Selected Projects

Case studies on how people interact with automated vehicles, AI assistants, and other safety-critical systems.

Automotive UX & Human–AI Interaction

Vibration actuators on the seat back, seat belt, and seat cushion in both experiments, with additional actuators on the steering wheel in manual driving and on wrist-worn devices in automated driving

Purdue University × ZF Group

Designing Vibrotactile Alerts for Driving

Two simulator studies with 40 drivers tested how vibration placement and strength shape alert responses in manual driving and Level 3 takeovers.

Adaptive Intelligent Systems

Driving simulator setup with eye tracking, skin conductance, cardiac, and EEG sensors

Driver State Monitoring · Multimodal Sensing

Real-Time Trust Assessment

Evaluating which sensors and signal features can help estimate trust in automated driving.

Driver with eye-tracking landmarks and an illustrative PERCLOS vigilance monitoring display

Driver State Monitoring · Multimodal Sensing

Real-Time Driver Vigilance Monitoring System

Developed a PERCLOS-based driver vigilance monitoring system and evaluated its detection outcomes against traditional assessments.

Human Factors & Safety Engineering

Participant driving through a simulated road with work zone signs

Work zone safety

INDOT Automated Flagger

Comparing systems that can reduce flaggers’ exposure to traffic while maintaining work zone traffic control.

Operators working at consoles in a nuclear plant control room

Incident review and root cause analysis

Nuclear Power Plant Safety

Using incident reports to identify sources of error during commissioning and propose ways to reduce them.

Inclusive UX & Emerging Technologies

Four project team members holding their design poster

Personas and usability testing

AI Home Assistant

Designing usability tests for a home assistant with voice and visual interfaces.