Associate Professor of Psychology at Rice University
Position:
Con to the question "Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process?"
Reasoning:
"It has clearly been assumed by policy makers and others that DREs would be better than the paper ballots, lever machines, and punch cards they have been replacing. Our results indicate that performance on DREs in terms of efficiency and effectiveness is not better than with more traditional methods, and due to the high rate of postcompletion errors it may actually be notably worse. This finding replicated across all experiments and strongly shows that DREs do not necessarily lead to better voting performance as had been assumed."
Cowritten with Sarah P. Everett, Kristen K. Greene, Dan S. Wallach, Kyle Derr, Daniel Sandler, and Ted Torous, "Electronic Voting Machines versus Traditional Methods:. Improved Preference, Similar Performance," CHI 2008 Proceedings - Measuring, Business, and Voting, Apr. 5-10, 2008
Experts
Election officials, people with post-graduate degrees in a computer or political science, JD's, Members of Congress, or elected officials with significant involvement in, or related to, electronic voting machine issues.
Involvement and Affiliations:
Associate Professor, Psychology, Rice University, 2006 - present
Assistant Professor, Human Factors/Human-Computer Interaction, Rice University, 1999 - 2006
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996 - 1999
Ad-hoc reviewer for the following journals: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, Cognitive Science, Cognition, Psychology and Aging, Human-Computer Interaction, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Memory and Cognition, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Journal of the Learning Sciences
Education:
PhD, Experimental Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996
MS, Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995
MS, Experimental Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993
BS, Engineering, magna cum laude, University of Michigan, 1991
Cowritten with R. M. Stein, G. Vonnahme, D. Wallach, "Voting Technology, Election Administration, and Voter Performance," Election Law Journal, June 2008
Cowritten with P. H. Chung, "Cue Effectiveness in Mitigating Postcompletion Errors in a Routine Procedural Task," International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Apr. 2008
