Episode #12: Interview with Gary L. Klein of MITRE

Naturalistic Decision Making

Date: 7/6/2020

Show Description:

Gary L Klein received his BA in Psychology and his PhD in Cognitive Social Psychology. He is a Senior Principal Scientist in cognitive science and artificial intelligence at The MITRE Corporation, where he has worked for nearly 30 years, focusing primarily on how people acquire and use information in domains including emergency response, air traffic management, and intelligence analysis. He has led projects about using forecasting models that generate graphical depictions of decision spaces to improve decision makers’ “option awareness” under deep uncertainty, designing a Collaborative Option Awareness for Joint Actions, or COAction, process, to provide emergency responders with something beyond situation awareness, and generating a framework for evaluating collaboration. In 2015, Gary and MITRE served as hosts for the 12th International NDM Conference.

Where to find Gary

MITRE

Learn more about NDM:

NaturalisticDecisionMaking.org

Where to find hosts Brian Moon and Laura Militello:

Brian’s website

Brian’s LinkedIn

Brian’s Twitter

Laura’s website

Laura’s LinkedIn

Laura’s Twitter

Resources mentioned during the show:

• Drury, J. L., Pfaff, M. S., and Klein, G. L. (in press). A Method for Rigorously Assessing Causal Mental Models to Support Distributed Team Cognition.
  
• Pfaff, M. S., Drury, J. L., and Klein, G. L. (2015). Crowdsourcing Mental Models using DESIM (Descriptive to Executable Simulation Modeling).
  
• Pfaff, M. S., Klein, G. L., Drury, J. L, Moon, S. P., Liu, Y., and Entezari, S. O. (2012). Supporting complex decision making through option awareness. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making
  
• Klein, G. L., Drury, J. L., and Pfaff, M. S. (2011). Providing an option awareness basis for naturalistic decision making. Journal of Cognitive Technology, Vol 16(2), pp. 10 – 19.