Writing and Publications

I am an experienced writer, and can adjust my writing style to what is needed to best communicate with my audience. Here I have examples of more casual writing (blog post) and academic writing (ISE paper and my thesis). As the Executive Director of the Peninsula Executives Association, I wrote monthly Board meeting minutes and weekly newsletters summarizing talks given by members. Additionally, I transformed those newsletter articles into blog posts for the organization.

Facing an Automated Future: How small U.S. bookkeepers are adapting to changing accounting technology (anticipated completion May 2021)

SJSU Applied Anthropology master’s thesis - please check back in May 2021 for my completed thesis!

Opening Up an Inflection Point: Bookkeepers’ Narratives and Communities Facing New Robot Overlords

Published 10-09-2019

Many thanks to COPAA and my master’s research advisor, Dr. A.J. Faas for inviting me contribute this blog post to COPAA’s new blog “Notes from the Field.”

Training Human Operators to Supervise Automation (November 2019)

Final research project for ISE 210: Introduction to Human Factors (Graduate engineering course, Fall 2019). This paper examined the factors that impact human operators and their interactions with automation, including trust, situational awareness, and out-of-the-loop performance issues, when considering ways to better train humans to move into a supervisory role, rather than an operator role, when working with autonomous systems. It then surveys ways that people are currently being trained when working with and supervising automation in several industries, including aviation and autonomous vehicles, and looks at the different techniques used in training to achieve different goals. Finally, it offers ideas on future research needed in this space.

I was invited by my professor to submit this paper to the HFES International Annual Meeting in October 2020.