Amael Arguel
PhD Cognitive Psychology
48 years old
Professional Status
Employed
Unavailable
About Me
Dr Amael Arguel is a psychological scientist specialised in learning and new technologies. In 2009, Amael completed his PhD in Cognitive Psychology at the European University of Brittany, in Rennes, France. His research was focused on use of videos and animations to help learning of complex and dynamic contents, such as first aid techniques. Then, Amael was appointed successively at the Department of Cognitive Sciences, Macquarie University, and at the Centre for Health Informatics, University of New South Wales. From mid-2014, he is a research fellow for the Science of Learning Research Centre, based at Macquarie University and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).
Skills
Research and Teaching in Experimental Psychology
- • Carrying out of full psychological experiments including the recruitment of participants, setting of experimental apparatus, software programming, data collection, statistical analysis and publication of results
- • Statistics: descriptive analysis, ANOVA, non-parametric, cluster analysis…
- • Eye tracking studies
- • Bibliographical research, states of the art and monitoring of publications
- • Writing of grant applications, articles and course contents
- • Software mostly used: OS (Linux, Microsoft, and MacOS), Office (Microsoft and LibreOffice), Statistics (SPSS and R), Multimedia edition (Director, Flash, GIMP, Premiere), Eye-tracking (Tobii Studio, Experiment Builder), References (EndNote and Zotero), Internet (Mozilla suite, Google Apps, DreamWeaver).
Teaching
- Teaching and preparation of pedagogical contents and multimedia edition of e-class
- Teaching experience in Cognitive Psychology, Statistics, ergonomics
- National instructor of First Aid (French Red Cross)
