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Department of Psychology
Texas Tech University
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Patricia R. DeLucia

Professor, Department of Psychology; Coordinator of the Human Factors Psychology Program (see link below to HF Program); Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing.
Ph.D., 1989, Columbia University; National Research Council postdoctoral associateship, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, 1989-1991
Contact:Phone :(806) 742-3711 x259
Fax: (806) 742-0818
Email: pat.delucia@ttu.edu
Web site: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/psy/graduate/experimental/humanfactors/humanfactors.php
Professional  
service:		Editorial Board, Human Factors; Editorial Board, JEP: Applied; Chair of Education & Training Committee, HFES
Awards and  
honors:		Appointed to the Policy Study Committee on Safety Belt Technology for the Transportation Research Board, National Research Council of the National Academy of Science.
Research  
support:		(1) Visual Memory for Moving Scenes and Implications for Transportation Safety; Advanced Research Program of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (2) Information Integration in Judgments of Temporal Range; NASA-Ames Research Center (3) Perceptual Judgments about Collision and Implications for Transportation Safety; Advanced Research Program of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Research  
interests:		My research program focuses on theoretical and applied issues in visual perception and human factors. My primary interests include the perception of collision, motion, and depth; patient safety, performance in nursing. Human-factors applications include transportation safety (driving and aviation), virtual reality, night vision goggles, sport, and human factors in medicine (minimally-invasive surgery; patient safety; performance in nursing)
Selected  
research:
  • Palmieri, P. A., DeLucia, P. R., Peterson, L. T., Ott, T. E., & Green, A. (in press). The anatomy and physiology of error in adverse healthcare events. In G. T. Savage & E. Ford, Advances in Health Care Management (Volume 7: Patient Safety and Health Care Management).: .
  • DeLucia, P. R. (in press). Critical roles for distance, task, and motion in space perception: Initial conceptual framework and practical implications. Human Factors.
  • DeLucia, P. R., & Mather, R. D. (2006). Motion extrapolation of car-following scenes in younger and older drivers.. Human Factors, 48, 666-674.
  • DeLucia, P. R., & Maldia, M. M. (2006). Visual memory for moving scenes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: A, 59, 340-360.
  • DeLucia, P. R., Mather, R. D., Griswold, J. A., & Mitra, S. (2006). Toward the improvement of image-guided interventions for minimally-invasive surgery: Three factors that affect performance. Human Factors, 48, 23-38.
  • DeLucia, P. R. (2005). Does binocular disparity or familiar size override effects of relative size on judgments of time to contact?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: A., 58A, 865-886.
  • DeLucia, P. R. (2004). Multiple sources of information influence time-to-contact judgments: Do heuristics accommodate limits in sensory and cognitive processes?. In H. Hecht & G. J. P. Savelsburgh (Eds.), Advances in psychology: Vol. 135. Time-to-Contact (243-286).Amsterdam: Elsevier-North-Holland..
  • DeLucia, P. R. (2004). Time-to-contact judgments of an approaching object that is partially concealed by an occluder. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30, 287-304.
  • DeLucia, P. R., Kaiser, M. K., Bush, J. M., Meyer, L. E., & Sweet, B. T. (2003). Information integration in judgments about time to contact. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57A, 1165-1189.
  • DeLucia, P. R., Bleckley, M. K., Meyer, L. E., Bush, J. M. (2003). Judgments about collision in younger and older drivers. Transportation Research: Part F, 6, 63-80.
    • Teaching interests  
    and activities:    		(1) Human Factors Psychology (2) Seminar in Perception: Theories and Applications (3) Research Methods. I especially enjoy mentoring graduate students in research and collaborating with them on publications.
    Applied interests  
    and activities:    		Collision avoidance, transportation safety, patient safety, patient wait time and satisfaction, performance in nursing, minimally-invasive surgery, night vision goggles, sport.
    Student research  
    projects:    		Graduates placed in Human Factors positions: (1) Jennifer Blume, Ph.D., 1997, National Space Biomedical Research Institute, NASA-JSC, Houston, TX; (2) Gregory W. Liddell, Ph. D., 1997, Human Interfaces, Austin, TX; (3) Les E. Meyer, Ph.D., 2001, State Farm, Bloomington, Illinois