Biography
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1976
M.S., Pennsylvania State University, 1974
B.A., Franklin & Marshall College, 1972
Research
Perception and Action
Human Performance
History of Psychology
Publications
Andre, J. T., & Owens, D. A. (in press). The Twilight envelope: A user-centered approach to describing roadway illumination at night. Human Factors, forthcoming.
Owens, D. A., Wood, J., Woolf, M., & Whittam, D. (in press). Effects of age and illumination on driving performance. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Vision in Vehicles, forthcoming.
Owens, D. A. (2000). Review of Nicholas Wade’s A Natural History of Vision. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 36 (1), 50-52.
Owens, D. A. (1999). The twilight concept versus a computer model: Alternate approaches to understanding visibility. Transportation Research Record, forthcoming.
Owens, D. A., & Tyrrell, R. A. (1999). Effects of luminance, blur, and age on nighttime visual guidance: A test of the selective degradation hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 5 (2), 1 - 14.