Health Technology is excited to announce our Spring Speaker Series presenter, Dr. Chris Wickens. Wickens earned a B.A. from Harvard College in Physical Sciences in 1967. He received an M.A. from the University of Michigan in Psychology in 1969. He completed his Ph.D. under Dick Pew at Ann Arbor in 1974. Wickens advanced from Assistant Professor to Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was Visiting Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences & Leadership, U. S. Air Force Academy in 1983-1984, 1991-1992, and 1999-2000. His research on human factors has been internationally recognized.

Health Technology Spring Speaker Series: Dr. Chris Wickens
Tuesday, April 16 @ 4:00pm
Beckman Tower Room 2269 or Zoom

Title: An Influence Model of Human-Automation Team Interaction

Abstract: I present a model of the influence of three features of automation, its reliability, its level of transparency and its degree of authority, on two major measures of performance of the human-automation team: Performance of the routine task for which the automation was designed, and performance of the team when automation unexpectedly fails. The computed influences are mediated by human cognitive variables of trust, dependence, situation awareness and workload. The “weights” of these influences are derived from meta-analyses of human-automation interaction studies, and can be used to predict tradeoffs in design. Three such tradeoffs are presented.

A reception will follow the presentation in Beckman Tower Room 2269.