Management

Brian Chamberlin
President/Founder.
Mr. Chamberlin founded Atigo in April 2000 and has been working continuously building prototypes and a business case. He has a long history of working with emerging technologies. In 1996, he founded Spinach Software which specialized in building dynamic database-driven websites. Since 2000, he has been working in the emerging field of Interactive Television (iTV) covering all aspects of the industry from pre-sales to final deployment. Mr. Chamberlin holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Concordia University in Irvine, CA.

Erwin Boer
Director of Research.
Dr. Bower is an expert in the field of Human Factors and will lead our research efforts validating the Active Driver concept and play a crucial role in the design and testing of the Active Driver product. Previously, Dr. Bower directed the research efforts of 40 researchers at seven universities on behalf of Nissan Motor Corp. The work was focused on a number of human-centered driver support technologies including fatigue detection systems. He has done extensive work in the fields of human perception, decision making, multitasking, and control as they relate to driving. Dr. Boer also serves as adjunct professor at the University of Iowa and visiting scientist at the University of Minnesota. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois.

Advisors

Ted Selker
Associate Professor at MIT’s Media Lab, Director of the Context Aware Computing Lab, and inventor of the “TrackPoint III” in-keyboard pointing device.
Mr. Selker has been experimenting with the concept of keeping drivers awake using physical activity since 1999 funded by grants from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. He joined Atigo’s advisory board in 2003 and is actively working on the design of the Active Driver system.

Scott Bolduc
President and CEO of Electronic Mobility Controls.
Mr. Bolduc has been adapting vehicles for disabled driver for over 30 years and today EMC is the undisputed leader in the industry.

Research Partners

Alistair MacLean, Queens University
Dr. MacLean is a Professor of Psychology and Dean of Faculty at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. His research focus has be on understanding sleep: what factors affect sleep; how sleep affects subjective state, behavior and physiology; and what mechanisms underlie sleep. The principal focus of recent research is the understanding of how sleep loss and sleepiness affects skilled performance such as driving. His current investigations are using a small driving simulator and subjective, behavioral and physiological assessments of sleepiness to gain a greater theoretical understanding of the relationship between sleepiness and performance which we hope will lead to improvements in our capacity to predict and detect deterioration under real-life conditions.

Linda Boyle, University of Iowa
Dr. Boyle is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Faculty Director of the Human Factors and Statistical Modeling Lab at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on investigating how people’s complex behavior impacts their risk of injuries and mishaps. This includes exploring how people respond to emergency situations, why drivers crash, and why operator errors occur. She is working with the Iowa Department of Transportation and the Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center on the quantification of motor vehicle crashes for high risk groups (e.g., drivers with sleep apnea, older drivers, teenage drivers). Prior to coming to the University of Iowa, Professor Boyle was a senior researcher in the Office of Safety and Security (Accident Prevent ion Division) at the US DOT - Volpe Center where she served as the Principal Investigator on a $1.5 million Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration grant on the quantification of crash risks of commercial drivers. She continues to work with the US DOT at the University of Iowa. Her latest project focuses on driver distraction related issues and the impact of in-vehicle technologies on driver performance. 

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