CAR TECH Lab

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Multidisciplinary research is team research, leading to collaborations and publications in a variety of areas. Some journals that welcome this type of research include Human Factors and Engineering, IEEE, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

2023
- Toward evacuation training in virtual reality: Requirements gathering for wildfire experiences
  
  Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 67 (1), 1989-1994
  
  Loh, Crosby, Kurniawan, and Castro
- Dynamic workload measurement and modeling: Driving and conversing
  
  The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 29 (3), 645
  
  Castro, Heathcote, Cooper, and Strayer
2022
- The multitasking motorist
  
  Handbook of Human Multitasking, 399-430. Springer, Cham.
  
  Strayer, Castro, and McDonnell
- The persistence of distraction: The hidden costs of intermittent multitasking
  
  The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 28(2), 262–282.
  
  Strayer, Castro, Turrill, and Cooper
2021
- A cognitive model of response omissions in distraction paradigms
  
  Memory & Cognition, 1-17.
  
  Damaso, Castro, Todd, Strayer, Provost, Matzke, and Heathcote
- Examining effort in 1D uncertainty communication using individual differences in working memory and NASA-TLX
  
  IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 28
  
  Castro, Hosseinpour, Quinan, and Padilla
- A review of uncertainty visualization errors: Working memory as an explanatory theory. (Chapter)
  
  The Psychology of Learning and Motivation 74, 275–315. Academic Press.
  
  Padilla, Castro, and Hosseinpour
- Real-time prediction of short-timescale fluctuations in cognitive workload
  
  Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 6 (1), 1-29
  
  Boehm, Matzke, Gretton, Castro, Cooper, Skinner, Strayer, and Heathcote
2020
- Nature as a potential modulator of the error-related negativity: A registered report
  
  International Journal of Psychophysiology 156, 49-59
  
  LoTemplio, Scott, McDonnell, Hopman, Castro, McNay, McKinney, Greenberg, Payne, and Strayer
2019
- Toward objective evaluation of working memory in visualizations: A case study using pupillometry and a dual-task paradigm
  
  IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 26 (1), 332-342
  
  Padilla, Castro, Quinan, Ruginski, and Creem-Regehr
- Cognitive Workload measurement and modeling under divided attention
  
  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 45 (6), 826
  
  Castro, Strayer, Matzke, and Heathcote
2017
- How handheld mobile device size and hand location may affect divided attention
  
  Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 61 (1), 1370-1374
  
  Castro
2016
- Extending the detection response task to simultaneously measure cognitive and visual task demands
  
  Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 60 (1), 1962-1966
  
  Cooper, Castro, and Strayer
- Validating two assessment strategies for visual and cognitive load in a simulated driving task
  
  Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 60 (1), 1899-1903
  
  Castro, Cooper, and Strayer
2014
- Spatial metaphors of web use
  
  Spatial Cognition & Computation 14 (4), 306-320
  
  Matlock, Castro, Fleming, Gann, and Maglio

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UC Merced in the Top 100 Universities: U.S. News & World Report

Toward evacuation training in virtual reality: Requirements gathering for wildfire experiences

Dynamic workload measurement and modeling: Driving and conversing

The multitasking motorist

The persistence of distraction: The hidden costs of intermittent multitasking

A cognitive model of response omissions in distraction paradigms

Examining effort in 1D uncertainty communication using individual differences in working memory and NASA-TLX

A review of uncertainty visualization errors: Working memory as an explanatory theory. (Chapter)

Real-time prediction of short-timescale fluctuations in cognitive workload

Nature as a potential modulator of the error-related negativity: A registered report

Toward objective evaluation of working memory in visualizations: A case study using pupillometry and a dual-task paradigm

Cognitive Workload measurement and modeling under divided attention

How handheld mobile device size and hand location may affect divided attention

Extending the detection response task to simultaneously measure cognitive and visual task demands

Validating two assessment strategies for visual and cognitive load in a simulated driving task

Spatial metaphors of web use

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