Research Projects
Public Safety / Disaster Response Research
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MSD - Multiple Simultaneous Disasters
Lead - Corey Shultz MSD aims to understand emerging challenges of multiple simultaneous disasters that occurred recently and associated efforts of emergency managers and responders to cope with such challenges. Particularly, the ongoing pandemic has acted as a common denominator of the MSDs. |
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SHIFT - Spatial and Hazard Information on Firefighting Tactics
Lead - Viviana Dos Santos SHIFT aims to investigate effects of prior spatial and hazard information on firefighters' response tactics, situation awareness (SA), and performance. Previous incidents revealed that lack of such information resulted in loss of first responders' lives. Particularly, this project is focused on the relationships between the prior information and responders' SA during the response. |
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TOPPER - Team Operational Process and Performance in Emergency Response
Lead - Armina Mim TOPPER aims to understand and improve teams working in emergency response contexts (e.g., firefighting teams, search and rescue teams) because teams are an increasingly important unit that responds to emergencies and disasters. TOPPER is focused on team research topics such as team resilience, team communication, human-AI-robot-teaming. |
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DESS - Disruptive External Sensory Stimuli
Lead - Jessica Dedeaux DESS aims to develop novel visual and auditory stimuli that can inform the design of non-lethal countermeasures against active shooters or perpetrators at school. The project is focused on disrupting or distracting active shooters or perpetrators from taking intended, destructive actions. |
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HAIER - Human-AI Interaction in Emergency Response
Lead - Killian Parker HAIER aims to investigate how humans work with generative AI to handle first aid and emergency situations. In this project, AI acts as a collaborative agent who provides information that a human agent requests for the emergency situations. |
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SSUUAA - Safety and Security against Unethical Use of AI Applications
Lead - Iris Youngblood HAIER aims to investigate how humans work with generative AI to handle first aid and emergency situations. In this project, AI acts as a collaborative agent who provides information that a human agent requests for the emergency situations. |
Health Care / Mental Health Research
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EHR-UUR - EHR Usability and Usefulness Research
Lead - Austin Vaughn EHR-UUR aims to identify cognitive challenges associated with an electronic health record (EHR) system and develop interventions to improve the usability and usefulness of the EHR system. Particularly, this project is focused on nursing students' cognitive process (e.g., sensation, perception) involved in EHR data entry. |
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FIRM - First Incident Responders' Mental health and wellness
Lead - Mohammad 'Mo' Jamshidzadeh FIRM aims to address first responders' mental health challenges such as anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Our approach toward these problems is based on 'misinformation effect' that refers to the malleability of human memory. This project uses virtual reality (VR) as a medium to trigger a memory-masking effect. |
Occupational Safety / Process Safety Research
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SOP-AH - Standard Operating Procedure-Abstraction Hierarchy
Lead - TBD SOP-AH aims to design a novel standard operating procedure (SOP) using an abstraction hierarchy (AH) theory, a central construct of cognitive systems engineering. SOP-AH is focused on developing an SOP that guides workers' adaptive behavior. |
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SURE - Stop-work authority, Ultimate work authority, Reporting and Employee participation
Lead - Austin Vaughn SURE aims to address challenges associated with newer safety programs of stop-work authority (SWA), ultimate work authority (UWA), reporting unsafe conditions, and employee participation during offshore energy activities such as drilling and oil production. Project Sponsor: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Gulf Research Program |
