Paul van Schaik, Professor of Psychology, National Teaching Fellow

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Mail: Psychology Subject Group | School of Social Sciences, Business and Law | Teesside University | Middlesbrough | TS1 3BA | United Kingdom

Research

Magnitude-based inference in user research: seminar presentation at the HCI Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of York

Modelling user-experience and frequency judgement: seminar presentation at the Department of Psychology - University of Fribourg

Modelling users' experience in human-computer interaction: seminar presentation at the Centre for Communication and Computing - University of Copenhagen

Cognitive-experiential modelling of human-computer interaction: seminar presentation at the Prometei Graduate School - Technical University of Berlin and Humboldt University of Berlin

Research topic in Frontiers: human preferences and risk choices - 3788 full-text views and 925 PDF downloads within the first two weeks of publication on line and more 10000 readers internationally in the first 6 months

Some publications

PhD projects

Selected research funding

A behavioural study of online healthcare-provider choice (££9219.7199999999993) with Mark Davies (Teesside University) and Petko Kusev (Kingston University), funded by the British Academy

Human-Computer Interaction for Business Needs

Inaugural address

My research interests are mainly - but not exclusively - in applied cognitive psychology and include

• psychology of human-computer interaction, including interaction experience ('user-experience') and virtual reality;
• psychology of information security and information privacy;
• technology acceptance; and
• psychology of judgement and decision-making.

Some research opportunities:

• psychology of information security and information privacy
• Online health information to support choice
• Information-seeking using Internet sites to inform decision-making
• Aesthetics in human-computer interaction
• digital-based exercise (exergaming)
• Personal information management
• User-experience, usability and user-experience modelling

Teaching

Applied research methods

Psychological research design and analysis 2

Psychology of human-computer interaction

Analysing structural and measurement models, with application in R

Software

My Dissertation Manager: A web-based application for dissertation co-ordinator and dissertation supervisors Try it!

My HTML viewers for browsing web sites

JavaScript error handling, based on Negrino and Smith (2001).

JavaScript links

Online Toy Shop Try it!

Photographs

Quotations

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