Mosier's Presidential Address To Focus on Human Factors in Aviation

     During the Opening Plenary Session, HFES President Kathleen L. Mosier will present "Human Factors in Aviation: A Brief (and Selective) History." The address will outline the progression of human factors research in the aviation domain, providing background for Captain Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger's keynote address.

     Mosier is a professor of psychology at San Francisco State University. She received her PhD in industrial/ organizational psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and her training in aviation human factors at NASA Ames Research Center. She has been conducting research in expert decision making for almost 20 years as a senior research scientist at NASA Ames and currently as a principal investigator on NASA- and FAA-funded research. Her focus has been on the impact of automation on air transport pilot decision-making processes. She coined the term automation bias to refer to errors that result from using automated aids as a heuristic replacement for vigilant information seeking and processing. Her most recent work examines coherence and correspondence in high-tech environments, and the influence of automation and operator state on decision processes.