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Amy Pritchett

Department Head of Aerospace Engineering
Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • Aerospace Engineering

222A Hammond Building

arp78@psu.edu

814-865-3648

Research Areas:

Autonomous Flight and UAVs; Vehicle Dynamics and Controls; Vehicle Systems Engineering

Interest Areas:

The intersection of technology, humans and safety in dynamic, time-critical and safety-critical environments, including human-robot interaction in space exploration, human-autonomy teaming in aviation, novel flight deck designs, and manual control.

 
 

 

Education

  • SB, Joint program in Avionics with EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992
  • SM, Instrumentation, Control and Estimation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994
  • Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Martijn IJtsma, Lanssie M Ma, Amy Pritchett and Karen M Feigh, 2019, "Computational Methodology for the Allocation of Work and Interaction in Human-Robot Teams", Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 13, (4), pp. 221--241
  • Emilie M Roth and Amy Pritchett, 2018, "Preface to the special issue on advancing models of human--automation interaction", Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 12, (1), pp. 3--6
  • Amy Pritchett, 2017, "13 Work, and the Expertise of Workers", Cognitive Systems Engineering: The Future for a Changing World
  • Raunak P Bhattacharyya and Amy Pritchett, 2017, "Designing function allocations in air traffic concepts of operation using network optimization", Journal of Air Transportation, pp. 61--72
  • Amy Pritchett and Antoine Genton, 2017, "Negotiated decentralized aircraft conflict resolution", IEEE transactions on intelligent transportation systems, 19, (1), pp. 81--91
  • Amy Pritchett, Raunak P Bhattacharyya and Martijn IJtsma, 2016, "Computational Assessment of Authority and Responsibility in Air Traffic Concepts of Operation", Journal of Air Transportation
  • Amy Pritchett, Raunak P Bhattacharyya and Martijn IJtsma, 2016, "Computational assessment of authority and responsibility in air traffic concepts of operation", Journal of Air Transportation, pp. 93--102
  • Amy Pritchett and Alexandra Coso Strong, 2016, "Integrating cognitive engineering into industry design teams", Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 10, (2), pp. 134--137
  • Elizabeth Fleming and Amy Pritchett, 2016, "SRK as a framework for the development of training for effective interaction with multi-level automation", Cognition, Technology \& Work, 18, (3), pp. 511--528
  • Amy Pritchett and Jennifer J Ockerman, 2016, "Supporting mixed-initiative emergency flight planning by portraying procedure context information", Cognition, Technology \& Work, 18, (4), pp. 643--655
  • Amy Pritchett, Rachel A Haga and Huiyang Li, 2015, "Attempting to Automate Compliance to Aircraft Collision Avoidance Advisories", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 13, (1), pp. 18--25
  • Alexandra E Coso and Amy Pritchett, 2015, "Role of design teams in the integration of stakeholder considerations", Journal of aircraft, 52, (4), pp. 1136--1145
  • Elizabeth S Fleming and Amy Pritchett, 2015, "Training pilots for collision avoidance within a realistic operating context", Journal of aerospace information systems, 12, (7), pp. 467--475
  • Elizabeth S Fleming and Amy Pritchett, 2015, "Training pilots for collision avoidance within a realistic operating context", Journal of aerospace information systems
  • Karen M Feigh, Amy Pritchett, Sebastien Mamessier and Gabriel Gelman, 2014, "Generic agent models for simulations of concepts of operation: part 2", Journal of Aerospace Information Systems
