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Adam T. Biggs
Researcher at Duke University
Publications - 74
Citations - 821
Adam T. Biggs is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Visual search & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 56 publications receiving 618 citations. Previous affiliations of Adam T. Biggs include Wright-Patterson Air Force Base & University of Notre Dame.
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The Ultra-Rare-Item Effect Visual Search for Exceedingly Rare Items Is Highly Susceptible to Error
Stephen R. Mitroff,Adam T. Biggs +1 more
TL;DR: By assessing search performance across millions of trials from the Airport Scanner smartphone application, it is demonstrated that the detection of ultra-rare items was disturbingly poor and had catastrophically low detection rates relative to targets with higher frequencies.
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Assessing visual search performance differences between Transportation Security Administration Officers and nonprofessional visual searchers
TL;DR: In this article, a visual search task was administered to both professional (Transportation Security Administration Officers) and non-professional (members of Duke University) searchers to examine group differences in which factors predict accuracy.
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Cognitive Training Can Reduce Civilian Casualties in a Simulated Shooting Environment
TL;DR: The potential of using cognitive training to possibly improve shooting performance is illustrated, which might ultimately provide insight for military and law-enforcement personnel.
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Improving the Efficacy of Security Screening Tasks: A Review of Visual Search Challenges and Ways to Mitigate Their Adverse Effects
Adam T. Biggs,Stephen R. Mitroff +1 more
TL;DR: This work reviews and discusses four specific challenges of the task itself that can negatively affect the accuracy of a security screening: target visibility, an unknown target set, the possible presence of multiple targets, and low target prevalence.
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What Can 1 Billion Trials Tell Us About Visual Search
TL;DR: The goals of the current Observation Report were to highlight the growing opportunity that mobile technology affords psychological research and to provide an example roadmap of how to successfully collect usable data.