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arnold small award

The requirements for consideration of the award are:

  • Student status while performing the research and
  • Acceptance of submission for presentation at the annual HFES conference

To be considered for the award, the student or student's advisor should notify the Aging program chair for the conference via email after their submission has been accepted for presentation at the annual conference.  The submissions are reviewed before the conference by the selection committee comprised of ATG members.  In recognition of the winner's accomplishment, the student(s) is presented the award (plaque and $200) during the ATG meeting at the HFES annual conference.

Year Award Recipient Paper Title
2009 Jessie Chin

Cognition and illness experience are associated with illness knowledge among older adults with hypertension
2008

 

No award given out.
2007

Tiffany S. Jastrzembski

Error extensions to GOMS modeling: Age-related predictions of error in a mobile phone task
2006 Richard Pak
Aging and visual attention: The effect of perceptual load on the functional field of view
2005 Gwanseob Shin
2005 Small Award - Gwanseob Shin with Dr. Chris Mayhorn
Differences in trunk kinematics and ground reaction forces between older and younger adults during lifting
2004 Celeste Y. M. Shai Effects of computer presentation format on learning in the elderly
2003 Anne McLaughlin
Small Award 2003 - Anne McLaughlin
Effects of attentional demand on input device use in younger and older adults
2002 Richard Pak, Anne McLaughlin, & Chao-Chung Lin
Small Award 2002 - Rich Pak, Anne McLaughlin, Chao-Chung Lin
An age-related comparison of a touchscreen and a novel input device.
 
2001 Anne-Sophie Melenhorst
Small Award 2003 - Anne-Sophie Melenhorst
The use of communication technologies by the older adult:  Exploring the benefits from the user's perspective.
 
2000 Sherry Mead Contributions of stimulus driven and goal-directed processing to visual selection by older and younger observers
1999 Richard A. Sit Multi-task performance: A comparison of older and younger adults
1998 Elizabeth Meyer Towards an understanding of age-related use of incidental consistency
1997 Peter J. Batsakes Age-related differences in the training and retention of skilled dual-task performance
1996 Richard Sit Retention of multiple-task performance: Age-related differences
1995 Starr Fox Effects of aging upon working memory and workload
1994 Darryl Humphrey Perceptual organization and grouping factors: Age-related effects
1993 R. Darin Ellis & Kentaro Kotani Modeling age difference in isometric elbow flexion using Hill's three element visco-elastic model
 
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