Talks

Death by Dropdown? Engineer Insightful Shiny Apps with Behavioral Science

Presentations

Software Development

User Experience

posit::conf(2025)

Opening a Shiny app to endless dropdowns and scattered filters leads to immediate disengagement and feeling like ‘death by dropdown’. This talk introduces the Behavioral Insights Design (BID) Framework, a behavioral science roadmap that transforms overwhelming dashboards into guided user journeys. Using the this approach, we’ll explore five stages together: Interpret user needs through data storytelling, Notice cognitive friction points, Anticipate user behavior, Structure the application, and Validate & empower users. Drawing from established theories and real-world production examples, attendees will see how applying behavioral science can dramatically reduce the time between ‘Where do I even start?’ and ‘Aha, now I get it!’. You’ll leave with practical techniques using the new {bidux} package to help transform user confusion into confident exploration and build dashboards that guide users toward better decisions (and fewer ghosted ones).

Death By Dropdown? A Developer’s Guide To Building Dashboards That Won’t Fry Your Client’s Brain

Presentations

Software Development

User Experience

Virtual conference

Imagine opening a dashboard and being greeted with an endless series of dropdown menus, all demanding your attention before you can even comprehend the data. This frustrating experience—what many recognize as ‘death by dropdown’—leaves users disengaged, delays decision-making, and contributes to ‘dashboard rot’. But it doesn’t have to be this way! By shifting the focus from cramming as much data as possible on the screen to crafting a story with the data, we can guide users effortlessly to the insights they need.

Process-oriented model of integration in knowledge-diverse teams

Presentations

Research

Psychology

Thirty-fifth Annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology conference

Virtual conference

Often, in teams where members possess diverse knowledge, integrating the unique expertise of members is critical (e.g., interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary teams). In this talk, I will present a process-oriented account of the integration of knowledge in teams when members possess predominately unique (as opposed to shared) information.

Learning R

Presentations

Education

Data Science

Loyola University Chicago Social Area Research Series

Chicago, Illinois

In this workshop, I will cover an introduction to R for the psychological researcher with little to no programming experience. The content will mostly consist of what you might find in an introductory statistics class.

A computational model of information integration in knowledge-diverse teams

Presentations

Research

Psychology

Loyola University Chicago Social Area Research Series

Chicago, Illinois

Often, in teams where members possess diverse knowledge, integrating the unique expertise of members is critical (e.g., interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary teams). In this talk, I will present a process-oriented account of the integration of knowledge in teams when members possess predominately unique (as opposed to shared) information.

Open-minded group cognition

Presentations

Research

Psychology

Ninety-first Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association

Chicago, Illinois

The situational merit standard hypothesis states social norms dictate when open-minded condition (OMC) is appropriate. One context we expect normatively less open-mindedness are those involving group interactions.

Group recall as a function of information redundancy and transactive memory

Presentations

Research

Psychology

Thirteenth annual INGRoup conference

Bethesda, Maryland

Groups attempted to recall a story where the parts of the story were distributed among the group members. How much of the information was shared vs. unshared and the presence/absence of a transactive memory system were varied.

Do groups make less ethical decisions than individuals?

Presentations

Research

Psychology

Center for Group Research and Group Processes and Intergroup Relations Anniversary Conference

Canterbury, United Kingdom

An examination of ethical decision-making differences between individual and group contexts.