Investigation of methods to improve the interactions of humans with complex comptuer automation; example current major HCI projects:

• UI, planner, and simulation interfaces for UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) systems
• stochastic workload modeling for Army helicopter pilots
• cultural modeling and interaction evaluation for training scenarios in a game/simulation environment
• effects of culture-specific 'etiquette' and politeness on compliance with directives
• user intent recognition algorithm/software development
• procedure display evaluation aid for NASA

Specific applicant skills/experience to be evaluated; not all required:

• human-automation interaction design, theory and evaluation techniques
• linguistics, sociology, social psychology and/or anthropology;
  especially as they apply to human interactions in group and cross cultural group settings
• UI design principles
• ability to implement UI designs in software;
  especially using Java or Python
• experiment design, conduct and analysis techniques
• Multiple Resource Theory and workload measurement
• experience with training/games simulation and/or military simulations and applications
• AI planning techniques;
  especially hierarchical task network (HTN) planners