Michael Feary

Affiliation– NASA Ames Research Center

Division– Human Systems Integration Division (TH)

Phone– 650-604-0203

Email– michael.s.feary@nasa.gov

Mail Stop– 262-4

Awards

(2024)  Best Paper Award, Best Paper of UAM Special Topics Session (DASC 2024), “An Examination of Powered-Lift Aircraft Operations in Urban Areas”

(2022)  NASA Honor Award, Exceptional Achievement Medal

(2022)  NASA Group Achievement Award, Automation Enabled Pilot Team

Publications

M. S. Feary, J. Kaneshige, K. Shish, A. VIlla, L. Haworth, T. J. Lombaerts, K. J. Monk, N. H. Iwai, J. L. Archdeacon, & M. Steglinski (2024) An Examination of Powered-Lift Aircraft Operations in Urban Areas, Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) October 2024, San Diego, CA 

L. Haworth, M. S. Feary, J. Kaneshige, K. Shish, T. J. Lombaerts, K. J. Monk, A. VIlla, M. Steglinski, N. H. Iwai, & J. L. Archdeacon (2024) Training the Powered-Lift Evaluation Pilot, 43rd AIAA/Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), San Diego, CA 

M. S. Feary, J. Kaneshige, T. J. Lombaerts, K. Shish, & L. Haworth (2023) Evaluation of Novel eVTOL Aircraft Automation Concepts , In proceedings of AIAA Aviation Forum 2023, San Diego, CA 

D. Billman, R. J. Mumaw, P. Zaal, T. J. Lombaerts, I. C. Torron, S. Jamal, M. C. Shyr, & M. S. Feary (2022) The Effects of Training and Flight Director Use on Pilot Monitoring Performance: A Sensemaking Approach, NASA/TM–20220005742 

R. J. Mumaw, D. Billman, & M. S. Feary (2021) Analysis of Pilot Monitoring Skills and a Review of Training Effectiveness, NASA/TM-20210000047 

P. Zaal, T. J. Lombaerts, R. J. Mumaw, D. Billman, I. C. Torron, S. Jamal, M. C. Shyr, & M. S. Feary (2021) Eye-Tracking Analysis from a Flight-Director-Use and Pilot-Monitoring Study, In AIAA AVIATION 2021 FORUM. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-2995 

D. Billman, R. J. Mumaw, & M. S. Feary (2021) Methods for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Programs to Train Pilot Monitoring, NASA/TM-20210000045 

J. L. Archdeacon, N. H. Iwai, & M. S. Feary (2020) Aerospace Cognitive Engineering Laboratory (ACELAB) Simulator for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Research and Development, AIAA Aviation Forum, June 15-19, 2020, Virtual Event 

D. Billman, R. J. Mumaw, & M. S. Feary (2020) Best Practices for Evaluating Flight Deck Interfaces for Transport Category Aircraft with Particular Relevance to Issues of Attention, Awareness, and Understanding, NASA/TM–2019–220390 

J. B. Holbrook, L. J. Prinzel, E. Chancey, R. J. Shively, M. S. Feary, Q. Dao, M. Ballin, & C. Teubert (2020) Enabling Urban Air Mobility: Human Autonomy Teaming Research Challenges and Recommendations, AIAA Aviation Forum, June 15-19, 2020, Virtual Event 

R. J. Mumaw, L. Haworth, D. Billman, & M. S. Feary (2020) Evaluation Issues for a Flight Deck Interface, NASA/TM-20205010986 

R. J. Mumaw, D. Billman, & M. S. Feary (2020) Factors that Influenced Airplane State Awareness Accidents and Incidents, NASA/TM-20205010985 

R. J. Mumaw, D. Billman, & M. S. Feary (2020) Identification of Scenarios for System Interface Design Evaluation, NASA/TM-20205010988 

L. Arsintescu, B. Matthews, M. S. Feary, J. L. Nowinski, N. C. Oza, & E. E. Flynn-Evans (2018) Aircraft exceedances vary according to time of day and workload, Poster presentation at Aerospace Medical Association 89th Annual Scientific Meeting, Dallas, TX, May 9 

E. E. Flynn-Evans, L. Arsintescu, K. B. Gregory, J. B. Mulligan, J. L. Nowinski, & M. S. Feary (2018) Better Performance on the Psychomotor Vigilance Task is Associated with Longer Sleep Duration and Lower Self-Reported Sleep Need in the Real World, Presentation at Sleep SLEEP, Volume 41, Abstract Supplement, June 02-06, Baltimore 

R. J. Mumaw, M. S. Feary, L. Fucke, M. Stewart, R. Ritprasert, A. Popovici, & R. V. Deshmukh (2018) Managing Complex Airplane System Failures through a Structured Assessment of Airplane Capabilities, NASA Technical Report, NASA/TM-2018-219775, March 2018.

