News & Media
The WEAVE team organized a webinar summarizing our key project findings. View the recorded webinar on YouTube.
April 5, 2024
News & Media
WEAVE documentary Auto-Mated won an “Award of Excellence” award at Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts Competition 2024.
February 16, 2024
WEAVE documentary Auto-Mated won the “Best Short Documentary” award at F3: Queen City Film Festival, Film Curation, & Film Awards.
January 24, 2024
Paige Watson presented our work on the research costs of spam at the Work, Stress, and Health (WSH) Conference. View YouTube video.
November 11, 2023
Shubham Agrawal presented our research on a systematic review of automated vehicles deployment timelines at the Bridging Transportation Researchers (BTR) Online Conference. View YouTube video.
September 15, 2023
Our research article investigating the perceptions of the trucking industry regarding automated vehicles as a potential solution for truck driver shortages is published in Technology in Society.
July 4, 2023
We will be presenting our research on identity development and identity archetypes in platform-based gig driving at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, MA, in August 2023. This paper is selected as a finalist for Organization Behavior Division Best Student Paper with Entrepreneurship Implications Award!
June 16, 2023
Our qualitative research study on perceptions of autonomous vehicles in the trucking industry is published in Work, Aging, and Retirement.
May 19, 2023
Our project video, “Auto-mated,” created by Troy Hale, is nominated for the 45th Annual Michigan Regional Emmy Awards in the Technology category and the Performer/Narrator category.
May 13, 2023
Our research article on assessing alternative occupations for truck-drivers in an emerging era of autonomous vehicles is published in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
Mar 6, 2023
Shelia Cotten and Shubham Agrawal presented our research on the trucking industry’s perspectives of automated vehicles as a potential solution to driver shortages at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2023, Washington, D.C. (paper presentation; poster presentation).
January 12, 2023
Our research article on a systematic review of automated vehicle deployment timelines is published in Technology in Society.
December 22, 2022
Sicheng Wang presented our ongoing research on the perceptions of automated vehicles by gig workers at the North American Regional Science Council.
November 12, 2022
Our research paper on the perceptions of autonomous vehicles in the trucking industry is accepted for publication in the Work, Aging, and Retirement journal.
November 10, 2022
Amy Schuster presented our work on gig work in the era of automated vehicles at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.
August 5, 2022
Shelia Cotten presented an overview of our project in a roundtable session at the Automated Road Transportation Symposium 2022.
July 20, 2022
Jenna A. Van Fossen presented our qualitative study on selection, retention, and training challenges for truck drivers in the era of automated vehicles at the e-HRM Conference 2022, June 1-3, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Jun 3, 2022
WEAVE research paper on the impacts of COVID-19 on the trucking industry is published in American Behavioral Scientist.
Feb 25, 2022
WEAVE research paper examining the changing public perceptions of gig drivers during COVID-19 is published in Information, Communication & Society (open-access).
Jan 4, 2022
WEAVE research paper examining the impacts of COVID-19 on transportation employment is published in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives (open-access).
Oct 1, 2021
WEAVE student Danielle Sperry presented our research on “Trucking in the Era of COVID-19” at the Bridging Transportation Researchers conference. View YouTube video
Aug 5, 2021
WEAVE student Noah Britt presented our research on “Changes in Public Perception of Gig Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic” at CITAMS 2021 Media Sociology Symposium.
Aug 5, 2021
Dr. Shelia Cotten presented our research on “Trucking During the Time of COVID-19” at CITAMS 2021 Media Sociology Symposium.
Aug 5, 2021
WEAVE student Karine Torosyan delivered an online lecture on the Impacts of Technological Change on Similar Occupations on June 10, 2021, at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Research, Germany. Read more…
Jun 9, 2021
Elizabeth A. Mack presented her research on Perceived Benefits and Concerns of Autonomous Vehicle Adoption at the 13th World Congress of the RSAI.
May 25, 2021
WEAVE research paper investigating the politics of new driving technologies is published in the Telematic and Informatics journal.
Mar 24, 2021
WEAVE student, Jenna Van Fossen, presented her research at Automated Vehicle Symposium (AVS) 2020.
Jul 27, 2020
NSF funded autonomous vehicle research project announces Stakeholder Advisory Board.
Mar 13, 2020
NSF awards $2.49 million to MSU to Study Impacts of Autonomous Vehicles on the Workforce.
Sep 16, 2019