Current Research
Patient Room of the Future
The PROF is a multidisciplinary research partnership between Clemson University and Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System and is partially funded by the Department of Defense’s Hospital of the Future program and NXT. Working with Dr. Dina Battisto from the School of Architecture and psychology graduate student Nicole Fink.
Our first study will examine the influence of a newly designed patient headwall on nursing-task performance, workload, and satisfaction.
Older Adults & Personal Health Records
If you are like a lot of people, you go to the internet to search for health information. As useful and immediate as this resource may be for the general public, it may be even more beneficial for older adults.
Recently, we focused our research efforts on older adults' use of e-health information services and the factors that affect their adoption (or lack thereof) of advanced e-health maintenance services. This research is funded by a Google Research Award.
User Interface Consistency
User interface consistency, or the extent to which an interface looks and behaves similar to another interface, is thought to be useful for performance. However, it remains uncertain a) how to define user interface consistency, and b) under what conditions consistency is beneficial to performance.
Psychology graduate student Jeremy Mendel, through funding from Deere and Company, will soon examine the above questions in the context of equipment interface design.
Lab Publications, Presentations, & Posters
| Price, M., Breedlove, J., Pak, R., Mueller, H., & Stronge, A. (2009). Examining Non-Critical Health Information Seeking: A needs analysis for Personal Health Records. To be presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX: 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. To appear in Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX: 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. San Antonio, TX: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. |
| Fink, N., Pak, R., & Battisto, D. (2009). 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). 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. |
| 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. |
| McClain, M, Price, M., Pak, R. (2008). 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. |
| Pak, R., Pautz, S., & Iden, R. (2007). Information organization and retrieval: An assessment of taxonomical and tagging systems. Cognitive Technology, 12(1), 31-44. |
| Pautz, S., Price, M. & Pak, R. (2007). Accommodating age-related differences in a computer-based information search task. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 51st Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD. |
| 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. |