Curriculum
Vitae
Richard
Pak
richpak@clemson.edu
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Office: 418 Brackett Hall Clemson, SC 29634 Tel:
(864) 656-1584 |
Home 161 Grand Oak Circle Pendleton, SC 29670 |
Education
2005 PhD.
Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology
Thesis: An investigation of perceptual load, aging,
and the functional field of view
Thesis
chair: Wendy A. Rogers
2001 M.
S. Engineering Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology
Thesis: A further examination of the influence of
spatial abilities on computer task performance
in younger and
older adults.
Thesis
chair: Wendy A. Rogers
1997 B.S.
Applied Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology
Professional Experience
August 205 – present Clemson
University – Department of Psychology; Assistant Professor
Professional
Affiliations
Editorial
Board
Ad
hoc reviewer, Scientific Journals
Reviewer,
Grants
Reviewer,
Conferences
Reviewer,
Publishers
Other Professional Activities
Academic Honors and Awards
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2009 |
Recipient of Clemson University’s College of Business and Behavioral
Science Emerging Scholar Research Excellence Award |
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2006 |
Winner of the HFES Aging Technical Group Arnold Small Award
for Aging and visual attention: The effect of perceptual load on dual-task
performance. |
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2002 |
Winner of the HFES Aging Technical Group Arnold Small Award
for An age-related comparison of a touch screen and a novel input
device |
Manuscripts in progress/under review/in revision
Battisto,
D., Pak, R., Allison, D., & Jennings, T.
(revise and resubmit).
Performance-based design and evaluations: A research model and methodology. Health Environments Research & Design
Journal.
Featherman,
M., Thatcher, J.B., Zimmer, J., and Pak, R.
(submitted). Are Consumer
Evaluations of E-Services Improved When the Demonstration is Interactive? An
Empirical Examination of the Implications of Interactivity. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer
Interaction.
Books in progress
Pak,
R., & McLaughlin, A. C. (to be published
May 2010). Designing Displays for Older Adults. CRC Press.
Refereed Journal Publications
(published or in press)
Pak,
R., Price, M., & Thatcher, J. (in
press). Age-sensitive design of online
health information. Journal of Medical Internet Research.
Battisto,
D. B., Pak, R., Vander Wood, M. A., & Pilcher, J. J. (in press).
Employing a task analysis to describe nursing work in acute care patient
environments. Journal of Nursing Administration.
Fink,
N., Pak, R., & Battisto, D. (in press). Developing a usability evaluation
tool to assess the patient room bathroom.
Health Environments Research and
Design Journal.
Hickman,
J. M., Caine, K. E., Pak. R., Stronge, A. J., Rogers, W. A., & Fisk, A. D.
(2009). What factors lead to healthcare miscommunications with older patient?. Journal of Communication in Healthcare, 2(2),
103-118.
Caine,
K. E., Hickman, J.M, Stronge, A. J., Pak, R., (2008). Steps to effective communication with your
health care provider. Signpost: Journal of Dementia and Mental
Health Care for Older People, 13 (2), 18-20
Pak,
R.,& Price, M. M. (2008). Designing an information search interface for
younger and older adults. Human Factors, 50, 614-628.
Pak,
R., Czaja, S. J., Sharit, J., Rogers, W. A., & Fisk, A. D. (2008).
The role of spatial abilities and age in performance in an auditory
computer navigation task. Computers in Human Behavior, 24,
3045-3051.
Pak,
R., Pautz, S., & Iden, R. (2007).
Information organization and retrieval: An assessment of taxonomical and
tagging systems. Cognitive Technology, 12, 31-44.
Pak,
R., Rogers, W. A., Fisk, A. F. (2006). Spatial ability sub-factors and their
influences on a computer-based information search task. Human
Factors, 48, 154-165.
Rogers,
W. A., Fisk, A. D., McLaughlin, A. C., & Pak, R. (2005). Touch a screen or turn a knob: Choosing the best device for the job. Human
Factors, 47, 271-288.
Blanchard-Fields,
F., Hertzog, C., Stein, R., and Pak, R.
(2001). Beyond stereotyped
predictors of traditional family values.
Psychology and Aging, 16(3),
483-496.
Salthouse,
T. A., Toth, J. P., Daniels, K., Parks, C., Pak, R., Wolbrette, M., and
Hocking, K. J. (2000). Effects of aging
on efficiency of task switching in a variant of the trail making test. Neuropsychology,
14(1), 102-111.
Book Chapters
Pak,
R., Fink, N., Price, M., & Battisto.
(in preparation). Human Factors
and Healthcare.
