2001

2005

Harvan-Chin, J. R., Sims, V. K., Chin, M. G., Ellis, L. U., Zubal, P. J., & Duitsman, V. (October 2005). Does Perceived Control Predict Breastfeeding Behavior. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists, Atlantic Beach, Florida.

Ellis, L. U., Sims, V. K., Chin, M. G., Pepe, A. A., Owens, C. W., Dolezal, M. J., Shumaker, R., & Finkelstein, N. (September 2005). Those A-Maze-ing Robots: Attributions of Ability are Based on Form, not Behavior. Poster presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Orlando, Florida.

Diaz, D. D. & Sims, V. K. (September 2005). Accidental Inversion during Three-Dimensional Orientational Control. Poster presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Orlando, Florida.

Sims, V. K., Chin, M. G., Yordon, R. E., Sushil, D. J. ,Barber, D.J., Owens, C. W., Smith, H. S., Dolezal, M. J., Shumaker, R., & Finkelstein, N. (September 2005). When Function Follows Form: Anthropomorphism of Artifact “Faces” Poster presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Orlando, Florida.

Chin, M. G., Sims, V. K., Ellis, L. U., Yordon, R. E., Clark, B. R., Ballion, T., Dolezal, M. J., Shumaker, R., & Finkelstein, N. (September 2005). Developing and Anthropomorphic Tendencies Scale. Poster presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Orlando, Florida.

Sims, V. K., Chin, M. G., Sushil, D. J. ,Barber, D.J., Ballion, T., Clark, B. R., Garfield, K. A., Dolezal, M. J., Shumaker, R., & Finkelstein, N. (September 2005). Anthropomorphism of Robotic Forms: A Response to Affordances? Poster presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Orlando, Florida.

Samman, S. N., Stanney, & Sims, V. K. (September 2005). Multimodal Working Memory: The Unfolding Story. Poster presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Orlando, Florida.

Ballion, T.T., Sims, V. K., Chin, M.G., Dolezal, M., Clark, B. R., Owens, C. W., Sushil, D. J., Ellis, L. U., Yordon, R. E., Barber, D. J., Kiriwas, A. P., Finkelstein, N., Shumaker, R., & Garfield, K. (August 2005). Anthropomorphism of Robotic Faces. Poster to bepresented at the113th annual meeting of The American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.

Sims, V. K., Chin, M. G., & Yordon, R. E. (July 2005). Sex Roles Predict Recommended Punishments for an Extreme Case of Animal Cruelty. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Anthrozoology, Niagara Falls, New York.

Sims, V. K., Chin, M. G., Sushil, D. J., Ellis, L. U. & Jones, R. (July 2005). Eye Movements When Judging Affect in Cats and Dogs. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Anthrozoology, Niagara Falls, New York.

Chin, M. G., Sims, V. K., Sushil, D. J., Owens, C. W., Yordon, R. E., Ballion, T. T. , Clark, B. R., & Ellis, L. U. (July 2005). Anthropomorphic Tendencies Among Pet Owners and Non-Owners. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Anthrozoology, Niagara Falls, New York.

Pepe, A. A., Ellis, L. U., Chin, M. G., & Sims, V. K., (July 2005). Vocal Interactions with Robotic and Live Dogs. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Anthrozoology, Niagara Falls, New York.

Goff, L. G., Sims, V. K., & Chin, M. G., (July 2005). Preschoolers’ Interactions with Live and Robotic Dogs. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Anthrozoology, Niagara Falls, New York.

Samman, S. N., Stanney, & Sims, V. K. (July 2005). Why Interact Multimodally &Maximizing Information Management Capacity. Paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Sims, V. K., Chin, M. G., & Yordon, R. E. (May 2005). Moral Judgments and Recommended Punishments for an Extreme Case of Animal Cruelty. Poster presented at the 17th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, California.

Sims, V. K., Chin, M. G., Sushil, D. J., & Jones, R. (May 2005). Eye Movements Used When Judging Facial Expression in Humans and Animals. Poster presented at the 17th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, California.

Chin, M. G., Sims, V. K., & Moyer, R. (May 2005). Measuring Attitudes Toward Vegetarianism Among Religious Groups . Poster presented at the 17th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, California.

Ellis, L. U., Pepe, A. A., Sims, V. K., Chin, M. G., & Owens, C. W. (May 2005). Animals and Robots Lead to Differential Attributions for the Same Interaction. Poster presented at the 17th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, California.

