As Principal Investigator
Team Learning for Better Scientific Software
This project advances the study of team learning in scientific software via development of a framework for future research and creation of resources for teams. The associated work was funded by a 1-year award to Olivia B. Newton via the 2024 Better Scientific Software Fellowship.
- Sponsors: U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. National Science Foundation ($25,000)
- Products:
Social and Cognitive Antecedents of Turnover in Free/Libre and Open Source Software
My dissertation research modeled membership change in open source projects in addition to the effects of corporatization on participation decisions in open source development. This work was funded via the McKnight Doctoral Fellowship ($85,000), the NTSA RADM Fred Lewis I/ITSEC Postgraduate Scholarship ($10,000), and the UCF Doctoral Research Support Award ($1,000).
- Products:
- Research article in the Journal of Systems and Software
- Workshop paper at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering
- Workshop paper at the ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work
- Research paper at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting
- arXiv preprint
As Manager or Coordinator
Cognition in Support of Future Space Missions
The goal of this project was to develop unobtrusive measures of team functioning for future space missions by leveraging multi-sensor data (e.g., physiological, environmental, etc.) to monitor individual and team cognitive states.
- Role: Project Manager
- Sponsor: U.S. DoD Minerva Research Initiative (PI: Stephen M. Fiore)
- Activity period: August 2022 - September 2024
- Products:
Understanding Team Science to Help Reinvent Scientific Talent
This project explored the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enable the effectiveness of interdisciplinary teams, including the competencies required for team learning.
- Role: Research Lead
- Sponsor: National Science Foundation (PI: Stephen M. Fiore)
- Activity period: January 2021 - September 2024
- Products:
- Theory paper at the International Science of Team Science Conference
- Poster at the International Science of Team Science Conference
- Poster at International Science of Team Science Conference,
- Poster at the Annual Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research
- Poster at the International Conference on Science of Science and Innovation
Artificial Social Intelligence for Successful Teams
This multi-institution effort developed and evaluated a machine agent endowed with artificial social intelligence for teams in task environments characterized by high complexity and time pressure.
- Role: Researcher, Publication Development and Oversight Committee Member
- Sponsor: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (PI: Stephen M. Fiore)
- Activity period: August 2019 - August 2020
- Products:
SocialSim: Computational Simulation of Online Social Behavior
In this project, our team built a comprehensive, realistic and at-scale computational simulation of information spread and evolution in online social networks using a novel computational modeling paradigm.
- Role: Researcher, GRA Coordinator
- Sponsor: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (PI: Ivan Garibay)
- Activity period: August 2017 - July 2019
- Products:
As Research Staff
Enhanced Learning Effectiveness of Augmented Reality Flight Trainers
- Role: Researcher
- Sponsor: LM (PI: Stephen M. Fiore)
- Activity period: 2019 - 2020
Interactive Visualization in Support of Decision Making Under Uncertainty
- Role: Researcher
- Sponsor: Office of Naval Research (PI: Stephen M. Fiore)
- Activity period: 2015 - 2018
Social Cues and Behaviors in Human Robot Collaboration
- Role: Researcher
- Sponsor: Army Research Lab (PI: Stephen M. Fiore)
- Activity period: 2016 - 2017
IMPACT: Intelligent Multi-UxV Planner with Adaptive Collaborative/Control Technologies
- Role: Researcher
- Sponsor: Army Research Lab (PI: Jessie YC Chen)
- Activity period: 2015 - 2016