Episode #29: Interview with Kathleen Mosier
Naturalistic Decision Making
English - March 19, 2021 12:50 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBSocial Sciences Science Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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 human factors societies around the world.
The mission of the IEA is to elaborate and advance ergonomics science and practice, and to expand its scope of application and contribution to society to improve the quality of life, working closely with its constituent societies and related international organizations.
Learn more about Kathleen’s work:
Berkeley Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces
Learn more about NDM:
NaturalisticDecisionMaking.org
Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making
Where to find hosts Brian Moon and Laura Militello:
Timestamps:
How Kathleen transitioned from being a high school humanities teacher to an NDM researcher [2:02]
Kathleen’s experience in pursuing research at San Francisco State University [05:21]
Founding TeamScape, LLC [6:23]
Challenges acquiring government clients as an NDM researcher [7:34]
Kathleen’s current project with NASA researching teams in space [14:47]
Cultural nuances of interactions on NASA crews operating in different countries [20:40]
“Which research project has been most rewarding for you?” [22:10]
What kind of automation systems planes were using in the 1990’s [24:01]
Kathleen’s early NDM influences [28:04]
Changes witnessed in the NDM community over time [29:50]