Some Current Graduate Students and Their Research Interests

Alarcon, Gene

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Jean Edwards Current Status:ABD Research Activities:My current research is in stress, personality, and coping in the workplace. My recent focus has been on engagement and psychometrics.

Cooper, Jeh

Advisor/Lab: Dr. John Flach, Culture and Cognition Lab (AFRL) Current Status: 2nd Year - Proposing Thesis Research Activities: I am working on Brain computer interaction, as it relates to people with disabilities. I currently work in collaboration with the IGERT students and am also involved in the Technology Based Learning with Disabilities Program. I also conduct research and am a research assistant at the CCL, performing studies that the AFRL is interested in. E-Mail: cooper (dot) 106 (at) wright (dot) edu

Copeland, Derek

Advisor/Lab:Dr. David LaHuis Current Status: Finishing Master's Thesis Research Activities: I am researching ways to detect fakers/faking in a sample of applicants. Currently, I am looking at the thresholds for detection using a Multiple Logistic Regression- Item Response Theory Approach to accessing faking. Similar research has been done using appropriateness measures (such as lz). E-Mail: copeland (dot) 8 (at) wright (dot) edu

Culbertson, Jason

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Corey Miller, Personnel Psychology Lab Current Status: 2nd Year - Proposing Thesis Research Activities: I have several research projects going in various stages of completeness all of which involve sales in some fashion. Specifically, I am working on the following: assisting my advisor with the coding of a meta-analysis pertaining to the relationship between sales and extraversion, my thesis on the non-linear relationships between general mental ability and sales performance and effectiveness, and the journal submission of my first-year project on the use of narrow traits for selection purposes. I have worked on a number of applied projects, but the most significant seem to be assisting in writing a technical manual for a commercial testing company and assisting in creating a competency model for a major company in the financial industry. E-Mail: culbertson (dot) 8 (at) wright (dot) edu

Delgado, Kristin

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Deborah Steele-Johnson, Motivation and Training Lab Current Status:ABD/ pre-dissertation proposal Research Activities:My dissertation is focused on how team develop shared understandings of their tasks/roles/etc. and how technology affects team interactions and effectiveness.  E-Mail: delgado (dot) 4 (at) wright (dot) edu

Dowling, Pam

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Valerie Shalin,Workplace Cognition Laboratory Current Status: ABD, compiling dissertation proposal Research Activities: My current research interests surround the use of stories in communicating technical information.  I am attempting to identify why stories are better at conveying information than other types of correspondence.  I’m contrasting predictions from the social sciences (speech act theory) with predictions from cognitive psychology.  This research has implications for teaching and training in work environments.  E-Mail: dowling (dot) 2 (at) wright (dot) edu

Douglas, Lisa

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Herbert A. Colle, Performance Analysis Research Team (PART Lab) Current Status: Masters completed, currently Ph. D. candidate Research Activities:My research interests include spatial cognition, neuropsychology, 2D and 3D display design.  Current studies investigate how spatial information about our environment is acquired and represented in memory.  Eye gaze experiments are being designed to investigate how the structure of the environment (e.g., natural/virtual, indoor/outdoor) affects spatial knowledge acquisition.  I am also interested in using fMRI to explore how people use stored spatial memory. E-Mail: douglas (dot) 13 (at) wright (dot) edu

Eschleman, Kevin

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Nathan Bowling, Employee Well-Being Current Status: 2nd year, working on Master's Thesis Research Activities: My thesis is a construct validation of the Neutral Objects Satisfaction Questionnaire. I have also worked on, or am currently working on, research projects involving Organization-Based Self-Esteem, job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and counterproductive work behaviors. E-Mail: eschleman (dot) 2 (at) wright (dot) edu

Feufel, Markus

Advisor/Lab: Dr. John Flach, Joint Cognitive Systems Current Status: Working on dissertation Research Activities: I'm interested in understanding how sociocultural values and norms impact medical practices of physicians working in U.S. emergency rooms. From a pragmatic-hermeneutic perspective, the culturally situated nature of every day practices has implications for how behavioral dynamics must be investigated, understood, and evaluated to ultimately design effective support systems and interventions. Particularly, we're doing observations of real-world activities with the goal to understand the semantics underlying behavior (at least in the light of our own culturally biased perspective as researchers). Based on our findings relevant behavioral criteria can be identified and consequently supported at both the individual and the systemic level.  E-Mail: feufel (dot) 2 (at) wright (dot) edu

Filipkowski, Jenna

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Corey Miller Current Status: 1st year working toward a Master's degree Research Activities:I am interested in selection topics, in particular applicant faking on personality measures.   E-Mail: filipkowski (dot) 2 (at) wright (dot) edu

Futrell, Mel

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Helen Klein and Dr. Pamela Tsang; Dr. John Flach for Learning with Disabilities Current Status: 1st year (Ph. D. candidate); Research Activities: I was accepted into the IGERT fellowship and am working on transferring in my applicable Master's work, and getting situated in both the HF PhD and Learning with Disabilities programs. As a pilot and instructor, I focus my research on designing for a multicultural aviation population, which includes Deaf and Hard-of-hearing pilots. E-Mail:mel (dot) futrell (at) csun (dot) edu

Gabbard, Steve

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Scott Watamaniuk, Visual Perception Current Status: Working on Master's Thesis Research Activities: I am working in Scott's lab in motion percpetion. I am working on the question of how motion (amount of, velocity, and direction) impacts offside judgment in soccer officiating. E-Mail:sgabbard (at) woh (dot) rr (dot) com

Garret, Jimmy

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Valerie Shalin Current Status: Completing Thesis Research Activities: I am currently studying the perception of the passage of time with regards to temporal awareness, expertise, and performance. E-Mail: garrett (dot) 35 (at) wright (dot) edu

Hammond, Greg

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Nathan Bowling, Employee Well-Being Current Status:Working on Doctoral Dissertation Qualifying Exams Research Activities: Investigating the antecedents of counterproductive behaviors in workplace settings; more specifically, how job attitudes relate to deviant workplace behaviors. E-Mail: hammond (dot) 29 (at) wright (dot) edu

Kalinoski, Zach

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Deborah Steele-Johnson, Motivation and Training Lab Current Status:Working on Master's Thesis Research Activities: I am interested in error-management training interventions and also various issues relating to work motivation, in particular perceptual control theory, self-efficacy and goal orientation. E-Mail: kalinoski (dot) 2 (at) wright (dot) edu

Kegley, John

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Wayne Shebilske Current Status: 2nd year (Ph. D. candidate) Research Activities: I am interested in accessibility/usability issues for complex human-machine systems.  I am also exploring interface and display design techniques for mapping time sensitive, dynamic information used in intelligence analysis and strategic planning initiatives. E-Mail: kegley (dot) 4 (at) wright (dot) edu

Kirkendall, Cristina

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Nathan Bowling, Employee Well-Being Current Status: 1st year, working on Master's Thesis Research Activities: I am currently working on a study on counterproductive work  behaviors and another examining the relationship between job satisfaction and life satisfaction. E-Mail: kirkendall (dot) 8 (at) wright (dot) edu

Leas, Keith

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Debra Steele-Johnson, Motivation and Training Current Status: 2nd year, completing data collection for Master's Thesis Research Activities: My research interests currently lie in the area of how individual differences can affect outcomes of training for error management training and error avoiddant training strategies. E-Mail: leas (dot) 3 (at) wright (dot) edu

Leonard, Jim

Advisor/Lab:Dr. John Flach, Joint Cognitive Systems Current Status: 2nd year, completing thesis proposal and conducting exploratory case studies Research Activities: My research interest is currently centered on (noninvasive) brain computer interfacing and related feedback/display design. Working in technology based learning with disabilities, I have been provided with a challenge. This population is greatly varied, and each case must be evaluated on an individual basis to determine the most productive course of action for an interface. Recent case studies have included individuals with hearing and vision impairments, cerebral palsy, and traumatic brain injury. The possibility of opening up a communication and effector channel where there previously was none is very exciting. This area of research seems very promising, and will continue to expand in the coming years. E-Mail: leonard (dot) 38 (at) wright (dot) edu

Lin, Mei-Hua

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Helen Altman Klein, Applied Psychology Lab Current Status: Dissertation data collected, preparing for dissertation defense Research Activities: I am working on two main projects. First, is a multinational cross-cultural study on differences in cultural cognition. Second, I am interested in exploring Analytic-Holistic thinking on Sensemaking through its influence on information management. E-Mail: lin (dot) 8 (at) wright (dot) edu

Lippa, Katherine

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Helen Altman Klein, Applied Psychology Lab Current Status: Working on Dissertation Research Activities: My research is concerned with patient cognition and particularly with how patients think about chronic illness. My thesis addressed the cognitive differences between those who are successful and unsuccessful at managing Type II Diabetes. My dissertation concerns how patients make sense of Multiple Sclerosis and cognitive aspects of communication between patients and practitioners while managing Multiple Sclerosis. I am also broadly interested in issues in adapting to disability, cross-cultural differences in cognition, mental models, and causal reasoning. E-Mail: lippa (dot) 2 (at) wright (dot) edu

Maeda, Satomi

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Allen L. Nagy Current Status: Soon proposing my dissertation Research Activities: I am interested in how are structures (e.g. visual pathways, properties of feature coding mechanisms) of the visual system and the mechanisms of visual attention related, and how the two shape our visual perception and performance. My master's thesis tested the hypothesis that a feature-singleton coded by the same feature mechanism as the mechanism coding the target feature in a search display captures attention involuntarily. My dissertation will test the idea that different feature mechanisms draw from independent pools of attentional resources by using dual task paradigm. E-Mail: amster (dot) 2 (at) wright (dot) edu

Mateo, Julio

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Robert H. Gilkey, Signal Detection Laboratory and Technology-based Learning with Disability Current Status: Preparing for qualifying exams Research Activities: I am an IGERT Fellow in the Technology-based Learning with Disability Program and I am interested in the design of technology for people with disabilities. In the past, I have conducted some research on alternative input devices (e.g., eye trackers) and novel interfaces to facilitate alternative computer access. I plan to focus my future research (and dissertation) on the human-factors issues associated with mobility aids for pedestrians who are blind, particularly those aids using spatial auditory displays for guidance. E-Mail: mateo (dot) 2 (at) wright (dot) edu

McEwen, Tim

Advisor/Lab: Dr. John Flach, Joint Cognitive Systems Current Status: Finishing Master's Thesis Research Activities: I have been studying the management of information in the testing processes of family medical practices. E-Mail: mcewen (dot) 5 (at) wright (dot) edu

O'Brien, Erin

Advisor/Lab: Dr. David LaHuis Current Status:1st year, working on Master's Thesis Research Activities: My research area deals with Item Response Theory. I am interested in detecting differences between applicant and incumbent personality scale scores using IRT methods. E-Mail: obrien (dot) 3 (at) wright (dot) edu

Payton, Gaea

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Tamera Schneider, PsychPhysiology Lab Current Status: 2nd year, working on Master's Thesis Research Activities: I have interests in stress, physiology, and team coordination.

Posey, Shannon

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Kevin Bennett, Ecological Interface Design/ Cognitive Systems Engineering Current Status: ABD/completing dissertation proposal Research Activities: Data from dynamic, complex environments (e.g., command and control) has varying degrees of uncertainty inherent in it.  However, this  uncertainty is rarely displayed in graphical decision aids/decision support systems.  I am interested in the impact of uncertainty  representation; i.e., graphically displaying the uncertainty  associated with the data, on decision making in a military domain. E-Mail: posey (dot) 5 (at) wright (dot) edu