  • Amy Pritchett, So Young Kim and Karen M Feigh, 2014, "Measuring human-automation function allocation", Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 8, (1), pp. 52–77
  • Amy Pritchett, So Young Kim and Karen M Feigh, 2014, "Modeling human–automation function allocation", Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 8, (1), pp. 33–51
  • Karen M Feigh and Amy Pritchett, 2014, "Requirements for effective function allocation: A critical review", Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 8, (1), pp. 23–32
  • Amy Pritchett, Karen M Feigh, So Young Kim and Suresh K Kannan, 2014, "Work models that compute to describe multiagent concepts of operation: Part 1", Journal of Aerospace Information Systems
  • Vlad Popescu, William P Cleveland, Emmanuel Boidot, Amy Pritchett, Eric Feron and Jonathan J Zoetrum, 2013, "Reliably creating collision avoidance advisories in piloted simulations", IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 43, (4), pp. 416–420
  • Karen M Feigh and Amy Pritchett, 2010, "Modeling work for cognitive work support system design in operational control centers", Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 4, (1), pp. 1–26
  • Amy Pritchett, 2009, "Aviation automation: General perspectives and specific guidance for the design of modes and alerts", Reviews of human factors and ergonomics, 5, (1), pp. 82–113
  • Keumjin Lee, Eric Feron and Amy Pritchett, 2009, "Describing airspace complexity: Airspace response to disturbances", Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 32, (1), pp. 210
  • Ellen J Bass and Amy Pritchett, 2008, "Human-automated judge learning: A methodology for examining human interaction with information analysis automation", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part A: Systems and Humans, 38, (4), pp. 759–776
  • Seung Man Lee and Amy Pritchett, 2008, "Predicting interactions between agents in agent-based modeling and simulation of sociotechnical systems", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part A: Systems and Humans, 38, (6), pp. 1210–1220
  • Anuj P Shaw and Amy Pritchett, 2005, "Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Socio-Technical Systems", Organizational simulation, pp. 323–367
  • Ann M Bisantz and Amy Pritchett, 2003, "Measuring the fit between human judgments and automated alerting algorithms: A study of collision detection", Human Factors, 45, (2), pp. 266–280
  • George Nickles and Amy Pritchett, 2002, "Software for the Automated Evaluation of Web-Delivered Instruction", age, 7, pp. 1
  • Amy Pritchett, Balazs Vandor and Kimberly Edwards, 2002, "Testing and implementing cockpit alerting systems", Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 75, (2), pp. 193–206
  • Ted L Chen and Amy Pritchett, 2001, "Development and evaluation of a cockpit decision-aid for emergency trajectory generation", Journal of Aircraft, 38, (5), pp. 935–943
  • Amy Pritchett, SM Lee and D Goldsman, 2001, "Hybrid-system simulation for national airspace system safety analysis", Journal of aircraft, 38, (5), pp. 835–840
  • Amy Pritchett, 2001, "Reviewing the role of cockpit alerting systems", Human Factors and Aerospace Safety, 1, (1)
  • Jennifer Ockerman and Amy Pritchett, 2000, "A review and reappraisal of task guidance: Aiding workers in procedure following", International Journal of Cognitive Ergonomics, 4, (3), pp. 191–212
  • Amy Pritchett, 1999, "Pilot performance at collision avoidance during closely spaced parallel approaches", Air Traffic Control Quarterly, 7, (1), pp. 47–75

