time and Money spent by customers and in direct proportion to the time and effort spent by the manager interacting with the customer.

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1977
 
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Banks, William W., Schaffer, John W, Masenore, William C., Fisher, Russel S. and W., Schmidt, Chester (1977): The Relationship Between Previous Driving Record and Driver Culpability in Fatal MV Collisions. In Journal of Accident Analysis and Prevention, 9 pp. 9-13.

After investigating a large exhaustive sample of "matched driver pairs" involved in fatal automobile accidents in the Baltimore Metro area, a significant statistical relationship between prior moving violations and culpability in these Fatal, Multi-Vehicle Collisions were observed along with a relatively high incidence of alcohol involvement. These findings are presented and discussed in terms of alcohol involvement and our ability to predict which drivers were more likely to be legally responsible for the accident.

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Publication statistics

Pub. period:1977-1995
Pub. count:8
Number of co-authors:18



Co-authors

Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:

Vicktor Hampel:1
Sergio Guarro:1
Charles Cresson Wood:1

 

 

Productive colleagues

William W. Banks's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Colin G. Drury:32
David Meister:22
Hal W. Hendrick:15
 
 
 
May 24

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-- Alice Kahn

 
 

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