Title: Graduate Research Assistant

Contact information:
Institute for Simulation and Training
3280 Progress Drive
Orlando, Florida 32826
Office: 407-882-1408
Fax: 407-882-1550
Email: kwilson@ist.ucf.edu; wilsonkat@yahoo.com

Year started in the program: 1999

Background and Research interests: My research interests include team training, aviation psychology and aviation safety. Currently, I am working on a project with the UCF/FAA/NAWCTSD Partnership for Aviation Team Training to develop guidelines for pilot training for unexpected events. Areas that are being considered are the concept of surprise, schema theory, and heuristics, as well as metacognitive and team training. Other projects that I am currently working on are: effects of national culture on teams, effects of preparatory information on pilots' reactions to unexpected events, and team training for medical teams.

Publications:

Journals
Burke, C. S., Wilson, K. A., Salas, E., & Kincaid, J. P. (2002). Keeping emergency vehicles from becoming accident statistics. Ergonomics in Design, 10(1), 23-28.

Kosarzycki, M. P., Salas, E., Wilson, K. A., & DeRouin, R. (in press). Teamwork training in organizations. The case of training resource management. To appear in Psykhé. 

Salas, E., Burke, C. S., Bowers, C. A., & Wilson, K. A. (2002). Team training in the skies: Does crew resource management (CRM) training work? Human Factors, 43(4), 641-674.

Salas, E., Burke, C. S., Fowlkes, J. E., & Wilson, K. A. (in progress). Understanding multi-cultural team leadership: Challenges and opportunities.

Salas, E., Wilson, K. A., Burke, C. S., & Bowers, C. A. (in press). Implementing crew resource management (CRM) training: Myths to avoid. To appear in Ergonomics in Design.

Wilson, K. A., Priest, H. A., Salas, E., & Burke, C. S. (2003). Safety in manufacturing: The need for a multilevel approach. Submitted to Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing Distinguished Invited Papers Series.

Chapters
Hitt, J. M., Kass, S. J., Wilson, K. A., & Salas, E. (2001). Understanding human performance in complex environments: Research paradigms and emerging application areas. Advances in human performance and cognitive engineering research (Vol. 1, pp. 317-335). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing.

Priest, H. A., Wilson, K. A., & Salas, E. (under review). National Standardization Efforts in Ergonomics and Human Factors. Submitted to W. Karwowski (Ed.), Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics Standards. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Salas, E., Burke, C. S., & Fowlkes, J. E., & Wilson, K. A. (in press). Promoting effective leadership within multi-cultural teams: An event-based approach. To appear in D. Day, S. J. Zaccaro, & S. M. Halpin (Eds.), Leader development for transforming organizations. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Wilson, K. A., Priest, H. A., Salas, E., Burke, C. S. (in press). Can training for safe practices reduce the risk of organizational liability? To appear in I. Noy & W. Karwowski (Eds.), Handbook of forensic human factors and ergonomics. Taylor & Francis.  

Presentations and Proceedings
Burke, C. S., Wilson, K. A., Salas, E., & Bowers, C. A. (2001, April). Team training in the skies: Does it really work? In S. W. J. Kozlowski, & R. DeShon (Chairs), Enhancing team performance: Emerging theory, instructional strategies, and evidence. Symposium conducted at the 16^th annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, San Diego, CA.

Burke, C. S., Wilson, K. A., & Salas, E. (2002). Crisis Management Teams: Leveraging The Science of Team Performance Under Stress. In Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (pp. 546-550). Baltimore, MD.

Commarford, P. M., Wilson, K. A., & Stanney, K. M. (2002). When should computers talk: Using Multiple Resource Theory to determine whether to add synthetic speech to a user interface. In Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (pp. 612-616). Baltimore, MD.

Fowlkes, J., Burke, C. S., Wilson, K. A., Milham, L., Bergondy, M., & Salas, E. (2002, April). Training and design to enhance adaptability in military teams. Paper presented at the Annual Midyear Symposium of the American Psychological Association Divisions 19 and 21, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Jentsch, F., Salas, E., Hoeft, R., & Wilson, K. (2002). Team training and culture. Presented at Conference on CRM, Teams and Culture.  Norfolk, VA, March 25-26.

Wilson, K. A. (2002, March). Maximizing the team experience in the HIVE. In C. A. Bowers (Chair), Technology, friend or foe. Panel conducted at the 48^th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Orlando, FL.

Wilson, K. A. (2000). How effective is crew resource management (CRM) Training? Poster presented at the 1^st Annual HFES Student Chapter Conference, Orlando, FL.

Wilson, K. A., Burke, C. S., Salas, E., & Bowers, C. A. (2001, August). Does CRM training transfer to the cockpit?: Methodological observations.  Poster presented at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Diego, CA.

Wilson, K. A., Burke, C. S., & Salas, E. (2002). Culture in the cockpit. Paper presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Wilson, K. A., Varnadore, M., Millar, J., Pettitt, B., Upham, L., Vick, E., Reilly, C., & Kincaid, J. P. (in press). Improving airport screener training and evaluation through the use of simulation. To appear in Proceedings of the 1^st Swedish-American Workshop on Modeling and Simulation, SAWMAS 2002

Other involvements/activities:

Leadership Activities      
President, UCF Student Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (1/02-1/03)

Vice President, UCF Student Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (1/01-1/02)

Treasurer, UCF Student Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (12/99-12/00) 

Awards/Scholarships     
Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) Graduate Student Scholarship (2002)

IST's Student Researcher of the Year (2001)  

IST's Student Researcher of the Year (2000)

Memberships in 

American Psychological Association

Professional Societies   
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (member of Aerospace, Safety and Training Technical Groups)

Southeastern Psychological Association

Women in Aviation International

Professional Activities   
Student Sessions Paper Reviewer, 2002 HFES Annual Meeting (3/02)

Student Reviewer for HFES Technical Group Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making "Best Student Paper"(8/01)

General Sessions Paper Reviewer, 2000 IEA/HFES Congress (9/99)
            

Flight Experience   
Private Pilot Certificate (1994)

Total Flight Time: 110.7 hours (65.5 PIC)