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Brandon J. Pitts

Psychology · Purdue University West Lafayette

Established · publishing since 1999

Publications

84

Citations

1,066

Est. group size

~11

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

28

Publishing since 1999

Research summary
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Brandon J. Pitts studies how people interact with automated and autonomous systems, particularly in driving and aviation contexts, focusing on trust, decision-making, and safety. His work examines topics like how drivers respond to self-driving car confidence signals, hazard identification and warning design, cognitive workload, and age-related differences in reacting to safety-critical situations. This research area, called human factors or human-automation interaction, aims to make automated technologies safer and easier for humans to use appropriately.

Human-automation interaction and trustDriver behavior and vehicle safetyHazard and warning perceptionCognitive workload and decision-makingAviation human factors

Publication output has grown substantially over the past decade, rising from near zero in 2017 to a peak of 16 in 2022, with continued high activity (8-15 papers/year) through 2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 10.4/year recently
172018: 1 publication182019: 5 publications192020: 8 publications202021: 10 publications212022: 16 publications16222023: 8 publications232024: 8 publications242025: 15 publications252026: 5 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting×34
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention×4
  • Applied Ergonomics×4
  • Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society×3
  • International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction×3
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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