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Fei GAO

Academic Background:

• present • MIT, ESD: PhD Candidate in Engineering Systems
• 2008 - 2010 • Tsinghua University: M.S. in Industrial Engineering, Human Factors Track
• 2004 - 2008 • Tsinghua University: B.S. in Industrial Engineering

Work Experience:

• present • Humans and Automation Lab, MIT
• 2008 - 2010 • Lab of Human Computer Interaction • Beijing, China
• 2007 • Foxconn Technology Group • Suzhou, China

Research Domain:

Modeling of teamwork in automated systems, Human Factors, Human Supervisory Control

Research Methodology:

Experimental design; Modeling and simulation

Research Description:

Advances in technology have enabled increasingly sophisticated automated systems to be applied to a number of fields including aviation, command and control, process control, search and rescue, and air traffic control. Teams increasingly will be called on to perform tasks requiring monitoring, coordination, and complex decision-making.Teams have the potential of offering greater adaptability, productivity, and creativity. However, the benefits of teamwork do not always occur naturally and teams can fail for many reasons. In order to enable human-automation teams to work effectively and efficiently, the goal of this research is to understand the nature of such teamwork using experiment and modeling method.

Publications:

• Gao, Fei, Missy Cummings, and Luca F. Bertuccelli. (2012) "Teamwork in Controlling Multiple Robots." 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.