Naturalistic Decision Making

We are honored to be joined today by Gerd Gigerenzer. Dr. Gigerenzer is Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the University of Potsdam, Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg and partner of Simply Rational – The Institute for Decisions. He is former Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and at the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich, Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago and John M. Olin Distinguished Visiting Professor, School of Law at the University of Virginia.

In addition, he is Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the German Academy of Sciences and Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

He was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Basel and the Open University of the Netherlands, and is Batten Fellow at the Darden Business School, University of Virginia.

Awards for his work include the AAAS Prize for the best article in the behavioral sciences, the Association of American Publishers Prize for the best book in the social and behavioral sciences, the German Psychology Award, and the Communicator Award of the German Research Foundation.

His award-winning popular books Calculated Risks, Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, and Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions have been translated into 21 languages. His academic books include Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart, Rationality for Mortals, Simply Rational, and Bounded Rationality (with Reinhard Selten, Nobel Laureate in economics).

His most recent book, The Intelligence of Intuition, is set to be published the week we are recording this podcast!

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Dr. Joan H. Johnston (Retired) has over 30 years of experience as a Senior Research Scientist with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army. She has written and collaborated on over 100 publications and has given innumerable presentations and tutorials about her research which has had a significant impact on advancing the science of Learning, Team Training, Decision Making under Stress, Performance Measurement, and Organizational Development. She obtained her M.A. and Ph.D. in Industrial & Organizational Psychology from the University of South Florida.

Dr. Johnston’s career with the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) was marked by extensive collaborations across the Department of Defense, academia, and private industry. She was a principal Investigator and project manager for the Office of Naval Research (ONR) sponsored Tactical Decision Making Under Stress (TADMUS) program; ONR recognized her outstanding performance with the Dr. Arthur E. Bisson Prize for Naval Technology Achievement. In 2001 the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology also recognized this achievement with the M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace.

In recognition of her sustained performance excellence NAVAIR made Dr. Johnston a Research and Engineering Associate Fellow in 2008. After 22 years Dr. Johnston moved on to a promotion
as the U.S. Army Research Institute’s Unit Chief in Orlando, and then eventually joined the U.S. Army Research Laboratory as a Senior Scientist at the Simulation Training and Technology
Center (STTC). She continued to work across agencies and services in pursuit of advancing the science of team training. She and her colleagues were recognized in 2016 for their outstanding accomplishments with the Department of the Army Achievement Medal for Civilian Service and the NTSA Modeling and Simulation Team Award. Dr. Johnston’s leadership on this program

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Christian is interested in human worlds, human perception and the skill of observation, which is reflected in the diversity of his professional experience. He has been a full time Professor of Applied Humanities at The New School for Social Research; a Senior Fellow at The Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI) in Tokyo, Japan and a Distinguished Visitor at The Buffett Center for International Affairs at Northwestern University in Chicago.
He co-founded ReD Associates, a pioneering consultancy with offices in
Copenhagen, Paris, London and New York City, and a health data start-up Lateral Data based in Dallas TX. His board appointments include Chairman of the top-tier architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group: BIG; Independent director of the luxury furniture manufacturer Fritz Hansen; Independent director and Nomination/Governance Committee chairman at the battery metals company The Metals Company; Member of the high-end home textiles manufacturer Kvadrat; and Board member at Red Associates Holding. His work has been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, and Bloomberg Business week. And he is the author of three books:

The Moment of Clarity - Using the Human Sciences to Solve Your Toughest Business Problems

Sensemaking - The Power of The Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm

And just released:
Look - How to pay attention in a world of distraction.

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Kevin Oden is an LM Fellow at Lockheed where has work for 14 years. Currently, he leads research initiatives focused on Human-Autonomy Collaboration. In this role, he supports cross corporation efforts and has responsibilities for engagements with universities, DOD service labs, and small business partners. He was earned his Ph.D. in Applied Experimental and Human Factors Psychology at the University of Central Florida. He was a Graduate Research Fellow at the Consortium of Universities in Washington D.C.

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Today we welcome David Feldon, Professor of Instructional Technology & Learning
Sciences, College of Education and Human Services, Utah State University.
Dr. Feldon’s research examines two lines of inquiry that are distinct but mutually
supportive.

The first characterizes the cognitive components of expertise as they contribute to
effective and innovative problem solving, as well as how they affect the quality of
instruction that experts can provide.

The second examines the development of research skills within STEM disciplines as
a function of instruction and other educational support mechanisms. He also
conducts some research into technology-facilitated instructional approaches and
research methods for examining them.

David’s work currently focuses on:

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Today we welcome Thomas Lahnthaler.

