2020-2023: None Awarded
2019: Chang S. Nam, Ph.D.
2017-2018: None Awarded
2016: Lauren Reinerman-Jones, Ph.D.
2015: Joseph Cohn, Ph.D.
2014: Kelley Hale, Ph.D.
2013: Chris Forsythe, Ph.D.
2012: Ron Stevens, Ph.D.
2011: Peter Hancock, Ph.D.
2010: Raja Parasuraman, Ph.D. & Joel Warm, Ph.D.
2009: Glenn Wilson, Ph.D.
2008: Denny Proffit, Ph.D. & Randy Pausch, Ph.D.
2007: Dylan Schmorrow, Ph.D.
2024:
Alec Gonzales (Clemson University) "Bridging the Gap between Trainee and Expert Mental Models for Minimally Invasive Surgical Tasks"
Aakash Yadav (University of Wisconsin - Madison) "Neural Insights into Trust Dynamics using Multi-Agent Games"
Emanuel Rojas (Georgia Tech) "Trust Contagion: Modeling and Management in Multi-Human and Robot Teams"
2023:
Tianhang Liu (Arizona State University) "Optimizing Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS) Parameters to Enhance Driving Simulation Performance and Mitigate Motion Sickness for Individual Differences"
Victoria Ballard (Auburn University) "Assessing the Cognitive Load and Learning of ADHD Workers in Manual Assembly Manufacturing Tasks With and Without Augmentation"
2022: None Awarded
2021:
Allison Bayro (University of Illinois at Chicago) "Fingertip and Grip Pressure as a Novel Technique to Characterize and Predict Affective States in Augmented and Virtual Reality"
Nade Liang (Purdue University) "Assessment and Prediction of Situation Awareness During Takeover in Semi-Autonomous Driving"
Tiffany Lui (Texas Tech University) "Effects of Discrimination Type in a Cognitive Vigilance Task on Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity"
2020: Guoyang Zhou (Purdue University) "AI-enabled lifting risk assessment system on user performance and confidence"
2019: Gaojian Huang (Purdue University) "Physiological Responses Predict Mind Wandering during Semi-Autonomous Driving: Implications for Takeover Performance"
2018: None Awarded
2017: Joseph Nuamah (North Carolina A&T University)
2014: HeeSun Choi (North Carolina State University)
2013: Shan Lakhmani (University of Central Florida)
2012: Rebecca Leis (University of Central Florida)
2010: John Blitch (Colorado State University)
2024: None Awarded
2023: Satyajit Upasani (Virginia Tech) "Gaze Behavior and Mental Workload While Using a Whole-Body Powered Exoskeleton: A Pilot Study"
2022: Tiffany Lui (Texas Tech University) “Putting the Brain in the Driver’s Seat: Using Transcranial Doppler Sonography to Examine Vigilance in Automated Driving”
2021: Rohith Karthikeyan (Texas A&M University) “Visuospatial Working Memory under Fatigue: Observations with Cerebral Hemodynamics and Heart Rate Variability”
2020: Josh Gallaher (Air Force Institute of Technology)
2019: Nayara de Oliveira Faria (Virginia Tech) "Augmented Reality Head-Up Displays Effect on Drivers’ Spatial Knowledge Acquisition"
2018: Patrick P. Weis (George Mason University) "Speed Considerations Can Be of Little Concern When Outsourcing Thought to External Devices"
2017: Na Young Kim (North Carolina State University) “Executive function updating level modulates connectivity network between brain regions in alpha band”
2016-2013: Unknown
2012: Michael Boyce (University of Central Florida) "The interpenetration of mind and machine"