Jaime Auton

Dr Jaime Auton

Lecturer

School of Psychology

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Jaime is a registered organisational psychologist and human factors researcher. Her primary research interests lie in the assessment and development of expertise of operators working within high-risk, high-consequence technical environments. Together with her collaborators at Macquarie University, Sydney, Jaime has contributed to the development of the EXPERT Intensive Skills Evaluation (EXPERTise 2.0) software which has been used to assess the diagnostic skills of practitioners across a range of domains, including electricity transmission and distribution control, electrical rail control, emergency medicine, audiology and hydroelectric power generation. Jaime has published peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and has presented her research at both domestic and international conferences. Jaime received her BA (Hons in Psychology) from the University of Sydney and completed her combined PhD/Master of Organisational Psychology degree and subsequent post-doctoral research fellowship at Macquarie University in Sydney.

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  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2019 Sturman, D., Wiggins, M., Auton, J., & Loft, S. (2019). Cue utilization differentiates resource allocation during sustained attention simulated rail control tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 25(3), 317-332.
    DOI Scopus4 Europe PMC1
    2019 Yee, D., Wiggins, M., Auton, J., Warry, G., & Cklamovski, P. (2019). Technical and Social Cue Utilization in Expert Football Coaches. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology.
    DOI Scopus1
    2019 Sturman, D., Wiggins, M., Auton, J., Loft, S., Helton, W., Westbrook, J., & Braithwaite, J. (2019). Control room operators’ cue utilization predicts cognitive resource consumption during regular operational tasks. Frontiers in Psychology, 10(AUG), 1967-1-1967-9.
    DOI Scopus1 WoS1
    2019 Sturman, D., Wiggins, M., Auton, J., & William, H. (2019). Cue Utilisation Predicts Control Room Operators’
    Performance in a Sustained Visual Search Task. Ergonomics, 63(1), 13 pages.
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    2019 Yuris, N., Wiggins, M., Auton, J., Gaicon, L., & Sturman, D. (2019). Higher cue utilization in driving supports improved driving performance and more effective visual search behaviors. Journal of Safety Research, 71, 59-66.
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    2018 Watkinson, J., Bristow, G., Auton, J., McMahon, C., & Wiggins, M. (2018). Postgraduate Training in Audiology improves Clinicians’ Audiology-Related Cue Utilization. International Journal of Audiology, 57(9), 681-687.
    DOI Scopus2
    2018 Wiggins, M., Whincup, E., & Auton, J. (2018). Cue utilisation reduces effort but increases arousal during a process control task. Applied Ergonomics, 69, 120-127.
    DOI Scopus3
    2018 Griffin, B., Auton, J., Duvivier, R., Shulruf, B., & Hu, W. (2018). Applicants to medical school: If at first they don’t succeed, who tries again and are they successful?. Advances in Healthy Sciences Education, 24(1), 33-43.
    DOI Scopus1 Europe PMC1
    2018 Griffin, B., Auton, J., Duvivier, R., Shukruf, B., & Hu, W. (2018). Multiple mini interviews: Revealing similarities and differences that exist beneath the surface. BMC Medical Education, 18(1), Online journal.
    DOI Scopus1
    2017 Auton, J., Wiggins, M. W., Searle, B. J., & Xu Rattanasone, N. (2017). Utilization of prosodic and linguistic cues during perceptions of nonunderstandings in radio communication. Applied Psycholinguistics, 38(3), 509-539.
    DOI Scopus4
    2015 Searle, B. J., & Auton, J. (2015). The merits of measuring challenge and hindrance appraisals. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping: An International Journal, 28(2), 121-143.
    DOI Scopus44 Europe PMC6
    2013 Auton, J., Wiggins, M., Searle, B., Loveday, T., & Rattanasone, N. (2013). Prosodic cues used during perceptions of nonunderstandings in radio communication. Journal of Communication, 63(3), 600-616.
    DOI Scopus6

  • Book Chapters
    Year Citation
    2019 Wiggins, M. W., Auton, J., & Taylor, M. (2019). Fire fighting and emergency responding. In K. U (Ed.), Handbook of expertise. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
    2015 Krebs-Lazendic, L., Xu Rattanasone, N., & Auton, J. (2015). Communication and diagnostic cues. In M. W. Wiggins, & T. Loveday (Eds.), Diagnostic expertise in organisational environments (pp. 27-36). Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing.

  • Conference Papers
    Year Citation
    2019 Auton, J., Wiggins, M., & Sturman, D. (2019). The Relationship between Visual and Auditory Cue Utilization. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting Vol. 63 (pp. 843-847). online: Sage.
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    2018 Wiggins, M. W., & Auton, J. (2018). Test-retest reliability of a tool to differentiating experts from experienced practitioners in ergonomic analyses. In Proceedings of SEANES 2018 (pp. 10 pages). online: SEANES.
    2018 Shekh, S., Auton, J., & Wiggins, M. W. (2018). The Effects of Cue Utilization and Target-Related Information on Target Detection during a Simulated Drone Search and Rescue Task. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting Vol. 62 (pp. 227-231). Philadelphia.
    2018 Sturman, D., Wiggins, M. W., Auton, J., & Loft, S. (2018). Cue Utilization Predicts Resource Allocation during Rail Control Simulations: A NIRS Study. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting Vol. 62 (pp. 726-730). Philadelphia.
    2014 Auton, J., Wiggins, M. W., & Searle, B. J. (2014). The importance of intonation during perceptions of nonunderstanding during full and partial readback responses in radio communication. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting Vol. 58 (pp. 395-399). Online.
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    2012 Auton, J., Wiggins, M., & Loveday, T. (2012). Prosodic cues that signal non-understandings to power control operators during radio communication. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Vol. 56 (pp. 483-487).
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As a lecturer and organisational psychologist within the School of Psychology, I teach largely into the Master of Psychology (Organisational and Human Factors) degree. In 2020, I am coordinating PSYCHOL 7331 Professional Practice (Summer School), PSYCHOL 7332 Psychological Assessment (Semester 1) and PSYCHOL 7335 Contemporary Organisational Psychology (Semester 2). I am also the Placement Coordinator for all the Master of Psychology (OH&F) students. At an undergraduate level, I also co-coordinate the PSYCHOL 4308 Organisational Psychology Honours elective course (Semester 2) and teach into PSYCHOL 2008 Big Picture Psychology.

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  • Other Supervision Activities
    Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name
    2019 - ongoing Principal Supervisor The role of cue utilisation and state anxiety in phishing email susceptibility University of Adelaide — Honours — Annastasia Falkenberg
    2019 - ongoing Principal Supervisor Cue utilisation, state anxiety, prospective memory and performance in a novel task University of Adelaide Master of Psychology (Organisational and Human Factors) Master — Celine Chong
    2019 - ongoing Principal Supervisor Cue utilisation and driver distraction during performance in a driving simulator University of Adelaide — Honours — Camille Dalgarno
    2019 - ongoing Co-Supervisor Personality and person/organisation fit of aged care workers within an Italian-specific aged care environment. University of Adelaide Master of Psychology (Organisational and Human Factors) Master — Carlo Tropiano
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  • Committee Memberships
    Date Role Committee Institution Country
    2019 - ongoing Secretary College of Organisational Psychologists (State Committee SA) Australian Psychological Society Australia

  • Memberships
    Date Role Membership Country
    2010 - ongoing Member Australian Psychological Society Australia
    2010 - ongoing Member APS College of Organisational Psychologists Australia
  • Position: Lecturer
  • Phone: 83137464
  • Email: jaime.auton@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Hughes, floor 7
  • Room: 7 26
  • Org Unit: School of Psychology
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