Running Behavioral Studies With Human Participants: A Practical Guide - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Frank Ritter is a professor of Information Sciences and Technology and of Psychology at Penn State. He received his PhD from CMU and BSEE from UIUC. He teaches courses on human-computer interaction and cognitive science.  His research interests include models of learning and experiments to measure learning and retention. He co-wrote Running behavioral studies with human participants: A practical guide, which this report builds upon.  He also wrote Foundations for designing user centered systems: What psychology do system designers need to know with Baxter and Churchill, Building better interfaces for remote autonomous systems with Oury, and recently as a response to the pandemic, Skills to Obstruct Pandemics, with a team of ten co-authors, which is also available as a free online tutor, http://StopTheSpread.health .

Jong W. Kim is a research faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Central Florida. He received his Ph.D. in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. His academic pursuit is to improve cognitive systems supporting optimized user performance. To that end, he runs experiments with human subjects and models human cognition. His recent research, sponsored by Office of Naval Research, has investigated skill learning and forgetting, and he has developed a theory of skill retention that is being applied to a couple of intelligent tutoring systems. Current research projects focus on the influence of affect on the three stages of learning by an understanding of non-vocal expressions. Particularly, he is interested in helping autistic children learn social communication skills with human-centered computer systems.

Jonathan Morgan is a research assistant and lab manager for Penn State’s Applied Cognitive Science (ACS) lab, where he manages people running studies about learning, retention, and usability. Morgan has published in Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, received two paper awards from the Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS) conference committee, and co-authored papers published in the proceedings of the annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society, the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM), and the annual conference of the Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA) society. He has also contributed to the design, development, and testing of two tutors. His current research includes modeling socio-cognitive processes and examining the acquisition of procedural knowledge in complex tasks.

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This text provides a concrete roadmap for the design and implementation of experiments using human participants. It covers both conceptual and practical issues that are critical to experimental methods, and the organization of the book follows the standard process in experiment-based research.