14 Wednesday Mar 2012
This weekend, a crack team of students and postgrads were involved in giving demos of the kind of experiments that we get up to, as well as the eye-tracker, at an open day run by the university. Here they all are in their glory:
From left to right: Sarah, Zoe, Leanne, Carl, Ascen, Charlotte and Karen
There was some also some silliness, totally out of character:
Here you can watch it in a never-ending loop:
30 Tuesday Aug 2011
Here’s a short video on how best to use a poster tube prior to a conference.
23 Tuesday Aug 2011
Posted in Research
Here is a permanent copy of my poster for the European Conference in Eye Movements Poster for the 2011 ECEM Meeting. The full reference is:
Godwin, H., Benson, V., & Drieghe, D. (2011). Using visual interruptions to explore the extent and time course of fixation planning in visual search. Poster presented at the European Conference in Eye Movements, Marseille, France.
The poster can be downloaded via the following link:
Click here :ecem_interruption_poster_final
09 Saturday Jul 2011
Posted in Research
This week, a contingent of plucky individuals from my lab have been presenting at the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition. Sadly I couldn’t make it as I was on the one holiday I take each year! Now that I’m back, I thought it would be worth discussing their exhibit, and encouraging anyone who hasn’t been yet to go!
The exhibit covers details of the work we’ve been doing for years on airport security screening (first publication was back in 2004). You can see an introduction into the research in the video below. Apparently they are working on upping the sound a bit.
Our experiments are still alive and kicking, and we’ll be doing more work on it for (at least) the next 4-5 years – so watch this space! Aside from the practical benefits that this type of research has on offer, it’s turned out to be a very significant and useful source of inspiration for developing current models and theories of how humans search their environments for targets of various types. I wrote some more detailed stuff on my website here a while back.
More information is available at the Royal Society’s website: click here. By the way, the X-ray picture of a bag that they have used has nothing naughty in it. You can also play some online games developed for the exhibition here and here.
Publications that are relevant to this can be found listed here and here.
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Finally, I’d like to dedicate this post to the computer used to do the eye tracking in that video above. It died on us a few days after the video was recorded. RIP.
