711 HPW/RHW — Fights On - Published Content

The listings below feature published content from AFRL's Warfighter Interactions and Readiness Division (RHW), including journal publications, conference proceedings, presentations, and more.

PUBLICATIONS
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 Journal Publications

Burkhardt, J., Strilka, R., Cheney, M., Etherton, K., Smith, M., Kay, K., Davis, W., Horn, C., Sams, V., Cizek, G., & Winner, J. (2026). Critical care air transport job analysis for current and past conflicts. Military Medicine, usag208, https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usag208.

Strilka, R., Sams, V., Cooper, P., Raygor, D., Beam, R., Strickland, K., Etherton, K., Smith, M., Nathwani, J., Fraiser, L., & Horn, C. (2026). An estimate of civilian readiness requirements for surgeons: A survey of American College of Surgeons trauma medical directors. Military Medicine, usag209, https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usag209.

Curley, T. M., Rhodes, L. J., Borghetti, L., & Morris, M. B. (2026). Conflict and control in error monitoring during sustained visual discrimination. Frontiers in Cognition, 5, 1565885. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcogn.2026.1565885 

Fox, E. L., Capiola, A., Stephenson, A., Bowers, G., Harris, K., & Egan, V. (2025). The effects of teammate performance and display type on real-time team multitasking throughput. Behaviour & Information Technology, 45(9), 1866- 1884. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2025.2562321 

Schwanz, R., Fox, E. L., Lui, T., Alarcon, G., & Capiola, A. (2026). The impact of culture on human-AI collaboration in a decision-making task: A comparison between North Americans and South Asians. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2026.2638544 

Conference Proceedings Publications

Andre, T. S., Bennett, W. Jr., Rebensky, S., McGee, S., & Rayl, N. (2026). Advancing the college STEM experience at the U.S. Air Force Academy using modeling and simulation methods. Paper presented at the International Training Technology Exhibition and Conference, London, UK, April 14-16, 2026.

Collins, M., Sense, F., Krusmark, M., & Jastrzembski Myers, T. (2025). Methods for detecting changes in learning mechanisms to improve adaptive intelligent systems: A model simulation study.  In B. K. Smith, M. Borge, R. A. Sottilare, & J. Schwarz (Eds.), Proceedings of the Human Computer Interaction International Adaptive Instructional Systems Annual Meeting (vol 16344). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-13174-4_11 

Cook, A., Bowers, G., & Fox, E. L. (2025). Cognitive resource competition in multimodal multitasking: Effects of visual search on auditory working memory. In the 58th Annual Meeting of Mathematical Psychology [Abstract]. https://mathpsych.org/presentation/1780 

Curley, T., Huggins, J., Ellis, S., Meyer, F., Grayson, E., Johnston, S., Lawrence, D., Wu, C., & Diemunsch, J. (2025). NOCTURNAL: A virtual reality simulation exploring the effects of night vision goggle configurations and luminance conditions on human performance. In C. Stephanidis, M. Antona, S. Ntoa, & G. Salvendy (Eds.), Communications in Computer and Information Science, HCII 2025 (pp. 14-23). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-94153-5_2

Dong, W., & Mohd-Zaid, F. (2025). Simulating and evaluating generative modeling and collaborative filtering in complex social networks. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 639-648. https://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2025/pdfs/p639.pdf 

Driggs, J. B., Ugolini, M. H., Morris, M. B., Hopkins, C. E., Lyons, J. B., & Myers, C. W. (2025). A bayesian approach to understanding the relationship between self-reported mental workload and asset similarity in collaborative combat aircraft environments. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 69(1), 350-353. https://doi.org/10.1177/10711813251366297 

Egan, V., & Fox, E.  (2025). A comparison of ARIMA and XGBoost models for time series analysis utilizing human behavioral data. In T. Z. Ahram, J. Kalra, & W. Karwowski (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence and Social Computing, AHFE (2025) International Conference: Vol. 163. AHFE International, USA. https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1006052

Etherton, K., & King, J. (2025). Rethinking team errors: Adapting human team taxonomies for human-autonomy collaboration.  In B.K. Smith, M. Borge, R. A. Sottilare, & J. Schwarz (Eds.), HCI International 2025 – Late Breaking Papers. HCII 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 16344. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-13174-4_13

Fenstermacher, L., Vitiello, C., & Larson, K. (2025). Cognitive warfare execution: harnessing strategic playbooks and influence frameworks. Signal Processing, Sensor/Information Fusion, and Target Recognition XXXIV, 13479, 212-223. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3064621 

Fisher, C., & Curley, T. (2025). Examining the sensitivity of prediction markets to price manipulation and disinformation: A simulation study. In A. R. Hough & C. Sibert (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Cognitive Modelling (pp. 41-46). University Park, PA: Applied Cognitive Science Lab, Penn State. https://acs.ist.psu.edu/papers/ICCM2025Proceedings.pdf

