Meet the Sophic Team
Scott Mishler, PhD, AHFP
Human Factors Specialist
Scott joined the Sophic team as a Human Factors Specialist in October of 2024. He graduated with his Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Purdue University, his Master of Science Degree in Psychology from Old Dominion University and his Ph.D. in Human Factors Psychology also from Old Dominion University.
Scott has experience working on various research projects regarding automated and semi-automated vehicles, human-computer interaction, AI and computer vision, trust in automation, vigilance, warnings, phishing, and cybersecurity. He has designed systems to help combat the vigilance decrement, improve warnings for hazards in vehicles, increase user understanding of automated functions to enhance usability, prevent users from falling for phishing scams, and understand calibration for trust in automation to prevent under- and over-trust that could result in catastrophe. With his extensive experience and drive for discovery, Scott is excited to help the Sophic team deliver impactful results for our clients.
Authored or Co-Authored by Scott Mishler, PhD
- Automation Error Type and Methods of Communicating Automation Reliability Affect Trust and Performance: An Empirical Study in the Cyber Domain
- Boring But Demanding: Using Secondary Tasks to Counter the Driver Vigilance Decrement for Partially Automated Driving
- The Description-Experience Gap in the Effect of Warning Reliability on User Trust and Performance in a Phishing-Detection Context
- Drivers’ Understanding of Artificial Intelligence in Automated Driving Systems: A Study of a Malicious Stop Sign
- Description-Experience Gap: The Role of Feedback and Description in Human Trust in Automation
- Effect of Automation Failure Type on Trust Development in Driving Automation Systems
- Effectiveness of Lateral Auditory Collision Warnings: Should Warnings be Toward Danger or Toward Safety?
- Flowers and spiders in spatial stimulus-response compatibility: Does affective valence influence selection of task-sets or selection of responses?
- Recognition of Car Warnings: An Analysis of Various Alert Types
- Using Anthropomorphism, Transparency, and Feedback to Improve Phishing Detection Aids