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This year was my second time attending the annual HFES meeting, held in Philadelphia for 2018. I presented a paper which described the literature around multimedia instructions for older adults, and recommended research findings to consider when developing multimedia instructions for older adults. I also had the opportunity to meet many people through different events … Continue reading HFES 2018 →

Yesterday, I presented my second year project during the human factors area brownbag, to my peer graduate students and human factors faculty! I was pretty nervous about presenting my research, but after it was done, I felt great! Another milestone in the program is complete!

On October 12, I gave my first presentation at a large conference when I presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas! I presented on part of a class project completed in collaboration with Lenovo, which examined the presentation of information on an ecommerce website.It was a little nerve-wracking to … Continue reading First HFES Conference in the Books! →

Last week, I had the opportunity to give a guest lecture for a perception class at NCSU! My lecture was on vision and art, and I used paintings, film, and other visual art to demonstrate aspects of perception the students had learned about this semester.For example, we discussed how differences in foveal and peripheral vision … Continue reading Guest Lecture in Perception: Vision and Art →

As part of my internship at Atlantic BT, I contributed to their blog! My blog post deals with designing research questions for web development projects, and can be read on ABT's website here.My internship there is ending this week, so this is one of the final things I worked on this summer. Overall, I really … Continue reading How to Ask Better Research Questions →

This spring was a busy time! I presented at three poster sessions within a few weeks of each other: the North Carolina Cognition Conference, the Southeast Human Factors Applied Research Conference, and the First Year Project Poster Presentations for Human Factors and Applied Cognition graduate students at North Carolina State University.Each poster session was a … Continue reading Poster Session Season →