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Suzanne Kearns
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Latest papers
From signal to construct evidence: multimodal consumer-wearable sensing in real general-aviation flight.
Frontiers in neuroergonomics · 2026
Consumer-Grade Wearable Sensors for Classifying Pilot Workload and Stress During Real Flight Training: A Leave-One-Subject-Out Validation Study.
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026 · senior author
An in-flight multimodal data collection method for assessing pilot cognitive states and performance in general aviation.
MethodsX · 2025 · senior author
Latest funding
- $25,000
The Sustainable Aeronautics and the Readiness for New International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) Mandates: Assessing the Impact of Net Zero Targets and Sustainability Reporting on Financial Performance
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $131,124
Electric Aviation: Operational Testing of Low Carbon Aviation Technology
CFI · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $757,725
Sustainable Aviation for Reducing Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Emission in Canadian Skies
NSERC · 2022 · Co-investigator
8 publications.
From signal to construct evidence: multimodal consumer-wearable sensing in real general-aviation flight.
Xu R, Cao S, Barnett-Cowan M, Bulbul G, Kearns S, Niechwiej-Szwedo E
Consumer-Grade Wearable Sensors for Classifying Pilot Workload and Stress During Real Flight Training: A Leave-One-Subject-Out Validation Study.
Xu R, Cao S, Barnett-Cowan M, Irving E, Niechwiej-Szwedo E, Kearns S
An in-flight multimodal data collection method for assessing pilot cognitive states and performance in general aviation.
Xu R, Cao S, Barnett-Cowan M, Bulbul G, Irving E, Niechwiej-Szwedo E, Kearns S
The Impact of Reduced Vision on Simulated Flight Performance in Novice Pilots: Toward Establishing Performance-Based and Operationally Representative Visual Acuity Standards.
Lynch A, Ayala N, Cao S, Niechwiej-Szwedo E, Kearns S, Irving E
Advancing vision standards in aviation: Embracing evidence-based approaches.
Lynch A, Niechwiej-Szwedo E, Cao S, Kearns S, Irving E
The effects of a dual task on gaze behavior examined during a simulated flight in low-time pilots.
Ayala N, Kearns S, Irving E, Cao S, Niechwiej-Szwedo E
Investigating the role of flight phase and task difficulty on low-time pilot performance, gaze dynamics and subjective situation awareness during simulated flight.
Ayala N, Kearns S, Irving E, Cao S, Niechwiej-Szwedo E
The effects of task difficulty on gaze behaviour during landing with visual flight rules in low-time pilots.
Ayala N, Zafar A, Kearns S, Irving E, Cao S, Niechwiej-Szwedo E
The Sustainable Aeronautics and the Readiness for New International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) Mandates: Assessing the Impact of Net Zero Targets and Sustainability Reporting on Financial Performance
Principal investigators: El-Alfy, Amr
Keywords: Environmental; Social; and Governance; Sustainability Performance; Aeronautics Industry
Electric Aviation: Operational Testing of Low Carbon Aviation Technology
Principal investigators: Parker, Paul
Keywords: electric aviation, battery optimization,seasonal sensitivity, sustainability, energy, emissions, micro-grid electric aircraft, battery charger
Sustainable Aviation for Reducing Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Emission in Canadian Skies
Principal investigators: Pirnia, Mehrdad MP
Keywords: battery; cold climate; electric planes; flight training; ghg emission reduction; microgrids; renewable energy; sustainable aviation
Supporting Sustainable Aviation through Pilot Training and Visual Standard Innovations using a Flight Simulation Device
Principal investigators: Kearns, Suzanne
Comparing Electric and Gas-Powered Flight Training in Canada
Principal investigators: Parker, Paul K.
Keywords: electric aviation; electric flight training; GHG emission reduction
Supporting Sustainable Aviation through Pilot Training and Visual Standard Innovations using a Flight Simulation Device
Principal investigators: Kearns, Suzanne
Keywords: aviation, competency-based pilot training, cognitive engineering, evidence-based visual standards, human factors, flight simulation Alsim AL250 flight-simulation training device
Innovative Pilot Training and Evidence Based Visual Standards for Aviation
Principal investigators: Irving, Elizabeth
Keywords: aviation vision gaze behaviour competency based education artificial intelligence cognitive task analysis computational modeling flight simulation consensus modeling human factors engineering
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Ewa Niechwiej-Szwedo and Shi Cao: 8 shared papers
- Ewa Niechwiej-Szwedo and Elizabeth Irving: 8 shared papers
- Ewa Niechwiej-Szwedo and Suzanne Kearns: 8 shared papers
- Shi Cao and Michael Barnett-Cowan: 8 shared papers
- Shi Cao and Suzanne Kearns: 8 shared papers
- Shi Cao and Elizabeth Irving: 7 shared papers
- Elizabeth Irving and Suzanne Kearns: 7 shared papers
- Ewa Niechwiej-Szwedo and Michael Barnett-Cowan: 4 shared papers
- Michael Barnett-Cowan and Suzanne Kearns: 3 shared papers
- Department of Geography and Environmental Management
- Kinesiology
- Department of Systems Design Engineering
- Optometry, School of
- Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences
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