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PD Dr. Andrea Schankin Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Building 07.07, Room 212 email:schankin(at)teco.edu |
Short CV
| since 2015 | Research Associate at TECO |
| 2014 | Habilitation (advanced PhD) in psychology, based on research papers on implicit learning |
| 2008-2014 | Research Associate and Senior Researcher in the Section of Personality Research at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) |
| 2007-2008 | Research Associate in the Cluster of Excellence “Cognition for Technical Systems (CoTeSys)” at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany) |
| 2006-2007 | Research fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the Laboratory of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Missouri-Columbia (USA) |
| 2005 | Dr. phil. Dissertation on the relationship between visual attention and awareness |
| 2002-2005 | Ph.D. student in the Junior Research Group “Cognitive Psychophysiology of Action” at the Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Munich (Germany) |
| 1996-2002 | Study of Psychology at the University of Potsdam (Germany) |
Projects
- 2014 – 2018: Prosperity4All – Identify and develop key elements for accessible IT
- 2011 – 2015: Electrophysiological correlates of individual differences in visual awareness (funded by the DFG)
- 2006 – 2007: Event-related lateralizations of the EEG in binocular rivalry (funded by the DFG)
Research Interests
- Programmer personality and code comprehension
- Attention processes in Augmented Reality
- Usability of APIs
- Measuring user experience
- Effects of learning, distraction, and context on selective attention
- Biological basis of selective attention
- Individual differences in selective attention
- Stimulus-response compatibility
Bachelor- and Master Theses
Running
- Code reading and program comprehension
- An empirical examination of reference application blueprints for technical components on the SAP Cloud Platform
- Impact of aesthetics on usability
- Developing a tool for user studies in augmented reality
Finished
- Practicality of password input methods that are proof to shoulder surfing
- Effect of domain knowledge and domain-driven design principles on reading and understanding source code
- Effect of spatiotemporal tactile stimulation patterns on the feet of healthy men
- A user study about the effect of identifier names on code comprehension
- Programmers’ personalities and their social network usage are linked: Leveraging GitHub for meaningful indicators
- The smartphone as a 3D input device
- A user study to determine the focus of attention while using handheld augmented realty in smart-home applications
- A user study about the perception of data privacy statements in online shops
Peer-reviewed Publications
(2015) Decomposing the relationship between mental speed and mental abilitiess, Intelligence, 51, 28-46
(2015) Age-related differences on the P3 amplitude in change blindness, Psychological Research, 80, 660-676
(2015) Simon effects in change detection and change blindness, Psychological Research, 79, 1022-1033
Before 2015
(2012) Befunde aus EEG-Untersuchungen zum Mentalen Training: Ein Überblicksartikel, Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie, 19, 16-25
(2011) Violations of implicit rules elicit an early negativity in the ERP, NeuroReport, 22, 642-645
(2011) Beyond IQ: A latent state-trait analysis of general intelligence, decision making, and implicit learning, Intelligence, 39, 323-334
(2011) Measuring performance in dynamic decision making: Reliability and validity of the Tailorshop simulation, Journal of Individual Differences, 32, 225-233
(2011) Is contextual cueing more than the guidance of visual-spatial attention?, Biological Psychology, 87, 58-65
(2010) Context information in guiding visual search: The role of color and orientation, USAB 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences (LNCS), 6389, 291-304
(2010) Contextual cueing effects despite spatially cued target locations, Psychophysiology, 47, 717-727
(2010) Compatibility between stimulated eye, target location, and response location, Psychological Research, 74, 291-301
(2009) Positive evidence for Eysenck’s arousal hypothesis: A combined EEG and MRI study with multiple measurement occasions, Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 717-721
(2009) The N2pc as electrophysiological correlate of attention in change blindness, Journal of Psychophysiology, 23, 43-51
(2009) Cognitive processes facilitated by contextual cueing. Evidence from event-related brain potentials, Psychophysiology, 46, 668-679
(2009) The time course of attentional guidance in contextual cueing, Attention in Cognitive Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences (LNAI), 5395, 69-84
(2008) Unvoluntary attentional capture in change blindness, Psychophysiology, 45, 742-750
(2008) The role of implicit context information in guiding visual-spatial attention, Cognitive Vision, Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences (LNCS), 5329, 93-106
(2007) Electrophysiological correlates of stimulus processing in a change blindness paradigm, Experimental Brain Research, 183, 95-105
(2007) Localization of temporal preparation effects via trisected reaction time, Psychophysiology, 44, 334-338