2004

Alderson, R. M., Petrac, D. C., and Sims, V. K. (November 2004). The effects of a central executive distracter task on operant responding in an impulsivity/self-control paradigm. Poster presented at the 50th annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavioral Therapy, Boston, Massachusetts.

Sims, V. K., Diaz, D. D., Ellis, L. U., & Sushil, D. (October 2004). When Dogs Fly: The Roles of Context and Stimulus Type in Predicting Non-Amnesic Visual Search. Poster presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Sims, V. K., Chin, M. G., Durrance, L. M., & Johnson, C. I. (October 2004). Mental models of computers as a function of Sex and Perceived Trust. Poster presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Chin, M. G., Sims, V. K., Clark, B, & Rivera Lopez, G. (October 2004). Measuring Individual Differences in Anthropomorphism Toward Machines and Animals. Poster to be presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Ballion, T. T., Sims, V. K., & Van De Car, S. I. (October 2004). Confirmation Bias in Scientific Reasoning: The Roles of Gender, Perceived Competence and Actual Competence. Poster presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Samman, S. N., Stanney, K. M., Dalton, J., Ahmad, A. M., Bowers, C., & Sims, V. K. (October 2004). Multimodal Interaction: Multi-Capacity Processing Beyond 7+/-2. Poster presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Ballion, T. T., Sims, V. K., & Van De Car, S. I. (August 2004). Level of skill and self/peer assessment on a visuo-spatial task. Poster presented at the 112th annual meeting of The American Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Rapport, M. D., Sims, V. K., Scanlan, S., & Denney, C. (May 2004). Attention and Scholastic Achievement in Children: The Mediating Role of Working Memory. Poster presented at the 16th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, Illinois.

Alderson, R. M., Petrac, D. C., Rapport, M. D., Sims, V. K., & Weiss, K. V. (May 2004). Behavioral Inhibition in Laboratory Settings. Poster presented at the 16th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, Illinois.

Johnson, C. I. & Sims, V. K. (May 2004). Interference Pattern Development in a Bilingual Stroop Task. Poster presented at the 16th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, Illinois.

Durrance, L. M., Sims, V. K., & Chin, M. G. (May 2004). Errors in a Bilingual Lexical Decision Task: The Proficieny Factor. Poster presented at the 16th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, Illinois.

Sims, V. K.. Ellis, L. U., & Sushil, D. (March 2004). When Dogs Fly: Ecological Validity Affects Visual Search Efficiency. Poster presented at the 50th annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, Georgia.

Sims, V. K.. Chin, M. G., & Yordon, R. (March 2004). Sex and Farm Experience Predict Views of Animal Cruelty. Poster presented at the 50th annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, Georgia.

Wise, T.N., DiSerafino, N.K. , McGuire, J., & Sims, V. K.. (March 2004). Gender Differences in the Acceptability of Naming Options for Women. Poster presented at the 50th annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, Georgia. This paper won a SEPA/CEPO Student Research Award for Women’s Issues.

Micikevicius, P., Hughes, C. E., Moshell, J. M., Sims, V. K. & Smith, H. (January 2004). Perceptual Evaluation of an Interactive Forest Walk-through, VR Usability Workshop: Designing and Evaluating VR Systems, Nottingham, England.

2003

Oliveros, A., Roddenberry, A., Meehan, C., Sieger, K., Renk, K., & Sims, V. K. (November 2003). Intergenerational comparison of attributions of control. Poster presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavioral Therapy, Boston, Massachusetts.

Meehan, C., Sieger, K., Oliveros, A., Roddenberry, A., Renk, K., & Sims, V. K. (November 2003). An intergenerational examination of perceptions of parents. Poster presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavioral Therapy, Boston, Massachusetts.

Diaz, D. D., Sims, V. K., Hancock, P. A., Smith, H. S., Ellis, L. U., Clark, B., & Sushil, D. (October 2003). Moderating Factors in Visual Search: The Role of Ecological-Validity. Poster presented at the 47th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Denver Colorado.

Sims, V. K., Chin, M. G., Bassion, D., Keifer, A., Munim, D., Patel, T., & Yordon, R. (August 2003). Predicting Justified Punishments for Animal Cruelty and Neglect. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Anthrozoölogy, Canton, Ohio.

Sims, V. K. & Smith, M. (March 2003). Role Play Gaming Expertise and Spatial Memory. Poster presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Chin, M. G., Sims, V. K., Johnson, C. I., & Schademan, E. (March 2003). Sensation Seeking as a Predictor of Attitudes Toward Zoo Animals. Paper presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana. This paper was nominated for a best paper award.

