This site is about: (1) my professional self, (2) my research into cognition and (3) musings about the intersection of cognition and design.
Jason H. Wong
Basic cognitive research is a necessary component of successful user-centered design. Only through scientific thinking can we make technology intuitive and productive. My goal is to integrate basic research with useful applications.
Research
- It has been shown that the abrupt onset of a new object will capture attention (Jonides & Yantis, 1998) and the eyes (Theeuwes et al, 1998). What factors underlie the new object’s ability to capture attention and the eyes so well (Wong, Peterson & Hillstrom, 2007)?
- What factors affect the timing and scalp distribution of Contralateral Delay Activity slow-wave component of the Event-Related Potential (Vogel & Machizawa, 2004)?
- Memory is used in visual search to keep track of locations that have been previously searched (Beck, Peterson, & Vomela, 2006). What happens if memory is tasked with remembering certain images during a visual search task? How do the types of images being kept in memory and being searched through have an effect on the search task?
- Working memory is generally thought to require the central executive, and the memory process has been shown to assist the search process. What role does the central executive specifically play in visual search? (Peterson, Beck & Wong, 2008)?
- Egly, Driver, & Rafal (1994) showed that attention can be spread across objects. What changes to real-world objects will disrupt this distribution of attention?
Categories
- animal cognition (1)
- arch lab (2)
- attention (12)
- audition (1)
- automation (2)
- bad design (20)
- clutter (12)
- consciousness (1)
- data visualization (8)
- decision making (4)
- driving (8)
- eye movements (7)
- faces (2)
- good design (16)
- imagery (5)
- interruptions (5)
- language (2)
- marketing (4)
- memory (5)
- mental map (7)
- navigation (3)
- neuropsychology (2)
- neuroscience (6)
- perception (19)
- physical ergonomics (7)
- research (14)
- robots (3)
- social (1)
- teaching (1)
- thoughts (12)
- transfer of training (7)
- user testing (11)
- video games (9)
- visual search (3)
Blogroll
Cognitive Daily
- John McCain, risk, and anger
- Prius owners: Just like Mac owners but less attractive?
- Sex-ed in the real world: Do intentions affect actions in the heat of the moment?
- Toddlers play with impossibly small toys as if they're the real thing
- Operant conditioning at the NC Zoo
- Casual Fridays: Are Mac owners like Prius owners?
- A simple toy, and what it says about how we learn to mentally rotate objects
- Meet us at the North Carolina Zoo this Saturday -- ScienceBlogs will pay for your ticket!
- Even music played before or after a film character is shown affects our perception of their emotion
- Casual Fridays: Who's losing sleep over Michael Phelps? What about Sarah Palin?