About Me
👋 Welcome! I’m a UX and Human Factors Researcher. I recently defended my Human Factors PhD at George Mason University (yay!). I am passionate about accessible communication and enhancing system transparency for users with dedication to both qualitative and quantitative end-to-end research designs.
My research diverges into three domains:
🚘 Transparent vehicle-human communication
❤️ Accessible well-being AI chatbots
📱 Enhancing product design
You can find the most recent version of my resume here
PhD in Human Factors and Applied Cognition, 2024
George Mason University
MA in Human Factors and Applied Cognition, 2022
George Mason University
MS in Psychology, 2020
University of Otago
BS(Hons) in Psychology, 2018
University of Otago
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Experience
- Enhanced driver safety awareness through validating a vehicle communication framework involving AR and AI using surveys, A/B testing, semantic analysis, and thematic analysis of 8500+ responses.
- Analyzed demographic distinctions in trust and social perceptions of autonomous vehicles and social robots through ANOVA and psychometric analysis of surveys.
- Increased potential for user engagement by creating a novel rewards program for a driving application through user interviews, card sorting, competitor analysis, journey mapping, and a novel tournament-style rewards prioritization.
- Published strategic recommendations to improve accessibility and UX of well-being chatbots by analyzing 19 interviews with cognitive walkthroughs and data mining of 60k+ comments from online public forums.
- Enabled research growth through the management and mentoring of 20+ researchers over 7 projects through all phases of research, from study design (literature reviews and planning), data collection (in-person and online recruitment), analysis (thematic analysis, ANOVA, regression), and report writing.
- Enhanced research protocol effectiveness by advocating areas for improvement to stakeholders towards creating a novel testbed for human-machine teaming in space operations.
- Strengthened support for securing future grants towards human-machine teaming through successful implementation of proof-of-concept experimental research.
- Collaborated with the United States Air Force Academy and mentored 2 cadets in end-to-end research leading to their successful stakeholder presentation and conference submission.
- Enhanced road safety understanding of youth driver risk factors through the development of driving simulations coupled with SPSS regression analysis on survey data of 100+ participants.
- Advocated policy changes and safety initiatives at rail level crossings through systematically identifying 40+ crash contributing factors at rail level crossings across New Zealand and Australia via thematic analysis of investigation reports and Subject Matter Expert survey.
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To see my full publication list, visit my Google Scholar profile here.