Naturalistic Decision Making

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Today we are fortunate to be talking with, John Lenneman and Josh Domeyer from Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center.

John Lenneman is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center and has over 25 years of human factors experience. He has worked in automotive, consumer products, and health and wellness. Before Toyota, he worked at General Motors R&D, and Newell Brands. John holds a Ph.D. in Applied Experimental Psychology from Central Michigan University and a Master’s in Industrial Engineering from the University of Michigan  He has authored numerous publications and book chapters and holds over 20 patents. His work spans driver behavior, vehicle automation, advanced driver assistance systems, human-centered design, and health and wellness program development 

Josh Domeyer is a Principal Scientist and has worked at Toyota for 14 years. Before that, he conducted research in both academic and industrial settings. Josh has Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master’s in Experimental Psychology from Central Michigan University. He has over 50 peer reviewed publications and conference proceedings and over 20 patents. His work applies advanced computational techniques to risky driving behavior and naturalistic use of driving automation. 

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Adam Lary is a distinguished graduate of the United States Military Academy class of 2010 with a B.S. in Engineering Psychology. His subsequent military career spanned 10 years in the U.S. Army as an Infantry officer and included Ranger school, Airborne school, and multiple combat deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq in various leadership roles. Adam transitioned out of the military in 2020 and went on to earn his M.S. in Human Factors from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. While completing his degree, he worked as a Human Factors Researcher conducting usability studies on electronic health record software before changing roles to lead a team of Human Factors Engineers at Garmin International, where he specializes in designing user interfaces for advanced aircraft avionics. His team spearheads human factors research initiatives focused on optimizing avionics usability and ensuring compliance with human factors regulations. Adam's blend of military leadership and human factors expertise brings a unique perspective to operationalizing human factors research and advancing aviation safety through human-centered design principles and practices.

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Gary Klein joins us to unpack the causal landscape of the 2025 World Series, exploring how decisions, context, and key moments shaped the final outcome.

Gary Klein, Ph.D., authored Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions, and five other books plus three co-edited volumes. He is known for the cognitive models he described, such as the Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model, the Data/Frame model of sensemaking, the Management By Discovery model of planning in complex settings, and the Triple Path Model of Insight. He developed methods including the Pre-Mortem method of risk assessment, techniques for Cognitive Task Analysis, the ShadowBox training approach, and also helped Judith Orasau pioneer the Naturalistic Decision Making movement in 1989. Dr. Klein has decades of work experience in dozens of work domains, including military, healthcare, and emergency response.
The company he started in 1978, Klein Associates, grew to 37 employees by the time he sold it in 2005. He kicked off his new company, ShadowBox LLC, in 2014. His hobbies include spending time with his grandchildren, watching movies, and beating John Schmitt at the Asian game of Go.
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Dick co-founded Stottler Henke in 1988 as a software company dedicated to providing practical solutions to difficult problems by skillfully drawing upon a large repertoire of artificial intelligence technologies. Under Dick’s leadership, Stottler Henke has grown steadily and profitably into a 60-person research and software development company with distinctive expertise in automated planning and scheduling, intelligent tutoring systems, intelligent simulation, sensor data fusion, and autonomous systems.

Dick combines a strong applied research record in artificial intelligence with practical experience in rapid and efficient knowledge engineering. He has led the development of intelligent tutoring systems that encode the expertise of instructors to provide practice-based learning and automated evaluation of student performance. Subject areas include navy tactics; army tactics, command, and control; sonar data analysis; astronaut training; helicopter cockpit operations; and battlefield emergency medicine. He led the development of intelligent planning systems for NASA space shuttle missions, satellite communications and sensor  scheduling, and aircraft assembly. He also led the development of intelligent systems that autonomously control groups of drones to automatically plan and execute tasks to achieve mission objectives and react to unpredictable events.

Dick has written or presented more than 80 papers and articles for publications such as the proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). He received his BS in engineering from Cornell University and his MS in computer science (artificial intelligence) from Stanford University.

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