Caileigh Fitzgerald

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Caileigh Fitzgerald is a researcher at the forefront of human-robot teaming, with a focus on trust, cognitive load, and real-world marine environments. Her work centers on understanding how humans and autonomous systems collaborate under dynamic, high-stakes conditions. Fitzgerald’s most cited paper, “Preliminary Interactions of Human-Robot Trust, Cognitive Load, and Robot Intelligence Levels in a Competitive Game” (2018, 23 citations), presents a pilot study examining these interactions during a competitive game of capture the flag, revealing critical insights into how robot intelligence levels affect human trust and mental workload. She is also the driving force behind the Aquaticus testbed, a marine human-robot teaming platform introduced in her 2019 paper (9 citations), which provides publicly available datasets to advance research in this field. Her 2019 study “Exploring Human-Robot Trust During Teaming in a Real-World Testbed” (5 citations) further demonstrates her commitment to ecologically valid experimentation, analyzing seven competitions where humans and autonomous surface vehicles collaborate in physical environments. Fitzgerald’s contributions are foundational for developing trustworthy, effective human-robot teams in real-world settings, from search-and-rescue to maritime operations.