ABSTRACT
With his new PhD and a growing interest in human performance, Alluisi happily began work as a research associate in Paul Fitt’s Laboratory of Aviation Psychology, where he managed the supporting laboratory research on a radar air-traffic control project. His research focused on issues such as stimulus-response compatibility effects, human information processing, and the coding of information. Other aspects of Fitt’s research program were handled by Alluisi’s colleagues Conrad Kraft, Lowell Schipper, and George Briggs. Leaving Ohio State University in 1958, Alluisi spent 1 year working as an engineering psychologist at the Lockheed Missiles and Space Division in Palo Alto, California, and 1 year on the Stanford Research Institute’s scientific advisory team at Fort Ord, California, before becoming an assistant professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, in the autumn of 1959. Although he enjoyed the academic environment and was quickly promoted to associate professor, he chose to join the Human Factors Research Laboratory at the Lockheed Georgia Company in 1961. There, he contributed to the human factors engineering of the C-141 transport aircraft and worked with Dean Chiles (an air force contract monitor) conducting research on the performance effects of work-rest schedules and confinement.
