The Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences presented at the 72nd Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) from January 19-22, 2026 in Miramar Beach, Florida.

The Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) is a world-renowned annual symposium alternating between east and west coast areas of the United States and has been continually conducted successfully since 1954. Its purpose is to promote the Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety professions and provide training, education, recognition, and advancement of these professions.

The theme for the 72nd Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium (RAMS 2026) is “Optimizing Reliability, Maintainability and Data Analytics for Safe & Successful Outcome,” which highlights the critical role of R&M in ensuring safe and successful results through various domains.

PAPERS

Title: “Repeated Operations in Human-System Interaction: Phoenix HRA Application” by Theresa Stewart.

This study demonstrates the applicability of Phoenix HRA to such scenarios and elucidates the mechanisms by which repetition affects operator behavior in complex systems.

Title: “Human-Autonomy Teams: Driver Simulator Experiments for Level 3 Automated Driving” by Camila Correa-Jullian.

This work describes and presents initial findings from a case study that aims to assess interactions between drivers and an ADS-equipped vehicle by collecting subjective and objective data from a driving simulator. This study seeks to collect data to populate a probabilistic model representing how different driver and contextual factors influence driving scenarios.