Haden Dewis
hadendewis.bsky.social
Haden Dewis
@hadendewis.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of Southampton, UK — researching cognitive psychology, specifically interactive search — or more colloquially, how people search for things using their hands and eyes 👋🏼👀
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We have a paper out at Behavior Research Methods. Led by Hayward Godwin, it examines sharing practices (using visual search as a case study) and makes recs for sharing data outputs in a manner that will enable others to better find, access, and understand them. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
August 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Ever fumbled through your bag for your keys? That’s an interactive search: moving objects to uncover obscured visual information.

In a new paper from our lab, we asked: What determines where people choose to look first in these tasks?

Spoiler: effort matters.

🔗 doi.org/10.3758/s134...
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Easy does it: Selection during interactive search tasks is biased towards objects that can be examined easily - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
It is well understood that attentional selection is required to deploy visual attention to relevant objects within displays during visual search tasks. Interactive search, an extension of visual searc...
doi.org
August 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM