John Mahalchak and Megan Petroccia opened this season of Cognitive Group with a presentation of the work they did with the eyetracker over the summer. As part of that presentation, they also shared an interesting article with us that examined divided attention. What happens when we use our iPods while driving? I'm guessing it's not good...
Work with the eyetracker is continuing this year and John will be training several more students interested in learning about the equipment. Our first goal is to design a simple visual attention experiment for the year so that we can get more practice tracking, recording data, and analyzing the results. We are interested in any ideas that you have for a study. Please feel free to share your ideas through the Comments link of this entry or to contact any of us in the lab.
Thanks everyone for a cool first meeting...our next meeting will be Friday, September 12th in Carnegie 101. If you'd like to receive information about the meetings, please email Professor Knupsky or visit the Cognitive Group website.
For more information about the iPod study and the presentation this week, continue reading...
Mahalchak, J. & Petroccia, M. (2008). Summer Project: Eye-Tracking. Presentation given at the Cognitive Group, September, Allegheny College. For the PowerPoint slides for this talk, please see Fun with Eyetracking.
