ADAPT to innovate.
The Automation Design Advancing People and Technology (ADAPT) Laboratory’s mission is to improve human-machine work systems by understanding how design affects performance.
ADAPT Laboratory
The Automation Design Advancing People and Technology (ADAPT) laboratory is an engineering research group with a mission to improve human-machine work systems by understanding how design affects performance. Specifically, we study human-agent dyads and socio-technical systems by focusing on how technology design impacts human cognitive and social capabilities, cooperation and teamwork, and decision-making performance. We achieve this by evaluating and testing current scenarios and simulating future scenarios of people interacting with technology. We assume that the future of work will increasingly involve people collaborating with advanced technology systems like artificial intelligence and other advanced forms of automation.
The ADAPT laboratory is equipped to conduct data analytics of simulated virtual environments and mixed-methods field research to advance our understanding of how people, automation, and organizational processes can improve productivity, quality, and safety in our world. We have received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence & Security (ARLIS), Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), and the Center for Innovation in Healthy & Resilient Aging (CIHRA).