Understanding our visual world requires both looking and seeing. Dissociation of these processes can result in the phenomenon of inattentional blindness or ‘looking without seeing’. Concomitant errors in applied settings can be serious, and even deadly....
In our age of ubiquitous digital displays, adults often read in short, opportunistic interludes. In this context of Interlude Reading, we consider if manipulating font choice can improve adult readers’ reading outcomes. Our studies normalize font size by human...
The negative impact of cognitive load, such as cell phone conversations, while driving is well established, but understanding the nature of this performance deficit is still being developed. To test the impact of load on awareness of different elements in a driving...
This study has now been covered on Reuters, Forbes, Wired, Engadget, The Daily Mail, Fast Company, The Washington Post and many more. Summary: Google Glass is a Driving Distraction, but Points the Way to Less Disruptive Message Delivery The first peer...
We examined the systematic effects of display size on task performance as derived from a standard perceptual and cognitive test battery. Specifically, three experiments examined the influence of varying viewing conditions on response speed, response accuracy...
