NASA's Technology for Trust in Human Operators Webinar
Inventors at NASA have developed a novel approach to optimizing human machine teaming. The technology enables the inclusion of the state of the human operator in system wide prognostics for increasingly autonomous vehicles. It also could inform the design of automation and intelligent systems for low proficiency and reduced crews. The system monitors and measures multiple variables in real time, the status of the human operator and communicates that information to an intelligent machine. Status could include behavior, skill, physical or medical status, or mental state. Once this information pathway is established, the predictability of pilot or operator status will be improved so the autonomous system can be said to develop trust in human operators much like humans develop trust in automation.
The system would utilize non-contact instrumentation for biosignal, posture and behavioral gesture sensing for automation decision making.
During the webinar, you will learn about this unique system, as well as how NASA’s technologies and capabilities are available to industry and other organizations through NASA’s Technology Transfer Program.
For more information on the technology, please click here.
Dr. Angela Harrivel is excited to be contributing to NASA’s Human Research Program as the Center Lead for Exploration Medical Capability activities at the NASA Langley Research Center. She is a Biomedical Engineer, completed a five-month-long detail as acting branch head in the fall of 2020, and leads Human Performance and Monitoring in the Crew Systems and Aviation Operations branch. Also, she began in February 2021 a three-year term as the alternate member for Human Behavior and Performance on NASA’s agency Institutional Review Board.
Angela earned her MS in Physics in 1996, with a thesis focused on fiber-optic sensors. She was honored to be selected as the Distinguished Alumnus for 2017 by the John Carroll University Physics Department.
She earned her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan in 2014, where she was a Rackham Merit Fellow.
Angela holds three patents, is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Sensor Systems and Information Fusion Technical Committee, has provided review for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK) and multiple journals, and serves on the Editorial Board of Cognitive Neuroergonomics as Review Editor for the journal Frontiers in Neuroergonomics.
