Janine Mator is a research scientist for the Leidos Innovation Center (LiNC), where she uses her M.S. in human factors to study human behavior as it relates to latent constructs like trust in automation and situation awareness. Janine’s professional writing on these topics primarily concerns their impact on human performance for unmanned vehicle operators. Her recent literature review on the pull-down effect of trust in automation enabled her to design an experiment with experienced fighter pilots at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) alongside one of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) leading experts on trust in automation. Her work also includes written contributions to RFI and RFP responses concerning usability and human-centered design, as well as Institutional Review Board (IRB) application development for emerging technological research at Leidos.
Previously, Janine served as supervisor of the Psychology of Design Laboratory while earning her master’s degree in human factors from Old Dominion University. Her previous research projects include a virtual reality experiment to assess trust in autonomous agents wielding lethal and non-lethal weapons; a survey study to assess the impact of her prototyped web application on cyber hygiene and cyber situation awareness (supported in part by the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative); and a dual-task experiment to detect differences in working memory performance and self-reported usability after using different authentication schemes.