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Dr. Douglas Gillan

  • Human Factors & Ergonomics
  • Professor
  • Head of Psychology Department
  • Email: doug_gillan@ncsu.edu
  • Phone: 919.515.1715

Research Interests

Human-computer interaction, knowledge acquisition and representation, information visualization and high level perception

Recent Publications

  • Gillan, D. J., & Barraza, P. (2006). A few seconds of equation reading: A process model of equation reading and its applications. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting. (pp. 1152 – 1155). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
  • Gillan, D. J., & Gillan, C. T. (2006). Effects of motion on the perception of static features in a display. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting. (pp. 1585 – 1588). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
  • Chadwick, R., Gillan, D. J., Pazuchanics, S. L. (2005). What the robot's camera tells the operator's brain. In N. Cooke, H. Pringle, H. Pedersen, and O. Conner (Eds.). Advances in human performance and cognitive engineering research: Human factors of remotely piloted vehicles (pp. 373-384). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
  • Gillan, D. J., & Sapp, M. V. (2005a). Out of the box: Approaches to good initial interface designs. In R. Bias and D. Mayhew (Eds.), Cost-justifying usability, 2nd Edition: An update for the internet age (pp. 447 – 464). San Francisco: Morgan-Kaufmann.
  • Gillan, D.J., & Sapp, M. V. (2005b). The static representation of object motion. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 49th Annual Meeting (pp. 1588 - 1592). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
  • Harrison, C., & Gillan, D.J. (2005). The role of motion in object recognition. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 49th Annual Meeting (pp. 1625 - 1629). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
  • Pazuchanics, S. L., and Gillan, D. J. (2005). Displaying distance in computer systems: A lesson from two-dimensional works of art. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 49th Annual Meeting. Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
  • Barraza, P., Gillan, D. J., Karshmer, A., & Pazuchanics, S. (2004). A cognitive analysis of equation reading applied to the development of assistive technology for visually-impaired students. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting (pp. 922 – 926). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
  • Chadwick, R.A., Gillan, D.J., Simon, D., & Pazuchanics, S. (2004). Cognitive analysis methods for control of multiple robots: robotics on $5 a day. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting. (pp. 688-692). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
  • Gillan, D. J., Barraza, P., Karshmer, A., & Pazuchanics, S. (2004). Cognitive analysis of equation reading: Application to the development of the Math Genie. In K. Miesenberger, J. Klaus, W. Zagler, and D. Burger (Eds.), Computers Helping People with Special Needs (pp. 630 . 637). Berlin: Spring-Verlag.
  • Sapp, M. V., & Gillan, D. J. (2004). Length and area estimation with visual and tactile stimuli. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting (pp. 1875 - 1879). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
  • Gillan, D. J. (2003). Usability science. I: Foundations. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 13, 351 - 372.
  • Karshmer, A.I., and Gillan, D. (2003). How well can we read equations to blind mathematics students: Some answers from psychology. In Proceedings of the 2003 Human Computer Interface International Conference, Crete, Greece.
  • McDermott, P. Hutchins, S. Barnes, M., Koenecke, C., Gillan, D., & Rothrock, L. (2003). Presentation of risk and uncertainty in the context of National Missile Defense simulations. In Proceedings of the human Factors and Ergonomics Society 47th Annual Meeting. (pp. 562- 566). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
  • Strickland, J., Gillan, D. J., & Chadwick,. R. (2003). Static and dynamic representations of motion. In Proceedings of the human Factors and Ergonomics Society 47th Annual Meeting. pp. 755- 759. Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.