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Research on Human-Computer Interaction

Information organization and search

Knowledge-Based Internet Search. With collaborators at the Palo Alto Research Center, I am investigating how people use prior knowledge of a domain to help them answer complex questions in this domain using the internet. The knowledge domain we are using is diabetes. See Gugerty, Billman, Pirolli & Elliott, Human Factors & Ergonomics Society Proceedings 2007 (PDF)

Individual Differences in Internet Search. Craig Treadaway, James Rubenstein and I are investigating how individual differences in cognitive abilities, computer experience, and computer attitides affect peoples' ability to search for information on the internet. See Gugerty, L., Treadaway, C. & Rubinstein, J. (2006). Individual differences in internet search outcomes and processes. Proceedings of Computer Human Interaction (CHI) 2006 Conference, New York , NY : Association for Computing Machinery. (paper-PDF; poster)

Animated Work Environment. In collaboration with an architect, a robotics engineer, and a sociologist at Clemson, I am investigating how people organize and search for information during information-intensive tasks such as composing a document, a presentation, or a graphic design. We are creating a novel workstation -- the Animated Work Environment -- which is an adjustable workstation accommodating a range of digital and paper displays for use on information-intensive tasks at work or at home. (paper-PDF, web-site)

Usability and training effectiveness of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs)

Blake Mitchell and I investigated how level of training affects peoples' ability to use an AED to perform an emergency resuscitation. See: Mitchell, K. B., Gugerty, L. & Muth, E. (in press, 2008). Effects of brief training on use of automated external defibrillators by people without medical expertise. Human Factors. (PDF)

ClearType font rendering and its effect on reading performance

Gugerty, L., Tyrrell, R. A., Aten, T. R. & Edmonds, K. A. (2004). The effects of subpixel addressing on users’ performance and preferences during reading-related tasks. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 1(2), 81-101.  (PDF)

Edmonds, A. (2004). The effects of sub-pixel font rendering on a common user interface task. Masters Thesis.  (PDF)

Improving small screen interfaces

Olson, H. & Gugerty, L. (2004). Navigational cues on small screen displays. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors & Ergonomics Society.

Cognitive task analysis

Gugerty, L. (2004). Using cognitive task analysis to design multiple synthetic tasks for uninhabited aerial vehicle operation. In S. Schiflett, L. Elliott, E. Salas & M. Coovert (Eds.), Scaled Worlds: Development, Validation, and Application, (pp. 240-262). London: Ashgate Publishers.

Cognitive models in HCI

Gugerty, L. (1993). The use of analytical models in human-computer interface design. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 38, 625-660.

Gugerty, L. Halgren, S. & Gosbee, J. (1991). Using GOMS models and hypertext to create representations of medical procedures for online display. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors Society (pp. 713-717). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors Society.