Dr. Tracy Mitzner

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Affiliations and Professional Positions

• Incoming Editor Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

• American Psychological Association (Fellow)

  • Past President of Division 21 (Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology)

• American Psychological Society

• American Telemedicine Association

• Association for Computing Machinery (SIGCHI)

• Gerontological Society of America

• Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

  • President (2004-2005)

  • Faculty Advisor - Georgia Tech HFES Student Chapter

• Psychonomic Society

• Sigma Xi

• Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology

Frequently Taught Courses

• PSYC 1101 – General Psychology

• PSYC 7104 – Psychomotor and Cognitive Skill Learning & Performance

• PSYC 7020 – Survey of Cognitive Aging

• Graduate Seminars: Training & Aging; Skill Acquisition; Applied Cognitive Psychology

Contact Information

• Office Location : 228 Psychology

• Phone Number : 404-894-6775

• Fax:  404-894-8905

• E-mail:  wendy@gatech.edu

Selected Publications

McLaughlin, A. C., Rogers, W. A., Sierra, E., & Fisk, A. D. (in press).  Optimizing instruction-following behavior.  Learning, Media, & Technology.

Stronge, A. J., Nichols, T. A., Rogers, W. A., & Fisk, A. D. (in press).  Systematic human factors evaluation of a teledermatology system within the U.S. military.  Telemedicine and e-Health 

Rogers, W. A., Essa, I., & Fisk, A. D. (in press).  Designing a technology coach.  Ergonomics in Design.

Hickman, J. M., Rogers, W. A., & Fisk, A. D. (2007).  Training older adults to use new technology.  Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 62B, 77-84.

Rogers, W. A., & Fisk, A. D. (2006).  Cognitive support for elders through technology.  Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging, 30(2), 38-43.

Sanchez, J., Bowles, C. T., Rogers, W. A., & Fisk, A. D. (2006).  Human factors goes to the golf course:  Knowledge engineering of commercial mowing.  Ergonomics in Design, 14, 17-23.

Stronge, A. J., Rogers, W. A., & Fisk, A. D. (2006).  Web-based information search and retrieval Effects of strategy use and age on search success.  Human Factors, 48, 443-446.

Mitzner, T. L., & Rogers, W. A. (2006).  Reading in the dark: Effects of age and contrast on reading speed and comprehension.  Human Factors, 48, 229-240.

Melenhorst, A. S., Rogers, W. A., & Bouwhuis, D. G. (2006).  Older adults’ motivated choice for technological innovation: Evidence for benefit-driven selectivity.  Psychology and Aging, 21, 190-195. 

Czaja, S. J., Charness, N., Fisk, A. D., Hertzog, C., Nair, S. N., Rogers, W. A., & Sharit, J. (2006).  Factors predicting the use of technology: Findings from the Center for Research and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement (CREATE).  Psychology and Aging, 21, 333-352.  

Pak, R., Rogers, W. A., & Fisk, A. D. (2006).  Spatial ability sub-factors and their influences on a computer-based information search task.  Human Factors,48, 154-165.