Publications


A Knowledge-Based Recommender System for Personalized Fatigue Mitigation Strategies in Offshore Workers


Yuxin Cai, Stephanie C. Payne, Farzan Sasangohar, Ranjana K. Mehta

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2026


Identifying Robust Predictors of Operational Fatigue in Emergency Medical Services Providers: A Machine Learning Approach


Yuxin Cai, Aditya A. Shanghavi, Ranjana K. Mehta

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2026


Pulse Rate Variability From Wearable Wristwatches as a Surrogate for Heart Rate Variability? We Think Not Yet


Aditya A. Shanghavi, Jeevan Jayasuriya, Yuxin Cai, Ranjana K. Mehta

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2025 Jul, p. 10711813251357929


"It Must Be Gesturing Towards Me": Gesture-Based Interaction between Autonomous Vehicles and Pedestrians


Xiang Chang, Zihe Chen, Xiaoyan Dong, Yuxin Cai, Tingmin Yan, Haolin Cai, Zherui Zhou, Guyue Zhou, Jiangtao Gong

CHI '24, Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2024 May, pp. 1--25


Using head-mounted eye trackers to explore children’s color preferences and perceptions of toys with different color gradients


Zihe Chen, Tingmin Yan, YuXin Cai, Tianjian Cui, Shangbin Chen

Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 14, Frontiers, 2023 Dec, p. 1205213

Oral Presentations

A Knowledge-Based Recommender System for Personalized Fatigue Mitigation Strategies in Offshore Workers

Yuxin Cai, Stephanie C. Payne, Farzan Sasangohar, Ranjana K. Mehta
Oral Presentation | Oct. 2026 @ Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 70th International Annual Meeting

Modeling Operational Fatigue in Emergency Medical Services Providers Under Real-World Conditions Using Wearable Sensors and Machine Learning

Yuxin Cai, Aditya A. Shanghavi, Ranjana K. Mehta
Oral Presentation | Oct. 2026 @ Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 70th International Annual Meeting 

Establishing an Evidence-driven Inventory of Fatigue Management Practices for Offshore Shiftwork 

Yuxin Cai, Umair Iqbal, Fan Yang, Stephanie C. Payne, Farzan Sasangohar, Ranjana K. Mehta 
Oral Presentation  | Oct. 2025 Chicago @ Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 69th International Annual Meeting

Pulse Rate Variability From Wearable Wristwatches as a Surrogate for Heart Rate Variability? We Think Not Yet 

Yuxin Cai, Aditya A. Shanghavi, Jeevan Jayasuriya, Ranjana. K. Mehta
Oral Presentation  | Oct. 2025 Chicago @ Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 69th International Annual Meeting 

Posters

Alignment of Fatigue Risk Management Policies with Fatigue Outcomes in Offshore Shiftwork

Yuxin Cai, Toby Driggs, Stephanie C. Payne, Ranjana K. Mehta 
Poster Presentation | Oct. 2025 Chicago @ Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 69th International Annual Meeting