
MAJ Chelsea Frazier is an instructor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at West Point. She is a native of Gaithersburg, Maryland.
MAJ Frazier earned her commissioning through the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) in 2012, and was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the Signal Corps. MAJ Frazier began her career as a Platoon Leader and Executive Officer in the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Fort Stewart, Georgia. She deployed as a platoon leader in support of Operation Enduring Freedom to Logar Province, Afghanistan in 2013. Following Fort Stewart, MAJ Frazier served as a Company Executive Officer and Battalion Signal Officer in the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Upon graduating from the Captains Career Course at Fort Gordon, Georgia, MAJ Frazier was assigned to Fort Carson, Colorado where she served as a Battalion Communications Officer in the 2-77th Field Artillery Regiment, Company Commander in the 52nd Engineer Battalion, and G6 Network Officer in the 4th Infantry Division Headquarters.
B.S. - Business Administration, Morgan State University
M.A. - Information Technology Management, Webster University
M.A. - Psychology (Human Factors and Applied Cognition), George Mason University
Research Interests
Team cohesion and performance optimization
Human interaction/trust with equipment, robots and automation
Selected Publications
Frazier-Young, C., McCurry, M., Zish, K., & Trafton, G. (2022). Perceived Agency Changes Performance Trust and Moral Trust in Robots. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society 44th Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada: Cognitive Science Society.
Trafton G., Frazier C., Zish K., Bio, B., et al. (2023) The Perception of Agency: Scale Reduction and Construct Validity. In: 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 936-942).