Dick co-founded Stottler Henke in 1988 as a software company dedicated to providing practical solutions to difficult problems by skillfully drawing upon a large repertoire of artificial intelligence technologies. Under Dick’s leadership, Stottler Henke has grown steadily and profitably into a 60-person research and software development company with…

Learn more about the guests: ⁠Mohammadreza ⁠Jordan Nishtha ⁠Kari Where to find the hosts: Brian Moon ⁠⁠Brian’s website⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Brian’s LinkedIn⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Brian’s Twitter⁠⁠ Laura Militello ⁠⁠Laura’s website⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Laura’s LinkedIn⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Laura’s Twitter⁠⁠

Tandi Bagian earned a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the University of Washington in 1979. She was employed by NASA’s Johnson Space Center and served as Lead Instructor for Astronaut Crew Training; Flight Projects Manager for the Space Biomedical Research Institute; and Head of the Crew Interface Analysis Section. This last position involved…

Where to find the hosts: Brian Moon ⁠⁠Brian’s website⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Brian’s LinkedIn⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Brian’s Twitter⁠⁠ Laura Militello ⁠⁠Laura’s website⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Laura’s LinkedIn⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Laura’s Twitter⁠⁠

Vaughn TAN is a consultant, author, toolmaker, and professor of strategy at University College London. For over a decade, Vaughn has helped businesses, not-for-profits, and government agencies — like the Singapore Government, Wellcome, and Carlyle Group — design themselves to flourish in uncertainty. He wrote The Uncertainty Mindset (a book about u…

Show notes Peter A. Hancock, D.Sc., Ph.D. is Provost Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Simulation and Training, as well as at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at the University of Central Florida (UCF). In 20…

Show Notes Ron Besuijen is a Training Specialist with Nova Chemicals in Joffre, Alberta. He has worked for 35 years in the petrochemical industry. He is qualified on four control panels, and was involved with the commissioning and startup of a new facility. In addition to his operational experience, Ron has been a training specialist for the last 1…

We are honored to be joined today by Gerd Gigerenzer. Dr. Gigerenzer is Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the University of Potsdam, Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg and partner of Simply Rational – The Institute for Decisions. He is former Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) at the Max Planck In…

Dr. Joan H. Johnston (Retired) has over 30 years of experience as a Senior Research Scientist with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army. She has written and collaborated on over 100 publications and has given innumerable presentations and tutorials about her research which has had a significant impact on advancing the science of Learning, Team Training, Dec…

Christian is interested in human worlds, human perception and the skill of observation, which is reflected in the diversity of his professional experience. He has been a full time Professor of Applied Humanities at The New School for Social Research; a Senior Fellow at The Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI) in Tokyo, Japan and a Distinguishe…

Kevin Oden is an LM Fellow at Lockheed where has work for 14 years. Currently, he leads research initiatives focused on Human-Autonomy Collaboration. In this role, he supports cross corporation efforts and has responsibilities for engagements with universities, DOD service labs, and small business partners. He was earned his Ph.D. in Applied Experi…

Today we welcome David Feldon, Professor of Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences, College of Education and Human Services, Utah State University. Dr. Feldon’s research examines two lines of inquiry that are distinct but mutually supportive. The first characterizes the cognitive components of expertise as they contribute to effective and inn…

Today we welcome Thomas Lahnthaler. Thomas is an experienced crisis manager, facilitator, and author. For the past two decades, he has worked in over 30 countries, started two companies, and published his first book last summer, called Navigating Beyond Crisis. Thomas currently manages the leadership development of a global holding company. He advi…

Nancy Cooke is a professor in Human Systems Engineering at the Polytechnic School, one of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. She also directs Global Security Initiative’s Center for Human, AI, and Robot Teaming. Professor Cooke’s research interests include the study of individual and team cognition. Applied resear…

This podcast episode is from an informational webinar hosted by the Naturalistic Decision Making Association on December 15th, 2022. The webinar outlines the purpose and parameters of CTA in E/Affect, a challenge sponsored by Schmidt Futures to strengthen the case for Cognitive Task Analysis in the workplace. What is Cognitive Task Analysis? CTA is…

Original Air Date: 8/27/2020 Show Description: Today we welcome Emily Patterson. Emily is an associate professor in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the Ohio State University. She is known for her application of naturalistic decision-making and cognitive engineering in health care. She did groundbreaking work in bar code medicati…

Today we welcome John Schmitt to the podcast. John is a Senior Research Associate and the head of the ShadowBox Danger Division, which focuses on decision training for law enforcement, military, firefighting, and other high-risk domains. John is a former Marine Corps infantry officer. As a captain, he authored Warfighting, the manual that introduce…

