Heuristics  Normalcy Bias  Definition: The normalcy bias describes our tendency to underestimate the possibility of disaster and believe that life will continue as normal, even in the face of significant threats or crises Design: Color  Project: In our project we have learned about how a skewed heat perception can affect the response of people during heat events. In our color scheme we included green and red which are associated with bad and good. With the red we can bring attention to high temperatures and indicate through color its danger.  Availability Bias: Definition: The availability heuristic describes our tendency to use information that comes to mind quickly and easily when making decisions about the future. Design: Scale/ Proportions  Project: Since we … Continue reading →

Research Question  – Which is more distracting to drivers: making/receiving calls or texting? Hypothesis:  – Texting while driving will be more distracting to making call because texting typically requires more visual and manual attention compared to calls, which can be conducted hands-free. Study Design:  Participants: –  18-65 old drivers Equipment:  – Driving simulator with realistic road scenarios. – Eye tracker Procedure – Participants complete a baseline driving task without any distractions. – Each condition includes a 10-minute driving session on a simulated urban road with various traffic scenarios. Variables: – Independent Variable  – Type of smartphone activity (no activity, making/receiving a call, texting). – Dependent Variable  – Driver attention – Reaction time – Number of driving errors (e.g., lane deviations, … Continue reading →

1: Slack new update I use this interface at my college to communicate in my classes and clubs. As an user of this website the choice to organize all of the channels by name rather than by the group they belong to makes it really difficult to search for them. While some have specific names, they all have a general and random channels. In the general channels is where I have found most of our communications happen. While it is not difficult to identify in which channel the message was sent since it is highlighted, writing a message is so tedious. When I try to find what I am looking for, the font and color that indicate which group the … Continue reading →

I am here and alive after a long hiatus of not blogging. Too many stuff have happened since then so Ill put them in a list:

The program has just started picking up pace. We have already started with our mini course. I am really happy we are having them even if I know some of the basics from previous coding languages or my own research experience. It makes me more secure that I can tackle all the really complex parts of my projects. Also, we began to read papers on our topics for homework. It addressed some of what we already discuss in our first group meeting. Some of the issues that both of the papers I read struggled with was recruiting participants for the study. I wonder how we could account for those who experience hasn’t been captured in these studies. I have also … Continue reading →