You will need to produce a two page overview of your proposed topic. This includes your rationale for importance, research question, basic research on area (summaries of two research studies), grounded hypothesis (i.e., a hypothesis backed up by literature, theory, or strong logical argument), and design.

Ideas for Research!

Not only is research conducted constantly, we have our own team here at ASU in the Human Systems Engineering department that specialize in topics that may interest you.

This professor ASU list is helpful for this class and if the ideas align with faculty, you can get started on real research for your future!

Dr. Vaughn Becker Social Psychology, Emotions, Signal Detection

Dr. Russell Branaghan UX, Cognition, Human Factors, Medical HF

Dr. Erin Chiou Human-Automation, Trust in Automation

Dr. Nancy Cooke Human-Computer Interaction, UAV, Team Cognition

Dr. Scotty Craig Learning, Educational Technology

Dr. Rob Gray Driving, Sports, Perception & Action

Dr. Rod Roscoe Design and Educational Technology, Learning and Instruction

Dr. Jaimie McNabb – Driving, autonomous driving, attention, false memory, social contagion

Also, these are some of my favorites areas…

• Nature
  • Color green, water, air, nature images and there effects on creativity, calming body, mental health
• Distraction
  • Inattentional blindness, being over alerted and productivity, getting into “flow”
• Memory
  • False memory (in courtroom)
  • How false memories spread
  • Increasing someone’s memory- for tests and their futures
• Music
  • Remember the ones that are debunked! Classical music makes you smarter…
  • Headphones and distraction
  • Music playing in the background and performance
  • Music can affect your driving speed, maybe keep going with this idea
• Sleeping
  • What you can learn in your sleep?
  • Dreams
• Physical activity
  • Yoga, outside improves performance, heart rates as a measure here
• Perception of Time
  • How do we perceive time based on what we are dong?
• Social
  • Norms
  • Example, red lipstick makes you more attractive type studies.
• Social media impacts
  • Cell phone usage and self-esteem?
  • Platforms and impact on our behaviors or personality type
• Parenting styles
  • “Gentle parenting” trends right now (authoritative)
• Judgment and decision-making
  • Check out Kahanman
• Attitudes
  • Product and attitude formation
• How we treat technology (social norms)
  • Yell at Siri, Alexa or respectful? – Check out Cliff Nass here…
• How we learn through digital platforms
• Driving
  • Distraction from phones
  • Alerts
  • How to alert a distracted driver