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Somos un grupo universitario de I+D+i y, por eso, hay dos vertientes en nuestro trabajo:

1. Aplicamos los conocimientos de la Ergonomía Cognitiva y los Factores
Humanos a la solución de los problemas reales en la industria y la
Sociedad

2. Hacemos investigación básica sobre los problemas que nos encontramos en
nuestro trabajo en la industria y la Sociedad

Di Stasi, L.L, Antolí, A., and Cañas J.J. (2011). Main sequence: An index for detecting mental workload variation in complex tasks. Applied Ergonomics, doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2011.01.003

Di Stasi, L.L., Antolí, A., Gea, M., and Cañas J.J. (2011). A neuroergonomic approach to evaluating mental workload in hypermedia interactions. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, doi:10.1016/j.ergon.2011.02.00

Di Stasi, L.L., Contreras, D., Cándido, A., Cañas, J.J., and Catena, A. (2011). Behavioral and eye-movement measures to track improvements in driving skills of vulnerable road users: First-time motorcycle riders. Transportation Research Part F 14, 26-35.

Di Stasi, L.L., Contreras, D., Cañas, J.J. Cándido, A., Maldonado, A., and Catena, A. (2011). The consequences of unexpected emotional sounds on driving behaviour in risky situations. Safety Science, doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2010.07.006

Di Stasi, L.L., Marchitto, M., Antolí, A., Baccino, T. and Cañas, J.J. (2010). Approximation of on-line mental workload index in ATC simulated multitasks. Journal of Air Transport Management. DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2010.02.004

Di Stasi, L.L., Renner, R., Staehr, P., Helmert, J.R., Velichkovsky, B.M., Cañas, J.J., Catena, A. and Pannasch, S. (2010). Saccadic peak velocity is sensitive to variations in mental workload while driving in a virtual environment. Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine 81, 413-417

Fajardo, I., Parra, E., and Canas, J.J. (2010) Do Sign Language Videos Improve Web Navigation For Deaf Signers? Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. DOI:

Casucci, M., Marchitto, M., Cacciabue, P.C., (2010). A numerical tool for reproducing driver behaviour: Experiments and predictive simulations. Applied Ergonomics 41, 198-210.

Di Stasi, L.L., Alvarez, V., Cañas, J.J., Maldonado, A., Catena, A., Antolí, A. and Candido, A. (2009). Risk Behaviour and mental workload: multimodal assessment techniques applied to motorbike riding simulation. Transportation Research: Part F (12), 361-370.

Salmerón, L, Baccino, T, Cañas, J.J., Madrid, R.I, Fajardo, I. (2009). Do graphical overviews facilitate or hinder comprehension in hypertext? Computer & Education, 53, 1308-1319.

Fajardo, I., Cañas, J.J., Salmerón, L., and Abascal, J. (2009). Information structure and practice as facilitators of deaf users’ navigation in textual websites. Behavior and Information Technology, 28, 87-97

Cañas, J.J. (2008). Cognitive ergonomics in interface development evaluation. Journal of Universal Computing Science 14, 2630-2649.

Cañas, J.J., Fajardo, I., and Salmerón, L. (2007). Cognitive Flexibility. Internacional Enciclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors, 2nd Edition

León, J.A, Olmos, R., Escudero, I., Cañas, J.J., and Salmerón. L. (2006). Assessing Short Summaries With Human Judgments Procedure and Latent Semantic Analysis in narrative and expository texts. Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation 38, 616-627

Fajardo, I, Cañas, JJ, Salmerón, L. and Abascal, J. (2006). Improving deaf users’ accessibility in hypertext information retrieval: Are graphical interfaces useful for them? Behaviour and Information Technology, 25, 455-467.

Ojel-Jaramillo, J.M., and Cañas, J.J. (2006). Enhancing the Usability of Telecare Devices. Human technology, 2, 103-118.

Salmerón, L., Kintsch, W., and Cañas, J.J. (2006). Coherence or interest as basis for improving hypertext comprehension. Information design journal 14, 45-55.

Salmerón, L. Kintsch, W., and Cañas, J.J. (2006). Reading strategies and prior knowledge in learning from hypertext. Memory and Cognition, 34, 1157-1171.

Cañas. J.J. (2006). Technology for specials needs. Human Technology 2, 4-7

Di Stasi L.L., and Gamberini L. (2006). A study on volumetric amodal completion in non-immersive virtual environments. Italian Journal of Psychology (3), 635-647.

Antolí, A., Cañas, J.J., Fajardo, I., and Salmerón, L. (2005). Cognitive flexibility of the strategies in dynamic complex problem solving tasks. Effects of different types of training. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science 6, 95-108.