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Michael Granaas

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Director, Human Factors/Associate Professor Department of Psychology

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Dr. Granaas earned his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology with an emphasis on quantitative methodology from the University of Kansas in 1986. Since joining the USD faculty he has served as a statistical consultant on dozens of student thesis and dissertations projects. He was also highly involved with the Old Main renovations.

Research Methods and Statistic-all levels. As a faculty member I was an early adopter of using the General Linear Modeling approach to teaching statistics starting in the 1990's. I have since added the use of randomization methods to help students better understand the behavior of statistical quantities.
Outside of statistics I have teach a course in motivation and emotion and have taught courses in the psychology of games and the psychology of virtual environments.

Virtual environments present many opportunities and challenges for use. I am interested in understanding when virtual environments benefit humans and when those environments are counterproductive. I also have an interest in understanding the human factors issues of how to optimize the human interface with virtual environments.

Ph D, Psychology, University of Kansas, 1986
MA, Psychology, University of Kansas, 1984
BA, Psychology/Computer Science, Gustavus Adolphus College, 1981

Create with VR Grant Program, Unity Technologies, (2022 - 2023)
Training in Structural Equation Modeling, Faculty Development1995)
Renovation of the South Dakota Union Building for Human Factors Research and Research Training, National Science Foundation1994)
The Human-Computer Interface in the Modern Mission Control Center, Continuation of NASA1993)
The Human-Computer Interface in the Modern Mission Control Center, Continuation of NASA grant1992)
An Examination of Functional Regression Methods, General Research Fund1991)
The Human-Computer Interface in the Modern Mission Control Center, Continuation of NASA1990)
The Human-Computer Interface in the Modern Mission Control Center, NASA 1988)
The Human-Computer Interface in the Modern Mission Control Center, Supplement to NASA grant1988)

Citations listed below are presented in a standardized, modified format for display purposes only. They do not necessarily reflect the preferred style and conventions of the faculty member or discipline.

Granaas, Michael. Teaching Bit Response: Keep Teaching the Variance ., Editors John Gabrosek, 4 pages. Vol. 18, Iss. 2 American Statistical Association, 2010.
Smith, T.B., Rosenstein, I., and Granaas, Michael. Intake screening with the self-rating depression scalce In a university counseling center., 133-141. Vol. 4, Iss. 2 Journal of College Counseling, 2001.
Granaas, Michael. Model Fitting: A better approach., 800-801. Vol. 53, Iss. 7 American Psychologist, 1998.
Granaas, Michael. Statistics as Principled Argument: A Review, by Robert P. Abelson., 257-259. Vol. 4, Iss. 3 Structural Equation Modeling, 1997.
Anderson, Glen, Berkhout, Jan, Granaas, Michael, and Canakapalli, Sri. Gloved Operator Performance Study: The Effect of Hand Wear and Elastic Resistance of a Control During Tracking Performance, 71. Army Research Laboratory, 1994.
Straub, H.R., and Granaas, Michael. Task-specific preference for numeric keypads., 289-290. Vol. 24, Iss. 3 Applied Ergonomics, 1993.
Straub, H.R., and Granaas, Michael. Interactions of instructions with the recall strategy actually used in a paired-associates learning task., 987-993. Vol. 71 Psychological Reports, 1992.
Granaas, Michael. TIMEX2: A Modified C-Language timer for PC-AT class machines., 619-622. Vol. 21 Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 1989.
Granaas, Michael. Simple, applied text parsing, 209-216. Vol. 17 Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 1985.
Granaas, Michael, McKay, T.D., Laham, R.D., Hurt, L.D., and Juola, J.F.. Reading moving text on a CRT screen, 97-104. Vol. 26 Human Factors, 1984.

