William W. Banks is currently the President and CEO of the Oxford Research Institute 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 Engineering Research 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 in Baltimore.
Banks, William W. (1995): Human Factors: Designing for the Future. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 39th Annual Meeting 1995. .
Banks, William W. (1992): Effective Computer Display Design. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall
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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.
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.
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.
Publication period:1982-1995
Publication count:5
Number of co-authors:10
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