« All Events

  • This event has passed.

National Safety Council (NSC): Frontiers of Technology: Attention Please! From Distraction to Attention Support with MIT’s Bryan Reimer (Virtual)

February 3 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Free

Webinar: Frontiers of Technology: Attention Please! From Distraction to Attention Support with MIT’s Bryan Reimer
Date: February 3, 2026
Time: 10:00 am to 11:00 am PT
Cost: Free 
Continuing Education Credits: 1.5 PDH credits
Organization: National Safety Council (NSC)

Join Bryan Reimer, research scientist in the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics and MIT AgeLab, for a virtual fireside chat with Road to Zero Manager Julia Kite-Laidlaw. Dr. Reimer, an innovator whose career has focused on ensuring technology advances driver safety, will discuss his work with the AHEAD Consortium, developing a framework for the next generation of driver attention measurement and driver support tools. Go beyond traditional models of distraction to understand the latest research into providing the right amount of attention support for drivers, and learn what the move towards greater automation means for human driver performance. The conversation will also touch on excerpts from Dr. Reimer’s new book, How to Make AI Useful. 

Details