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Cognitive/Developmental Faculty


Dr. Neil Charness

Carnegie-Mellon University, 1974

The William G. Chase Professor of Psychology

Office

B428 PDB

Phone Number

(850) 644-6686

Email

Laboratory

A410 PDB

Web page

http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~charness

Research Interest

Human factors approaches to understanding aging and technology use; development and maintenance of expertise across the life-span; sign perception and comprehension by aging pedestrians and drivers; understanding individual and environmental determinants of work performance.


Current Research

1) Age and Human Factors in Technology Use
www.create-center.org. The CREATE II project is part of a Program Project grant funded by NIA.

2) Intersection and Pedestrian Safety Research
This project is funded by Florida Department of Transportation, Elder Road User Program.


Selected Publications

Charness, N. & Boot, W. R. (2009). Aging and Information Technology Use: Potential and Barriers. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 253-258.

Charness, N. (2009). Skill acquisition in older adults: Psychological mechanisms. In S. J. Czaja & J. Sharit (Eds.). Aging and work: Issues and implications in a changing landscape (pp. 232-258). Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Fisk, A. D., Rogers, W. A., Charness, N., Czaja, S. J., & Sharit, J. (2009). Designing for older adults: Principles and creative human factors approaches (2nd Ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press.

Fox, M. C., & Charness, N. (2010). How to gain eleven IQ points in ten minutes: Thinking aloud improves Raven’s Matrices performance in older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, 17, 191-204.