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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
- 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
- Developing a tool for user studies in augmented reality
Finished
- 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
2018
(2018) Descriptive compound identifier names improve source code comprehension, International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)
(2018) Smartphone-Based Estimation Of A User Being In Company Or Alone Based On Place, Time, And Activity, Proceedings of the 2018 EAI 9th International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services (MobiCASE), doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90740-6_5
2017
(2017) LifeTact - Utilizing Smartwatches as Tactile Heartbeat Displays in Video Games, 16th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2017), pdf, doi:10.1145/3152832.3152863
(2017) [POSTER] The Impact of the Frame of Reference on Attention Shifts Between Augmented Reality and Real-World Environment, 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR-Adjunct), p. 25-30, Nantes, France: IEEE, url, doi:10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct.2017.24
(2017) Participatory Sensing or Participatory Nonsense? — Mitigating the Effect of Human Error on Data Quality in Citizen Science, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) 1(3), pdf, doi:10.1145/3131900
(2017) Lessons from Failures in Designing and Conducting Experimental Studies – a Brief Anecdotal Tutorial, Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, pdf, doi:10.1145/3123024.3124392
2016
(2016) A wearable system for mood assessment considering smartphone features and data from mobile ECGs, Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Adjunct - UbiComp '16, p. 1153-1161, url, doi:10.1145/2968219.2968302
(2016) Smartphone-Based Detection of Location Changes Using WiFi Data, Proceedings of the 2016 EAI 6th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (Mobihealth)
(2016) Preliminary investigations about interruptibility of smartphone users at specific place types, Adjunct Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, p. 1590-1595, doi:10.1145/2968219.2968554
(2016) EstaVis: A Real-World Interactive Platform for Crowdsourced Visual Urban Analytics, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on IoT in Urban Space - Urb-IoT'16, Best Paper Nominee, url
2015
(2015) ESMAC: A Web-Based Configurator for Context-Aware Experience Sampling Apps in Ambulatory Assessment, Proceedings of the 2015 EAI 5th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (Mobihealth), Best Paper Award, doi:10.4108/eai.14-10-2015.2261679
(2015) Leveraging Smartwatches for Unobtrusive Mobile Ambulatory Mood Assessment, Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, doi:10.1145/2800835.2800960
(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