Jon May
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Email: jon.may@sheffield.ac.uk
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£ 42,494ESRC (11/05 to 2/07) Jon May, J. AndradeEffects of thought acceptance, diversion and suppression on food craving.
Our Elaborated Intrusion Theory predicts that increased intrusions will cause more frequent and intense levels of desire and increased relapse. We are comparing effects on food craving and intrusions of thought suppression and two alternatives: Mindfulness-based acceptance and thought diversion.
£ 60,340 ESRC (10/05 to 9/09) Jon May, J. Andrade, J. Blackburn
Cognitive Aspects of Craving in Eating Disorders
An Open Competition 1+3 Studentship
£ 45,255 ESRC (10/05 to 9/08) Jon May, J. Andrade, L.-M. Berry
Coping With Intrusive Thoughts Using Mindfulness Training
An Open Competition +3 Studentship
£ 239,676 EPSRC 4/05 to 3/08 Jon May (PI)
FilmICS: Designing dynamic displays with Supportive Evaluation Techniques. Computer interfaces are becoming more film like, but are hard for people to understand, whereas people understand what happens in real films quite easily. This project seeks to understand the principles used to edit film sequences, to aid the design of computer interfaces
£ 39,500 ESRC (1/02 to 12/02) Jon May, M Buehner
The influence of delay on human casual reasoning
Showed that knowledge and experience could bridge delays between cause and effect, contradicting earlier research which argued that a delay prevents people from inferring any relationship.
£ 186,446 EPSRC (1/01to 10/04) Jon May (PI)
TICKS Ð Modelling Multiple and Collaborative Work Tasks
In collaboration with the University of Bath, this examined the application of Task Analysis to multiple, collaborative tasks. It combined an existing cognitive modelling approach, ICS, with the Task Analysis method, TKS.
£ 44,577 EPSRC (10/99 to 9/00) Jon May (PI)
Modelling the Perception and Comprehension of Dynamic Displays
Demonstrated that film making techniques for guiding the viewersÕ gaze around the screen followed principles derived from cognitive theory, and justified their application in interface design.
£ 60,000 BT: (2/98-1/01) Jon May (PI)
MultICS: Sensations in multiple modalities need somehow to be combined if we are to perceive them as being caused by a single event. This project examined the role of knowledge, expectation and task context.
£ 131,231 EU TMR(1/98 to 12/02) Jon May (8 other sites funded)
TACIT: Theory and Application of Continuous Interaction technologies
A Training and Mobility of Researchers network, involving nine sites across Europe. Within this project we addressed the role of temporal contiguity on human causal inference
- Cognition and Emotion
- in collaboration with:
Jackie Andrade, Nathalie Panabokke, Graham Turpin, David Kavanagh (Brisbane) - Human-Computer Interaction
- in collaboration with:
Phil Barnard (MRC-CBU), Sophie Scott (ICN) - Multimodal Perception and causal inference
- in collaboration with:
Stuart Booth (Leeds), Giorgio Faconti (Pisa) and Marc Bühner (Cardiff) - Cinematography
- in collaboration with:
Phil Barnard (MRC-CBU), Tim Gamble - Syndetics
- in collaboration with:
Phil Barnard (MRC-CBU), David Duke (Bath), David Duce (Oxford Brookes). - Silly Sentences
- in collaboration with:
Kate Alcock (San Diego), Alan Baddeley (Bristol)