User:15015OakBriar

Hello, everyone. I am a part-time PhD student in Psychology at Carleton University. I am very interested in trust as a moderator and/or mediator of human-computer interaction. We have come to accept and trust computers and modern machinery such as vehicles. With the continual progress in research and practical application of artificial intelligence (AI) in everday life, reciprocal trust between humans and computers may be an essential and important area of research in the near future as AI is progressively integrated into modern machines. In the near future, machines may 'learn' to trust their human users and decide whether or not to share or delegate task responsibility to achieve preservation and survival based on knowledge, skills, and abilities demonstrated by their human users. Likewise, machine AI may be used to compensate for acute or chronic deficiencies detected (e.g., fatigue, intoxication, novice/inexperience, sickness) in their human users until proficiency and expertise is demonstrated or restored.

If machines become truly 'intelligent' in the near future, then they may also begin to develop 'personality' along the lines of research reported by Block (2010) that Assimilates and Accommodates new information within an existing knowledge framework. The developing 'personality' may also be described as Stable based on established norms and Plastic to dynamically evaluate new information about the environment and user(s) of intelligent machines to facilitate optimal task delegation to an end state of mutual preservation and survival.

I am interested in exploring contemporary research in personality as it may be applied to research in human-computer interactions in general and trust development in intelligent machine in specific. I am also a career military personnel selection officer with experience conducting job analyses on military occupations such as air traffic control, search and rescue technician, intelligence officers and operators, and human intelligence personnel. I conducted the job analysis and collected cognitive test data in support of the 2009 Canadian Space Agency`s Astronaut Campaign. Dr. Alla Skomorovsky (Carleton, 2007) and I developed the scoring criteria for the Trait Self-Descriptive Personality Inventory that is used extensively in the Canadian Forces` selection model. I designed the Interrogator Candidate Assessment Program as well as the Aerospace (Air Traffic Control) Control Candidate Evaluation System (ACCESS). I provided personnel selection oversight to the Source Handler Candidate Assessment Program from 2005 to 2011. These job analyses and research programs all identified and collected data on personality traits and factors to determine candidate suitablity.

I am interest in lending a hand in support of Wikipedia pages on job analysis and personnel selection, particularly as personality relates to these areas of psychology. I am also interested in resilence research in military and non-military contexts and how personality may explain variance in individual differences to adverse situations and how personality may steel individuals in spite of adversity.

I look forward to discussing personality on the talk pages of many Wikipedia pages with the hopes of contributing to them in support of Wikipedia.

Here are the Wikipedia Stubs that I am interested in contributing to:

A. Affective Events Theory;
B. Unconditional Positive Regard;
C. F-Scale (Personality Test);
D. Flexibility (Personality);
E. Positive Mental Attitude;
F. Verbal Reasoning;
G. Waiter Rule;
H. Zero-Defects Mentality;
J. Consumerism and Longevity;
K. Demand Characteristics;
M. Dependency Need;
P. Distressed Personality Type;
Q. Encounter (Psychology);
R. Gray's Biopsychological Theory of Personality;
S. Half-Life of Knowledge;
T. Helper Theory;
U. Idiothetic;
V. Lewin's Equation;
W. MARS Model of Individual Behavior;
X. Masking (Personality)
Y. Need for Power;
Z. Orderliness; and
AA. Paradoxical Intention.