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This book focuses on everything from basic research practices to cutting-edge technology, and is essential to student learning and professional research.
List of contents
Part I. Background and Methodology: 1. Applied perception research: an introduction to this handbook; 2. Some highlights in the history of applied perception research; 3. Psychophysical methods and signal detection: recent advances in theory; 4. The measurement of perceptual resources and workload; 5. Methods and applications of eye tracking; 6. Applied perception and neuroergonomics; Part II. Attention and Perceptual Processes: 7. Perception and attention: a multidimensional approach to human performance modeling; 8. Attention as a cause and an effect of perception; 9. Probing plasticity of attention and working memory processes induced by video game play; 10. Visual attention and emotion: studying influence on a two-way street; 11. Perception and human information processing in visual search; 12. Motivation and emotion in sustained attention; 13. Vigilance: a perceptual challenge; 14. Psychology of time: basic and applied issues; Part III. Modality: 15. Multimodal and multisensory displays for perceptual tasks; 16. Multi-modal and cross-modal perception: audition; 17. Haptic perception; 18. Visual information in the coordination and control of isometric force; 19. Guidelines for vibrotactile display design: front-end, intensitive, and spatial considerations; 20. Olfactory interfaces; Part IV. Perception in Context: 21. Biological motion perception; 22. Perceptual segmentation of natural events: theory, methods, and applications; 23. Attention in the wild: visual attention in complex, dynamic, and social environments; 24. Perception of trust in automation; 25. Applied ecological acoustics; 26. Affordance perception research; 27. Perceiving the nesting of affordances for complex goal-directed actions; 28. Perception of collision; 29. Hazard awareness in driving: measurement and training; Part V. Perception and Design: 30. Applied perception and virtual environment training systems; 31. Using task analysis and computational cognitive models to design and evaluate interfaces; 32. Interface design: a control theoretic context for a triadic meaning processing approach; 33. Ecological interface design: a selective overview; 34. Perceptual learning in the comprehension of animation and animated diagrams; 35. Towards empirically verified cartographic displays; Part VI. Perception and Domains of Work and Professional Experience: 36. Perceptual learning and expertise; 37. Noticing events in the visual workplace: the SEEV and NSEEV models; 38. Sustained attention in operational settings; 39. Using simulation to examine perceptual challenges faced by healthcare providers; 40. Color vision in aviation; 41. Eye, robot: visual perception and human-robot interaction; 42. Human-robot interaction as extending human perception to new scales; 43. Applied perception in military applications: detection of hidden explosive hazards; 44. Situation awareness in command and control; 45. Spatial orientation and motion perception in microgravity; 46. Evaluating visually induced motion sickness; 47. Predicting the future in perceptual-motor domains: perceptual anticipation, option generation, and expertise; Part VII. Individual and Population Differences: 48. Sustained attention in infants and children; 49. Gender differences in time perception; 50. Early visual processing abnormalities related to schizophrenia and autistic spectrum disorders; 51. Considering older adults' perceptual capabilities in the design process; 52. Comparative applied perception research: the case of working dogs; Part VIII. Pedagogical and Professional Issues: 53. Pedagogical issues in teaching the psychology of perception; 54. Graduate training and experiences for careers in applied experimental psychology.
