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Joseph Pauszek, PhD, has over a decade of experience conducting research in academia and industry on various topics, including visual attention and distraction, cognitive workload and mental effort, stress, working memory, rational decision-making, perception, information processing, and the user experience, safety, and effectiveness of both consumer products and medical devices. He also has extensive experience utilizing physiological measures, such as pupillometry via eye tracking, to shed light on the underlying cognitive states of individuals in real-time. Dr. Pauszek has cultivated specialized experience in healthcare research and in evaluating medical devices that broadly range in complexity from autoinjectors to robotic surgery systems. This proficiency spans all stages of the medical device lifecycle, from formative research to formal human factors engineering and usability engineering (HFE/UE) submissions to satisfy domestic and international regulatory requirements.
Beyond medical device work, Dr. Pauszek has extensive experience conducting research on the safety, effectiveness, usability, and user experience (UX) associated with emergent consumer products and technologies, including, but not limited to, software applications, virtual reality (VR) headsets, augmented reality (AR) glasses, in-vehicle displays, online website portals, and other human-computer interfaces.
Dr. Pauszek provides expert testimony and has supported expert witnesses in the areas of product and premises liability, instructions and warnings compliance, failure to warn, personal injury, motor vehicle and construction accidents, deceptive marketing, firearms safety and negligence, and class action lawsuits.
Dr. Pauszek is a Managing Scientist, Human Factors, operating out of J.S. Held’s state-of-the-art scientific User Research Labs (URL) at the Phoenix, AZ, location. J.S. Held’s URL provides product safety and user experience (UX) research along the entire product lifecycle based on 50 years of human factors and failure analysis. Dr. Pauszek performs user research for industry-leading clients, including but not limited to healthcare organizations and medical device manufacturers.
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