MA, Psychology: Human Factors and Applied Cognition

Systems Design and Cognitive Engineering:

• Systems engineering from research > modeling > requirement definition > domain/context analysis > architecture
• Interface design from personas and “goal-directed context scenarios”
• Usability testing and observation and other task analyses

Interaction Behaviors:

• Search
• Navigation/wayfinding
• Information architecture
• Ingrained expectations

Human Performance:

• Attention and vigilance
• Perception
• Multitasking and workload
• Information processing
• Language and communication
• Decision-making and problem-solving
• Automation
• Memory
• Errors

Task Analysis:

• Observation and interviews
• Card sorting
• Flow diagrams
• Cognitive task analyses
• GOMS/KLM

Statistics and Research:

• Exploratory data analysis
• ANOVA, multiple regression, chi-square, many other types

Student Chapter President (2010-2011): ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction