User:Nkasdaglis
President of TOP Interactive Design LLC, a Human Centered Design and Engineering firm based in Melbourne, Fl.A Human Centered Design and Human Factors Researcher under the guidance of Dr. Guy Boy at the Florida Institute of Technology. Conducts design, engineering and research for innovative technology that improves safety, comfort, and efficiency for system users and stakeholders. Explores human-computer interactions, and complex systems requirements, properties, and behaviors in cockpit and other life critical environments. His present research is in the development of an in-flight loss of control recovery guidance tool for use in commercial aviation. Other interest: real-time decision support, risk management, workload support, commercial single pilot operations, loss of control guidance, and automated threat and error management tools. He recently completed research that explored catastrophe theory and information theory to understand aircraft accident causation, to contribute to the development of predictive tools for use in real time operations.
A retired USAF pilot, he has flown the C-5 Galaxy in combat and combat support sorties. He is a Distinguished Graduate of the C-5 Aircraft Commander/C-5 Ariel Refueling courses. He holds an FAA Airline Transport Pilot License; he is type rated on 7 civil aircraft to include the 767 and 757. He has served as a DOS, developing a safety management system with a large fractional corporate aircraft organization. He has taught aviation safety topics with FSl. He has examined the impact of commercial space vehicles in the National Airspace System. For dedication to flight safety and the pursuit of aerospace human systems integration technologies development, he was awarded the 2011 Graduate Academic Flight Safety Award by the Society of Experimental Test Pilots for his research paper: “CFIT: The Access to and Use of Information Principle”. Most recently, Nicholas co-authored a contribution in a Wiley publication called: The Art of Managing Information the National Aerospace Architecture (Kasdaglis & Deaton, 2012).
