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Research at the U of Idaho Human Factors Program Research Areas Research Facilities Individual labs Publications Research Areas Decision making processes in fire-fighting units Safety and labelling Perception of ego-motion defined by optical flow Head-up peripheral displays for aviation Human factors in driving research Visual attention Organization of spatial memory Spatial interfaces and remote-control Ergonomics of architectural design Research Facilities Flight simulator with high-resolution 90 degree FOV (two 54" diagonal rear-projection enclosures with NEC high-resolution/fast phosphor CRT projectors) Three-channel (135 degree FOV) projection simulation facility (three 87" diagonal fast-DLP front-projection displays) Idaho Driving Simulator: A DriveSafety single-channel, fixed base driving simulator with S10 cab Kaiser PV-60 head-mounted stereo display (FOV 45 degrees) and Intersense 300 head tracking ASL Model 5000 Eye-head tracking system with host computer Flock of Birds magnetic head tracking system and IS-300 3DOF inertial tracking system Multiple high-performance graphics workstations for the development of synthetic environments Individual Labs Idaho Visual Performance Lab UI Cogito Lab and Idaho Driving Simulator Idaho Driving Simulator (housed in the UI Cogito Lab) Human Factors Lab Auditory Psychophysics Lab Program Publications (starting in 1996) McNamara, T.P., Rump, B., & Werner, S. (accepted pending revisions). Egocentric and geocentric frames of reference in memory of large-scale space. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Hollands, J.G., Tanaka, T., & Dyre, B.P. (In Press). Understanding Bias in Proportion Production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance Trautwein, U. & Werner, S. (2001). Old Paintings, New Technology: Does Instructive Animation Make Sense in Art Education? Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia. (in press) Werner, S. (2001). Change blindness. To appear in: Janetzko, D., Meyer, H.A., & Hildebrandt, M. (Eds.). Das experimentalpsychologische Praktikum. Göttingen: Hogrefe Werner, S. (2001). Kognition im Umraum [Review of the book "Kognition im Umraum"]. Zeitschrift für Psychologie Hollands, J. G., & Dyre, B. P. (2000). Bias in proportion judgments: The cyclical power model. Psychological Review, 107, 500-524. McConkie, G., W., & Dyre, B. P. (2000). Eye Fixation Durations in Reading: Models of Frequency Distributions. In A. Kennedy, R. Radach, D. Heller, & J. Pynte (Eds.), Reading as a Perceptual Process (pp. 683 - 700), Oxford, England: Elsevier. Saade, C. & Werner, S. (2000). Flexibilität mentaler Repräsentationen räumlicher Information in Abhängigkeit von der Erwerbsperspektive [The role of perspective on the flexibility of spatial mental representation]. Zeitschrift für experimentelle Psychologie, 47, 180-194. Werner, S., Krieg-Brückner, B., & Herrmann, T. (2000). Modelling spatial knowledge by route graphs. In C. Freksa, W. Brauer, C. Habel, & K.F. Wender (Eds.), Spatial Cognition II - Integrating Abstract Theories, Empirical Studies, Formal Methods, and Practical Applications, LNAI 1849 (pp. 295-316). Berlin: Springer. Werner, S. & Schmidt, T. (2000). Investigating spatial reference systems through distortions in visual memory. In C. Freksa, W. Brauer, C. Habel, & K.F. Wender (Eds.), Spatial Cognition II - Integrating Abstract Theories, Empirical Studies, Formal Methods, and Practical Applications, LNAI 1849 (pp. 169-183). Berlin: Springer. Werner, S. & Thies, B. (2000). Is "change blindness" attenuated by domain-specific expertise? An expert-novices comparison of change detection in football images. Visual Cognition, 7, 163-173. Werner, S. & Habel, C. (1999). Spatial reference systems (editorial). Spatial Cognition and Computation, 1(4), iii-vii. Werner, S. & Schmidt, K. (1999). Environmental reference systems for large-scale spaces. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 1(4), 447-473. Werner, S., Saade, C. & Lüer, G. (1998). Relations between the mental representation of extrapersonal space and spatial behavior. In K.