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Michael A. Nees
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Professor of Psychology at Lafayette College. Interested in human factors, psychology of humans and tech, auditory displays, and accessibility. Opinions my own. https://sites.lafayette.edu/neesm
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Four panels of dialogue from the show Arrested Development modified to make the point that replacing humans with robots usually does not work.
September 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Wow.
Screen grab of a skeet that says "Professor Nowlis...expect to bill a total of between $50,000 and $100,000 for his testimony"
July 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Evidence shows lots of people learn to use ADAS by trial and error. This is knowable. (And not just from my small n study.)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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agelab.mit.edu/static/uploa...

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Some participants reported years of experience or daily use of ADAS, whereas others had only used ADAS 1-2 times. Participants reported learning to use the systems by trial and error (n = 17), with help from a friend or family member who knew how to use the system (n = 9), by reading the instruction manual (n = 2), and by consulting other (presumably online) information (n = 1).
July 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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FWIW I found that people thought "autopilot" meant pretty much the same thing as "self-driving" and "autonomous" and I'm pretty sure what people think the word means is the only thing that matters here...
Image of a bar graph from a study of drivers' perception of the meaning of terms used to describe automation in vehicles. "Autopilot" was approximately equivalent to "self-driving" and "autonomous" with all three indicating ratings that the vehicle is more responsible for driving functions than the human driver.
July 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I mean you could just ask people what they think the word means...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Image of a bar graph from a study of drivers' perception of the meaning of terms used to describe automation in vehicles. "Autopilot" was approximately equivalent to "self-driving" and "autonomous" with all three indicating ratings that the vehicle is more responsible for driving functions than the human driver.
July 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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CFP for the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2024) is out: icad2024.icad.org
#sonification #auditorydisplay
The 29th International Conference on Auditory Display, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA 24-28 June, 2024. Full Paper due is March 8. For more details: http://icad2024.icad.org #Sonification #AuditoryDisplay #SoundDesign
January 23, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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AP software director who when deposed didn’t know what an ODD is or whether his team had a human factors expert has been there for 10 years per his LinkedIn. But sure, this is a recent development for them and totally higher ed’s fault. 😒
December 13, 2023 at 11:33 PM