Naturalistic Decision Making

Date: 09/01/2021 Show Description: Beth Lay’s expertise is in applying Resilience Engineering, High Reliability Organizations, and Safety II to Human Performance. She is currently guiding the transformation from traditional, behavior-based safety to “new view” Safety II as the Director of Safety and Human Performance for Lewis Tree. Beth has advised on resilience and human performance for NASA, th...

Date: 05/25/2021 Show Description: Penny Sanderson is Professor of Cognitive Engineering and Human Factors at The University of Queensland, where she has appointments in the School of Psychology, School of Information Technology and  Electrical Engineering, and School of Clinical Medicine. She graduated with her BA (with Honors) from University of Western Australia and then completed her PhD...

Date: 04/16/2021 Show Description: Bill is Founder, President, and CSE Fellow at Resilient Cognitive  Solutions.  Bill’s military career includes an ROTC Commission in 1977  from Carnegie-Mellon University as a Distinguished Military Graduate,  with further military education including Airborne, Ranger, Military  Intelligen...

Date: 04/08/2021 Show Description: Mary "Missy" Cummings received her B.S. in Mathematics from the US Naval Academy in 1988, her M.S. in Space Systems Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1994, and her Ph. D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2004. A naval officer and military pilot from 1988-1999, she was one of the Navy's first female fighter pilots. Cum...

Date: 3/18/2021 Show Description: Cindy is a Principal Cognitive Engineer and Capability Lead for Human Machine Teaming (HMT) at MITRE in Bedford, MA where she works to normalize the use of systems engineering processes that create effective partnerships between people and technology. She strives to build a strong community of MITRE Human Machine Teaming practitioners.  Before coming to MITRE...

Date: 3/9/2021 Show Description: Dr. Mosier is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology from San Francisco  State University and the Founder and Principal Scientist of TeamScape  LLC, a company founded to conduct research on teams in  work environments. She is the President of the International  Ergonomics Association (IEA), the federation of ergonomics and human &nbs...

Date: 12/10/2020 Show Description: Lia DiBello is president and director of research at WTRI, Inc. She received her Ph. D. in cognitive psychology at CUNY Graduate School in New York, where she studied under the late Distinguished Professor Sylvia Scribner, a well known pioneer in the area of workplace cognitive and the author of many now classic works. Since she started directing the research at...

Date: 02/11/2021 Show Description: Shawn received a PhD and MA in Cognitive/Experimental Psychology from Ohio State University, with specializations in cognitive engineering, quantitative psychology, and psycholinguistics. He previously received a BA in Psychology/Music from Binghamton University (SUNY). He is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the American Psychological Associa...

Date: 02/05/2021 Show Description: Mike is grateful for the privilege of studying and supporting decision makers in over 100 military and commercial domains over the past 25 years, ranging from intelligence analysts and Special Operations Forces to computer hackers and cyber-security personnel, to intelligence analysts and firefighters.  He speaks both psychology and engineering and enjoys he...

Date: 1/29/2021 Show Description: Simon Henderson is an independent deception consultant working in the UK and the US.  His career has involved researching, teaching, and consulting on deception, counter-deception, information operations and cyber operations within a variety of government, military, and law enforcement organisations.  He is passionate about novel and pro-social applicati...

Date: 12/17/2020 Show Description: John Flach received his PhD in human experimental psychology from The Ohio State University in 1984. After more than 30 years of teaching and supervising graduate research in universities, he joined Mile Two--a custom software development company--as a senior cognitive systems engineer. John has written extensively about cognitive systems engineering (CSE) and ec...

Date: 12/03/2020 Show Description: Dr. Mica Endsley is widely recognized as a pioneer and world leader in the study and application of situation awareness in advanced systems. She is a former President of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and former Chief Scientist for the U.S. Air Force. Dr. Endsley is the author of over 200 scientific articles and reports on situation awareness, decision-...

