Maranda E McBride

Research Interests

Dr. McBride has been involved in a diverse array of research projects related to human machine systems engineering. These projects typically fall within the following areas of interest: behavioral issues in the use of automated decision aids, cognitive engineering in automated decision aid design, bone conduction communication, visual and auditory display design, transportation, human factors in information security, and minority issues in engineering education.

Recent Publications

• Suman Niranjan, Janeth Gabaldon, Timothy Hawkins, Vishal Gupta, Maranda McBride (2022). (The influence of personality and cognitive failures on distracted driving behaviors among young adults). 84, pp. 313-329. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour.
• Rafael Patrick, Tomaz Letowski, Maranda McBride (2020). (A multimodal auditory equal-loudness comparison of air and bone conduced sounds). 14, pp. 199-206. Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces.
• Maranda McBride, Lemuria Carter, Brandis Phillips (2020). (Integrating the theory of planned behavior and behavioral attitudes to explore texting among young drivers in the US). 50, pp. 365-374. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT.
• Allen Johnston, Merrill Warkentin, Maranda McBride, Lemuria Carter (2016). (Dispositional and situational factors: Influences on information security policy violations). (3) 25, pp. 231-251. European Journal of Information Systems.
• Doug McWilliams, Maranda McBride (2013). (Exploring mathematical approximation for the time spans of transfer operations in parcel transshipment terminals). (2) 55, pp. 342-356. Computers & Industrial Engineering.
• Misty Blue, Maranda McBride, Rachel Weatherless, Tomasz Letowski (2013). (Impact of a bone conduction communication channel on multi-channel communication system effectiveness). (2) 55, pp. 346-355. Human Factors.
• Phuong Tran, Tomasz Letowski, Maranda McBride (2013). (The effect of bone conduction microphone placement on intensity and spectrum of transmitted speech items). (6) 133, pp. 3900-3908. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
• Doug McWilliams, Maranda McBride (2012). (A beam search heuristics to solve the parcel hub scheduling problem). (4) 62, pp. 1080-1092. Computers & Industrial Engineering.
• Misty Blue-Terry, Maranda McBride, Tomasz Letowski (2012). (Effects of speech intensity on the Callsign Acquisition Test (CAT) and Modified Rhyme Test (MRT) presented in noise). (2) 37, pp. 199-203. Archives of Acoustics.
• Meghan Hodges, Maranda McBride (2012). (Gender differences in bone conduction auditory signal processing: Communication equipment design implications). (1) 42, pp. 49-55. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics.
• Maranda McBride, Lemuria Carter, Celestine Ntuen (2012). (The impact of personality on nurses’ bias towards automated decision aid acceptance). International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management.
• Maranda McBride, Phuong Tran, Tomasz Letowski, Rafael Patrick (2011). (The effect of bone conduction microphone locations on speech intelligibility and sound quality). (3) 42, pp. 495-502. Applied Ergonomics.
• Benjamin Osafo-Yeboah, Steven Jiang, Maranda McBride, Daniel Mountjoy, Eui Park (2009). (Using the Callsign Acquisition Test (CAT) to investigate the impact of background noise, gender, and bone vibrator location on the intelligibility of bone-conducted speech). (1) 39, pp. 246-254. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics.
• Maranda McBride, Tomasz Letowski, Phuong Tran (2008). (Bone conduction reception: Head sensitivity mapping). (5) 51, pp. 702-718. Ergonomics.
• Edem Tetteh, Steven Jiang, Daniel Mountjoy, Younho Seong, Maranda McBride (2008). (Evaluation of a job-aiding tool in inspection systems). (1) 18, pp. 30–48. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries.
• Edem Tetteh, Steven Jiang, Daniel Mountjoy, Younho Seong, Maranda McBride (2008). (Evaluation of job-aiding tool in inspection systems). (1) 18, pp. 30-48. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing.
• Edem Tetteh, Steven Jiang, Daniel Mountjoy, Younho Seong, Maranda McBride (2008). (Evaluation of job-aiding tool in inspection systems). (1) 18, pp. 30-48. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing.
• Maranda McBride, Meghan Hodges, John French (2008). (Speech intelligibility differences of male and female vocal signals transmitted through bone conduction in background noise: Implications for voice communication headset design). (11-12) 38, pp. 1038-1044. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics.
• Misty Gripper, Maranda McBride, Benjamin Osafo-Yeboah, Steven Jiang (2007). (Comparison of Speech Intelligibility Test between Air Conduction and Bone Conduction Using the Callsign Acquisition Test). (7) 37, pp. 631-641. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics.
• Misty Gripper, Maranda McBride, Benjamin Osafo-Yeboah, Steven Jiang (2007). (Using the Callsign Acquisition Test (CAT) to compare the speech intelligibility of air versus bone conduction). (7) 37, pp. 631-641. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics.
• Maranda McBride, Celestine Ntuen (1997). (The effects of multimodal display aids on human performance). (1-2) 33, pp. 197-200. Computers and Industrial Engineering: An International Journal.