Wise, T. N., DiSerafino, N.K., McGuire, J. M., & Sims, V. K. (March 2003). Gender differences in the acceptability of naming options for women. Paper presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana. This paper won a SEPA/CEPO Student Research Award for Women’s Issues.

Alderson, M., Rapport, M. D., Agliata, D., Timko, T., Sims, V. K., Scagliola, L., & Nott, J. (March 2003). The matching unfamiliar figures test (MUF-T): Age and intelligence effects in children. Poster presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.

2002

Sims, V. K. & Smith, H. S. (September 2002). Assessing Individual Differences in Spatial Strategies. Poster presented at the 46th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Baltimore, MD.

Sims, V. K., Moshell, J. M., Hughes, C. E., Cotton, J. E., & Xiao, J. (September 2002). Recognition of Computer-Generated Trees. Poster presented at the 46th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Baltimore, MD.

Diaz, D.D., Hancock, P.A., & Sims, V.K. (August 2002). The effect of noise stress during search for two identical targets in a realistic visual scene. Poster presented at the 110th annual meeting of The American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Diaz, D.D., Hancock, P.A., & Sims, V.K. (2002). Ecological visual search under noise stress: Present and future research. Presented at the 23rd annual Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL.

Sims, V. K., & Rothschild, E. L. (June 2002). Mental rotation with concurrent physical rotation. Poster presented at the 14th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Chin, M. G., Sims, V. K., Cummings, T., Pearson, W., & Fisak, B. (June 2002). Measuring attitudes toward vegetarians. Poster presented at the 14th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Diaz, D. D., Sims, V. K., & Hancock, P. A. (June 2002). Memory for ecologically-valid objects during visual search for two identical targets. Poster presented at the 14th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Diaz, D. D., Sims, V. K., & Hancock, P. A. (March 2002). Visual search for two identical targets: The role of ecological validity. Poster presented at the annual midyear symposium of APA Division 21, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Weaver, J. L., Sims, V. K., Ganey, H. C., Hancock, P. A., & Bradley, K. (March 2002). The influence of stress and individual differences on subjective time. Poster presented at the annual midyear symposium of APA Division 21, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Sims, V. K., Reeves, T., Chin, M. G., DeVine, T., & Zubal, J. (March 2002). Development of an anthropomorphic tendencies scale. Poster presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Orlando, Florida.

Chin, M. G., Sims, V. K., Cummings, T., Pearson, W., Fisak, B., & Smith, G. ( March 2002). Development of a scale to measure anti-vegetarian attitudes. Poster presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Orlando, Florida.

Schuster, H. & Sims, V. K. ( March 2002). Strategic imagery use in the solution of three-dimensional puzzles. Poster presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Orlando, Florida.

Sims, V. K., Moshell, J. M., Hughes, C. E., Cotton, J. E., & Xiao, J. (October 2001). Salient characteristics of virtual trees. Poster presented at the 45th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Diaz, D. D. & Sims, V. K. (October 2001). The use of a route & survey composite display to increase the efficiency of spatial knowledge acquisition and transfer from a virtual environment. Paper presented at the 45th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Cotton, J. E., Mayes, D. K., Jentsch, F., & Sims, V. K. (October 2001). The relationship between gaming ability and perceived video game characteristics. Poster presented at the 45th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Sims, V. K., Chin, M. G., & Robinson, A. D. (August 2001). Caregiver beliefs about control and punishment of companion animals. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Anthrozoölogy, Davis, California.

Sims, V. K., Chin, M. G., & Torres, C. (August 2001). Verbal Interactions with Zoo Animals. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Anthrozoölogy, Davis, California.

Samman, S. N., Torrez, L. I., Sims, V. K., Bowers, C. A., & Salas, E. (August 2001). Increasing Performance in a Highly Immersive Virtual Environment. Poster presented at the 109th annual meeting of The American Psychological Association, San Francisco, California.

Gerber, T. N., DiSerafino, N. K., & Sims, V. K. (August 2001). The development of the social interaction scale for children. Poster presented at the 109th annual meeting of The American Psychological Association, San Francisco, California.

McGuire, J. M., Sims, V. K., Newlin, M., & Lavooy, M. (March 2001). Ensuring success: Facilitating the undergraduate research experience. Symposium presented at the 47th annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, Georgia.

Gerber, T. N., DiSerafino, N. K., & Sims, V. K. (March 2001). Maternal Similarity of Last Name: Does it Matter?. Paper presented at the 47th annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, Georgia. (Winner of a CEPO Award for outstanding student research).