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  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For innovation in the design and use of tactile displays for improved safety in aviation, automobiles, and healthcare.

Overview

Nadine Sarter is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research intersects psychology and engineering, with a focus on human-automation interaction and safety. The primary subfield contributions fall under social psychology, aerospace engineering, safety, risk, reliability and quality, surgery, and automotive engineering.

Their main research topics include:

  • Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
  • Safety Warnings and Signage
  • Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring
  • Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage

Several frequent coauthors have collaborated on multiple publications with Sarter. These include Ella Atkins, Paul Flanigen, Yidu Lu, Yuzhi Wan, and R. Brent Gillespie.

Many of Sarter's works have been published in leading venues such as:

  • Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting
  • IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems
  • IEEE Access
  • Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
  • Sensors

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Sarter include:

  • "Modeling and inferring human trust in automation based on real-time eye tracking data" (2020, Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting)
  • "The Effects of Haptic Feedback and Transition Type on Transfer of Control Between Drivers and Vehicle Automation" (2021, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems)
  • "Moving From Piloted to Autonomous Operations: Investigating Human Factors Challenges in Urban Air Mobility" (2021, Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting)
  • "Comparing Coupled and Decoupled Steering Interface Designs for Emergency Obstacle Evasion" (2021, IEEE Access)
  • "Attention Limitations in the Detection and Identification of Alarms in Close Temporal Proximity" (2022, Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society)

Sarter was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2019 for innovation in the design and use of tactile displays for improved safety in aviation, automobiles, and healthcare.

Best Publications

  • How in the world did we ever get into that mode? Mode error and awareness in supervisory control

    Nadine B. Sarter;David D. Woods

  • Situation Awareness: A Critical But Ill-Defined Phenomenon

    Nadine B. Sarter;David D. Woods

  • Behind Human Error: Cognitive Systems, Computers and Hindsight

    David D. Woods;Leila J. Johannesen;Richard I. Cook;Nadine B. Sarter

  • Tactile displays: guidance for their design and application.

    Lynette A. Jones;Nadine B. Sarter

  • Behind Human Error

    David D. Woods;Sidney Dekker;Richard Cook;Leila Johannesen

  • Pilot Interaction With Cockpit Automation II: An Experimental Study of Pilots’ Model and Awareness of the Flight Management System

    Nadine B. Sarter;David D. Woods

  • Pilot Interaction With Cockpit Automation: Operational Experiences With the Flight Management System

    Nadine B. Sarter;David D. Woods

  • Pilots' monitoring strategies and performance on automated flight decks: an empirical study combining behavioral and eye-tracking data

    Nadine B. Sarter;Randall J. Mumaw;Christopher D. Wickens

  • Team play with a powerful and independent agent: operational experiences and automation surprises on the Airbus A-320

    Nadine B. Sarter;David D. Woods

  • Supporting Trust Calibration and the Effective Use of Decision Aids by Presenting Dynamic System Confidence Information

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  • Multimodal information presentation: Design guidance and research challenges

    Nadine B. Sarter

  • Supporting Decision Making and Action Selection under Time Pressure and Uncertainty: The Case of In-Flight Icing

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  • Stages and Levels of Automation: An Integrated Meta-analysis

    Christopher D. Wickens;Huiyang Li;Amy Santamaria;Angelia Sebok

  • Smart icing systems for aircraft icing safety

    Michael B. Bragg;Tamer Basar;William R. Perkins;Michael S. Selig

  • Cognitive Engineering in the Aviation Domain

    Nadine B. Sarter;René Amalberti

  • Display clutter: a review of definitions and measurement techniques

    Nadine Moacdieh;Nadine B. Sarter

  • Team Play with a Powerful and Independent Agent: A Full-Mission Simulation Study:

    Nadine B. Sarter;David D. Woods

  • Supporting interruption management and multimodal interface design: three meta-analyses of task performance as a function of interrupting task modality.

    Sara A. Lu;Christopher D. Wickens;Julie C. Prinet;Shaun D. Hutchins

  • Error Types and Related Error Detection Mechanisms in the Aviation Domain: An Analysis of Aviation Safety Reporting System Incident Reports

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  • Eye Tracking: A Process-Oriented Method for Inferring Trust in Automation as a Function of Priming and System Reliability

    Yidu Lu;Nadine Sarter

  • Investigating Mode Errors on Automated Flight Decks: Illustrating the Problem-Driven, Cumulative, and Interdisciplinary Nature of Human Factors Research

    Nadine B. Sarter

  • Capturing the dynamics of attention control from individual to distributed systems: the shape of models to come

    David D. Woods;Nadine B. Sarter

  • Situational Awareness in Complex Systems

    Richard D. Gilson;Lloyd Hitchcock;Richard A. Pew;Mica R. Endsley

  • Stages and levels of automation in support of space teleoperations.

    Huiyang Li;Christopher D. Wickens;Nadine B. Sarter;Angelia Sebok

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher D. Wickens
Christopher D. Wickens Colorado State University
David Woods
David Woods The Ohio State University
Sidney Dekker
Sidney Dekker Griffith University

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