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\"Siu-Lan<\/a>Psychology professor Siu-Lan Tan<\/strong> and K alumnus John Baxa \u201909<\/strong> published a book chapter on their video game research in the book Interdisciplinary Advancements in Gaming, Simulations, and Virtual Environments<\/em> (published in 2012 by IGI Global, edited by R. Ferdig and S. de Freitas). Their research focuses on the role of music and sound effects on video game performance in gamers with different levels of expertise. It is based on collaborative work between Tan and Baxa beginning in his sophomore year, continuing through his Senior Individualized Project, and extending beyond his graduation. Baxa is currently a graduate student pursuing a degree in Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University, where he will learn video game design and may be able to implement their research on sound design in future video games. Baxa (right) is pictured with Tan (center) last April, at her Lucasse teaching award presentation. Also shown is Sally Warner \u201908<\/strong> (left), who worked with Tan for three years to co-organize service-learning projects and assisted her on a book manuscript. Warner is currently working on a Doctorate in curriculum, instruction, and teacher education at Michigan State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Psychology professor Siu-Lan Tan and K alumnus John Baxa \u201909 published a book chapter on their video game research in the book Interdisciplinary Advancements in Gaming, Simulations, and Virtual Environments (published in 2012 by IGI Global, edited by R. Ferdig and S. de Freitas). Their research focuses on the role of music and sound effects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233,231],"tags":[31,39,37],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-students","tag-alumni","tag-faculty","tag-research"],"yoast_head":"\r\nK Psychology Professor and Student Publish Collaborative Research - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Psychology professor Siu-Lan Tan and K alumnus John Baxa \u201909 published a book chapter on their video game research in the book Interdisciplinary\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/k-psychology-professor-and-student-publish-collaborative-research\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"K Psychology Professor and Student Publish Collaborative Research - News and Events\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Psychology professor Siu-Lan Tan and K alumnus John Baxa \u201909 published a book chapter on their video game research in the book Interdisciplinary\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/k-psychology-professor-and-student-publish-collaborative-research\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"News and Events\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KalamazooCollege\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-09-25T15:08:27+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-25T17:03:39+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/09\/anAndStudents.jpg\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"260\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jim Van Sweden\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@kcollege\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@kcollege\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jim Van Sweden\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/k-psychology-professor-and-student-publish-collaborative-research\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/k-psychology-professor-and-student-publish-collaborative-research\/\",\"name\":\"K Psychology Professor and Student Publish Collaborative Research - News and Events\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/k-psychology-professor-and-student-publish-collaborative-research\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/k-psychology-professor-and-student-publish-collaborative-research\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/09\/anAndStudents.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-09-25T15:08:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-25T17:03:39+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/33b812ef7fd17031ab566856049c97af\"},\"description\":\"Psychology professor Siu-Lan Tan and K alumnus John Baxa \u201909 published a book chapter on their video game research in the book Interdisciplinary\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/k-psychology-professor-and-student-publish-collaborative-research\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/k-psychology-professor-and-student-publish-collaborative-research\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/k-psychology-professor-and-student-publish-collaborative-research\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/09\/anAndStudents.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/09\/anAndStudents.jpg\",\"width\":\"300\",\"height\":\"260\",\"caption\":\"Siu-Lan Tan, Associate Professor of Psychology at Kalamazoo College, recipient of the 2012 Florence J. 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<strong>Siu-Lan Tan<\/strong> and K alumnus <strong>John Baxa \u201909<\/strong> published a book chapter on their video game research in the book <em>Interdisciplinary Advancements in Gaming, Simulations, and Virtual Environments<\/em> (published in 2012 by IGI Global, edited by R. Ferdig and S. de Freitas). Their research focuses on the role of music and sound effects on video game performance in gamers with different levels of expertise. It is based on collaborative work between Tan and Baxa beginning in his sophomore year, continuing through his Senior Individualized Project, and extending beyond his graduation. Baxa is currently a graduate student pursuing a degree in Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University, where he will learn video game design and may be able to implement their research on sound design in future video games. Baxa (right) is pictured with Tan (center) last April, at her Lucasse teaching award presentation. Also shown is <strong>Sally Warner \u201908<\/strong> (left), who worked with Tan for three years to co-organize service-learning projects and assisted her on a book manuscript. Warner is currently working on a Doctorate in curriculum, instruction, and teacher education at Michigan State University.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9825,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/9825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}