Research Areas

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Cybersecurity

We investigate the cognitive factors that support cybersecurity professionals, cyber workforce development, and cyber hygiene.

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Human-Automation Teaming

We investigate how people and automation work together, especially when safety and performance are critical.


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STEM Education and Careers

We create, study, and evaluate strategies to increase participation and achievement in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce.

Lab News

October 7, 2024

Limited application window now open for volunteer data verifiers; we need a few volunteers to help with verifiying interview transcripts.

July 31, 2024

Announcing APEX STATS Release 1.5! APEX STATS now offers 100% coverage of California Community Colleges C-ID descriptor objectives for Introduction to Statistics.

January 17, 2024

Now accepting volunteer student research assistant applications!

January 17, 2024

We released the newest four modules in APEX STATS: Independent samples t-test, ANOVA, Bean Machine, and Sampling Techniques.

July 26, 2023

Announcing APEX STATS Release 1.1: Open, editable, and modular resources that use Python to make it easier to teach introductory statistics.

July 25, 2023

We will be facilitating sessions at the 2023 APEX Summer Workshop

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