

Current Projects
Project 1: Investigating the role of anthropomorphism on pilot's trust, performance, user acceptance towards a humanoid copilot (i.e., Denjin) in a single pilot operation.
Project 2: Examining the relationship between the different types of perceived risk (i.e., situational perceived risk and relational perceived risk) and trust in automation.
Project 3: Examining the interplay of trust in automation and visual attention allocation in a simplified vehicle operation.
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Tools Used For Data Collection

Pupil Neon

HTC VIVE Pro 2

Tobii Pro Spark

XForce Flight Simulator

Detection Response Task
Publications
Sato, T., Chancey, E. T., & Yamani, Y. (under review). Tracing the development of trust in automation/autonomy in a multitasking environment. Human Factors. ​
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Jackson, A., Sato, T., Glassman, J., Politowicz, M. S., Chancey, E. T., & Yamani, Y. (under review). Automation error bias, trust, and dependence behaviors in a simulated drone collision avoidance task. Human Factors.
Petkac, S., Sato, T., Xie, K., & Yamani, Y. (under review). Dissociation of Subjective and Objective Measures of Trust in Vehicle Automation: A Driving Simulator Study. Frontiers in Future Transportation.
Sato, T., Yamani, Y., Jackson, A., Funabiki, K., Tsuda, H., Fujimoto, K., & Itoh, M. (2025). DENJIN-KEIKAKU 2.0: Empowering aviation autonomy by anthropomorphic assistants. Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, 269-274.​
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Yamani, Y., Sato, T., Jackson, A., Politowicz, M., & Chancey, E. T. (2025). A theoretical approach to management of limited attentional resources to support the m: N operation in advanced air mobility ecosystem. In Interdependent Human-Machine Teams (pp. 273-292). Academic Press.
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Yamani, Y., Long, S. K., Sato, T., Braitman, A. L., Politowicz, M. S., & Chancey, E. T. (2025). Multilevel confirmatory factor analysis reveals two distinct human–automation trust constructs. Human Factors, 67, 166-180.
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Cui, Z., Sato, T., Jackson, A., Jayarathna, S., Politowicz, M. S., Chancey, E. T., Itoh, M., & Yamani, Y. (2024). Gaze transition entropy as a measure of attention allocation and a predictor of automation trust. Scientific Reports, 14, 23405.​​​​
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Sato, T., Jackson, A., & Yamani, Y. (2024). Number of Interrupting Events Influences Response Time in Multitasking, but not Trust in Automation. The International Journal of Aerospace Psychology, 1-17.
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Sato, T., Islam, S., Still, J. D., Scerbo, M. W., & Yamani, Y. (2023). Task priority reduces an adverse effect of task load on automation trust in a dynamic multitasking environment. Cognition, Technology & Work, 25, 1-13.
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Sato, T., Inman, J., Politowicz, M. S., Chancey, E. T., & Yamani, Y. (2023). Human-autonomy trust in the context of advanced air mobility operations: A pilot survey study. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2023 Annual Meeting, 67, 51-56.
Sato, T., Inman, J., Politowicz, M. S., Chancey, E. T., & Yamani, Y. (2023). A meta-analytic approach to investigating the relationship between trust and attention allocation. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2023 Annual Meeting, 67, 959-964.
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Sato, T., Politowicz, M. S., Islam, S., Chancey, E. T., & Yamani, Y. (2022). Attentional considerations in advanced air mobility operations: control, manage, or assist?. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 66, 28-32.
Pacailler, M., Yahoodik, S., Sato, T., Ammons, J. G., & Still, J. (2022). Human-centered artificial intelligence: Beyond a two-dimensional framework. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 471-482.
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Long, S., Sato, T., Millner, N., Mirabelli, J., Loranger, R., & Yamani, Y. (2020). Empirically and theoretically driven scales on automation trust: A multi-level confirmatory factor analysis. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 64, 1829-1832.
Sato, T., Yamani, Y., Liechty, M., & Chancey, E. T. (2020). Automation trust increases under high-workload multitasking scenarios involving risk. Cognition, Technology & Work, 22, 399-407.
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Tremmel, C., Herff, C., Sato, T., Rechowicz, K., Yamani, Y., & Krusienski, D. (2019). Estimating cognitive workload in an interactive virtual reality environment using EEG. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13, 401.
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