Stephen M. Casner, Ph.D. is a research psychologist at NASA Ames Research Center. Combining ideas from human factors, psychology, and engineering, Steve has a special interest in peoples' intuitive understanding of everyday things such as cars, traffic environments, phones, consumer/industrial products, and their own abilities to use these things safety. Steve is the author of Careful: A User's Guide to Our Injury-Prone Minds. Aside from being a career research scientist, Steve is an experienced driver, motorcyclist, bicyclist, skateboarder, and airplane and helicopter pilot and instructor.
Experience
–present
Research Psychologist , NASA
Education
1990
University of Pittsburgh, PhD, Intelligent Systems
1987
University of Colorado, Boulder, MS, Computer Science
1984
Millersville University, BS, Computer Science
Publications
2019
What Do We Tell the Drivers? Toward Minimum Driver Training Standards for Partially Automated Cars, Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making
2017
Careful: A User's Guide to Our Injury-Prone Minds, Riverhead Books
2016
The challenges of partially automated driving, Communications of the ACM
2015
Vigilance impossible: Diligence, distraction, and daydreaming all lead to failures in a practical monitoring task, Consciousness and Cognition
2014
Thoughts in Flight Automation Use and Pilots’ Task-Related and Task-Unrelated Thought, Human Factors
2014
The retention of manual flying skills in the automated cockpit, Human Factors
2013
The Effectiveness of Airline Pilot Training for Abnormal Events, Human Factors
2013
The Pilot's Guide to The Airline Cockpit, Aviation Supplies & Academics