Mustafa Demir
Papers
12
Total Citations
315
H-Index
8
About
Mustafa Demir is a prominent human factors and cognitive engineering researcher whose work sits at the cutting edge of human-robot and human-AI teaming. His research centers on understanding how humans and autonomous systems collaborate effectively in high-stakes environments, with a particular focus on urban search and rescue (USAR) missions, shared cognition, team trust, and communication dynamics. Demir's most influential contributions — including his widely cited work on human-robot team interaction and shared cognition (87 citations) and distributed dynamic team trust in mixed human-AI-robot teams (61 citations) — have fundamentally shaped how researchers conceptualize the challenges of integrating intelligent machines into human teams. He has made significant strides in exploring how transparency and explanation-based communication strategies influence trust and situation awareness within human-robot teams, providing actionable guidance for system designers. His transdisciplinary approach bridges cognitive, computational, and neural sciences, and his development of innovative virtual testbeds, including a Roblox-based synthetic environment, demonstrates a creative commitment to rigorous experimental methodology. With over 260 total citations, Demir's body of work is essential reading for anyone studying the future of collaborative human-autonomy systems.
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- 5A Framework for Human-Autonomy Team Research31 citations · 2020
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- 7Developing Human-Robot Team Interdependence in a Synthetic Task Environment19 citations · 2019
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