Rogers,
W. A., Pak, R., & Fisk, A. D. (2007).
Applied cognitive psychology in the context of everyday living. In F. T. Durso, R. S. Nickerson, S. T.
Dumais, S. Lewandowsky, & T. Perfect (Eds.), Handbook of applied cognition (2nd ed.).
Chichester: Wiley.
Rogers, W. A.,
Campbell, R. H., & Pak, R. (2001). A
systems approach for training older adults to use technology. In N. Charness, D. C. Park, and B. A. Sabel
(Eds.), Communication, technology, and
aging: Opportunities and challenges for the future (pp. 187-208). New York: Springer.
Price, M.,
Breedlove, J., Pak, R., Mueller, H., & Stronge, A. (2009).
Examining Non-Critical Health Information Seeking: A needs analysis for
Personal Health Records. Proceedings
of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd Annual Meeting. Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics
Society.
Fink, N. & Pak,
R. (2009). Prospective memory in the nursing environment: Effects of type of
prospective task and prospective load. Proceedings
of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd Annual Meeting. Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society.
Mendel, J., &
Pak, R. (2009). The effect of interface
consistency and cognitive load on user performance in an information search
task. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd Annual
Meeting. Santa Monica, CA: Human
Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Fink,
N., Pak, R., & Battisto, D. (2009).
Developing a usability evaluation tool to assess the patient room
bathroom. Proceedings of Research Day: Innovation in Design and Management of
Healthcare Facilities and Healthy Environments. Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Pak,
R., Fink, N., Battisto, D., Allison, D.
(2009). Assessing nursing
workload in a redesigned patient headwall for acute care environments. Proceedings
of Research Day: Innovation in Design and Management of Healthcare Facilities
and Healthy Environments. Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Pautz,
S., Price, M. & Pak, R. (2007). Accommodating age-related differences in a
computer-based information search task. Proceedings of the Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society 51st Annual Meeting.
Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Pak,
R., Rogers, W. A., & Fisk, A. D. (2006).
Aging and visual attention: The
effect of perceptual load on dual-task performance. Proceedings
of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting. Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society. *Winner of the
HFES Aging Technical Group Arnold Small Award.
Iden,
R. Mook, A. C., & Pak, R. (2006).
Usability evaluation of two information-organization methods: Tagging and taxonomy. Proceedings
of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting. Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society.
Hickman,
J. M., Caine, K. E., Stronge, A. J., Pak. R., Rogers, W. A., & Fisk, A. D.
(2006). Doctor-patient communication:
Guidelines for improvement. Proceedings
of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting. Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society.
Pak,
R., Peters, R. E., Rogers, W. A., Abowd, G. D., & Fisk, A. D. (2004). An analysis of why people lose objects, how
they find them, and their attitudes about a technology aid. In Proceedings
of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting (pp.
262-265). Santa Monica, CA: Human
Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Pak,
R., Sharit, J., Czaja, S. J., & Rogers, W. A. (2003).
The influence of spatial abilities and age in using telephone menu
systems. In Proceedings
of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 47th Annual Meeting (pp.
1796-1800). Santa Monica, CA: Human
Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Pak, R., McLaughlin, A. C., Lin, C. C.,
Rogers, W. A. & Fisk, A. D. (2002).
An age-related comparison of a touch screen and a novel input
device. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
45th Annual Meeting (pp.
189-192). Santa Monica, CA: Human
Factors and Ergonomics Society. *Winner
of the HFES Aging Technical Group Arnold Small Award.
Pak,
R. (September, 2001). A
further investigation of spatial abilities and computer-based task performance
in younger and older adults. Proceedings of the Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society 44th Annual Meeting. Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society.
Rogers,
W. A., Stronge, A. J., & Pak, R. (2001).
Enabling older adults to successfully use the World Wide Web. International Journal of Experimental,
Clinical, and Behavioural Gerontology, 47 (supplement 1), 216. Basel: Karger Medical and Scientific
Publishers.
Pak,
R., Rogers, W. A., & Stronge, A. J. (2000).
How would you describe the World Wide Web? Analogies of the web from
users. Proceedings of the IEA2000/HFES 2000 Congress (Vol. 3, p.172). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society.
Conference Presentations
Price,
M., Breedlove, J., Pak, R., Mueller, H., & Stronge, A. (2009, October). Examining Non-Critical Health Information
Seeking: A needs analysis for Personal Health Records. Presented
at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX: Human Factors and Ergonomics
Society.
Mendel,
J., & Pak, R. (2009, October). The effect of interface consistency and
cognitive load on user performance in an information search task. Presented
at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX: Human Factors and Ergonomics
Society.
