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Professional Experience

Disney Media & Advertising Lab
Research Fellow		 September 2010 – present
I design, implement, analyze, and report studies for major network clients including ESPN and ABC.  Common research questions include user experience and ad effectiveness on web, mobile, TV, and interactive TV platforms, with some generative and ethnographic research questions as well.  I’ve employed a variety of research methods including questionnaires (post-task & post-test), response time/implicit association measures, eye tracking, task/performance metrics, think-aloud, free response, and focus groups.

 
Center for Perceptual Systems, University of Texas at Austin
Graduate Research Assistant		 February 2005 – July 2010
I managed a five-year research project investigating aspects of perception, memory, attention, and information organization.  I designed and programmed 80+ experiments, recruited and tested hundreds of participants, and analyzed their data.  The outcome was a reliable behavioral test that can be used to objectively show where people perceive natural breaks in information flow.  Additional projects focused on reaction time, object perception, trackball movement, and visual search.

 
Psychology Department, University of Texas at Austin
Graduate Teaching Assistant		 September 2005 - May 2010
I presented topics in cognition, perception, motivation, and research methods to undergraduates.  I also administered classroom policy and evaluated performance.

 
Learning Ally (formerly Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic)
Recording Director (Volunteer)		 Summer 1998 – 2008
Learning Ally is a nonprofit organization that converts textbooks into auditory formats for users with visual and learning impairments. I operated recording equipment, directed readers, and evaluated verbal descriptions of visual information.

Education

University of Texas at Austin

Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology August, 2010
B.S., Psychology (With highest honors) August, 2005
B.A., Special honors in Plan II interdisciplinary honors program, second major French (With highest honors; Phi Beta Kappa) May, 2005

Skills

Research methods: Psychological techniques, eye tracking, response time/implicit measures, brand/advertising research, ethnographic research, generative research

Usability/user experience testing: Comparative testing, performance metrics, questionnaires, think-aloud, free response, heuristic evaluations, continuous experience ratings, playtesting

Data analysis: Statistical analysis (traditional and resampling-based), coding and abstraction of qualitative data

Participant interaction: Session moderation, focus groups, test administration

Study management: Study design/planning, project management, multitasking, client meetings, oral & written reporting

Specialized Knowledge

Cognition: Attention, memory, categorization, decision-making, language, learning, priming, visual search, ecological considerations

Perception: Visual, auditory, speech, temporal

Software & programming languages: MATLAB, SPSS, Tobii Studio, Studiocode, BIOPAC AcqKnowledge, DirectRT, SuperLab, Qualtrics, Pro Tools

Hardware: Tobii T60 Eye Tracker, Mirametrix S1 Eye Tracker, BIOPAC TSD 190 Haptic Stimulation Transducer, video/audio capture equipment, real-time response hardware, limited experience with psychophysiological measurement tools (electrodermal activity, heart rate)

Publications

Shin, M., An, S.-K., & Paine, L. (2012). Real-time ratings of emotive stimuli. Manuscript in preparation.

Paine, L., & Gilden, D. (2012). Construction of a meter for the detection of boundaries in event perception. Manuscript under review.

An, S.-K., & Paine, L. (2012). Character credibility enhances educative effects of entertaining television drama. Manuscript under review.

An, S.-K., Paine, L., Rask, A., McNiel, N., Holder, J., & Varan, D. (2012). The positive influence of television on attitudes toward Deaf culture. Manuscript under revision.

Paine, L. (2010). Modulation of Implicit Memory in Temporal Grouping. (Doctoral dissertation).  ProQuest digital dissertations. (Accession Order No. AAT 3429009)

Professional Organizations

Usability Professionals’ Association (Austin UPA Treasurer, 2011; Vice-President, 2012)

Interaction Design Association (IxDA)

ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI)