Method:  Psychological Experimentation

We use psychological experimentation in a variety of contexts.  We almost always pair it with another method (computational cognitive modeling, eyetracking, protocol analysis, or gesture analysis).

Altmann, E. M. & Trafton, J. G. (in press). Timecourse of Recovery from Task Interruption: Data and a Model. Psychonomics Bulletin and Review.  PDF

Trickett, S. B. & Trafton, J. G. (in press). ``What if...'': The Use of Conceptual Simulations in Scientific Reasoning Cognitive Science. PDF

Trickett, S. B., Trafton, J. G., Saner, L., & Schunn, C. D. (in press). ``I don't know what's going on there'': The Use of Spatial Transformations to Deal With and Resolve Uncertainty in Complex Visualizations. To appear in M. Lovett & Shah, P. (Eds.), Thinking with data. PDF

Schunn, C. D., Saner, L. D., Kirschenbaum, S. K., Trafton, J. G., & Littleton, E. B. (in press). Complex visual data analysis, uncertainty, and representation. To appear in M. Lovett & Shah, P. (Eds.), Thinking with data. PDF

Trafton, J. G., Trickett, S. B., Stitzlein, C. A., Saner, L., Schunn, C. D., & Kirschenbaum, S. S. (2006). The relationship between Spatial Transformations and Iconic Gestures Spatial Cognition and Computation. 6(1), 1-29. [Lead Article] PDF

Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2006). Now, where was I? Examining the Perceptual Processes while Resuming an Interrupted Task. The proceedings of the twenty-eighth annual conference of the cognitive science society. PDF

Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2006). Helpful or harmful? Examining the effects of interruptions on task performance. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting. PDF

Cades, D. M., Trafton, J. G., & Boehm-Davis, D. A. (2006). Mitigating Disruptions: Can Resuming an Interrupted Task Be Trained? Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting. PDF

Squire, P., Trafton, J. G., Parasuraman, R. (2006). Human Control of Multiple Unmanned Vehicles: Effects of Interface Type on Execution and Task Switching Times. Human Robot Interaction. PDF

Trafton, J. G., Altmann, E. M., & Brock, D. P. (2005). Huh, what was I doing? How people use environmental cues after an interruption. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 49th Annual Meeting. PDF

Monk, C., Boehm-Davis, D. A., & Trafton, J. G. (2004). Recovering from Interruptions: Implications for Driver Distraction Research. Human Factors. 46(4), 650-663. PDF

Mintz, F. E., Trafton, J. G., Marsh, E., & Perzanowski, D. (2004). Choosing frames of reference. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting. PDF

Altmann, E. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2004). Task interruption: Disruptive effects and the role of cues. The proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual conference of the cognitive science society. PDF

Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2004). Making Graphical Inferences: A Hierarchical Framework. The proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual conference of the cognitive science society. PDF

Trickett, S. B., & Trafton, J. G. (2004). Use of Spatial Transformations in Graph Comprehension. The proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual conference of the cognitive science society. PDF

Tricket, S. B. & Trafton, J. G. (2004). Spatial Transformations in graph comprehension. In A. F. Blackwell, K. Marriott, and A. Shimojima (Eds.). Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. PDF

Trafton, J. G., Altmann, E. M., Brock, D. P., & Mintz, F. E. (2003). Preparing to resume an interrupted task: Effects of prospective goal encoding and retrospective rehearsal. emph{International Journal of Human Computer Studies. emph{58(5), 582-602. [NRL Alan Berman Award Winner] PDF

Trafton, J. G., Marshall, S., Mintz, F., & Trickett, S. B. (2002). Extracting explicit and implicit information from complex visualizations (pp. 206-220). In M. Hegarty, B. Meyer, & H. Narayanan (Eds.) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. PDF

Monk, C. M., Boehm-Davis, D. A., & Trafton, J. G. (2002). The attentional costs of interrupting task performance at various stages. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 46th Annual Meeting. PDF

Trafton, J. G. & Trickett, S. B. (2001). Note-Taking for self-explanation and problem solving. Human Computer Interaction. 16(1), 1-38. [Lead Article] PDF

Trafton, J. G., Kirschenbaum, S. S., Tsui, T. L., Miyamoto, R. T., Ballas, J. A., & Raymond, P. D. (2000). Turning Pictures into Numbers: Extracting and Generating Information from Complex Visualizations. International Journal of Human Computer Studies 53 (5), 827-850. PDF

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