Dr. Lisa Vangsness

Assistant Professor, Psychology

Contact

1310 Ben Graves Drive
Morton Hall
Room 210
Huntsville, AL 35899
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lisa.vangsness@uah.edu

Biography

Dr. Vangsness grew up in the Chicagoland area and pursued her undergraduate degree at the University of Iowa. She spent two years working in the private sector before returning to pursue her MS and Ph.D. in Psychology from Kansas State University. When she isn’t researching or playing with data, Dr. Vangsness enjoys spending time outdoors, sewing, and listening to records with her dog.

Curriculum Vitae

Challenge, Metacognition, and Perception (ChaMP Lab)

Education

  • PhD, Psychology, Kansas State University
  • MS, Psychology, Kansas State University
  • BS, Psychology, University of Iowa
  • BA, Linguistics, University of Iowa

Affiliations

  • Challenge Metacognition and Perception (ChaMP) Lab
  • Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)

Expertise

  • Metacognition
  • Trust in Automation
  • Mathematical Modeling of Dynamic Processes

Recent Publications

  • Driggs, J.* & Vangsness, L. (2024). Automated Systems Lend Partial Support to the Unique Agent Hypothesis. Human Factors. (3.17)

  • Granados, J.*, Canare, D.*, & Vangsness, L. (2024). Level-Up! Comparing accessibility features based on gameplay performance. ICM Transactions on Accessible Computing (1.54)Journal of Accessibility and Design for All.

  • Tenhundfeld, N., Forsyth, J., Sprague, N., El-Tawab, S., Cotter, J.*, & Vangsness, L. (2023). In the rough: Evaluation of convergence across trust assessment techniques using an autonomous golf cart. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making (2.41)

  • Connelly, M.*, Vangsness, L., & Suss, J. (2023). Using Biological Motion to Investigate Perceptual-Cognitive Expertise in Law Enforcement Use-of-Force Decisions. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 38(3), 567-583. (1.94)

  • Koehl, D. * & Vangsness, L. (2024). Toward a Linguistic FingerprintTM of Trust. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

  • Sullivan, V.*, Atchley, J.*, Vangsness, L., & Tenhundfeld, N. (2024). Graphical Features & Perceptions of Reliability. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

  • Koehl, D.* & Vangsness, L. (2023). Measuring latent trust patterns in language models in the context of Human-AI teaming. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

  • Sutton, R. * & Vangsness, L. (2022). Decision-making at intersections. IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems.

  • Driggs, J.* & Vangsness, L. (2022). Changes in Trust in Automation (TiA) after performing a visual search task with an automated system. IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems.

  • Vangsness, L. & Driggs, J.* (2022). Cue use is unaffected by covertly performing a task. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.