Comparisons of Physical and Digital Media's Effect on Recall
Zoe Loh, Helia Hosseinpour, Lace Padilla, Spencer C. Castro
We assessed how different visual displays and media impact how people process and remember information. Participants read excerpts of a climate change report in the form of a simulated social media scrolling feed and a PDF presented either on a computer screen or on physical paper. We found that participants reported lower mental effort for recalling information from the scrolling feed and for the physical medium. However, we did not find a difference between formats or media for recall performance or physiological effort. Poster |
Internet Shutdowns and the Lifecycle of a Protest
Zoe Loh, Andrea Montano, Donya Vafanejad
In recent years, social media has increasingly been used to discuss protests such as Black Lives Matter, the Farmers Protest, and the recent Iran Protest. For some protests, there are also reports of internet shutdowns in response to discussing the protests online. We wanted to better understand modern protests by investigating these internet shutdowns as well as the social media discussion surrounding a protest. Project |
Working Memory Control Predicts Fixation Duration in Scene-viewing
Zoe Loh, Elizabeth H. Hall, Deborah A. Cronin, John M. Henderson
We examined the relationship between working memory and fixation durations during scene-viewing. We found that participants with worse working memory control tended to make more very long fixations when viewing scenes. Publication in Psychological Research |