** ANNOUNCEMENT ** Command, Control and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis CCICADA Research Lab Meeting - September 15, 2016 FEATURED SPEAKER: Aaron Rowen, DHS Fellow Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Advisor: Dr. Martha Grabowski Title: Evaluation of Wearable Immersive Augmented Reality in Safety-Critical Systems Date/Time: Thursday, September 15, 2016, 12:00pm Location: Computing Research & Education Building (CoRE), Busch Campus, Rutgers, the State University of NJ 4th Floor Conference Room - 433 Abstract: Increased levels of automation made possible by technology advancements have had mixed impacts on human performance and situation awareness in complex tasks in safety-critical systems. The variance may be attributable to levels of expertise of the human operator. In this study, we observe three groups of Merchant Marine officers with differing levels of expertise, in a complex ship navigation task. We observe trends in performance metrics, communication patterns, and situation awareness with the goal of understanding how automation can improve safety, and increase operator performance and situation awareness in complex operational tasks working in concert with automation.