Collaborate with Us
Under the leadership of Dr. David Schuster, the VECTR Lab conducts research on human cognition and performance in complex, safety critical domains such as cybersecurity, healthcare, and aviation.
For Students
Please visit vectrlab.net/join.
In order to better serve SJSU students, I cannot mentor high school students or volunteers who have already graduated (postbacc) through the lab.
Capabilities
The VECTR Lab is housed in the Department of Psychology at San José State University. Our physical facilities include research work space and human-subjects research facilities. In a typical semester, the lab serves aproximately 20 undergraduate and graduate students. Our capabilities include:
- Research design, theory development, and analysis
- Ability to stand-up teams to quickly conduct literature reviews and prepare annotated bibliographies
- Extensive and well-curated reference library covering situation awareness, automation, decision making, and more
- Mixed methods fluency, incorporating both quantatitve statistical analyses and open-ended qualitative research
- Lab-wide use of R and SPSS for univariate and multivariate statistical analyses
- Data collection
- 100% remote-ready data collection
- IRB-compliant electronic data collection using Qualtrics
- Undergraduate research participation through the psychology department pool
- Generalizable protocol for knowledge elicitation research using concept mapping
- Proposal writing and project management
- Location
