Rate My Professor Tyler Shaw

Tyler H. Shaw is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at George Mason University, specializing in Human Factors/Applied Cognition. He serves as Associate Chair of Graduate Studies. Shaw earned his Ph.D. in experimental psychology/human factors from the University of Cincinnati in 2008. He completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at George Mason University from 2008 to 2010, advised by Raja Parasuraman.

Shaw's research interests center on vigilance and sustained attention, including factors contributing to performance decrements assessed via group-level cognitive resource utilization with Transcranial Doppler Sonography and Transcranial Cerebral Oximetry, as well as individual differences related to personality, stress, and coping. His work also encompasses automation and trust, covering trust calibration, human-autonomy teaming, repair of trust after violations, flexible delegation using the Playbook interface, team collaboration, decision making, and adaptive automation. As principal investigator, Shaw has obtained funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (2015–2019, $887,009.08) for trust calibration studies, a subcontract with Charles River Analytics (2016–2017, GMU direct $44,997) for SEAHAWK workload evaluation, and a cooperative agreement with the Army Research Institute (2015–2016, $500,000) for Systems Thinking Assessment Test validation. Notable publications include Harwood, A.E., Greenwood, P.M., & Shaw, T.H. (2017). Transcranial Doppler Sonography Reveals Reductions in Hemispheric Asymmetry in Healthy Older Adults During Vigilance, Frontiers in Ageing Neuroscience; Shaw, T.H., et al. (2016). Cerebral Hemovelocity reveals differential resource allocation strategies for extraverts and introverts during vigilance, Experimental Brain Research; Walliser, J.C., de Visser, E.J., & Shaw, T.H. (2016). Application of a system-wide trust strategy when supervising multiple autonomous agents, Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society; and McKendrick, R., et al. (2014). Team performance in networked supervisory control of unmanned air vehicles, Human Factors. Shaw has supervised 15 doctoral dissertations and teaches courses such as Cognitive Psychology, Individual Differences in Cognition and Performance, and Analysis of Variance at the graduate level, and History and Systems of Psychology at the undergraduate level.