Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Autonomous Vehicles, Trust in Automation, Aggressive Driving, Virtual Reality
I graduated from George Mason University to compelte my B.S. in Psychology. I joined a human factors lab my senior year and participated in planning a study surronding the star ship robots. I am currently a first year PhD student working with Dr. Yi-Ching Lee in the Health Behaviors Lab.
My current projects involve creating a virtual reality driving simulator in Unreal Engine 4, effects of family and media on acceptance of self-driving cars. My research interests include self-driving vehicles, virtual reality, psychometrics and quantitative data analysis as well as physiological measures.
Hickerson, K. & Lee, Y.-C. (in preparation). The learning-to-drive process among individuals with ADHD.
Hickerson, K., & Lee, Y.-C. (2021). Influence of the Big Five on driving frequency during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the 2021 International Annual Meeting of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Baltimore, MD
Graduate Student Travel Fund
Psyc 100 - Basic Concepts in Psychology
Psyc 300 - Statistics in Psychology
PhD in Psychology - Fall 2020 to present
Concentration: Human Factors/Applied Cognition
George Mason University, Farifax, VA
B.S. Psychology - Graduated Spring 2019
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-hickersonhfac/