Qiang, Wang

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Nathan Bowling, Employee Well-Being Current Status: 2nd year, working on Master's Thesis Research Activities: I have a broad interest in industrial-organizational psychology, including workplace harassment, job satisfaction, job performance, and personnel selection. My current research interests primarily focus on the escalatory processes of workplace conflicts, in which both cognitive constructs (e.g., rumination, and blame attribution) and affective constructs (e.g., state anger) are involved as developmental variables, whereas revenge is considered as an outcome behavior. Also, in order to track the roots of conflict escalation as a function of reducing its negative effects, some positive personality (e.g., trait forgiveness) are included as moderators. Except for my thesis, I am also working on a meta-analysis for work locus of control. E-Mail: wang (dot) 2 (at) wright (dot) edu

Rosenberg, Suzanne

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Corey Miller, Personnel Psychology Current Status: Working on Qualying Exams Research Activities: I am currently working at the HR Chally group in Kettering, OH. This is a consulting firm that utilizes assessments for both selection and talent development.  My research thus far has been focused on areas such as diversity, training, selection, sales, and personality. I am currently pursuing other research projects in these domains as well as counterproductive work behaviors. E-Mail: rosenberg (dot) 3 (at) wright (dot) edu

Russell, Sheldon

Advisor/Lab: Dr. John Flach, Joint Cognitive Systems Current Status: Collecting and analyzing data for Master's Thesis Research Activities: I am working on campus, both collecting thesis data and as a graduate teaching assistant. My research domain is perception and action with a focus on visual perception while driving. My current research question pertains to visual information that helps a driver brake safely. E-Mail: russell (dot) 43 (at) wright (dot) edu

Saffell, Tiffany

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Herbert A. Colle, Performance Analysis Research Team (PART Lab) Current Status:Working on Qualifying Exams Research Activities: My thesis focused on the role of landmarks and Spatial Knowledge Acqusition with In-Car Navigation Systems. I am currently collecting data for a follow-up project. In addition, I am co-authoring a paper on teleportation in a web-shopping virtual environment. Finally, I am expandign my my research interests by focusing my qualifying exams around the communication of spatial information, planning, and the representation of resources to aid decision making. E-Mail: saffell (dot) 2 (at) wright (dot) edu

Schlessman, Brad

Advisor/Lab: Dr. David LaHuis Current Status: ABD Research Activities: I am working in the area of multilevel modeling, applicant reactions and IRT modeling. E-Mail: schlessman (dot) 2 (at) wright (dot) edu

Shively, Matt

Advisor/Lab:Dr. John Flach, Joint Cognitive Systems Current Status: 1st year working on first-year project (Ph. D. candidate) Research Activities: As a member of Dr. Flach’s lab, I am currently engaged in my first year research project. As such, I am collaborating with another graduate student on a study which seeks to determine what strategies people use when deciding when to stop so as to avoid collisions. This research is part of a series of studies on collision avoidance within our lab and will also serve as a strong background when I prepare my dissertation. E-Mail: shively (dot) 5 (at) wright (dot) edu

Slack, Holly

Advisor/Lab:Dr. John Flach, Joint Cognitive Systems Current Status:2nd year preparing for Qualifying Exams (Ph. D. candidate) Research Activities: As part of my research, I am keeping a journal that highlights events in my life that I believe are unique to a person with a physical disability. My primary intention when I began this project was to provide others with a glimpse of what daily life is like for a person living with a physical disability. As the project has developed, I am now focusing my attention on the environmental and social barriers that I encounter on almost a daily basis. In doing so, I am attempting to identify strategies that have been successful in overcoming these obstacles. In addition, I am also identifying situations in which current strategies have been ineffective. My hope is to determine the critical variables that contribute to these barriers, so I can then develop new or modified strategies that better address these obstacles. E-Mail: slack (dot) 2 (at) wright (dot) edu

Wenner, Ashley

Advisor/Lab:Dr. Helen Altman Klein, Current Status: 1st year working on first-year project and examining Thesis topics Research Activities: I am currently examining the effectiveness of training programs for persons with Type 2 diabetes. I am exploring research interests right now, including macrocognition and cross-cultural differences in cognition.  E-Mail: wenner (dot) 2 (at) wright (dot) edu

 

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