Dr. Elisabeth Slifkin is a Human Factors Scientist with expertise in human performance, attention, decision-making, and behavioral measurement. She received her PhD in Human Factors and Cognitive Psychology from the University of Central Florida, where her research examined how task interruptions and competing cognitive demands affect attention, information processing, and decision-making. Her doctoral research utilized eye tracking and behavioral measures to investigate how interruptions influence the detection and classification of phishing emails, with additional research examining the use of eye-movement patterns to distinguish between phishing and legitimate emails.
Dr. Slifkin’s research experience encompasses cognitive workload, attention, human error, decision-making, and human-system interaction. Her work examines how people interact within formation and systems and includes evaluating and redesigning systems based on stakeholder needs and behavioral data, with a focus on improving usability, performance, and system adoption.
At Explico, Dr. Slifkin’s background in experimental research and behavioral measurement allows her to evaluate how task demands, attention, and interruptions can influence human decision-making and performance and contribute to errors. She combines empirical research methods with an understanding of human cognition to assess human-system interactions and provide evidence-based insights into complex events.
