Human Factors/Applied Cognition Concentration

PhD in Psychology

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Daniela Barragan, 2020

Daniela Barragan

Human Factors and Applied Cognition

Daniela received a B.A. in Psychology from California State University, Fullerton and an M.A. in Human Factors & Applied Cognition from George Mason University. She spent her first four years in the doctoral program working with Dr. Carryl Baldwin in the Auditory Research Group and the Mason Transportation Institute. Currently, Daniela is a doctoral student working with Dr. Yi-Ching Lee in the Health Behaviors Lab. Her general research interests include driver inattention, mental workload, perception, and mind wandering.

Daniela is the president of the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Student Group, the webmaster for the Human Factors website, a peer reviewer for the Journal of Mason Graduate Research and the Journal of Behavioral Health, and a member of GMU Psi Chi. She also serves on the OSCAR Student Scholarly Activities Committee and on the advisory board for the Journal of Behavioral Health.

Publications

Baldwin, C. L., Roberts, D. M., Barragan, D., Lee, J. D., Lerner, N., & Higgins, J. S. (2017). Detecting and quantifying mind wandering during simulated driving. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00406

Robinson, E., Lerner, N., Singer, J., Barragan, D., Kulbicki, K., Kline, J., & Kellman, D. (2017). Travel Time Displays at Freeway Entrance Approaches. (Tech. Report FHWA-HRT-16-059). Washington, DC: Federal Highway Administration.

Barragan, D., Roberts, D. M., & Baldwin, C. L. (2016). Validation of the attention-related driving errors scale (ARDES) in an English-speaking sample. Human Factors, 58(8), 1262-1274.

Foroughi, C. K., Werner, N. E., Barragan, D., & Boehm-Davis, D. A. (2016). Multiple interpretations of long-term working memory theory: Reply to Delaney and Ericsson (2016). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(10), 1410-1411.

Foroughi, C. K., Barragan, D., & Boehm-Davis, D. A. (2016). Interrupted reading and working memory capacity. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 5(4), 395–400.

Robinson, E., Barragan, D., Dembowski, D., Szymkowski, T., Miller, S., Golembiewski, G., & Ferezan, S. (2015). Human Factors Guidelines for Transportation Management Centers (TMCs). (Tech. Report). Washington, DC: Federal Highway Administration.

Rog, D., Robinson, E., Barragan, D., & Nelson, J. (2015). Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area Evaluation Findings. (Tech. Report). Washington, DC: United States National Park Service.

Foroughi, C. K., Werner, N. E., Barragan, D., & Boehm-Davis, D. A. (2015). Interruptions disrupt reading comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(3), 704-709.

Proceedings and Presentations

Barragan, D., & Lee, Y.-C. (2018). Pre-crash driving behaviour of individuals with and without ADHD. In Proceedings of Driver Distraction and Inattention.

Alsaid, A., Lee, J., Roberts, D., Barragan, D., & Baldwin, C. (2018). Looking at mind wandering during driving through the windows of PCA and t-SNE. In Proceedings of Human Factors.

Barragan, D., Roberts, D. M., Chong, S. D., & Baldwin, C. L. (2017). Comparing methods of detecting mind wandering while driving. In Proceedings of the 9th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training and Vehicle Design.

Barragan, D. (2017). Detecting the wandering mind during simulated driving.  Presentation at the George Mason University Human Factors and Applied Cognition Brown Bag, Fairfax, VA.

Barragan, D., Roberts, D. M., Chong, S. D., & Baldwin, C. L. (2016). Exploring mind wandering while driving. In Proceedings of the 60th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting.

Barragan, D., Monfort, S. S., Kelly, S. P., & Christian, M. (2016). Ergonomic risk factor assessment and mitigation for employees at a university gym. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Occupational Ergonomics and Safety Conference. 

Roberts, D. M., Barragan, D., Chong, S. D., & Baldwin, C. L. (2016). ECG, pupillometry, and eye gaze measures of mindwandering across tasks. In Proceedings of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting.

Barragan, D., Roberts, D. M., & Baldwin, C. L. (2016). English validation of the attention-related driving errors scale (ARDES) and its correlates. In Proceedings of 2nd Edition International Symposium on Somnolence, Vigilance, and Safety.

Roberts, D. M., Barragan, D., Tweedie, D. W., Cantwell, J., Lipshie, N., & Baldwin, C. L. (2016). Indices of internal distractions during simulated driving and the sustained attention to response task. In Proceedings of 2nd Edition International Symposium on Somnolence, Vigilance, and Safety.

Foroughi, C. K., Wren, W. C., Barragan, D., Mead, P., & Boehm-Davis, D. A. (2015). Assessing mental rotation ability in a virtual environment with an Oculus Rift. In Proceedings of the 59th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. 

Garcia, A., Barragan, D., Tanangco, E., Roberts, D., & Baldwin, C. (2014). Auditory-spatial executive function across spatial frames of reference. Poster presented at the 58th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting.