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Richard Pak PhD

My area of interest is in how age-related changes in cognition affect people's ability to use technology. Curriculum vitae (HTML file, PDF).

Research Interests

Age-related changes in cognitive abilities
Visual attention
Factors affecting the successful use of information technology
Human factors in Healthcare
Human factors in HCI

Education

Ph.D., Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005.
M.S., Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001.
B.S., Applied Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997.

Professional Affiliations

Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Gerontological Society of America
International Society for Gerontechnology
The Human Factors Blog

Publications

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.

Pak, R., Price, M. M., & Thatcher, J. (2009). Age-sensitive design of online health information. Journal of Medical Internet Research.

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 patients? Journal of Communication in Healthcare, , 2(2), 103-118.

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.,& Price, M. M. (2008). Designing an information search interface for younger and older adults. Human Factors, 50, 614-628.

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., Pautz, S., & Iden, R. (2007). Information organization and retrieval: An assessment of taxonomical and tagging systems. Cognitive Technology, 12(1), 31-44.

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.

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.

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.

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.