Conference Proceedings

  • Martijn IJtsma, William Lassiter, Karen M Feigh, Martin Savelsbergh and Amy Pritchett, 2019, "An Integrated System for Mixed-Initiative Planning of Manned Spaceflight Operations", pp. 1--8
  • Ellen J Bass, Ann Bisantz, Caroline GL Cao, Pascale Carayon, Nancy Cooke and Amy Pritchett, 2019, "Moving forward from the mid-career: Path options and strategies for mid-career academics", 63, (1), pp. 484--487
  • Lanssie M Ma, Martijn IJtsma, Karen M Feigh, Abhinay Paladugu and Amy Pritchett, 2018, "Modelling and evaluating failures in human-robot teaming using simulation", pp. 1--16
  • Martijn IJtsma, Amy Pritchett, Lanssie M Ma and Karen M Feigh, 2017, "Modeling human-robot interaction to inform function allocation in manned spaceflight operations"
  • Amy Pritchett and Raunak P Bhattacharyya, 2016, "Modeling the monitoring inherent within aviation function allocations", pp. 20
  • Lee Whitcher, Amy Pritchett and Anil Bozan, 2016, "A Computational Analysis of the Impact of Pilot Awareness of Control Surface Deflection on Expectation of Aircraft State", pp. 0097
  • David C Dickson, Amy Pritchett and Anil Bozan, 2016, "A Computational Model for Prediction of Pilot Manual Control Behavior in Air Transport Concepts of Operation", pp. 1431
  • Ms Elizabeth Scott Fleming and Amy Pritchett, 2016, "Creating and Validating a Model to Support Aerospace Engineering Stu-dents’ Coordination of Knowledge about a Design", 2016
  • Amy Pritchett and Raunak P Bhattacharyya, 2016, "Modeling the monitoring inherent within aviation function allocations", pp. 1--8
  • Martijn IJtsma, Jacco Hoekstra, Raunak P Bhattacharyya and Amy Pritchett, 2015, "Computational assessment of different air-ground function allocations"
  • Amy Pritchett, Elizabeth S Fleming, William P Cleveland, Jonathan J Zoetrum, Vlad M Popescu and Dhruv A Thakkar, 2012, "Pilot interaction with TCAS and air traffic control", pp. 117–126
  • Amy Pritchett, H Claus Christmann and Matthew S Bigelow, 2011, "A simulation engine to predict multi-agent work in complex, dynamic, heterogeneous systems", pp. 136–143
  • Amy Pritchett, So Young Kim, Suresh K Kannan and Karen Feigh, 2011, "Simulating situated work", pp. 66–73
  • Keumjin Lee, Eric Feron and Amy Pritchett, 2007, "Air traffic complexity: an input-output approach", pp. 474–479
  • AP Shah, AR Pritchett, KM Feigh, SA Kalarev, A Jadhav, KM Corker, DM Holl and RC Bea, 2005, "Analyzing air traffic management systems using agentbased modeling and simulation"
  • Kirk C Benson, David Goldsman and Amy Pritchett, 2004, "Applying statistical control techniques to air traffic simulations", 2, pp. 1330–1338
  • Eric Johnson and Amy Pritchett, 2002, "Generic pilot and flight control model for use in simulation studies", pp. 4694
  • Amy Pritchett, 2002, "Human-computer interaction in aerospace", pp. 861–882
  • Ted Chen and Amy Pritchett, 2000, "On-the-fly procedure development for flight re-planning following system failures", pp. 300
  • Amy Pritchett and LJ Yankosky, 2000, "Pilot performance at new ATM operations: maintaining in-trail separation and arrival sequencing"
  • C Ippolito and Amy Pritchett, 2000, "Software architecture for a reconfigurable flight simulator", pp. 4501
  • AR Pritchett and C Ippolito, 2000, "Software architecture for a reconfigurable flight simulator"
  • Amy Pritchett, 1997, "Pilot non-conformance to alerting system commands", 3, pp. 2125–2130
  • Eric Johnson and Amy Pritchett, 1995, "Experimental study of vertical flight path mode awareness", IFAC Proceedings Volumes, Elsevier, 28, (15), pp. 153–158

Other

  • Amy Pritchett, Elizabeth S Fleming, Jonathan J Zoetrum, William P Cleveland, Vlad M Popescu and Dhruv A Thakkar, 2012, "Examining pilot compliance to collision avoidance advisories", Advances in Human Aspects of Aviation, pp. 214–223

Research Projects

Honors and Awards

  • Fellow, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2016
  • Institute Teaching Award for Innovation, Georgia Tech, 2014
  • AIAA Dr. Amy Pritchett Digital Avionics Scholarship, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 2009
  • 2008 Robert J. Collier Trophy to the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST), National Aeronautics Association, 2009
  • Lawrence Sperry Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 2007
  • Excellence Faculty Award, Georgia Tech, 2003
  • Top Young Alumni, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2001
  • William E. Jackson Award, RTCA Inc., 1999
  • Laya Y Weisner Award for Contribution to Public Life, MIT, 1992
  • Unified Engineering Teaching Award, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1992
  • Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, May 2020

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