Thomas is an experienced crisis manager, facilitator, and author. For the past two decades, he has worked in over 30 countries, started two companies, and published his first book last summer, called Navigating Beyond Crisis.

Thomas currently manages the leadership development of a global holding company. He advises companies globally on leadership and learning and has turned his passion for human dynamics into his profession, specializing in designing and facilitating experiential learning arenas. He constantly strives to get new perspectives, and his approach is heavily influenced by his work and time spent with indigenous peoples.

He currently resides in Norway, where he gets inspired by his two most excellent teachers, as he calls them, his children.

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Nancy Cooke is a professor in Human Systems Engineering at the Polytechnic School, one of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University.  She also directs Global Security Initiative’s Center for Human, AI, and Robot Teaming.  Professor Cooke’s research interests include the study of individual and team cognition. Applied research topics include:

· the development of cognitive and knowledge engineering methodologies,

· sensor operator threat detection,

· cyber and intelligence analysis,

· remotely-piloted aircraft systems,

· human-robot teaming,

· healthcare systems, and

· emergency response systems.

She specializes in the development, application, and evaluation of methodologies to elicit and assess individual and team cognition. Dr. Cooke is a Past President of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the past chair of the Board on Human Systems Integration at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. She also recently chaired a study panel for the National Academies on the Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science.  Dr. Cooke was a member of the US Air Force Scientific Advisory board from 2008-2012, and in 2014, she received the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society’s Arnold M. Small President’s Distinguished Service Award.

Learn more about her work at the links below:

ASU Human Systems Engineering Program 

ASU Global Security Initiative CHART Program 

CHART-ing the Future of Space Exploration 

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This podcast episode is from an informational webinar hosted by the Naturalistic Decision Making Association on December 15th, 2022. 

The webinar outlines the purpose and parameters of CTA in E/Affect, a challenge sponsored by Schmidt Futures to strengthen the case for Cognitive Task Analysis in the workplace.

CTA is a toolkit used by psychologists, researchers, and instructional designers to understand how high-performing professionals make complex decisions.

The deep insights revealed through CTA can be used to design training programs that help novices achieve proficiency at a rapid pace.

The grant will support a year-long project carried out in two stages.

Stage 1: CTA in Effect [DEADLINE: February 15th, 2023]

The first stage will solicit case studies of CTA's ROI and award $10,000 in total prize money to the most compelling submissions.

Stage 2: CTA in Affect [To take place throughout 2023]

The second stage will identify high-value areas of opportunity for CTA-based training programs.

Are you an experienced CTA practitioner?

Do you represent a  company that would like to learn more about how CTA can preserve institutional knowledge and accelerate training?

If the answer to either question is yes, this podcast and the challenge it describes will be of value to you.

Thank you to Schmidt Futures for their generous sponsorship of this initiative and support of the NDMA and its mission.

Learn more about their work at SchmidtFutures.com.

Original Air Date: 8/27/2020

Show Description:

Today we welcome Emily Patterson. Emily is an associate professor in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the Ohio State  University. She is known for her application of naturalistic decision-making and cognitive engineering in health care. She did groundbreaking work in bar code medication administration when that technology was new,  highlighting unintended consequences and making recommendations to improve the integration of new technologies into workflow. She co-authored the national standard for the summative usability testing methodology for ensuring the safety of electronic health records published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

She has conducted applied research on clinical reminders, alarms, and transitions of care with a focus on improving the efficiency,  usability, and accuracy of clinical documentation in electronic health records.

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The Ohio State University 

Usability and User Experience in Health Care certificate program 

NISTIR 7804: Technical Evaluation, Testing, and Validation of the Usability of Electronic Health Records

Macrocognition Metrics and Scenario: Design and Evaluation for Real-World Teams 

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Today we welcome John Schmitt to the podcast. John is a Senior Research Associate and the head of the ShadowBox Danger Division, which focuses on decision training for law enforcement, military, firefighting, and other high-risk domains. John is a former Marine Corps infantry officer. As a captain, he authored Warfighting, the manual that introduced the Corps’ new Maneuver Warfare operational doctrine and became the manifesto for the Marine Corps reforms of the 1990s. Warfighting has been reprinted commercially as a management guide for business leaders. He invented and popularized tactical decision games (TDGs), which have become a staple of Marine Corps training and have been exported to other domains. In 1994 he authored Mastering Tactics: A Tactical Decision Games Workbook. He has authored hundreds of TDGs.  In 1999 he and Gary Klein developed the Recognitional Planning Model, a staff planning methodology based on Klein’s Recognition-primed decision (RPD) model. His hobbies include cycling, soccer, reading and arguing with Gary.

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[WEBINAR] Tackling Wicked Problems: Tools and Takeaways from the field of NDM

ShadowBox Training

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