Effective XR Space Domain Training for Guardian Proficiency
Daniel Stouch, Susan Latiff, Rob Hyland, Daniel Duggan, Patrick Hosman Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Orlando, Florida (3 December 2025) Tutorial Abstract Space has captured the imagination of billions of people around the world and has become essential to our daily quality of life. As commercial companies demonstrate more and more success with […]
Challenges and Solutions in Using Virtual Testbeds to Study Hacker Cognitive Constraints
Sean Guarino1, David Kelle1, Curt Wu1, K. Raghav Bhat2, Robert Gutzwiller2, Max Slocum3, Michael Sieffert3, Michelle Neisser4 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Orlando, Florida (3 December 2025) Gaining a better understanding of the cognitive constraints of cyberattackers can drive the development of effective proactive cyber defenses. Studying hacker behavior, however, requires the development […]
Transforming Technical Documentation into On-Demand Adaptive Training Content
Ernest V. Cross II, Jimena Guallar-Blasco, Matthew Miller, Leonard Eusebi Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Orlando, Florida (3 December 2025) In many contexts, trainees need individualized, on-demand content to refresh skills. To provide this capability, we designed an intelligent user interface (IUI) that uses a context -aware system for just-in-time training to convert […]
Physiological measurement of situation awareness: a study of the validity of EEG and fNIRS during performance and automation monitoring in a complex task
Elena K. Festa¹, Isaac Y. Kim¹, Aaron T. Winder², Bethany K. Bracken², Phillip C. Desrochers² & Mica R. Endsley³ The journal Ergonomics (05 September 2025), https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2025.2553130 Abstract SA is critical in various domains. SA measures (e.g., Situation Awareness Global Assessment Technique (SAGAT)) require simulation freezes, limiting use in real-world settings. Objective physiological measures offer alternatives […]
Coltrane: A domain-independent system for characterizing and planning in novel situations
Bryan Loyall1, Avi Pfeffer1, James Niehaus1, Michael Harradon1, Paola Rizzo², Alex Gee1, Joe Campolongo1, Tyler Mayer1, John Steigerwald1 Journal of Artificial Intelligence (AIJ), Volume 345 (August 2025), AI systems operating in open-world environments must be able to adapt to impactful changes in the world, immediately when they occur, and be able to do this across the […]
Real-Time Autoregressive Forecast of Cardiac Features for Psychophysiological Applications
Cem O. Yaldiz¹, David J. Lin¹, Asim H. Gazi¹, Gabriela Cestero¹, Chuoqi Chen¹, Bethany K. Bracken², Aaron Winder², Spencer Lynn², Reza Sameni³, and Omer T. Inan¹ IEEE Journal of Biomedical Health Informatics (26 February 2025), doi: 10.1109/JBHI.2025.3546148 Abstract Forecasting the near-exact moments of cardiac phases is crucial for several cardiovascular health applications. For instance, forecasts […]
Generating Neurolinguistic Stimuli using LLM Prompting
Ming Qian, Terry Patten, Spencer Lynn, Aaron Winder, Maxwell Pickering Presented at the 27th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Gothenburg, Sweden (22-27 June 2025) Abstract A general-purpose large language model (ChatGPT-GPT-4o) was used to generate self-relevant (SR) and non-self-relevant (NSR) vignettes designed to elicit the N400 component, a neurophysiological marker of semantic and affective […]
Conducting User-Centered Evaluations Across an Emerging Ecosystem of Prototype Bioinformatics Tools
Nicolette McGeorge¹, Nicholas Alico¹, Jacqueline Brandon², M. Reza Jalaeian², Stephane Kane¹, Ryan Kilgore¹, Susan Latiff¹, Matthew Miller¹, Akhil Modali², Jennifer Winner², Michael Rayo² Poster presented at the 2025 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care, Toronto, Canada (30 March – 2 April 2025) Submission Summary This presentation discusses methods and protocols being […]
Preliminary Usability Evaluation of a Virtual Reality (VR) Application for Quitting Nicotine Vaping
Bethany K. Bracken1, Phillip C. Desrochers1, Ian McAbee1, Nicolette M. McGeorge1, Susan Latiff1, Bradly T. Stone1, Dan T. Duggan1, Corinne Cather2, and A. Eden Evins2 Presented at BIOSTEC 2025. 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (February 2025) AWARDED BEST POSTER CERTIFICATE Nicotine vaping is a global problem. Limited vaping cessation interventions […]