People that make it happen.

Benedict Anandam received his M.Sc. from the University of Calgary in 1995. His thesis concerned age differences in the development of automacity in visual search. Ben is living in Melbourne, Australia, where he works in the area of program evaluation for the federal government.

Micheline Deschenes came to the lab in 2009, after a Ph.D. in vision science and several years working in clinical settings. She has been critical to the development and assessment of tests of hazard perception in novice and older drivers.

Shane Esau spent two years in the lab carrying out several studies of aging and visual search. The most ambitious of these appeared in Experimental Aging Research in 1999. He is currently working in the Human Performance Lab at the University of Calgary, and is also on the coaching staff for the U of C swimming team.

Eleanor Hammaluk received her M.Sc. from the University of Calgary, where she studied the development of visual cortex serving spatial vision. She completed several studies examining texture segmentation and visual search in older adults. Eleanor is currently carrying out market research in Edmonton, Alberta.

Lisa Harpur completed her M.Sc. studying age differences in response competition effects in visual search. She has since completed her Ph.D. in clinical psychology and after several years of clinical practice, took a faculty position in Educational Psychology at the University of Calgary. Never one to slow down, she has recently completed her studies to become a physician.

Geoffrey Ho obtained a M.Sc. in Psychology at the University of Calgary, studying skill acquisition in visual search. He also completed his PhD program, examining trust and complacency effects in automation for the elderly. He went on to a human factors position at Honeywell Labs in Minneapolis and is now working for Defense Research and Development Canada.

Carl Hudson received his BSc in psychology in 2003 and an MSc in 2007. Areas of interest include Human Factors, Aging, and Human computer Interaction. He is working in the private sector in Calgary, Alberta in human factors.

Ken Joffe received his M.Sc. from the University of Calgary. His thesis concerned the use of motion perimetry to detect those at risk for glaucoma. He worked in the lab four years and during that time co-authored a half-dozen papers on aging, spatial vision and visual search. He is a practicing psychiatrist in Edmonton, Alberta.

Jason Laberge finished his M.Sc. in human factors in 2000. He has worked in a variety of labs at the University of Calgary and has completed several projects in the areas of human-computer interaction, transportation human-factors, computer supportive cooperative work, and cognitive aging. His is currently employed at Honeywell Labs in Minneapolis.

John Lyon took his undergraduate degree at Carleton University, where he studies processing in the visual periphery. He has been involved in several studies of hazard perception, is currently developing his M.Sc. project and, occasionally, enjoys hair-raising climbs in the Canadian Rockies.

Charles (Chip) Scialfa is the Director of the PCA Lab. He received his training in aging from the University of Notre Dame and the Pennsylvania State University. Since 1989, he has been a faculty member at the University of Calgary, where his work has focused on basic and applied aging research. His work has been well funded by the Alberta and Canadian government, resulting in more than 80 scientific articles, book chapters and technical reports. He provides advice on aging to the Alberta Human Rights Commission, the Government of Alberta, and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Away from work, he is a mountain enthusiast and birdwatcher, ballroom dancer and volunteer for several service organizations such as the Alberta Wilderness Association and Habitat for Humanity.

David Stewart has been our programmer for the past 15 years. He has developed an extensive library for conducting and analyzing data from experiments involving the measurement of eye movements. He also works full-time for the Calgary Health Region.

David Thomas obtained his M.Sc. from the University of Calgary, and was a vital part of the lab until he took up studies in the Optometry program at the University of Waterloo. He has completed that program and is practicing in Calgary where he occasionally rejoins the lab to help provide valuable advice and tutorials in clinical vision science.