Research Project

A graduate student and I are working on a videogame experience survey, called the Videogame Experiences Questionnaire or VEQ. Basically we are interested in understanding a few things about people's frequency, preferences and self-reported affects on their lives. We will see if this can be broken down into several factors, which could make it useful to compare to other psychological experiences. Our first article will come out in a professional journal soon. This scale is a revision of the initial attempt.

Survey Gizmo is a very good site for creating and collecting surveys. It is especially good for graduate students. It has a number of powerful features and allows graduate students a number of perks that are usually contained in the for-fee services.

UPDATE: I've changed the picture of the Logo in favor of the one we decided upon. After mocking up a few logos, we got some opinions from various people and settled in this.

2009 UDM Research Day & Poster Fair

We had a really nice turn out for the annual poster fair at UDM. It takes a lot of work by a lot of people for this to run smoothly. I'm on the Faculty Development Team which puts this together each year. But most of the credit really goes to the Team chair, Matt Mio, Ph.D. who keeps this ball rolling and herds the cats. This continues to go over well, and perhaps next year we'll be able to expand it significantly.

UDM Research and Poster Fair 2008

Harold Greene, Ph.D. and I will present a poster of our research on the Rorschach and visual information processing at UDM in a couple of weeks. We are working on the article to submit to a journal. I think we have some nice findings from this first study. We have been able to correlate certain characteristics of the blots to different aspects of the eye movement process. The writing up of this is fairly tedious in some ways, because there are a lot of results being presented and a lot of details to keep track of. I hope to send off the paper by the end of the semester.