For my thesis, I ran a behavioral study (N = 189) to investigate how cultural values and personality traits influence trust and reliance on adaptable automation. I recruited a team of programmers and usability engineers to build a Unity-based behavioral simulation of an adaptable system which I called Otto. This simulation was a game I called Calibratio, a portmanteau of calibration + ratio to reflect the metrics calibrated trust and calibrated use, which are ratio quantities (trust:system capability, use:system capability, respectively) that reflect appropriate use.

ORBIT (Opportunities for Robotics, Building, and Inclusive Technology) is a LEGO robotics programming app co-designed with special-education educators to support Individualized Education Plan (IEP) goals, computational thinking (CT), and executive functioning (EF) skills for autistic middle schoolers in a Somerville, MA classroom. The project was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the CS for All: Research & RPPs program (Award No. 2318191), and was conducted at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO). The overarching goal was to understand how to design robotics and CT learning environments for autistic students.