The major task of this laboratory is to provide supplementary demonstrations and practices for several professional courses, inclusive of Seminars on Cognition, Seminars on Emotion, Seminars on Cognitive Neuroscience, Seminars on Human Factors Engineering, Methods of Experimental Psychology, Cognition, Sensation and Perception, Emotion and Human Factors Engineering.
In addition, the principal investigator (PI) of the lab, Prof. Hung-Wei Lee, also accepts to become the advisor of students who are interested in those subfields just mentioned above. For this reason, the PI leads about 10 master degree students and 40 bachelor degree students to have regular meeting every week and coordinates summer/winter vacation workshops for them to enhance the mathematical and computer programming abilities.
Up to now, the lab has successfully changed its title and orientation from “Laboratory of Psychology” to “Applied Cognitive Technology Laboratory (ACT Lab)” which conveys its orientation more specifically and precisely. The value of ACT Lab is now well-defined as “applying knowledge of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience to human factors engineering, sports science, neuroeconomics and criminal psychology to work for people’s well-being.”