Modeling Workload Capacity
Mathematical psychologist Dr. Leslie M. Blaha is an Engineering Research Psychologist in the Battlespace Visualization Branch, Warfighter Interface Division, Human Effectiveness Directorate, 711th Human Performance Wing, Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. She leads the in-house research team supporting the development of visual analytics interfaces for Warfighter needs. Blaha is a 2010 graduate of Indiana University with a joint Ph.D. in Psychology and Cognitive Science, and a 2003 graduate of Miami University with a Bachelors's degrees in Mathematics and Statistics, and Interdisciplinary Studies. Her research is focused on characterizing and modeling the efficiency with which people are able to use information under changing cognitive and perceptual workload demands, which is termed processing capacity. In particular, she aims to model experience-dependent changes in processing capacity resulting from perceptual learning.