Nadine Sarter, Ph.D.
Attention and interruption management
How to support operators in managing their limited attentional resources to cope with challenges like data overload, frequent interruptions and the need to timeshare multiple tasks.
Complex system failures
How to help operators anticipate, diagnose and cope with breakdowns of complex systems that involve a large number of elements which interact extensively, often in unforeseen ways.
Human error
How to support the detection, diagnosis and recovery from erroneous actions and assessments through design and training.
Human-automation interaction
How to design highly automated systems and (semi)autonomous agents to ensure that they communicate and collaborate effectively with their human counterparts.
Human-robot interaction
How to design highly automated systems and (semi)autonomous agents to ensure that they communicate and collaborate effectively with their human counterparts.
Multimodal interface design
How to design displays that distribute information across various sensory channels (vision, touch and audition) to offload the often overburdened visual modality and support functions like redundancy and immersion.