Fisher, C., Schmidt, K., & Curley, T. (2025). Unpacking the election: Unpacking effects in electoral prediction markets. In A. R. Hough & C. Sibert (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Cognitive Modelling (pp. 28-34). University Park, PA: Applied Cognitive Science Lab, Penn State. https://acs.ist.psu.edu/papers/ICCM2025Proceedings.pdf

Fox, E. L., Capiola, A., Stephenson, A., & Bowers, B. (2025). Modeling and displaying team multitasking throughput (tMT) for performance optimization. Annual Virtual Meeting of Mathematical Psychology [Abstract]. https://mathpsych.org/presentation/1818 

Fox, E. L., Cook, A. D., Mobley, F., Bowers, G., Gallagher, H., & Ennis, Z. (2025). Investigating the impacts of cockpit noise exposure on human decision-making. Proceedings of Forum Acusticum Euronoise, 3189-3196. https://doi.org/10.61782/fa.2025.0501 

Fussell, S. G., Oliver, Q., Frost, T., Rebensky, S., McGee, S., & Kwasa, B. (2025). Comparing input modalities in extended reality for a virtual learning/training task. Proceedings of the 2025 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC). Orlando, FL, Dec 1-5, 2025. https://iitsec.xcdacademy.com/index.cfm/item/56585

Fussell, S. G., Chaparro Osman, M., Stalker, W., Rebensky, S., Perry, S. K. B., & McGee, S. (2025). Project-based learning in modeling and simulation education: Positive trends over three cohorts. Proceedings of MODSIM World 2025. Norfolk, VA, Aug 18-20, 2025. https://modsimworld.org/papers/2025/MODSIM_2025_paper_16.pdf

Fussell, S. G., Rebensky, S., Perry, S. K., B., & McGee, S. (2025). Human factors challenges for extended reality aviation training simulation. In D. Barber & J. Wright (Eds.), Human Factors and Simulation. AHFE (2025) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 180. AHFE International, USA. https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1006386

Hough, A. R., & Larue, O. (2025). Using cognitive models to test hypotheses for a misinformation-related effect. In A. R. Hough & C. Sibert (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Cognitive Modelling (pp. 75-81). University Park, PA: Applied Cognitive Science Lab, Penn State.  https://acs.ist.psu.edu/papers/ICCM2025Proceedings.pdf

Jastrzembski Myers, T., Borghetti, L., King, J., & D’Amour, J. (2025). United States Air Force Research Laboratory investments in AI for military training & education.  In B. K. Smith, M. Borge, M., R. A. Sottilare, & J. Schwarz (Eds.), HCI International 2025 – Late Breaking Papers. HCII 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Vol. 16344 (pp. 234–252). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-13174-4_16

Jastrzembski Myers, T., Graham, L., Sense, F., Dye, I., Collins, M., Krusmark, M., & Starkey, J. (2025). Optimizing language proficiency: A competency-driven approach to adaptive instruction in defense language training. Proceedings of the Human Computer Interaction International Adaptive Instructional Systems Annual Meeting.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-13174-4_19 

Mereddy, D., Quinones-Grueiro, M., TS, A., Davalos, E., Biswas, G., Etherton, K., Davis, W.T., Kay, K., Lear, J., & Goldberg, B. (2025). Trainee action recognition through interaction analysis in CCATT mixed-reality training.  Proceedings of the 2025 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC). Orlando, FL: December 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.17888

Myers, C., Ugolini, M., & Curley, T. (2025). Optimizing human-autonomy interaction: A proposed methodology. In D. D. Schmorrow & C. M. Fidopiastis (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, HCII 2025 (pp. 140-151). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93724-8_11 

Morris, M., Swan, G., & Veksler, B. (2025). Fatigued performance cognitive modeling in mobility pilots [Meeting Abstract]. Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance, 96(8), 684. 

Morris, M. B., Swan, G., Veksler, B. Z., Tuttle, J., & Stephenson, A. (2025). Integrating individual differences metrics into cognitive models. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 69(1), 553-557. https://doi.org/10.1177/10711813251369464 

Rebensky, S., Diemunsch, J., Huggins, J., Frost, T., Perry, S., Oliver, Q., Turk, S., & McGee, S. (2025). Requirements, challenges, and benefits for integrated and deployable XR training: A use case analysis. Proceedings of the 2025 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC). Orlando, FL: December 2025.