Date: 12/02/2020 Show Description: Neelam is the lead scientist at the Center for Cognitive Work and Safety Analysis (CWSA). She joined what is now the Defence Science and Technology Group (DST Group) as a Research Scientist in 1996 and was promoted to Senior Research Scientist in 1999. Some of Neelam's major projects at DST have involved the extension of Cognitive Work Analysis to support the acq...

Date: 11/24/2020 Show Description: Anne Miller Is currently a Lead Human Factors Researcher with Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri, where she develops supervises and conducts Human Factors research related to 'high risk' electronic health record applications. Where to find Anne: Researchgate LinkedIn Learn more about NDM: NaturalisticDecisionMaking.org Where to find hosts Brian Moon and La...

Date: 11/06/2020 Show Description: Today we welcome William Wong. Dr. Wong is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, and Head of the Interaction Design Centre at Middlesex University London. His research is in cognitive engineering and the representation and interaction design of user interfaces that enhance situation awareness, sense-making, reasoning, and decision making in dynamic environment...

Date: 10/23/2020 Show Description: Today we welcome Jason Saleem. Jason J. Saleem is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Industrial Engineering at the J.B. Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville. He is also the Director of the Center for Ergonomics. Dr. Saleem received his Ph. D. from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech in 2003, spec...

Date: 10/02/2020 Show Description: Eduardo is the Allyn R. & Gladys M. Cline Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences at Rice University. A prolific author and active consultant, he has published over 600 articles and chapters and his work has been cited over 100,000 times. He has consulted in a wide range of domains including healthcare, manufacturing, oil and gas, avia...

Date: 9/24/2020 Show Description: Dr. Pamela Richards leads the University of Central Lancaster’s vision for the research theme “Developing Expertise in individuals and teams”. Richards supervises over 18 doctoral students in the UK and worldwide in decision-making (including military / fire & technical, complex rescues & elite sport). Her research focuses on the development and operationa...

Date: 9/11/2020 Show Description: Dr. Stephen M. Fiore is Director, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, and Professor with the University of Central Florida's Cognitive Sciences Program in the Department of Philosophy and Institute for Simulation & Training. He maintains a multidisciplinary research interest that incorporates aspects of the cognitive, social, organizational, and computational scien...

Date: 8/27/2020 Show Description: Today we welcome Emily Patterson. Emily is an associate professor in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the Ohio State University. She is known for her application of naturalistic decision making and cognitive engineering in health care. She did groundbreaking work in bar code medication administration when that technology was new, highlighting un...

Date: 8/07/2020 Show Description: Today we welcome Lee Beach. Lee is the McClelland Centennial Emeritus Professor of Management at the Eller College of Business, at the University of Arizona. He was a Professor of Public Administration and of Psychology, teaching graduate and executive courses on managerial decision making and organizational change. He served on the editorial boards of several wel...

Date: 7/16/2020 Show Description: David Woods has worked to improve systems safety in high risk, complex settings for over 38 years. These include studies of human coordination with automated and intelligent systems and accident investigations in aviation, nuclear power, critical care medicine, crisis response, military operations, outages of critical digital services, and space operations (he was...

Date: 7/6/2020 Show Description: Gary L Klein received his BA in Psychology and his PhD in Cognitive Social Psychology. He is a Senior Principal Scientist in cognitive science and artificial intelligence at The MITRE Corporation, where he has worked for nearly 30 years, focusing primarily on how people acquire and use information in domains including emergency response, air traffic management, and...

Date: 6/29/2020 Show Description: We’re pleased to be talking today with Joel Suss. Joel is Assistant Professor of Human Factors in the Department of Psychology at Wichita State University. His research work focus on understanding and improving perceptual-cognitive performance – in particular, anticipation, decision making -- in complex and challenging operational settings, such as law enforcement...

Date: 6/18/2020 Show Description: Today we welcome Shawna Perry. Shawna is an emergency medicine physician and runs a consulting firm called SJP Consulting. In both her roles as a physician and a consultant, she actively advocates for systems level views of patient safety. She is an active member of the naturalistic decision making community, the human factors and ergonomics society, and the resil...