Threat and cognition
Social interaction
Human interactions with autonomous systems
My current research examines how acute threat affects cognition and behaviour. Here we use a wide range of methods from qualitative interviews with individuals about life threatening experiences, to laboratory-based experiments using immersive virtual environments. The key goal of this research is to better understand who performs optimally under threat, and how they do so.
My lab also studies human interactions with autonomous systems. Our goal it to better understand how autonomous systems can be designed to interact safely and efficiently with humans.