Education
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 2004
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
(Information Science)

M.Sc. University of Southern California
Institute of Safety and Systems Management, 1996
(Safety and Health/Human Factors)

B.Sc. Cum Laude, Daniel Webster College, 1994
(Aviation Management/Air Traffic Control)

A.Sc. Cum Laude, Newbury College, 1988
(Fashion Design)

Aviation Safety Professional Certificate Program
University of Southern California, 1996

Course(s) Taught
AVI 455, Aviation Accident Investigation and Analysis
AVI 381, Crew Resource Management
AVI/PSYCH 495, Aviation Psychology

Special Interests
- Information Exchange and Standard Operating Procedures
- Individual and Group Decision Processes
- Organizational Safety Culture
- Crew Resource Management
- Distributed Knowledge/Distributed Collective Practice
- Social Informatics
- Critical Incident Response, Stress, and Debriefing
- Error Analysis
- Design and Use of Everyday Things
- Aviation History

My research combines principles from information science and human factors to study distributed information practice in safety and time critical environments (aviation and medical).

Project Site(s)
Sociotechnical Systems Safety Research
Research which investigates factors affecting risk, decision, performance, and safety in high reliability organizations. We have developed measurement criteria and investigated interactions among diverse working groups to assess the impact of culture on attitudes and organizational behavior.

Additional Information
Organizations:

Aerospace Medical Association
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Society
American Society of Safety Engineers
Association of Aviation Psychologists
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Ninety-Nines, International Organization of Women Pilots
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Society of Air Racing Historians
Women in Aviation International

Other:

Founding Member, Thaden Aviation Foundation
Advisory Board, Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum
Board of Trustees, Daniel Webster College
Board Member, Bobbi Trout Aviation Scholarship
Amelia Earhart Fellow, Zonta International, 2003
Transportation Research Board Fellow, 1996
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Fellow, 1995 & 1996

Selected Articles

von Thaden, T. L., Gibbons, A. M. (2008), The Safety Culture Indicator Scale Measurement System (SCISMS). Technical Report HFD-08-03/FAA-08-02. Savoy, IL: University of Illinois, Human Factors Division.

Suzuki, T., von Thaden, T. L., Geibel, W. D. (2008), Coordination and safety behaviors in commercial aircraft maintenance. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

von Thaden, T. L. (2008), Distributed information behavior: A study of dynamic practice in a safety critical environment. The Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(10), 1555-1569.

von Thaden, T. L. (2007), Building a foundation to study distributed information behaviour. Special Topics in Information Research on Activity Theory in Information Studies. M. Spasser (Ed.), International Journal of Information Research 12(3) paper 312. [Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/12-3/paper312.html]. ISSN1368-1613.