{"id":11634,"date":"2020-02-20T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/?p=11634"},"modified":"2022-05-05T14:24:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T18:24:12","slug":"psychology-month-profile-gregory-craig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/psychology-month-profile-gregory-craig\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychology Month Profile: Gregory Craig"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gregory Craig<\/strong>
\nDr. Gregory Craig is part of a team of \u201chuman factors researchers\u201d at the National Research Council. His work might one day lead to a new frontier in aviation \u2013 pilotless airplanes.<\/div>\n
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Gregory Craig<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

One day, you might take a flight from Saskatoon to Dublin. There will be in-flight movies, tiny difficult-to-open bags of peanuts, flight attendants distributing cheap headphones and tiny pillows, and free tiny cans of wine once you\u2019re over international waters. There will, however, be one major difference. On this flight, there will be no pilot.<\/p>\n

At least, such a thing is possible<\/em>. But not until a whole lot more studying is done on the subject. Some of those studies are currently being conducted by Dr. Gregory Craig and a team of human factors researchers at the National Research Council of Canada.<\/p>\n

Gregory has been involved in a wide<\/em> variety of research projects. He\u2019s done research on night vision goggles, displays for infrared cameras for search and rescue, and the design of symbolic information displays for pilots. Currently, he\u2019s involved in examining \u2018trust in automation\u2019 to assess pilots\u2019 trust in automatic flight systems.\u00a0 This ranges from basic elements like an off-the-shelf autopilot to looking at fully autonomous (no pilots) flight<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Gregory spent his formative years at Carleton University, earning a PhD in Cognitive Psychology in 1997. While his current role is mostly unrelated to his studies, he credits the people he met along the way for getting him to where he is today.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a wide gulf between what I studied in university and the type of research that I do now.\u00a0 The main elements of my university studies that helped were basic experimental design, document editing and data analysis. Much of my training in applied research came from one of my supervisors who was employed at the Communications Research Centre and an adjunct at Carleton. He encouraged me to participate in several of the applied research projects that he worked on for CRC. The other source of applied research thinking came from a course for which I was a teaching assistant at Carleton. The course was a basic introduction to sensation and perception, but the prof teaching the course had a large number of industrial design students in the class. For those students, the prof took the time to explain how basic elements of sensation and perception could be applied to the design of systems and products intended for use by the general population.\u201d<\/p>\n

One might expect a psychologist to lead project teams, analyze data, submit research proposals, prepare reports and presentations, and manage projects. But maybe not to design and conduct flight tests, evaluate advanced cockpit technologies, and explore human factors issues for pilots, crew and passengers.<\/p>\n

So think about Gregory Craig the next time you\u2019re on a plane \u2013 it might be his work that enhanced the technology in the cockpit, or designed the display used to navigate. And while you\u2019re doing that, you might want to check to see if, up front in the cockpit, there\u2019s still a pilot.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n
Gregory Craig<\/strong>
\nDr. Gregory Craig is part of a team of \u201chuman factors researchers\u201d at the National Research Council. His work might one day lead to a new frontier in aviation \u2013 pilotless airplanes.<\/div>\n
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\r\n \r\n <\/i><\/span>\r\n <\/i><\/span>\r\n <\/span>\r\n About Gregory Craig<\/span>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Gregory Craig<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

One day, you might take a flight from Saskatoon to Dublin. There will be in-flight movies, tiny difficult-to-open bags of peanuts, flight attendants distributing cheap headphones and tiny pillows, and free tiny cans of wine once you\u2019re over international waters. There will, however, be one major difference. On this flight, there will be no pilot.<\/p>\n

At least, such a thing is possible<\/em>. But not until a whole lot more studying is done on the subject. Some of those studies are currently being conducted by Dr. Gregory Craig and a team of human factors researchers at the National Research Council of Canada.<\/p>\n

Gregory has been involved in a wide<\/em> variety of research projects. He\u2019s done research on night vision goggles, displays for infrared cameras for search and rescue, and the design of symbolic information displays for pilots. Currently, he\u2019s involved in examining \u2018trust in automation\u2019 to assess pilots\u2019 trust in automatic flight systems.\u00a0 This ranges from basic elements like an off-the-shelf autopilot to looking at fully autonomous (no pilots) flight<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Gregory spent his formative years at Carleton University, earning a PhD in Cognitive Psychology in 1997. While his current role is mostly unrelated to his studies, he credits the people he met along the way for getting him to where he is today.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a wide gulf between what I studied in university and the type of research that I do now.\u00a0 The main elements of my university studies that helped were basic experimental design, document editing and data analysis. Much of my training in applied research came from one of my supervisors who was employed at the Communications Research Centre and an adjunct at Carleton. He encouraged me to participate in several of the applied research projects that he worked on for CRC. The other source of applied research thinking came from a course for which I was a teaching assistant at Carleton. The course was a basic introduction to sensation and perception, but the prof teaching the course had a large number of industrial design students in the class. For those students, the prof took the time to explain how basic elements of sensation and perception could be applied to the design of systems and products intended for use by the general population.\u201d<\/p>\n

One might expect a psychologist to lead project teams, analyze data, submit research proposals, prepare reports and presentations, and manage projects. But maybe not to design and conduct flight tests, evaluate advanced cockpit technologies, and explore human factors issues for pilots, crew and passengers.<\/p>\n

So think about Gregory Craig the next time you\u2019re on a plane \u2013 it might be his work that enhanced the technology in the cockpit, or designed the display used to navigate. And while you\u2019re doing that, you might want to check to see if, up front in the cockpit, there\u2019s still a pilot.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychprofilesfr","category-psychmonth2020fr"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-19 12:26:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11634"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19805,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634\/revisions\/19805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}