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Biography
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she/her
Amelia C. Warden is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. Dr. Warden earned a PhD in Psychology from Colorado State University and has an MS degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of Idaho, along with a BS in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Kansas. She also holds an MFA in Photography/Mixed Media from Washington State University. She has collaborated with scientists in Psychology, Computer Science, Atmospheric Science, Information Visualization, and the Naval Research Lab, which served as driving forces behind her research interests.
Education
- PhD, Colorado State University, 2024, Psychology
- MFA, Washington State University, 2018, Photography/Mixed Media
- MS, University of Idaho, 2015, Experimental Psychology
- BS, University of Kansas, 2012, Cognitive Psychology
Research Interests
Dr. Warden’s research explores how cognitive processes, particularly attention, visual perception and decision-making, inform the design of emerging technologies, including augmented reality systems, to optimize human-automation interactions in safety-critical domains, especially when automation is imperfect.
Professional Society Memberships
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
- Vision Sciences Society (VSS)
Sample Publications
- Warden, A. C., Wickens, C. D., Clegg, B. A., Rehberg, D., & Ortega, F. R. (2024). Information access effort: The role of head movements for information presented at increasing eccentricity on flat panel and head-mounted displays. Human Factors, 66(8), 2057-2081
- Warden, A. C., Wickens, C. D., Clegg, B. A., & Ortega, F. R. (2024). Quantitative effects of overlay clutter and information access effort: Examining the scan-clutter trade-off in displays with geospatial maps. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.
- Warden, A. C., Wickens, C. D., Rehberg, D., Ortega, F. R., & Clegg, B. A. (2023). Fast, Accurate, but Sometimes Too-Compelling Support: The Impact of Imperfectly Automated Cues in an Augmented Reality Head-Mounted Display on Visual Search Performance. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.
- Warden, A. C., Witt, J. K., & Szafir, D. A. (2022). Visualizing temperature trends: Higher sensitivity to trend direction with single-hue palettes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 28(4), 717-745.
- Warden, A. C. (2024). Strategic Attention Guidance: The Impact of Dual and Single Cues in Wide Field of View Searches. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting
- Warden, A. C., Witt, J. K., & Clegg, B. A. (2024). Beyond the Cone of Uncertainty: Exploring the Flexibility of Animated Risk Trajectories for Improving Hurricane Risk Communication. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting
Awards
- Best Student Paper for the Human Performance Modeling Technical Group 2023
- CSU Department of Psychology Research Excellence Award (2023)
- Best Student Paper for the Virtual Environments Technical Group (2022)