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Dynamical Analysis and Modeling of Team Resilience in Human-Autonomy Teams
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-07)A resilient team would be proficient at overcoming sudden, unexpected changes by displaying a rapid, adaptive response to maintain effectiveness. To quantify resilience, I analyzed data from two different experiments ... -
Extending Models of Self-Regulated Learning to Working Adults: Implications for Online Advanced Skill Training
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-10-29)Despite an increase in the prevalence of online skill training programs for working adults, little is known about the self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies by which adults manage their learning in such programs. The ... -
Perceived Relational Risk and Perceived Situational Risk: Scale Development
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-11-05)Interactions with technology are a significant part of daily life, both at home and at work. Understanding how to support successful human-technology interaction is essential for Engineering Psychology. Perceived relational ... -
Real Work Task Performance: The Role of Abilities, Non-Ability Traits, and Proximal Variables
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-08-18)The objective of this study was to develop new, ecologically valid measures of adult intelligence that are representative of tasks that adults might encounter in their everyday lives. In order to accomplish this objective, ... -
Division of household labor and long-term career success
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-06)As increasing numbers of women have entered the workforce in the past four decades, research has highlighted the importance of understanding the changing roles of homemaker and employee, particularly the balance between ... -
Development and validation of the situational trust scale for automated driving (STS-AD)
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-05-26)Trust in automation is currently operationalized with general measures that are either self-report or behavioral in nature. However, a recent review of the literature suggests that there should be a more specific approach ... -
Workplace Conflict, Emotions, and Strain: A Process Approach
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-05-23)Organizational conflict is a context where emotions must be managed and should therefore include a process of emotion regulation. There are some investigations of emotion regulation as a moderator of conflict (e.g., Curşeu, ... -
Featural density in picture naming among college age and older adults
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-22)When naming pictures, speakers are slower to name pictures with multiple appropriate labels (e.g., couch/sofa) compared to pictures consistently given a single label. This increased naming time is generally seen as a ... -
Measuring the influence of automation on situation awareness in highly automated vehicles
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-04-28)Higher levels of automation, such as adaptive cruise control (ACC) and automated lane keeping (ALK), are becoming more and more common in vehicles. With the inclusion of these automated features, the role of the driver is ... -
The multilevel interplay of team health culture, department health culture, and employee health motivation to predict health behaviors and job satisfaction
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-04-09)To combat rising healthcare costs (WHO, 2018), organizations are focusing on strategies to improve employee health, such as creating a culture of health throughout the entire organization. Despite theories about organizations ... -
Impact of action-object congruency on the integration of auditory and visual stimuli in extended reality
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-03-24)Extended Reality (XR) systems are currently of interest to both academic and commercial communities. XR systems may involve interacting with many objects in three-dimensional space. The usability of such systems could be ... -
Effects of probabilistic flight-route risk estimates for enhanced decisions (FRREED) on aeronautical weather-hazard decision-making
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-03-31)A tool commonly used to aid the navigational decisions of pilots to avoid weather hazards is Next Generation Radar (NEXRAD), which provides information about geographically referenced precipitation. However, this tool is ... -
Hypothesis-guided testing behavior: The role of generation, meta-cognition, and search
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-03-13)Hypothesis testing is the act of acquiring information to challenge or promote a decision-maker’s beliefs (i.e., hypotheses) in diagnostic tasks. To date, theorists have conceptualized this behavior as a consequence of ... -
The experience of technology at work: An experiential model of automation and agency in the workplace
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-05-21)There has been much attention paid to the macroeconomic implications of increased automation in the workforce, yet the psychological impact to affected workers has been largely ignored. To address this research gap, the ... -
Abductive reasoning and limitations of the knower
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-05-23)Previous research has shown that a person’s epistemic beliefs, cognitive style, and religiosity affect the level at which they are able to reason about a variety of topics. These studies have primarily focused on ill-structured, ... -
A study of a fit index for explanatory item response theory models
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-12-05)Likelihood ratio chi square tests for nested models are typically used to determine model significance. Multiple correlations of item difficulties estimated with the explanatory predictors are often used to provide further ... -
Age-related changes in resolving proactive interference in associative memory
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-11-27)Previous research has found that older adults are more susceptible to proactive interference. This is likely due to age-related deficits in the PFC-mediated cognitive control processes recruited to resolve interference. ... -
Sign learning and its relationship to word learning in hearing adults
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08-17)In this study, structural equation modeling was used to 1) extend individual differences research on second language word learning to sign learning in hearing non-signers and 2) to model the relationship between word and ... -
Measuring the effects of display design and individual differences on the utilization of multi-stream sonifications
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-07-30)Previous work in the auditory display community has discussed the impact of both display design and individual listener differences on how successfully listeners can use a sonification. This dissertation extends past ... -
Understanding the perceptual segmentation of situations via event segmentation theory
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-07-30)The goal of the present studies was to understand how the cognitive mechanisms of Event Segmentation Theory (EST) might account the hierarchical structure of our representations of situations. According to EST, people ...
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