-F. Wender, C. Freksa & C. Habel (Eds.), Spatial Cognition - An Interdisciplinary Approach to Representing and Processing Spatial Knowledge, LNAI 1404 (108-127). Berlin: Springer. Dyre, B. P., & Andersen, G. J. (1997). Image velocity magnitudes and perception of heading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23, 546-565. Werner, S., Krieg-Brückner, B., Mallot, H.A., Schweizer, K. & Freksa, C. (1997). Spatial cognition: The role of landmark, route, and survey knowledge in human and robot navigation. In M. Jarke, K. Pasedach & K. Pohl (Eds.), Informatik '97 (41-50). Berlin: Springer. Cortese, J. M., & Dyre, B. P. (1996). Perceptual similarity of shapes generated from Fourier descriptors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 22(1), 133-143. Werner, S. (1996). What images are not: Some limitations of visual mental images. Psychologische Beiträge, 38, 279-292. Program Proceedings Abstracts (last 5 years only, 1996-2001) Kludt, K. T., & Dyre, B. P. (2001). Effect of color coding on misperception of heading from superimposed optic flow. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Finkelmeyer, A.E. & Werner, S. (2001). The role of gravity in human spatial memory. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 45th Annual Meeting - 2001, 140-143. Cox, E., & Dyre, B. P. (2000). Density effects on accuracy of control of egospeed are nonlinear. In Proceedings of the IEA 2000/HFES 2000 Congress, 3-423 --- 3-426. Dyre, B. P., Richman, J. B., & Fournier, L. (2000). Allocation of Attention Affects Perceived Heading Direction with Transparent Flow Fields. In Proceedings of the IEA 2000/HFES 2000 Congress, 3-415 --- 3-418. Dyre, B. P., Richman, J. B., & Fournier, L. R. (2000). Direction repulsion, motion coherency, and motion transparency of divergence flow fields. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 41 (4, Supplement), S797. Fournier, L., R., Richman, J.B., & Dyre, B. P. (2000). Is heading perception during yaw control attention limited? Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 41 (4, Supplement), S720. McDevitt, J. R., & Dyre, B. P. (2000) Perception of acceleration from absolute and relative motion. In Proceedings of the IEA 2000/HFES 2000 Congress, 3-494. Cox, E., & Dyre, B. P. (1999). Control of Egospeed: Influence of Discontinuity Rate and Global Optical Flow Rate. In Proceedings of the 43nd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1409. McDevitt, J. R., Eggleston, J., & Dyre, B. P. (1999). Perception of egospeed from absolute and relative motion. In Proceedings of the 43nd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1280-1284. Richman, J. B., & Dyre, B. P. (1999). Peripheral visual stimulation benefits heading perception during active control. In Proceedings of the 43nd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1411. Richman, J. B., & Dyre, B. P. (1999). Retinal field and heading perception during active control of yaw. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society 40th Annual Meeting, 4, 61. Tanaka, T., Hollands, J. G., & Dyre, B. P. (1999). Understanding bias in proportion production. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society 40th Annual Meeting, 4, 85. Ballard, T. G., Roach, T., & Dyre, B. P. (1998). Use of global optical flow rate and discontinuity rate depends on their validity as determinants of egospeed. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1540-1544. Dyre, B. P., Ballard, T. G., and Roach, T. (1998). Effect of cue validity on perception of egospeed. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society 39th Annual Meeting, 3, 59. Dyre, B. P., Richman, J. B., Warren, R., and Garness, S. A. (1998). Evidence for different heading perception mechanisms in active control and passive viewing. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 39 (4, Supplement), S892. Hollands, J. G., & Dyre, B. P. (1998). Bias in estimating proportion is predicted by bias in magnitude estimation. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society 39th Annual Meeting, 3, 42. Gehrke, J., Hommel, B., May, M., Mecklenbräuker, S., & Werner, S. (1998). Raum und Handlung: Bericht über ein Arbeitstreffen. Kognitionswissenschaft, 7, 89-90. Richman, J. B., Stanfield, J., & Dyre, B. P. (1998). Small fields of view interfere with perception of heading during active control but not passive viewing. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1545-1549. Dyre, B. P. (1997). Perception of accelerating self-motion: Global optical flow rate dominates discontinuity rate. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1333-1337. Hollands, J. G., & Dyre, B. P. (1997). Bias in proportion judgements with pie charts: The cyclical power model. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1357-1361. Dyre, B. P., Warren, R., & Garness, S. (1996). Active control vs. passive perception of heading: Evidence for different perceptual mechanisms. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1207-1211.

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