E. Flynn-Evans, L. Arsintescu, K. B. Gregory, J. B. Mulligan, J. L. Nowinski, & M. S. Feary (2018) Sleep and neurobehavioral performance vary by work start time during non-traditional day shifts, Sleep health, 4(5), 476-484 

D. Thipphavong, R. Apaza, B. Barmore, V. Battiste, B. K. Burian, Q. Dao, M. S. Feary, S. Go, K. Goodrich, J. R. Homola, H. Idris, P. Kopardekar, J. B. Lachter, N. Neogi, H. Ng, R. Oseguera-Lohr, M. Patterson, & S. Verma (2018) Urban Air Mobility Airspace Integration Concepts and Considerations , AIAA Aviation Forum (Aviation 2018); June 25, 2018 – June 29, 2018; Atlanta, GA; United States 

R. J. Mumaw, & M. S. Feary (2017) Aircraft capability management, SAE NASA Autonomy and the Next Generation Flight Deck Symposium. NASA Ames Research Center. Moffett Field, CA 

L. Arsintescu, J. B. Mulligan, M. S. Feary, J. L. Nowinski, & E. E. Flynn-Evans (2017) Subjective Fatigue is influenced by Duty Duration among Short-haul Airline Pilots, Poster presentation at Aerospace Medical Association 88th Annual Scientific Meeting, Denver, CO, May 1st 

M. Stewart, S. P. Laraway, K. Jordan, & M. S. Feary (2016) Simplified Approach Charts Improve Data Retrieval Performance, Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making 

D. Billman, M. S. Feary, D. Schreckenghost, & L. Sherry (2015) Needs Analysis and Technology Alignment Method: A Case Study of Planning Work in an International Space Station Controller Group, Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making 

D. Billman, L. Arsintescu, M. S. Feary, J. C. Lee, & R. Tiwary (2015) Needs Analysis and Technology Evaluation: Evaluation Case Study of Alternative Software for Controller Planning Work, Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making 

D. Billman, L. Arsintescu, M. S. Feary, J. C. Lee, & R. Tiwary (2015) Needs Analysis and Technology Evaluation: Evaluation Case Study of Alternative Software for Controller Planning Work, Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 9(2), 186-207 

M. S. Feary, D. Billman, X. Chen, A. Howes, R. L. Lewis, L. Sherry, & S. Singh (2013) Linking Context to Evaluation in the Design of Safety Critical Interfaces, HCI 1, V (2004) Lecture Notes in Computer Science. pp. 193-202. Springer: Berlin 

E. E. Flynn-Evans, M. S. Feary, I. C. Statler, J. L. Nowinski, & L. Arsintescu (2013) Managing fatigue in aviation operations, Oral Presentation. Human Factors and Engineering Society Meeting; 2013 October, San Diego, CA, USA 

D. Billman, & M. S. Feary (2012) Human-Automation Integration: Principle and Method for Design and Evaluation, Paper presented at NASA Human Research Program Investigators Workshop, Feb 14-16, Houston, TX 

W. W. Johnson, J. B. Lachter, M. S. Feary, D. A. Comerford-Roman, V. Battiste, & R. . Mogford (2012) Task Allocation for Single Pilot Operations: A Role for the Ground, HCI Aero 2012 

D. Billman, L. Arsintescu, M. S. Feary, J. C. Lee, A. Smith, & R. Tiwary (2011) Benefits of Matching Domain Structure for Planning Software: The Right Stuff, Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010); May, 2011 Vancouver, BC. P. 2521-2530 

D. Billman, & M. S. Feary (2010) Collective Intelligence and Three Temporal Aspects of Planning in Organizations: A NASA Example, Poster presented at the CSCW workshop, Collective Intelligence In Organizations: Toward a Research Agenda. Savannah, GA. February 6, 2010 

D. Billman, M. S. Feary, D. Schreckenghost, & L. Sherry (2010) Needs Analysis: The Case of Flexible Constraints and Mutable Boundaries, Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010); April, 2010 Atlanta, GA, p 4597-4612 

M. S. Feary, & L. Sherry (2004) Dynamic Storyboards: Faster, Cheaper Software Prototypes for Usability Evaluation.. 

L. Sherry, P. Polson, & M. S. Feary (2002) Designing User-Interface for the Cockpit: Five Common Design Errors and How to Avoid Them, Sherry, L., Polson, P. and Feary, M. (2002) Designing User-Interfaces for the Cockpit: Five Common Design Errors, and How to Avoid Them. Paper to be presented at the 2002 SAE World Aviation Congress, Phoenix, AZ (November 5 – 7).

L. Sherry, P. Polson, & M. S. Feary (2002) Designing User-Interfaces for the Cockpit: Five Common Design Errors, and How to Avoid Them, Paper to be presented at the 2002 SAE World Aviation Congress, Phoenix, AZ (November 5 – 7) 

S. Lance, P. Polson, M. S. Feary, & E. A. Palmer (2002) When Does the MCDU Interface Work Well?, Sherry, L., Polson, P., Feary, M. and Palmer, E. (2002) When Does the MCDU Interface Work Well? Paper presented at the the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Aeronautics, Cambridge, MA (October 22-24). 

S. Lance, M. S. Feary, P. Polson, & E. A. Palmer (2001) Cognitive Engineering Analysis of the Vertical Navigation (VNAV) Function., Sherry, L., Feary, M., Polson, P., Mumaw, R., and Palmer, E. (2001). Cognitive Engineering Analysis of the Vertical Navigation (VNAV) Function. NASA/TM-2001-210915. Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA.

L. Sherry, & M. S. Feary (2001) Using Improving the Aircraft Cockpit User-Interface Rule-based Expert System Models, PC AI Magazine,

M. S. Feary, & I. Barshi (2000) “Why is it doing that?” Two perspectives on an autoflight system, Proceedings of the Tenth Symposium of Aviation Psychology (pp. 1304-1307). Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University. 

M. S. Feary, L. Sherry, P. Polson, & E. A. Palmer (2000) Evaluation Of A Formal Methodology For Developing Aircraft Vertical Flight Guidance Training Materia, Paper to be presented at the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Aeronautics, Toulouse, France (September 27-29) 

M. S. Feary, L. Sherry, P. Polson, & E. A. Palmer (2000) Formal Method for Developing Part-Task Training for a Modern Autopilot, Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, Edinburgh, Scotland (October 25-27) 

M. S. Feary, D. McCrobie, M. L. Atkins, L. Sherry, P. Polson, & E. A. Palmer (1999) Aiding Vertical Guidance Understanding, Aeronautique-Astronautique. Elsevier. Paris, France 

M. S. Feary, I. Barshi, L. Sherry, & M. L. Atkins (1999) Why is it Doing That? Perspectives of the FMS., Feary, M., and Barshi, I. (1999) “Why is it Doing That?” Perspectives of the FMS. Paper presented at the Tenth International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Columbus, OH (May 3 -May 7). 

M. S. Feary, D. McCrobie, M. L. Atkins, L. Sherry, P. Polson, E. A. Palmer, & N. McQuinn (1998) Aiding Vertical Guidance Understanding, Paper presented at the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Aeronautics, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (May 27-29) 

M. S. Feary, D. McCrobie, M. L. Atkins, L. Sherry, P. Polson, E. A. Palmer, & N. McQuinn (1998) Aiding Vertical Guidance Understanding., Feary, M., McCrobie, D., Alkin, M., Sherry, L., Polson, P., Palmer, E. (1998). Aiding Vertical Guidance Understanding. NASA/TM-1998-112217. Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA. 

M. S. Feary, & L. Sherry (1998) Evaluating Flight Crew Operator Manual Documentation, Paper presented at IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, San Diego, CA (October 11-14) 

M. S. Feary, & L. Sherry (1998) Evaluation of a Formal Methodology for Developing Aircraft Vertical Flight Guidance Training Material, Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Chicago, IL (October 5-9) 

M. S. Feary, E. A. Palmer, L. Sherry, P. Polson, M. L. Atkins, & D. McCrobie (1997) Behavior-Based vs. System-Based Training and Displays for Automated Vertical Guidance, Paper presented at the Ninth International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Columbus, OH (April 27-May 1) 

E. A. Palmer, P. Cashion, B. Crane, S. Green, M. S. Feary, T. Goka, N. H. Johnson, B. Sanford, & N. M. Smith (1995) Field Evaluation of Flight Deck Procedures for Flying CTAS Descents, Paper presented at the Ninth International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Columbus, OH (April 27-May 1)