Fink,
N., Pak, R., & Battisto, D. (2009, May).
Developing a usability evaluation tool to assess the patient room
bathroom. Presented at Research Day: Innovation in Design and Management of
Healthcare Facilities and Healthy Environments. Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Pak,
R., Fink, N., Battisto, D., Allison, D.
(2009, May). Assessing nursing
workload in a redesigned patient headwall for acute care environments. Presented
at Research Day: Innovation in Design and Management of Healthcare Facilities
and Healthy Environments. Rotterdam, Netherlands.
McClain,
M, Price, M., Pak, R. (2008, April). The Effect of Information Organization,
Cognitive Abilities, and Age of Formation of a System Representation. Poster
presented at the biannual Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Pautz,
S., Price, M. & Pak, R. (2007,
September). Accommodating age-related
differences in a computer-based information search task. Presented
at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 51st Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD.
Pak,
R. (2007, August). Cortical magnification reduces some
functional field of view decline in older adults. Presented
at the Annual American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.
Pak,
R., Rogers, W. A., & Fisk, A. D. (2006,
October). Aging and visual
attention: The effect of perceptual load on dual-task performance. Presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics
Society 50th Annual Meeting. San
Francisco, CA.
Iden,
R. & Pak, R. (2006, October). Usability
evaluation of two information-organization methods: Tagging and taxonomy. Presented at the Human Factors
and Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting.
San Francisco, CA.
Hickman,
J. M., Caine, K., Stronge, A. J., Pak, R., Rogers, W. A., & Fisk, A.
D. (2006, October). Doctor-patient communication
II: Guidelines for improvements. Presented
at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA.
Hickman,
J. M., Stronge, A. J., Pak, R., Caine, K., Rogers, W. A., & Fisk, A.
D. (2006, April). Doctor-patient
communication I: Exploring the nature of
communication problems for an older population. Poster
presented at the Eleventh Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Pak,
R., Rogers, W. A., & Fisk, A. D. (April 2006). A signal detection analysis of perceptual
load, aging, and the functional field of view.
Poster presented at the Eleventh
Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Robertson,
C., Whiting, W. L., & Pak, R. (2006, March). Blogging: The simplest
collaborative tool available. Conversation Hour presented at the annual
meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Society, Atlanta, GA.
Pak,
R., Peters, R. E., Rogers, W. A., Abowd, G. D., & Fisk, A. D. (September
2004). An analysis of why people lose
objects, how they find them, and their attitudes about a technology aid. Human
Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA.
Pak,
R., Peters, R. E., Rogers, W. A., Fisk, A. D., & Abowd, G. D. (April
2004). Finding lost objects in the home:
Toward an understanding of why older adults lose and how they find everyday
objects in the home. Poster presented at the Tenth
Cognitive Aging
Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Pak,
R., Sharit, J., Czaja, S. J., & Rogers, W. A. (October, 2003). The influence of spatial abilities and age in
using telephone menu systems. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 46th
Annual Meeting. Denver, CO, USA,
1796-1799.
Lin,
C. C., McLaughlin, A. C., Pak, R., Rogers, W. A. & Fisk, A. D. (November
2002). A comparison of direct and
indirect input devices for older adults.
Presentation at the Fourth International Conference on
Gerontechnology. Miami, FL.
Pak,
R. (November, 2002). An
investigation of the relationship between spatial abilities: It’s not as simple as it seems. Presentation at the Fourth International Conference on
Gerontechnology. Miami, FL.
Pak, R., McLaughlin, A. C., Lin, C. C.,
Rogers, W. A. & Fisk, A. D. (October 2002).
An age-related comparison of a
touch screen and a novel input device.
Presentation at the Human Factors
and Ergonomics Society 46th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
McLaughlin,
A., Lin, C., Pak, R., Fisk, A.D., & Rogers, W.A. (April, 2002). Age differences for input devices: A
comparison of direct and indirect devices for complex computer tasks. Poster
presented at the Ninth Cognitive Aging Conference 2002, Atlanta, GA.
Pak,
R., Rogers, W.A., & Fisk, A.D.
(April, 2002). The influence of
spatial abilities on performance in a computer-based task in younger and older
adults. Poster presented at the Ninth Cognitive Aging Conference 2002, Atlanta,
GA.
Pak,
R., Mayhorn, C. B., Stronge, A. J., & Padgett, L. (April, 2002). Reviewing website usability: Information Organization. Poster
presented at the 13th Annual Southeastern Regional Student
Convention in Gerontology and Geriatrics, Athens, GA.
Rogers,
W. A., Pak, R., & Stronge, A. (June,
2001). The information super
highway: roadblocks and access roads for
older adults. Johns Hopkins University Symposium on Aging and Associated Disabilities
in the Information Age, Baltimore, MD.
Pak,
R. (October, 2001). A Further Investigation of Spatial Abilities
and Computer-based Task Performance in Older and Younger Adults. Poster presented at the Roybal Director's
Meeting, Miami, FL.
Rogers,
W. A., Fisk, A. D., Lin, C., McLaughlin, A, Pak, R, & Whittle, J. (October, 2001). User-Interface Evaluation: Touch Screen
versus Rotary Encoder. Poster presented at the Roybal Director's
Meeting, Miami, FL.
Pak,
R. (September, 2001). A further investigation of spatial abilities
and computer-based task performance in younger and older adults. Presentation
at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 45th Annual
Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.
Stronge,
A. J., & Pak, R. (2001). User-generated analogies of the World Wide
Web: Implications for design. Poster presented at the ACM CHI, Seattle, WA.
Rogers,
W. A., Stronge, A. J., and Pak, R. (July, 2001). Enabling older adults to successfully use the World Wide Web.
Presentation at the 17th World Congress of the International
Association of Gerontology. Vancouver, Canada.
Blanchard-Fields,
F., Hertzog, C., Stein, R., and Pak, R.
(2000). Is age the best predictor
of traditional family values? Poster presented at the Annual American
Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.
Pak,
R., Rogers, W. A., and Stronge, A. J.
(2000, July). How would you
describe the World Wide Web? Analogies
of the web from users. Poster presented at the Human
Factors and Ergonomics Society 44th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Invited presentations
Pak,
R. Improving information search for
younger and older adults. (January,
2009). Carolina Chapter of the Human
Factors and Ergonomics Society. Raleigh,
NC.
Pak,
R. Improving information search for
younger and older adults. (January,
2009). Student Chapter of the Human Factors
and Ergonomics Society, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.
Pak,
R. Human Factors. (October, 2005). North Georgia State University.
Rogers,
W. A., Pak, R., & Stronge, A. J. (June 2001). The information super highway: Roadblocks
and access roads for older adults.
Johns Hopkins University Symposium on Aging and Associated Disabilities
in the Information Age, Baltimore, MD.
Symposia Organizer
Pak,
R. (Co-chair with Kenneth R. Ohnemus,
October, 2007). Information input and
security. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting. Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society.
Pak,
R. (Co-chair with Dan Morrow, August
2007). Health Literacy Barriers to Elders' Self-care: How Can Technology Help? Participants:
Dan Morrow, Katharina Echt, Wendy Rogers,
Pak,
R. (Chair, August 2007). Psychology
and Human-computer interaction: Theory
and Applications. Participants: Peter Pirolli, Dorrit Billman, Aideen
Stronge, Anne McLaughlin, Travis Bowles.
Annual conference of the American Psychological Association, San
Francisco, CA.
Technical Reports
Pak,
R., Peters, R. E., Rogers, W. A., Fisk, A. D., & Abowd, G. D. (2004). Losing
objects in the home: What, when, why, and strategies for retrieval (HFA-TR-0404). Atlanta, GA: Georgia Institute of Technology,
School of Psychology, Human Factors and Aging Laboratory.
Rogers,
W. A., Fisk, A. D., McLaughlin, A. C., Pak, R., Lin, C. C., & Whittle, J.
(2002). An assessment of input
devices for younger and older adults (HFA-TR-0201). Atlanta, GA: Georgia Institute of Technology,
School of Psychology, Human Factors and Aging Laboratory.
Pak,
R. (2007, August). Lab reports:
Patient Room of the Future. HFES Bulletin.
Pak,
R. (2006, Winter). Clemson University spotlight. Newsletter of the Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society Aging Technical Group.
Pak.
R.. (2004). Book review: Aging and
Work. Ergonomics in Design.
Research Grants and Gifts
Industry
·
International Interface Usability
(funding approved 12/2009-11/2010). John
Deere and Company, Principal investigator.
($45,000 total).
·
Capturing and Leveraging User
Interface Consistency Across Applications (funded 2008). John Deere and Company, Principal
investigator. ($27,906 direct, $37,313
total).
·
International User Interface
Consistency (funded 10/2008-9/2009).
John Deere and Company, Principal investigator. ($40,000 total).
·
Google Research Award to Richard
Pak, $50,000. June 2008.
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Competitive handset evaluation and
design (funded, 1/08-12/08). Sprint
Corporation, Principal investigator.
