Monica Tatasciore

Monica Tatasciore serves as an Honorary Research Fellow, Casual Teaching staff member, and Multi-Discipline Research Fellow at the School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia. As an Early Career Researcher in the Human Factors and Applied Cognition laboratory, she focuses on optimizing human-automation systems in high-stakes environments like air traffic control and uninhabited vehicle operations.

Her academic credentials include:

• Doctor of Philosophy from The University of Western Australia (2018-2021)
• Master of Industrial and Organisational Psychology from The University of Western Australia (2018-2020)
• Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) in Psychology (2015)

Dr. Tatasciore's research examines critical intersections of human cognition and automation, specifically investigating how transparency in decision aids affects operator trust, situation awareness, and workload under time pressure. Her work addresses fundamental questions about automation failure recovery and individual differences in attention control during human-machine collaboration.

Analysis of her 2024-2025 publications reveals a cohesive research trajectory centered on human-automation interaction, with strong methodological emphasis on experimental paradigms from cognitive psychology and applied ergonomics. These works consistently address defense-relevant applications while advancing theoretical understanding of trust calibration mechanisms.

She has supervised one graduate student and actively contributes to defense-related research through the Human Factors and Applied Cognition lab, where her team develops evidence-based frameworks for automation design in safety-critical systems.