The Clemson University Center for Workforce Development hosted four NSF-funded students through the Research Experiences for Undergraduate Students (REU) program during summer 2023. They conducted experiments to explore the effect of change blindness on humans with 40 participants. As a part of the experiment, they identified images and changes in the images for a simulation that was used as the intervention to explore the phenomenon. They also designed the experiment by identifying the dependent and independent variables, deciding on the methodology used to conduct the experiment, submitted an IRB application for conducting human subjects research and recruited participants by advertising the study at various locations and online platforms. The REU students analyzed the data using statistical analysis techniques.
Throughout the summer program, the REU students presented their progress on the experiment through weekly presentations to Dr. Chalil Madathil and received feedback on ways to improve. They participated in a poster presentation competition (pictured here), presenting the findings from their experiment and also submitted a research paper summarizing the results.
