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2021 – Present Publications & Proceedings

2025:

Brodsky, Y, S. & Sims, V.K. (2025). Individual Differences in Religiosity Affect Perceptions of AI. Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Religious Research Association. Minneapolis, MN.

Haberlin, S., Gill, M., Sims, V.K., *Mitchell, M., *Koch, M., & *Grillo, C. (2025). Studying the Impact of Neurofeedback Guided Meditation on Undergraduates’ Perceived Stress. American Educational Research Association.

2023:

Sobel, B. M. & Sims, V. K. (2023). Using the Frith-Happé animations to compare attributions of mental qualities in nonhuman agents. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023.2166053

2022:

Schmidt, K. M., & Sims, V. K. (2022). Creating a virtual dog simulation to examine perceived control. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 66(1), 1008–1012. https://doi.org/10.1177/1071181322661444

Sobel, B. M. & Sims, V. K. (2022). Investigation of the Joint Simon Effect with Human, Robot, and Computer Interface Task Partners: A Pilot Study. Proceedings from the International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 66(1), 793-797. https://doi.org/10.1177/107118132266138  

Sobel, B. M. & Sims, V. K. (2022). Anthropomorphic Perceptions of Simple Text-Based Interface. In: Kurosu, M. (ed) Human Computer Interaction. User Experience and Behavior. HCII 2022, Part III. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 13304, 233-242. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05412-9_17  

Recent News

PhD student Kristen Schmidt was accepted to the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) as a summer intern working at the Naval Air Warfare Center – Training Systems Division (NAWC-TSD).

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PhD candidate Briana Sobel was awarded a $10,000 scholarship from the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC).

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PhD student Kristen Schmidt was elected President of the UCF Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) Student Chapter.

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