Original Air Date: 1/29/2021 Show Description: Simon Henderson is an independent deception consultant working in the UK and the US. His career has involved researching, teaching, and consulting on deception, counter-deception, information operations and cyber operations within a variety of government, military, and law enforcement organizations. He…

Rollin J. “Terry” Fairbanks, MD, MS, is the Vice President Quality and Safety at MedStar Health, Professor of Emergency Medicine at Georgetown University, and Founding Director of the National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare. A board-certified emergency physician, he practices in the MedStar Washington Hospital Center emergency department. D…

This episode contains a keynote delivered by Gary Klein at the NDM Association's 2022 virtual Open House. Dr. Klein pioneered the Naturalistic Decision Making movement in 1989. He is well-known for his work in advancing a number of decision-making tools, methods, and cognitive models. These include the Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model, the D…

Today we welcome Wendy Jephson. Wendy Jephson is the Founding CEO of LetsThink, a new start-up that produces domain-specific technology designed specifically to support complex analytic thinking. LetsThink specializes in engaged intelligence, enabling its clients to think brilliantly. Dual qualified as a commercial lawyer and business psychologist …

Date recorded: November 12, 2021 Show Description: Today we welcome John Allspaw. John is an engineering leader and researcher with over 20 years of experience in building and leading teams engaged in software and systems engineering. He is a co-founder of Adaptive Capacity Labs, LLC. Previously, he was Chief Technology Officer at Etsy. He has also…

Date: 09/01/2021 Show Description: Beth Lay’s expertise is in applying Resilience Engineering, High Reliability Organizations, and Safety II to Human Performance. She is currently guiding the transformation from traditional, behavior-based safety to “new view” Safety II as the Director of Safety and Human Performance for Lewis Tree. Beth has advise…

Date: 05/25/2021 Show Description: Penny Sanderson is Professor of Cognitive Engineering and Human Factors at The University of Queensland, where she has appointments in the School of Psychology, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, and School of Clinical Medicine. She graduated with her BA (with Honors) from University of W…

Date: 04/16/2021 Show Description: Bill is Founder, President, and CSE Fellow at Resilient Cognitive Solutions. Bill’s military career includes an ROTC Commission in 1977 from Carnegie-Mellon University as a Distinguished Military Graduate, with further military education including Airborne, Ranger, Military Intelligence Officer Basic and Advanced …

Date: 04/08/2021 Show Description: Mary "Missy" Cummings received her B.S. in Mathematics from the US Naval Academy in 1988, her M.S. in Space Systems Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1994, and her Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2004. A naval officer and military pilot from 1988-1999, she was one of…

Date: 3/18/2021 Show Description: Cindy is a Principal Cognitive Engineer and Capability Lead for Human Machine Teaming (HMT) at MITRE in Bedford, MA where she works to normalize the use of systems engineering processes that create effective partnerships between people and technology. She strives to build a strong community of MITRE Human Machine T…

Date: 3/9/2021 Show Description: Dr. Mosier is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology from San Francisco State University and the Founder and Principal Scientist of TeamScape LLC, a company founded to conduct research on teams in work environments. She is the President of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA), the federation of ergonomics and…

Date: 12/10/2020 Show Description: Lia DiBello is president and director of research at WTRI, Inc. She received her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology at CUNY Graduate School in New York, where she studied under the late Distinguished Professor Sylvia Scribner, a well known pioneer in the area of workplace cognitive and the author of many now classic wo…

Date: 02/11/2021 Show Description: Shawn received a PhD and MA in Cognitive/Experimental Psychology from Ohio State University, with specializations in cognitive engineering, quantitative psychology, and psycholinguistics. He previously received a BA in Psychology/Music from Binghamton University (SUNY). He is a member of the Human Factors and Ergo…

Date: 02/05/2021 Show Description: Mike is grateful for the privilege of studying and supporting decision makers in over 100 military and commercial domains over the past 25 years, ranging from intelligence analysts and Special Operations Forces to computer hackers and cyber-security personnel, to intelligence analysts and firefighters. He speaks b…

Date: 1/29/2021 Show Description: Simon Henderson is an independent deception consultant working in the UK and the US. His career has involved researching, teaching, and consulting on deception, counter-deception, information operations and cyber operations within a variety of government, military, and law enforcement organisations. He is passionat…

Date: 12/17/2020 Show Description: John Flach received his PhD in human experimental psychology from The Ohio State University in 1984. After more than 30 years of teaching and supervising graduate research in universities, he joined Mile Two--a custom software development company--as a senior cognitive systems engineer. John has written extensivel…

