I talk with Lauren Williams about the announcement of an upcoming Special Issue.
Transcription
Intro
Curley: You’re listening to All Things Cognition, a Psychonomic Society podcast.
Interview
Mickes: Hi Lauren. Thanks for talking to me.
Williams: Hi Laura.
Mickes: So you’re going to be a Guest Editor for a Special Issue in the journal Cognitive Research Principles and Implications or affectionately known as CR:PI [creepy]. Is that right?
Williams: That’s correct.
Mickes: Are you doing this with somebody else?
Williams: Yes, I will be the Assistant Guest Editor and the Guest Editor will be Trafton Drew from the University of Utah.
Mickes: What is the name of the Special Issue that you have planned?
Williams: The name of the Special Issue is “Visual Search in Real World and Applied Contexts”.
Mickes: The name of the Special Issue says a lot about what you’re expecting, but what are your specific plans?
Williams: So the purpose of this Special Issue is to put together a collection of research that helps bridge the gap between your typical laboratory visual search paradigm where you’re searching for t’s amongst l’s and how we find things in the real world.
Mickes: What you’re talking about is in an everyday situation that all of us go through or something more specific like baggage screeners or radiologists who look for tumors in x-ray scans?
Williams: We really envision two sets of papers.
One set would be tasks that are done in the laboratory that helps systematically move us toward a more realistic search environment. So that would be, you know, the everyday example of searching for a recipe ingredient in your pantry.
The other set of papers would be papers that have a specific application in mind and that could be something like baggage screening or radiology as well as website design or any area where a visual search would be a significant component of the task.
Mickes: And when is the deadline for submission?
Williams: The deadline is August 1st [2020].
Mickes: Okay. What’s your advice for authors?
Williams: My advice would be to speak to both the potential application of your work and how this applies to visual search in the real world, but also to speak to the visual cognition aspect of your work.
Williams: You know, what does it tell us about visual attention, visual perception. We’re really looking for use-inspired basic research that can speak to both of those areas of your work.
Mickes: It sounds like it’s going to be a really interesting Special Issue. Yeah, really cool. I’m looking forward to reading it.
Williams: Yeah. I’m excited to see how it turns out.
Mickes: Is there anything else you want to tell us?
Williams: I would just say to make sure that you send us your latest and greatest work on visual search in an applied context. I know it’s an exciting time to be studying visual search because a lot of people are addressing these types of questions and I think this is a nice opportunity to put some of this exciting work together in one place.
Mickes: Okay. Right. Thank you so much for talking to us.
Williams: Yeah, thanks for talking with me.
Concluding statement
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