Current Graduate Students
NOTE: This list of graduate students includes only those who gave their permission to post their names on this website. There may be other graduate students actually enrolled.
Clinical Graduate Students
Sheila Allemeh
E-mail: shallameh@yahoo.com
Research Interests: Aging, Pain, and Memory
Current Occupation: Office Administrator at the UCLA Pediatric Pain ProgramCarol Jahchan
E-mail: caroljahshan@hotmail.com
Research Interests: Endophenotypic markers for schizophrenia; Psychopharmacology.
Thesis Topic: Neurocognition, Social Cognition and Social Functioning in Psychometrically Identified Schizotypes.Sage Schuitevoerder
E-mail: sage.schuitevoerder@csun.edu
Website: http://www.csun.edu/~ss338606/
Research Interests: Psychometrics and Assessment, PTSD, Gerontology, Pervasive Developmental Disorders. Thesis Topic: Preliminary Reliability and Validity of a New PTSD Screener
General Experimental Graduate Students
Jimmie Flanagin
E-mail: jpf41409@csun.edu
Research Interests: The Effects of Emotion on Learning.
Currently working with Professor Gary S. Katz.
WebsiteNegin Ghavami
E-mail: negin00@hotmail.com
Research Interests: Intergroup Relations, Emphases in Religion, Stigma, and Gay and Lesbian Identity.
Currently working with Michele Wittig.James Hsiao
E-mail: frstorn@aol.com
Research Interests: Culture, Social Developmental, and Cognition; Interdisciplinary psychology.Christopher Lamb
E-mail: clamb415@yahoo.com
Research Interests: Clinical Research, Culture, Intimate Relationships, Communication and Conflict in Couples and Families, Gender, Sexuality.
Currently working with Gary S. Katz and Luciana Lagana'.Carrie Margulies
E-mail: cmarguli@hotmail.com
Research Interests: Developmental Psychology, Health Psychology, Children with Disabilities
Thesis Topic: Psychological Resilience of Chronically Ill and HospitalizedKurisutein Takagi
E-mail: kurisuteint@gmail.com
Research Interests:
1. Decision making - gambling (the expert and the novice),jurors, negotiation (one shot and repeated games)
2. Connectionist models vs. Game Theory(Irrational and rational decisionmaking)
3. Learning/rate of change in animals with respect to motivation
4. Learning/rate of change in human subjects in repeated games.
Thesis Topic: Jury decision making
Current Occupation: student/paralegalLonia Wallace
E-mail: loniamw@yahoo.com
Research Interests: Social and Health Psychology, Initimate Relationships, Sexuality, and Social Cognition.
Currently working with Sheila Grant-Thompson.
Human Factors/Applied Experimental Graduate Students
Ana Bakker
E-mail: aibakker@earthlink.net
Research Interests: Interface Design, Usability, Human-Computer Interaction, and Instructional Technology. Thesis Topic: The Effects of Pre-Existing Highlights on Reading Comprehension and Recall. Current Occupation: Multimedia Course Designer, Distance Learning Systems GroupAndrew Bryan
E-mail: a.bryan@sbcglobal.net
Research Interests: Visual displays, attentional processes, decision making.Zachary Chesler
E-mail: zacharychesler@hotmail.com
Research Interests: HCI, usability, interface design, medical device design.
Current Occupation: HF Specialist -College of Extended Learning, CSUN.Allison Davis
E-mail: allisondavis1@yahoo.com
Research Interests: Ergonomics
Current Occupation: StudentEli Elkhoury
E-mail: elie.elkhoury@csun.edu
Research Interests: Anthropometry, Driver Vehicle Interface, Human Factors in Website Developing and Human Factors in Extreme Environments.
Thesis Topic: Examination of the Tabarm Dimensions Relative to Students' Anthropometrics. Current Occupation: StudentTimothy M Follrath
E-mail: tim.follrath@boeing.com
Research Interests: Support efforts to modify existing controls, displays and crew compartment subsystems. Apply human system integration principals, methodologies and technologies in order to avoid, identify and correct human performance and safety risk factors in the cockpit/flight deck. Requirements development, including allocation of functions based on system interfaces, task analysis, control and display hardware design, computer format design, and anthropometric evaluations. Thesis Topic: Fully Integrated Data Link Front and Aft Station Cursor Controller Configuration and Location Study
Current Occupation: Human Factors EngineerMel J Futrell
E-mail: mel.futrell@csun.edu
Research Interests: Aviation Psychology, Multicultural Psychology, Human Performance, Error and Cultural Relativity, Cognitive Systems Engineering. Thesis Topic: Cognitive Cost of Code-Switching in the Cockpit Environment Current Occupation: Student, Aviation Consultant, Ground Instructor.Amber Nalu
E-mail: ambernalu@hotmail.com
Research interests: Human-Computer Interaction
Thesis Topic: Educational GamingTrent Nguyen
E-mail: trentrent3@aol.comSuzanna Y. Pak
E-mail: suzanna_pak@raytheon.com
Thesis Topic: Fluctuations Across Reaction Time Trials
Current Occupation: Sr. System Safety and Human Factors EngineerJessica Parfitt
E-mail: jjparfitt@aol.com
Research Interests: Medical technology, human error, instructional technology.
Current Occupation: Instructional material editingGeorge Park
E-mail: ge_bac@hotmail.com
Research Interests: HCI, Multimodal Communication, Automotive Interface, Virtual Reality
Current Occupation: Human Factors Specialist, System Technologies Inc.Jon Pinnere
E-mail: gianni@ieee.org
Research Interests: Situation Awarness in Aviation, Interface Design for Complex Industrial Systems, Ergonomic Designs for Modern Office Funiture. Thesis Topic: An Ecological Approach to Enhancing Situation Awareness During Aircraft Systems Monitoring
Current Occupation: Student.Aly Ruzicka
E-mail: alyr@earthlink.net (Please make subject read "CSUN HF")
Research Interests: Medical Devices, Instructional Design and Aerospace.
Thesis Topic: "Means Can Mislead: On the Analysis of Mental Rotation Reaction Time Distributions" (working with Dr. Jay Holden). Current Occupation: Instructional Designer, Training Systems Design.Ryanne Tejeda
Research Interests: HCI, usability, ergonomics.
E-mail: ryanne.tejeda@sbcglobal.netScott Terrace
E-mail: sterrace@ucla.edu
Research Interests: Experimental Design and Analysis, Cognition and Human Error.
Thesis Topic: Effects of Nicotine on Cognitive Performance. Current Occupation: Research Associate for V.A./UCLA.Steve Vargas
E-mail: vargassj@yahoo.com
Research Interests: Experimental Design and Analysis, Cognition and Human Error. Thesis Topic: The Effects of Voice vs. Aural Alarms on Reduction of Error
Current Occupation: Human Factors Specialist, Medtronic