Blog 1 - Welcome to my life

Welcome to my website. I am a graduate student at Tufts University, majoring in human factor engineering. As you will see in the introduction to the website, I am interested in UI/UX design, task analysis, and user research.

In my causal time, I like cooking, photographing and pumpkin carving, etc. I am good at Chinese cuisine and started to study bakery recently. Here are some of my works, some Basque cakes, and my Halloween pumpkins.

On my website, I will also put some class projects that I am proud of. They were done not only by me but also by all my team members. The success of a work is the joint efforts of all people.

As a graduate student of engineering psychology, it is inevitable to encounter many topics about automation and human-machine systems. With the rapid development of science and technology, I think the human-machine relationship has gradually changed. If the original intention of automation is to program some repetitive labor, then at the beginning, such a human-machine relationship is the relationship between human beings and tools.

However, with the birth of more autonomous artificial intelligence systems, it seems that the man-machine relationship should be transformed or reshaped into a similar human-to-human relationship. Like the trust issue we mentioned in class, when the system is used as a tool, we seem to trust and use it better.

The highly autonomous system seems to bring a crisis to our man-machine relationship. People gradually begin to be wary of it and propose more people-centered automation directions, hoping to ensure that future autonomous interactions between people are still focused on the needs and preferences of users.

So will the challenge of repairing trust between humans and autonomous systems become a hot topic? I have found some articles about this, and here attached with links. If you are interested, feel free to enjoy it.

From “automation” to “autonomy”: The importance of trust repair in human-machine interaction

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324020939_From_automation_to_autonomy_The_importance_of_trust_repair_in_human-machine_interaction

Factors That Enhance Consumer Trust in Human-Computer Interaction: An Examination of Interface Factors and Moderating Influences

https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3595&context=utk_graddiss