Matthew Stainer

PhD Student
Active Vision Lab

Contact Details:
Email: Matthew Stainer
Telephone No: (+44)(1382) 384926

Postal Address:
School of Psychology
The University of Dundee
Dundee
DD1 4HN
Scotland, UK

Research Interests

My main current area of research and topic of my thesis is into how people allocate their attention across multiple scenes. This project is supervised by Dr Ben Tatler, with Dr Kenneth Scott-Brown as an external advisor. We hope to apply psychological theories of attention, eye movements and cognitive load to complex tasks carried out on the multiplex such as CCTV operation. We are currently working with Tayside Police gathering real-world eye movement data from CCTV operators during shifts in live control-rooms. Using lab based experimental approaches; we are also to examine the task in a controlled setting, both with expert and novice participants.

I am also interested in change blindness; in particular what makes some people more susceptible to changes than others, and what effect change blindness/inattentional blindness has on our day-to-day lives.

Biography

My undergraduate degree was in Forensic Psychobiology at the University of Abertay. My dissertation was examining change detection ability across multiple simultaneously presented scenes, supervised by Dr Kenneth Scott-Brown. After completing my degree I worked as a Research Assistant in the Clinical Psychology Department for Prof. Bill Lindsay on a project examining reoffending in learning disabled offenders, and a project looking at the cognitive distortions of learning disabled sex offenders. I then took a position as a Teaching Assistant at Abertay, teaching third year Research Methods in Psychology. I joined Dundee in September 2009 as a PhD student/demonstrator.

Conference Presentations

Stainer, M. J. (2008). Performance in change detection tasks with increasing numbers of visual displays. Paper presented at the Annual BPS Scottish Undergraduate Conference, Dudhope Castle, Dundee. 12th of March 2008

Stainer, M. J., Cronin, P. D. J., & Scott-Brown, K. C. (2008). To CCTV or not to see TV? Change detection performance across multiple-screen displays. Paper presented at the Annual meeting of Scottish Institute for Policing Research. Murrayfield, Edinburgh. 2nd of September 2008.

Stainer, M. J., Tatler, B. W., & Scott-Brown, K. C. (2011). Expertise in CCTV Control Room operation as revealed by eye movements. Paper presented at EPS Workshop ‘Expertise as revealed by oculomotor behaviour’, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth. 12th of April 2011.

Stainer, M. J., Tatler, B. W., & Scott-Brown, K. C. (2011). Evaluating and developing expertise in the CCTV Control. Paper presented at Royal United Services for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) Science and Technology Conference, Whitehall, London. 3rd of June 2011.

Stainer, M. J., Tatler, B. W., & Scott-Brown, K. C. (2011). Viewing multiplex displays: effects of continuity of content and spatial contiguity on fixation selection. Paper presented at European Conference of Eye Movements (ECEM 2011), University of Provence, Marseille. 3rd of June 2011.