Judith A Effken
Biographic Data
| ID | 191768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith A Effken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith A |
| FAMILY NAME | Effken |
| SIGNATURE | EFFKEN J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8536-6831 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ecological Optics as the Conceptual Basis for the Interpersonal Self and Social Interaction
Agency, the ability to negotiate one’s surroundings to bring about changes, is the defining feature of animacy. Because agency is embodied in each individual’s self, inquiry into agency is necessarily an inquiry into selfhood. William James divided selfhood into the self as “I” and the self as “me” with the I self being, in essence, an active agent responsible for thoughts and actions. In Gibson’s ecological paradigm, self plays a central role, b…
Exploring the stability of communication network metrics in a dynamic nursing context
Network stability is of increasing interest to researchers as they try to understand the dynamic processes by which social networks form and evolve. Because hospital patient care units (PCUs) need flexibility to adapt to environmental changes (Vardaman, Cornell, & Clancy, 2012), their networks are unlikely to be uniformly stable and will evolve over time. This study aimed to identify a metric (or set of metrics) sufficiently stable to apply to PC…
Differences in Transitional Care Provided to Mexican American and Non-Hispanic White Older Adults
Background:Transitional care, assisting patients to move safely through multiple health care settings, may be insufficient for older Hispanic patients. Purpose: Describe home health care services referral rates for Hispanic and non-Hispanic White (NHW) patients and factors that influence case managers’ (CMs’) discharge planning processes. Design: Organized by the Ethno-Cultural Gerontological Nursing Model, health records were reviewed ( n = 33,5…
Paintings as Architectural Space: “Guided Tours” by Cézanne and Hokusai
In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of 2 painters' (Cézanne and Hokusai) efforts to enhance active participatory perception (Gibson, 1966 Gibson, J. J. 1966. The senses considered as perceptual systems, Boston: Houghton Mifflin. [Google Scholar], 1979/1986 Gibson, J. J. 1986. The ecological approach to visual perception, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. (Original work published 1979) [Google Scholar]) in their landscape work. As exemplars, we…
Improving Clinical Decision Making Through Ecological Interfaces
Robert E. Shaw's Intentional Dynamics Laboratory was the impetus for considerable applied research that both stimulated and tested Shaw's developing theory. In this article, the author describes the work she and Shaw did together on clinical display design, using this project as a vehicle through which readers may gain a sense of what those who worked in Shaw's laboratory experienced. The article begins with an introduction to the patient safety …
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Science of the Future
The central goal of ecological psychology is to develop a theory of how humans cope successfully with everyday tasks such as navigating safely through the environment. Achieving this seemingly simple goal has proved to be exceedingly difficult. The authors suggest that one of the reasons for the difficulty comes from a perhaps surprising source: the tension between two radically different ways of knowing, artistic (aesthetic) and scientific (empi…
Learning as Progressive Biasing of a Random Walk Process: Toward an Ecological Theory of Exploratory Learning
J. J. Gibson initially developed his theory of the perceptual control of action with an eye toward the perceptual control of locomotion. Subsequently, his theory has been generalized to many other tasks. Recent research has shown the importance of perceptual control skills in computer-based cognitive tasks. These results suggest that the problem of computer-interface design may be not only challenging in its own right but also theoretically promi…
Optical Specification of Time-to-Contact for a Spectator
In the article, we provide an account of the informational basis underlying judgments of time-to-contract (TTC) under the conditions examined in Kim, Effken, and Carello (1998), in which observers watched collisions between 2 objects from various vantage points, over varying collision paths, and with additional observer movement. First, we examine the informational candidates proposed by Bootsma and his colleagues (e.g., Bootsma & Oudejans, 1993)…
Perceiving the Severity of Contacts Between Two Objects
The tau-dot hypothesis states that when tau-dot greater than or equal to -0.5, impact will be soft; when tau-dot < -0.5, impact will be "hard." Four experiments tested the usefulness of tau-dot for observers of collisions between 2 objects (rather than collisions between the observer and an object). Observers watched collisions depicted on a computer as 1 object approaching another. Results conformed to the tau-dot hypothesis and were consistent …
Perceiving Persistence Under Change and Over Structure
We explored the hypothesis that to perceive an event is to detect an invariant specific to the style of change and an invariant specific to the object undergoing the style of change-the reciprocal invariants of transformation and structure, respectively. Events were defined by seven geometric transformations that produced a variety of styles of change over different objects. In Experiment 1, we examined the generative and abstract aspects of tran…
Heideggerian Meditations on an Alternative Ontology for Ecological Psychology: A Response to Turvey's (1992) Proposal
In his last book, Gibson (1979/1986) clearly described crucial elements for an ontology for ecological psychology, but left his overarching ontology implicit and incomplete. As a partial remedy, Turvey (1992) presented a compact, well- packaged outline of an ontology for ecological psychology derived in part from the work of Bunge. In appreciation of Turvey's pioneering and thought-provoking attack on this difficult issue, we offer our own reflec…
