Greg P. Kearsley
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2
Total Citations
47
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2
About
Greg P. Kearsley is a researcher whose work has focused on the intersection of human factors engineering and emerging automation technologies, most notably robotics. Active in the early 1980s, Kearsley was a pioneering voice advocating for the integration of human factors principles into the rapidly developing field of robotics — a domain that many in his discipline had yet to fully engage with. His influential 1982 paper, "Robotics and Human Factors: Current Status and Future Prospects," which garnered 40 citations, argued compellingly that human factors scientists needed to assert themselves in robotic system design to ensure that the human role in automation was properly represented. Building on an earlier 1981 companion piece directed at bridging communication between the robotics and human factors communities, Kearsley effectively served as a translator between two fields that needed each other but had not yet found common ground. His work helped lay an intellectual foundation for thinking critically about how humans interact with and oversee automated systems — questions that have only grown more urgent with the rise of advanced robotics and artificial intelligence in the decades since.
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- 1Robotics and Human Factors: Current Status and Future Prospects40 citations · 1982
- 2Human factors and robotics: Current status and future prospects.7 citations · 1981