Blair and Linda Tremere Faculty Service Award, University of South Dakota Foundation, 2012
Friends of Education Award, Vermillion Middle School, 1991
Invited Speaker, CMA Math/Computer Science/Physics Symposium, Sioux Falls College, 1989
Friends of Education Award, Vermillion Middle School, 1988
Invited Speaker, Psychology Banquet, South Dakota State University, 1988
NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow, NASA-Ames., 1988
NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow, NASA-Ames., 1987
Outstanding Student Paper, National Meeting of Society for Computers in Psychology, 1984
NIHM Trainee, University of Kansas, 1983
NIMH Trainee, University of Kansas, 1982

Granaas, Michael, Modeling in Undergraduate Statistics. Presented at the ecots 2012 The First Biennial Electronic Conference On Teaching Statistics, Online. (May 14, 2012)
Banka, Caraway, Jean, Struckman-Johnson, Cindy, and Granaas, Michael, Men's and Women's Perceptions of Sexual Coercion: The Rol of Intimacy and Verbal Manipulation. Presented at the 41st meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (January 2008)
Granaas, Michael, Testing Models and an Alternative to Hypothesis Testing in Undergraduate Statistics. Presented at the 1st Annual Great Plains Conference on the Teaching of Psychology (January 2007)
Granaas, Michael, Hypothesis Testing in Psychology: Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater?. Presented at the Sixth International Conference on Teaching of Statistics, Cape Town, South Africa. (January 2002)
Smith, T.B., Rosenstein, I, and Granaas, Michael, A Psychometric Investigation of the Self-Rating Depression Scale in Counseling Centers. Presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. (April 1999)
Straub, Holly, Galinsky, A M., and Granaas, Michael, Wayfinding strategies reported by male and female college students. Presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA. (November 1995)
Straub, H.R., Galinsky, A.M., and Granaas, Michael, Way-Finding Strategies Reported by Male and Female College Students.. Presented at the Psychonomic Society Meeting, San Diego, CA. (November 1995)
Granaas, Michael, Straub, Holly, Fernau, S, and Russell, C, Effect of VDT update rate on an alphanumeric monitoring task. Presented at the WPA-RMPA Annual Meeting (April 1993)
Granaas, Michael, Fernau, S.D., and Straub, H.R., Auditory Feedback in a Complex Monitoring Task. Presented at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research, Pasadena, CA. (March 1991)
Granaas, Michael, and Sredinski, V.E., Enhacning the Usability of CRT Displays in Test Flight Monitoring. Presented at the Space Operations, Applications and Research Symposium, Albuquerque, MN. (June 1990)
Granaas, Michael, Noonan, M.P., and Yutrzenka, B.A., Medical Students' Attitudes and Referral Practices Regarding Battered Women. Presented at the Woman's Research Conference, Vermillion, SD. (April 1990)
Noonan, M.P., Yutrzenka, Barbara, and Granaas, Michael, Medical Student's Attribution of Blame on Cases of Domestic Violence. Presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. (January 1990)
Granaas, Michael, and Rhea, D.C., Techniques for Optimizing Human-Machine Information Transfer Related to Real-Time Interactice Display Systems. Presented at the AIAA 27th Aerosace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV. (January 1989)
Granaas, Michael, The Psychology of Computer Displays in the Modern Mission Control Center. Presented at the AIAA 15th Aerodynamic Testing Conference, San Diego, CA. (May 1988)
Granaas, Michael, Descriptive Line Fitting. Presented at the South Dakota Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Sioux Falls, SD. (January 1987)
Granaas, Michael, and Reiss, M., Effects of Single vs. Multiple Question Formats and Feedback on Question Answering. Presented at the South Dakota Psychological Asssociation Annual Meeting, Sioux Falls, SD. (January 1987)
Granaas, Michael, and Martin, E., Smooth Data With Straight Lines. Presented at the Mathematical Association of Teaching of Mathematics, Wichita, KS. (January 1986)
Martin, E., and Granaas, Michael, Chi-Square and Small Samples. Presented at the Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Divisions of American Association for the Advancement of Science, Denver, CO. (January 1984)
Juola, J.F., Chen, H.C., Cocklin, T.C., and Granaas, Michael, Reading RSVP Text. Presented at the Psychonomic Society Meeting, Minneapolis, MN. (November 1982)