Schwanz, R., Lui, T., Fox, E., Alarcon, G., Capiola, A., Bliss, J., & Reis, G.  (2025). The impact of cultural values on human-AI collaboration in a decision-making task. In I. L. Nunes (Ed.) Human Factors and Systems Interaction. AHFE (2025) International Conference. AHFE Open Access: Vol. 192. AHFE International, USA. https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1006628

Veksler, B. Z., Morris, M. B., Swan, G., Stephenson, A., & Tuttle, J. (2025). Biomathematical modeling of fatigue and cognitive performance. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 69(1), 563-567. https://doi.org/10.1177/10711813251372096 
Journal Publications

Capiola, A., Alarcon, G. M., Harris, K. N., Jessup, S. A., aldin Hamdan, I., Noblick, J., & Johnson, D. (2025). You and me: The influence of personality on the trust process in (un) trustworthy, (un) familiar interactions. Personality and Individual Differences, 236, 113007.

Fenstermacher, L., Vitiello, C., & Larson, K. (2025, May). Cognitive warfare execution: harnessing strategic playbooks and influence frameworks. In Signal Processing, Sensor/Information Fusion, and Target Recognition XXXIV, 13479, 212-223. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3064621

Gorman, J. C., Grimm, D. A., Robinson, F. E., Winner, J. L., Wiese, C. W., & Roudebush, C. (2025). Dynamic Measures of Team Adaptation. Human Factors, 00187208251314262.

Spencer, N. J., Sherlock, L. P., Pryor, N., Iyer, N., Gallagher, H. L., & Brungart, D. S. (2024) The effects of extended-wear hearing aids on the localization accuracy of listeners with normal audiometric thresholds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156(1), 475-488. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0026596 

Williams, E., Minesinger, K., Gallagher, H., Stefanson, J.R., Bridges, N., Jackson, N., Stark, V., Coto, J., Rajguru, S., Yankaskas, K., Rogers, R., & Hoffer, M.E. (2024) Examining the utility of near infrared light as pre-exposure therapy to mitigate temporary noise-induced hearing loss in humans. Frontiers in Neurology, 15, 1366239. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2024.1366239 
 
Conference Proceedings

Beauchene, C., Brandstein, M., Quatieri, T., Thompson, E., & Smalt, C. (2024, April). A Neurophysiological-Auditory 'Listen Receipt' for Communication Enhancement. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. (pp.2036-2040). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10448414. 

Collins, M., Sense, F., Krusmark, M., & Jastrzembski, T. (2024). Dissecting the drivers of change points in individual learning: An analysis with real-world data. In Proceedings of the International Cognitive Modeling & Society for Mathematical Psychology’s Annual Meeting. mathpsych.org/presentation/1620 

Fisher, C. & Curley, T. (2024). Integrating social sampling theory into ACT-R: a memory-based account of social judgment and influence. In Sibert, C. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Cognitive Modelling (pp. 57--63). University Park, PA: Applied Cognitive Science Lab, Penn State. 

Hough, A. R., & Larue, O. (2024). A model of memory and emotion mechanisms underlying the continued influence effect. In 17th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation Conference (SBP-BRiMS). https://sbp-brims.org/2024/proceedings/

Hough, A. R., Marrs, B., Arakal, A., & Larue, O. (2024). Scenarios impact the continued influence effect. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS). https://sbp-brims.org/2024/proceedings/

Hough, A. R. & Larue, O. (2024). Exploring memory mechanisms underlying the continued influence effect. In Sibert, C. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Cognitive Modelling (pp. 79-85). University Park, PA: Applied Cognitive Science Lab, Penn State. 

Jastrzembski, T., Sense, F., Collins, M., & Krusmark, M. (2024). Cognitive and machine learning applications for personalized linguist training. In Proceedings of the Personalized and Adaptive Education & Training Annual Meeting.  

Jastrzembski, T., Sense, F., Collins, M., & Krusmark, M. (2024). Adaptive Instructional Systems and Dynamic Model Swapping for Optimized Personalization: Navigating the interplay of learning and forgetting with AI/ML and cognitive models. In Proceedings of the AI/ML Department of Defense Technical Exchange Meeting. 

Morris, M. B., Stevens, C. A., Veksler, B. Z., Robins, E., & Contreras, K. (2024). COMBAT-AFRL/711: A tool for integrating human factors into wargames. Proceedings of the 2024 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference, Paper No. 24432. https://s3.amazonaws.com/amz.xcdsystem.com/44ECEE4F-033C-295C-BAE73278B7F9CA1D_abstract_File18333/FinalPaperStage3_24432_0824075735.pdf 

Olsen, W. L., Napoli, N. J., & Myers, C. W. (2024). Acute Intermittent Hypoxia: A Performance Enhancing Tool [Meeting Abstract]. Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance, 95(8), 446-447. 
 
Book Chapters

Kabban, C. M. S., Mohd-Zaid, F., & Deckro, R. F. (2024). Modern methods for characterization of social networks through network models. In Handbook of Military and Defense Operations Research (2nd ed., pp. 171-192). Chapman and Hall/CRC.
 
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