E-Mail
sychien (AT) mis.nsysu.edu.tw

Homepage
https://www.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/~sychien/

Research Interests
1.Human-automation collaboration
2.Human-robot interaction
3.Technology Acceptance
4.Human Factors in Systems
5.User Experience

Education

  • Ph.D. in Information Science, University of Pittsburgh

Experiences

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Information Management, National Sun Yat-sen University, 2017-2018
  • Adjunct Faculty, School of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, 2015-2017
  • Research Assistant, School of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, 2009-2017

Award & Honors

  • Best Paper Award, International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2014
  • Best Student Paper Award Nomination, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2012

Journal Articles

  1. Chien, S. Y., Lin, Y. L., Lee, P. J., Han, S., Lewis, M., & Sycara, K. , Allocation of Attention for Supervisory Control in Multirobot Teams: A HMM-based analysis, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (forthcoming), 2018
  2. Chien, S. Y., Lewis, M., Sycara, K., Liu, J. S., & Kumru, A. , The Effect of Culture on Trust in Automation: Reliability and Workload, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (accepted under minor revision), 2018
  3. Lewis, M., Wang, H., Chien, S. Y., Ma, Z., Velagapudi, P., Scerri, P., & Sycara, K. , Process and performance in human-robot teams,, Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making., 2011
  4. Scerri, P., Ma, Z., Chien, S. Y., Wang, H., Lee, P., Lewis, M., & Sycara, K. , An initial evaluation of approaches to building entry for large robot teams, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems., 2011
  5. Lewis, M., Wang, H., Chien, S. Y., Velagapudi, P., Scerri, P., & Sycara, K. , Choosing autonomy modes for multirobot search, Human Factors, 2010

Conference Proceedings

  1. Chien, S. Y., Hsiao, I-H., Kang, Y., The Effect of Applying Visual Programming Language for Developing Robotic Systems, 22th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 18), 2018
  2. Semnani-Azad, Z., Chien, S. Y., Schuckers, S., Impact of Cultural Factors in Trusting Biometric Technology, 51th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Symposium: Credibility Assessment and Screening Technologies (HICSS 18), 2018
  3. Chien, S. Y., Lewis, M., Sycara, K., Liu, J. S., & Kumru, A., Influence of Cultural Factors in Dynamic Trust in Automation, Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 16), 2016
  4. Chien, S. Y., Lewis, M., Sycara, K., Liu, J. S., & Kumru, A., Relation between Trust Attitudes Toward Automation, Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions, and Big Five Personality Traits, Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES 16), 2016
  5. Chien, S. Y., Lewis, M., Hergeth, S., Semnani-Azad, Z., & Sycara, K. , Cross-Country Validation of a Cultural Scale in Measuring Trust in Automation, Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES 15), 2015
  6. Nagavalli, S., Chien, S. Y., Lewis, M., Chakraborty, N., & Sycara, K. , Bounds of Neglect Benevolence in Input Timing for Human Interaction with Robotic Swarms, Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 15), 2015
  7. Chien, S. Y., Semnani-Azad, Z., Lewis, M., & Sycara, K. , An Empirical Model of Cultural Factors on Trust in Automation, Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES 14), 2014
  8. Chien, S. Y., Semnani-Azad, Z., Lewis, M., & Sycara, K. , Towards the development of an Inter-Cultural Scale to Measure Trust in Automation, Proceedings of the 2014 HCI International (HCII 14), 2014
  9. Chien, S. Y., Mehrotra, S., Lewis, M., & Sycara, K. , Imperfect Automation in Scheduling Operator Attention on Control of Multi-Robots, Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES 13), 2013
  10. Chien, S. Y., Mehrotra, S., Lewis, M., & Sycara, K. , Effects of Unreliable Automation in Scheduling Operator Attention for Multi-Robot Control, Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 12), 2012
  11. Chien, S. Y., Mehrotra, S., Brooks, N., Lewis, M., & Sycara, K. , Scheduling Operator Attention for Multi-Robot Control, Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IEEE IROS 12), 2012

Undergraduate Program

YearCourse NameHour
106WEB PROGRAMMING3
Database management3

Graduate Program

YearCourse NameHour
106INTELLIGENT ROBOTIC SYSTEMS: DESIGN AND APPLICATIONS3
Mobile application and service experience design3