Sam F. WartaLockheed Martin Corporation · Missiles and Fire Control
Sam F. Warta
Modeling & Simulation, M.S.
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Introduction
Additional affiliations
March 2021 - present
Position
- Analyst
Description
- Operations Analysis | Artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital transformation
August 2018 - March 2021
Position
- Analyst
Description
- Logistics & Sustainment Engineering | Human factors; technical report/proposal writing; systems design & implementation; requirements & risk management; modeling & simulation; data science, analytics, governance, & visualization
August 2014 - August 2018
Position
- Research Assistant
Description
- Cognitive Sciences Laboratory (http://csl.ist.ucf.edu/)
Education
August 2017 - May 2021
August 2015 - December 2016
August 2012 - May 2014
Publications
Publications (35)
Human-robot teaming largely relies on the ability of machines to respond and relate to human social signals. Prior work in Social Signal Processing has drawn a distinction between social cues (discrete, observable features) and social signals (underlying meaning). For machines to attribute meaning to behavior, they must first understand some probab...
*HFES 2016 Cognitive Engineering Technical Group Best Student Paper - 3rd place*
Robotic teammates are becoming prevalent in increasingly complex and dynamic operational and social settings. For this reason, the perception of robots operating in such environments has transitioned from the perception of robots as tools, extending human capabilities...
Using research in social cognition as a foundation, the present study examined the degree to which mental state attributions are influenced by rapid versus reflective judgment. We observed differences in response times and did not find significant differences in the accuracy of mental state attributions. Results indicated that participants perceive...
The increasing use of robots and their role in society has important implications for research and development in human robot interactions (HRIs). The purpose of the present study was to develop a new measure to assess attitudes toward robots in HRIs. Measures of attitudes humans have " about " robots are relatively uncommon. Those that exist have...
A better understanding of human mental states in social contexts holds the potential to pave the way for implementation of robotic systems capable of more natural and intuitive interaction. In working toward such a goal, this paper reports on a study examining human perception of social signals based on manipulated sets of social cues in a simulate...
This study investigated how humans interact socially with robots. Participants engaged in a hallway navigation task with a robot. Throughout twelve trials, the display on the robot and its proxemics behavior was varied while participants were tasked with first, reacting to the robot’s actions and second, interpreting its behavior. Results indicated...
Traditional studies in uncertainty visualization often require naive participants to complete complex, domain-specific tasks in order to examine how effectively a visualization conveys uncertainty to support decision making. However, without assessing whether participants understand such tasks, it can be difficult to determine whether differences i...
This paper describes initial validation of a theoretical framework to support research on the visualization of uncertainty. Two experiments replicated and extended this framework, illustrating how the manipulation of task complexity produces differences in performance. Additionally, using a combinatory metric of workload and performance, this frame...
Intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) have two primary goals: a) specifying what concepts to teach an individual learner and b) how to teach them through personalized instructional strategies (Ohlsson, 1987; Wenger, 1987). Science is Zarked is an ITS, designed and validated with the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring system (GIFT; Sottila...
The field of applied game development is highly interdisciplinary, requiring collaboration from many expert groups including game developers, instructional designers, and researchers. Although this collaboration is necessary to create a successful product, it is often difficult for experts to unify their diverse knowledge, opinions, and goals. A co...
Robotic teammates are becoming prevalent in increasingly complex and dynamic operational and social settings. For this reason, the perception of robots operating in such environments has transitioned from the perception of robots as tools, extending human capabilities, to the perception of robots as teammates, collaborating with humans and displayi...
One day in the future, robots will become a normal feature of everyday life and effective human-robotic partnerships will be important. The purpose of the present study was to identify the impact certain social design elements have on likability and fear in human-robot interactions through examination of human-like feminine, human-like masculine, h...
The current study evaluated the use of a portfolio assignment in a personality psychology course to determine whether students’ personal characteristics and frequency of portfolio evaluation affected students’ performance. Fifty-six undergraduate students recruited from two sections of Theories of Personality completed pre- and post-tests. The sect...
The current study was interested in analyzing the Florida Department of Health’s overall success and effectiveness across the State’s counties given the financial performance data to facilitate further development of a solution that will have bearing on the performance of the organization. It was necessary for the current study to examine both quan...
In the future, robots will become a normal feature of everyday life and effective human-robotic partnerships will be important. The purpose of the present study was to identify the impact certain social design elements have on trust in human-robot interactions (HRIs) and address the question as to whether personality traits and trust in humans can...
Many religions promote altruistic behavior. The majority of college students report some religious affiliation (Poulson, Bradshaw, Huff, Peebles, & Hilton, 2008; Wells, 2010). However, religiosity’s influence on college students’ altruistic behavior is difficult to discern. While Gallant, Smale, and Arai (2010) found that students who reported grea...
Research has note explored the types of settings that college students prefer to volunteer for and how these settings might be influenced by personal factors (e.g., demographic, academic major, volunteering motivation, regliosity). Students from a Midwestern university (N=406, 71.9% female) completed a survey that inquired about their volunteering...
It has been speculated that robots will become a normal feature of everyday life in the future and effective human-robotic partnerships will be important. The purpose of the present study was to identify the impact certain social design elements have on trust in human-robot interactions (HRIs) and address the question as to whether personality trai...
Projects
Projects (4)
Science is Zarked is an intelligent tutoring system designed to teach a basic course on research methods. This intelligent tutoring system was designed and validated with the GIFT authoring system (Sottilare, Brawner, Goldberg, & Holden, 2012). Comprised of eight different modules, Science is Zarked is structured such that a student with very little knowledge about science or the research methods within any scientific discipline is capable of digesting and gaining knowledge and insight from the course materials. The main goal of this intelligent tutoring system is to encourage students’ interest in the sciences and demonstrate the ease of mastery of relatively basic scientific concepts.
The purpose of this proposed validation study is to follow up on previous work in which the Robot Perception Scale was developed to evaluate humans’ positive and negative attitudes toward robots. Broadening the parameters measured in the previous validation study, this proposed validation study would establish additional normative information such as: experience and age norms, percentiles, and percentile ranks. The validity measured in the previous validation studies will be expanded to include further examination of content and predictive validity. Furthermore, convergent and discriminant validity will be measured through exploratory factor analysis with principal components analysis as well as confirmatory factor analysis. Criterion-related validity will also include an assessment of concurrent validity.
Army Research Lab and General Dynamics Robotic Systems. Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance.
Social Cues and Behaviors in Human Robot Collaboration. Principal Investigator: Stephen M. Fiore, Co-Principal Investigator: Randall Shumaker.
Social Dynamics Modeling and Simulation. Principal Investigator: Stephen M. Fiore, Co-Principal Investigator: Ladislau Bologni and Randall Shumaker.
Situational Awareness. Principal Investigator: Randall Shumaker. Co-Principal Investigators: Florian Jentsch and Stephen M. Fiore.
Team Shared Mental Models. Principal Investigator: Randall Shumaker. Co-Principal Investigators: Florian Jentsch and Stephen M. Fiore.
