BEN D. SAWYER, PhD

Founder

Ben D. Sawyer studies the cognitive and perceptual dimensions of human experience, from driving simulation to immersive attraction design, from human-autonomy interaction to the neuroscience of misdirection.

He is Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Central Florida, holds a courtesy appointment at UCF’s Institute for Simulation and Training, and chairs the board of the Cognitive Security Institute. At MIT, he worked with attention and distribution in autonomous driving. At the U.S. Air Force 711th Human Performance Wing, he worked with helmet-mounted displays, augmented reality, and battlefield audiology. He works with Fortune 50 companies, governments, and major nonprofits.

GRACE TEO, PhD

Lead Scientist

Grace Teo studies the perceptual and cognitive dimensions of human interaction with intelligent systems: how people see, decide, and act when the environment augments their senses or delegates to autonomous agents. Her specialization is augmented reality and human-autonomy integration, the critical interface between human judgment and machine behavior.

Her work spans applied behavioral research on human performance in technology-intensive domains. She has previously worked with head-mounted displays used for military operations and sustained human performance under sleep deprivation.