Biography
Dr. Pritchett is the director of the Georgia Tech Cognitive Engineering Center. She has several active research projects in the areas of simulation, aviation operations, and flight deck design. This research combines elements of several disciplines, including avionics design, automatic control, flight simulation, large-scale agent-based simulation, human-machine design, and human performance modeling. She has been the technical program chair of the IEEE/AIAA Digital Avionics Systems Conference and the Aerospace Technical Group of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and co-chair of the 2004 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Aerospace. In 1999, she was the recipient of the RTCA’s William E Jackson Award for her dissertation on closely-spaced parallel approaches, and in 2000 she was selected as a top young alumni of MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. She is an area editor of SIMULATION: Transactions of the Society International for the area of aviation and air traffic simulations, associate editor of the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information and Communication, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making. She serves on the National Research Council’s Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and associated committees examining future research directions in air transportation and civil aeronautics.
