{"id":1440,"date":"2014-07-14T13:33:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T13:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/multidisciplinary\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2014-07-14T13:33:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T13:33:41","slug":"smmi-epsrc-summer-bursaries-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/multidisciplinary\/2014\/07\/14\/smmi-epsrc-summer-bursaries-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"SMMI &#8211; EPSRC Summer Bursaries 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><b>Rosie Hoare &#8211; <em>&#8216;<\/em><\/b><em>Decision-making in Complex, Multi-scale Displays&#8217;<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p>I have just completed my second year on the Psychology BSc program. During my second year I worked with my supervisor on a number of eye-tracking experiments through the Psychology department\u2019s Voluntary Research Assistant scheme (VRA). I learnt a great about visual search and attention research during lectures and through the VRA scheme. I found the subject fascinating and I was thrilled when I received the IDR Vacation Bursary and the opportunity to do research over summer.<\/p>\n<p>This summer I am working on a visual search experiment where participants can zoom in and out to search for objects in a complex, cluttered display. I am examining how searching in displays of the type is influenced by target prevalence. Target prevalence refers to how often a target is presented to participants in a visual search, and it has been found that if a target item appears less often, then participants are more likely to miss that item when searching. This is an important factor to consider in complex, real-world displays such as those in the operation rooms of ships, where indicators of danger may be rare and difficult to detect.<\/p>\n<p>Looking to the future, for my third year research project, I am hoping to examine behaviour in an eye tracking task, though I am not quite sure in which specific area, but I am confident that my summer of research in the psychology department will give me some ideas. 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