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José Juan Cañas
Department of Experimental Psychology
Faculty of Psychology - Campus de Cartuja
18071 Granada, Spain
E-mail: delagado@ugr.es
Phone: 34-958-243767
Fax: 34-958-246239

Professional Information

Current Position: Professor of Psychology at the University of Granada

Education: Graduate in Psychology. University of Granada, Spain.
·················PhD in Experimental Psychology. University of South Florida

Teaching responsibilities: Cognitive Ergonomics

Research Interests: Mental Representation, Cognitive Flexibility, Cognitive Accessibility, Hypertext Comprehension, Psychology of Programming.


Selected Papers


 Recent publications

 Recent papers presented at meetings

  • Fajardo, I., Cañas, J., Salmerón, L. & Abascal, J. (2003). Towards a cognitive accessibility guideline based on empirical evidences of deaf users web interaction. HCI International, Creta (Greece).
  • Salmerón, L., Fajardo, I. & Cañas, J.J. (2003). An Online Method For Assessing Text Comprehension In Hypertext Systems. 13 Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Madrid (Spain).
  • Cañas, J.J., Antolí, A., Fajardo, I. & Salmerón, L. (2002). Cognitive flexibility and adaptability to environmental changes in dynamic complex tasks. 11th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, Catania, (Italy).
  • Antolí, A., Cañas, J.J., Fajardo, I. y Salmerón, L. (2001). Cognitive flexibility of the strategies in dynamic complex problem solving tasks. Effects of different types of training. Cognitive Research with Microworlds. Granada, 2001.
  • Cañas, J.J., Antolí, A., Chisalita, C., Salmerón, L. y Escudero, J.T. (2001). Working Memory Models of Mental Models of Physical Systems. III International Conference of Memory, Valencia, 2001.
  • Cañas, J.J., Antolí, A., Velez, M. And Gonzalez, A. (2000). Graphical Criteria for Designing Agents. CHI’2000. The Hague, The Netherdlands.
  • Abascal, J., Cañas, J. Gea, M, Lorés, J., Ortega, M. Ureña, L.A. y Velez, M. (2000). Una experiencia de diseño cooperativo de material docente virtual en interacción persona-ordenador. U. Alcalá.
  • Navarro, R. and Cañas, J.J. (1998). Mental representation and Imagery in program comprehension. In T.R.G. Green, L. Bannon, C.P. Warren and J.Buckley (Ed.) Cognition and Co-operation. EACE
  • Quesada, J.F., Cañas, J.J. and Antoli, A. (2000). An explanation of human errors based on environmental changes and problem solving strategies. In P. Wright, S. Dekker, and C.P. Warren (Eds.) ECCE-10: Confronting Reality. Sweden: EACE.

 Books and books chapters

  • Cañas, J.J. y Waern, Y. (2001). Ergonomía Cognitiva. Madrid: Editorial Médica Panamericana. ISBN: 7903-597-8
  • Cañas, J.J., Salmerón, L. y Gámez, P. (2001). El factor humano en la interacción persona-ordenador. En Jesús Lorés (Ed.) Curso Introducción a la Interacción Persona-Ordenador. Lleida: AIPO. ISBN 84-607-2255-4
  • Bajo, M.T., Cañas, J.J., Gonzalvo, P. And Gomez-Ariza, C. (1999).Changes in Categorization as a Function of Expertise and Context in Elementary Mechanics. In D. Kayser, D. And Vosniadou, S. (Eds.) Changes in Understanding: Case Studies in Physical Reasoning. UK: Elsevier Science.
  • Bajo, M.T. y Cañas, J.J. (1994) Métodos indirectos de adquisición del conocimiento. In P. Adarraga y J.L. Zaccagnini (Ed.) Psicología e Inteligencia Artificial. Editorial Trotta, ISBN-84-876-9977-4.
  • Bajo, M.T. y Cañas, J.J. (1991) Ciencia Cognitiva. Madrid: Editorial Debate. ISBN-7444-490.


Last modified: Feb 12, 2004