Ecological Perspectives on the New Artificial Intelligence
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Ecological Perspectives on the New Artificial Intelligence
Heideggerian Meditations on an Alternative Ontology for Ecological Psychology: A Response to Turvey's (1992) Proposal
In his last book, Gibson (1979/1986) clearly described crucial elements for an ontology for ecological psychology, but left his overarching ontology implicit and incomplete. As a partial remedy, Turvey (1992) presented a compact, well- packaged outline of an ontology for ecological psychology derived in part from the work of Bunge. In appreciation of Turvey's pioneering and thought-provoking attack on this difficult issue, we offer our own reflec…
Perceiving Persistence Under Change and Over Structure
We explored the hypothesis that to perceive an event is to detect an invariant specific to the style of change and an invariant specific to the object undergoing the style of change-the reciprocal invariants of transformation and structure, respectively. Events were defined by seven geometric transformations that produced a variety of styles of change over different objects. In Experiment 1, we examined the generative and abstract aspects of tran…
Optical Specification of Time-to-Contact for a Spectator
In the article, we provide an account of the informational basis underlying judgments of time-to-contract (TTC) under the conditions examined in Kim, Effken, and Carello (1998), in which observers watched collisions between 2 objects from various vantage points, over varying collision paths, and with additional observer movement. First, we examine the informational candidates proposed by Bootsma and his colleagues (e.g., Bootsma & Oudejans, 1993)…
Perceiving the Severity of Contacts Between Two Objects
The tau-dot hypothesis states that when tau-dot greater than or equal to -0.5, impact will be soft; when tau-dot < -0.5, impact will be "hard." Four experiments tested the usefulness of tau-dot for observers of collisions between 2 objects (rather than collisions between the observer and an object). Observers watched collisions depicted on a computer as 1 object approaching another. Results conformed to the tau-dot hypothesis and were consistent …
Learning as Progressive Biasing of a Random Walk Process: Toward an Ecological Theory of Exploratory Learning
J. J. Gibson initially developed his theory of the perceptual control of action with an eye toward the perceptual control of locomotion. Subsequently, his theory has been generalized to many other tasks. Recent research has shown the importance of perceptual control skills in computer-based cognitive tasks. These results suggest that the problem of computer-interface design may be not only challenging in its own right but also theoretically promi…
Improving Clinical Decision Making Through Ecological Interfaces
Robert E. Shaw's Intentional Dynamics Laboratory was the impetus for considerable applied research that both stimulated and tested Shaw's developing theory. In this article, the author describes the work she and Shaw did together on clinical display design, using this project as a vehicle through which readers may gain a sense of what those who worked in Shaw's laboratory experienced. The article begins with an introduction to the patient safety …
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Science of the Future
The central goal of ecological psychology is to develop a theory of how humans cope successfully with everyday tasks such as navigating safely through the environment. Achieving this seemingly simple goal has proved to be exceedingly difficult. The authors suggest that one of the reasons for the difficulty comes from a perhaps surprising source: the tension between two radically different ways of knowing, artistic (aesthetic) and scientific (empi…
Paintings as Architectural Space: “Guided Tours” by Cézanne and Hokusai
In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of 2 painters' (Cézanne and Hokusai) efforts to enhance active participatory perception (Gibson, 1966 Gibson, J. J. 1966. The senses considered as perceptual systems, Boston: Houghton Mifflin. [Google Scholar], 1979/1986 Gibson, J. J. 1986. The ecological approach to visual perception, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. (Original work published 1979) [Google Scholar]) in their landscape work. As exemplars, we…
Differences in Transitional Care Provided to Mexican American and Non-Hispanic White Older Adults
Background:Transitional care, assisting patients to move safely through multiple health care settings, may be insufficient for older Hispanic patients. Purpose: Describe home health care services referral rates for Hispanic and non-Hispanic White (NHW) patients and factors that influence case managers’ (CMs’) discharge planning processes. Design: Organized by the Ethno-Cultural Gerontological Nursing Model, health records were reviewed ( n = 33,5…
Exploring the stability of communication network metrics in a dynamic nursing context
Network stability is of increasing interest to researchers as they try to understand the dynamic processes by which social networks form and evolve. Because hospital patient care units (PCUs) need flexibility to adapt to environmental changes (Vardaman, Cornell, & Clancy, 2012), their networks are unlikely to be uniformly stable and will evolve over time. This study aimed to identify a metric (or set of metrics) sufficiently stable to apply to PC…
Ecological Optics as the Conceptual Basis for the Interpersonal Self and Social Interaction
Agency, the ability to negotiate one’s surroundings to bring about changes, is the defining feature of animacy. Because agency is embodied in each individual’s self, inquiry into agency is necessarily an inquiry into selfhood. William James divided selfhood into the self as “I” and the self as “me” with the I self being, in essence, an active agent responsible for thoughts and actions. In Gibson’s ecological paradigm, self plays a central role, b…
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