Ranjani presented her paper along with Sarah Walsh on “Development of Mental Models in Decision Making Tasks” at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) in Washington D.C. This work investigates the dynamic behavior of users’ decision strategies and the stability and predictability of their mental models over time.
Vinodhini Comandur speaks at MIT Future Leaders in Aerospace Symposium
Vinodhini was selected to attend the MIT Future Leaders in Aerospace Symposium where participants present their research to the attendees, engage with mentors, discuss emerging trends in aerospace engineering, and connect with a cohort of their peers.
Research Engineer, Bruce Alstrom, presents at the 79th Vertical Flight Society Forum
Bruce co-authored a paper titled “Quantifying Taskload and Workload with Instantaneous Power Spectrum: An Initial Assessment of 3D Conformal Cueing in Rotorcraft Shipboard Landing“, which was presented at the 79th Vertical Flight Society (VFS) Forum. This work investigates using Instantaneous Power Spectrum as a technique to quantify taskload and pilot workload during helicopter shipboard landing.
Bruce Alstrom presents to Stakeholders
Bruce presented his work on the characterization of nonlinear frequency interactions of the pilot-helicopter system using cross-bicoherence analysis at the 2023 Vertical Flight Society (VFS) Handling Qualities Technical Meeting.
William Sealy Successfully Defends PhD Dissertation
June 19, 2023 William Sealy successfully defends his dissertation entitled ‘UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORTING DECISION MAKING IN DENIED AND DEGRADED ENVIRONMENTS’. Summary: Decision making is not guaranteed to occur in well-structured environments with per- fect information. Tasks in the research most often focus on decisions made with complete information in an unlimited time-frame, and in cases […]
Feigh Undergrads Vedant Ruia and Ty Mancao win ‘Best of Session’ and ‘Best of Track’ Awards
Vedant and Ty presented “Implementation of an Automated Voice-Checkist in General Aviation Aircraft” at the 42nd annual DASC in Barcelona, Spain. This paper investigates pilot performance in nominal and emergency situations with an automated voice-checklist compared to a traditional paper-checklist.
Feigh PhD Student is Panelist at Mental Model Symposium
(June 2023) Sarah Walsh was an invited speaker at the ‘Symposium on Mental Model in Human-AI Interaction‘. The symposium featured seven presenters from academia and industry along with a panel to discuss how mental models can support the success of human-AI interactions.
Journal Paper Published in the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making
Understanding Human Decision Processes: Inferring Decision Strategies From Behavioral Data Sarah E. Walsh and Karen M. Feigh Full content can be found at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/15553434221122899
Journal Paper Published in Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science
The role of shared mental models in human-AI teams: a theoretical review Robert W. Andrews, J. Mason Lilly, Divya Srivastava & Karen M. Feigh Full content can be found at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1463922X.2022.2061080
Divya passes Thesis Proposal
11/11/2022: Divya Srivastava, 5th year Mechanical Engineering student, successfully proposed her PhD thesis entitled ‘Transparency and Operator Performance in Human-Autonomy Teams.’ Summary: Human-autonomy teams aim to leverage the different strengths of humans and autonomous systems respectively to exceed the individual capabilities of each through collaboration. Highly effective human teams develop and utilize a shared mental […]