($37,000 total).
·
Patient room design and evaluation
(funded 9/06-9/07). Spartanburg General
Hospital System: Richard Pak,
co-investigator (with June Pilcher).
($66,232 direct costs; $80,959 total costs).
Government
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Small Business Technology Transfer
(STTR) grant. (in preparation). A Memory Augmentation Device for Older
Adults. National Institutes of
Health. Collaborator with Nancy Baker
(Global Security Intelligence).
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Patient room of the future (funded
9/07-12/08). Department of Defense,
Co-PI (with Dina Battisto). ($288,636
direct, $363,680 total).
·
Computer-Aided Collaborative
Reasoning Across the Curriculum. (funded
1/2007-12/2009). National Science
Foundation. Richard Pak,
Co-investigator. ($88,321 direct,
$125,237 total).
·
Developing a 3-D virtual world for
teaching science (rejected 10/26/07).
U.S. Department of Education, Co-investigator (with Sean Williams,
Deborah Switzer, & Victoria Gillis).
($8,014,916 direct, $8,967,541 total).
·
Effects of aging and perceptual load
on the FFOV (rejected 2007). National
Institute on Aging: Richard Pak,
Principal investigator. ($150,000 direct
costs; $202,537 total costs).
Internal
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Further investigating the
relationship between perceptual load, aging, and the functional field of view (funded
11/05-11/06). Clemson University,
University Research Grant Committee:
Richard Pak, Principal investigator.
($3300 direct costs)
Teaching Experience
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“Overall, the instructor was an
effective teacher” 1
= Strongly disagree to 5 = Strongly agree |
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Course |
Class
size |
Mean |
Median |
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2009 |
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Human Factors (PSYCH 435) |
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In
progress |
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Usability Evaluation (PSYCH 840) |
10 |
4.63 |
5 |
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2008 |
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Human Factors (PSYCH 435) |
17 |
4.25 |
4 |
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Usability Evaluation (PSYCH 840) |
12 |
4.57 |
5 |
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2007 |
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Advanced human factors (PSYCH 835) |
6 |
4.75 |
5 |
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Usability Evaluation (PSYCH 840) |
7 |
4.67 |
5 |
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2006 |
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Usability Evaluation (PSYCH 840) |
25 |
4.86 |
5 |
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Cognitive Psychology Lab (PSYCH 334) |
35 |
4.93 |
5 |
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2005 |
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Human Factors (PSYCH 435) |
40 |
4.73 |
5 |
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Engineering Psychology1 |
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-- |
-- |
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2004 |
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General Psychology1 |
75 |
3.25 |
4 |
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2002 |
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Programming Instructor1 |
20 |
-- |
-- |
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2001 |
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Lab Instructor, Applied Psychology lab1 |
35 |
-- |
-- |
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Note.
1Georgia Institute of Technology; unless otherwise noted, classes
taught at Clemson University |
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Research
Mentoring
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Student |
Year/status |
Title |
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Master’s thesis chair |
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Nicole Fink |
Proposed Fall 2008 |
Prospective memory in the nursing
environment: The effect of event-based and time-based prospective load. |
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Jeremy Mendel |
Proposed Spring 2009 |
The effect of interface consistency and
cognitive load on user performance in an information search task. |
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Margaux Price |
In progress |
tbd |
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Master’s thesis committee member: |
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Melissa Vander Wood |
2008 |
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Suzanne Butler |
2008 |
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Rebekkah Wills |
2006 |
Organizational recruitment web
sites: The influence of web site
aesthetics on initial affective reactions to the site and subsequent
attraction to the organization |
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Rachael Daniels |
2006 |
The effects of landmark information on
navigation performance, attention to the driving environment, and vehicle
control |
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2006 |
Ecological interface design in variable
workload multi-tasking environments. |
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Matt Crisler |
2006 |
The effectiveness of musical stimuli in
spatial audio displays: an empirical investigation of the effects of volume
and spatial processing detail |
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Undergraduate thesis |
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Amanda Allen |
In progress |
Honors thesis |
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Amanda Trujillo |
2008 |
The effect of abilities, domain
knowledge, and age on information search performance |
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Mary-Catherine McClain |
2007 |
The effect of information organization,
cognitive abilities, and age on the formation of a system representation |
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Colin Shive |
2006 |
The effects of a brief strategy instruction
on reading comprehension performance |
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Abby Mook |
2006 |
A Performance-based evaluation of two
photo-organizing interfaces |
Research Consultation Activities
National
Institutes of Health grant award to Gitendra Uswatte