Date: 12/03/2020 Show Description: Dr. Mica Endsley is widely recognized as a pioneer and world leader in the study and application of situation awareness in advanced systems. She is a former President of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and former Chief Scientist for the U.S. Air Force. Dr. Endsley is the author of over 200 scientific arti…

Date: 12/02/2020 Show Description: Neelam is the lead scientist at the Center for Cognitive Work and Safety Analysis (CWSA). She joined what is now the Defence Science and Technology Group (DST Group) as a Research Scientist in 1996 and was promoted to Senior Research Scientist in 1999. Some of Neelam's major projects at DST have involved the exten…

Date: 11/24/2020 Show Description: Anne Miller Is currently a Lead Human Factors Researcher with Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri, where she develops supervises and conducts Human Factors research related to 'high risk' electronic health record applications. Where to find Anne: Researchgate LinkedIn Learn more about NDM: NaturalisticDecisi…

Date: 11/06/2020 Show Description: Today we welcome William Wong. Dr. Wong is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, and Head of the Interaction Design Centre at Middlesex University London. His research is in cognitive engineering and the representation and interaction design of user interfaces that enhance situation awareness, sense-making, rea…

Date: 10/23/2020 Show Description: Today we welcome Jason Saleem. Jason J. Saleem is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Industrial Engineering at the J.B. Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville. He is also the Director of the Center for Ergonomics. Dr. Saleem received his Ph.D. from the Department of Industrial and S…

Date: 10/02/2020 Show Description: Eduardo is the Allyn R. & Gladys M. Cline Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences at Rice University. A prolific author and active consultant, he has published over 600 articles and chapters and his work has been cited over 100,000 times. He has consulted in a wide range of domains includin…

Date: 9/24/2020 Show Description: Dr. Pamela Richards leads the University of Central Lancaster’s vision for the research theme “Developing Expertise in individuals and teams”. Richards supervises over 18 doctoral students in the UK and worldwide in decision-making (including military / fire & technical, complex rescues & elite sport). Her research…

Date: 9/11/2020 Show Description: Dr. Stephen M. Fiore is Director, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, and Professor with the University of Central Florida's Cognitive Sciences Program in the Department of Philosophy and Institute for Simulation & Training. He maintains a multidisciplinary research interest that incorporates aspects of the cognitive, s…

Date: 8/27/2020 Show Description: Today we welcome Emily Patterson. Emily is an associate professor in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the Ohio State University. She is known for her application of naturalistic decision making and cognitive engineering in health care. She did groundbreaking work in bar code medication administra…

Date: 8/07/2020 Show Description: Today we welcome Lee Beach. Lee is the McClelland Centennial Emeritus Professor of Management at the Eller College of Business, at the University of Arizona. He was a Professor of Public Administration and of Psychology, teaching graduate and executive courses on managerial decision making and organizational change…

Date: 7/16/2020 Show Description: David Woods has worked to improve systems safety in high risk, complex settings for over 38 years. These include studies of human coordination with automated and intelligent systems and accident investigations in aviation, nuclear power, critical care medicine, crisis response, military operations, outages of criti…

Date: 7/6/2020 Show Description: Gary L Klein received his BA in Psychology and his PhD in Cognitive Social Psychology. He is a Senior Principal Scientist in cognitive science and artificial intelligence at The MITRE Corporation, where he has worked for nearly 30 years, focusing primarily on how people acquire and use information in domains includi…

Date: 6/29/2020 Show Description: We’re pleased to be talking today with Joel Suss. Joel is Assistant Professor of Human Factors in the Department of Psychology at Wichita State University. His research work focus on understanding and improving perceptual-cognitive performance – in particular, anticipation, decision making -- in complex and challen…

Date: 6/18/2020 Show Description: Today we welcome Shawna Perry. Shawna is an emergency medicine physician and runs a consulting firm called SJP Consulting. In both her roles as a physician and a consultant, she actively advocates for systems level views of patient safety. She is an active member of the naturalistic decision making community, the h…

Show Description: Peter Fadde is professor and director of the Learning Systems Design and Technology (LSDT) graduate program at Southern Illinois University. Olivia Brown is a Research Associate at the University of Bath, School of Management. Where to find Peter: Accelerating the Acquisition of Intuitive Decision-Making through Expertise-Based Tr…

Date: 5/22/2020 Show Description: “Jan Maarten is Principal Scientist at TNO and Professor of Applied Cognitive Psychology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. His research interests include resilience engineering, team communication processes, and human-machine teaming. He is the lead editor on two influential volumes: Cognitive Task Anal…

Date: 5/15/2020 Show Description: “Colonel Shattuck is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Human Systems Integration Program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Dr. Shattuck holds a faculty appointment in the Operations Research Department where he teaches human systems integration and human factors engineering. Colonel Shattu…