October 2010

Call for Papers! APA 2011 in Washington D.C.

October 29, 2010
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APA Division 21 (Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology) invites submissions for the 2011 Convention of the American Psychological Association, to be held in Washington, D.C. August 4-7, 2011. Proposals for papers, posters, or symposia in areas related to applied experimental/engineering psychology, or human factors/ergonomics, are encouraged. Broad topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Issues in automation across [...]

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Microsoft’s Kinect Game Controller

October 26, 2010
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Our friend Tim Nichols was recently featured in a write up in the New York Times about his work with Kinect, Microsoft’s new game controller technology.  He’s a games researcher at Microsoft Game Studio.  Here is what he says about it: “I can’t tell you how many times I have seen people try and do the moonwalk,” says Mr. Nichols, [...]

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The Ultimate Driving Simulator

October 25, 2010

Lexus has posted a video of their ‘Most Advanced Driving Simulator In The World.’ There is a bit of “commercial” in it, but also a good bit of human factors. Here is the link. There is also a video on virtual crash tests, although I’m more interested in how the humans react to the crash rather than the materials in [...]

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New website for Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology

October 22, 2010

Looks like Division 21 has updated their website. Check it out! An important link to note is the one for a free year of membership in the division. This includes getting the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. Division 21 holds a program at APA each year as well as a mid year meeting. Here are some of the posts on [...]

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Furniture-flavored Pancakes

October 20, 2010

Things are quiet because we’re both hammered by the Fall semester. But enjoy this humorous image of a lack of discriminability in product packaging (via Consumerist):

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Afford-door-ances

October 4, 2010
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The picture above was taken from the Starbucks near the convention hotel for HFES 2010. Rich and I were walking in there at 6:30 a.m. when we saw a man exiting the doors, shaking them violently, and uttering curse words. We had to laugh when we saw what made him so angry – a push bar on the inside of [...]

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