Acknowledgments

I must express my gratitude to my supervisor, Dr. Jesse Kline, whose expertise, understanding, and persistence, added significantly to my graduate experience. I appreciate his vast understanding and talent in a number of areas (e.g. vision, aging, ethics, interaction with participants), as well as the assistance on paper reports (i.e. grant proposals, scholarship applications which thesis), that have every so often reduced the problem Eco-friendly with envy. I must thank another people of my committee, Dr. Bob Dewar, and Dr. Chris Sears for the assistance they provided whatsoever amount study. Finally, I must thank Dr. Ron Wardell inside the Faculty of Ecological The idea of making time from his hectic agenda for everyone as my exterior readers.

A really special thanks is going to Dr. Thomy Nilsson, without whose motivation and encouragement I wouldn’t have thought about a graduate career in mental research. Dr. Nilsson may be the one professor/teacher who truly created a improvement inside my existence. It had been under his tutelage that people created a focus and elevated to obtain thinking about vision and human factors. He provided direction, technical support and elevated to obtain a real mentor and friend, compared to a professor. It had been though his, persistence, understanding and kindness that people completed my undergraduate degree plus it was asked to get graduate training. I doubt that people opportunity manage to convey my appreciation fully, however owe him my eternal gratitude.

I have to also acknowledge Don Meeker of Meeker Associates Corporation. (Larchmont, New You can) for his techniques for, and provision within the font materials evaluated during this study.

Appreciation can also be to Sujeet Paul, Ivan Hoza and Jack Moxness within the Department of Psychologyís Technical Support Group its their computer and technical assistance throughout my graduate program, also to work staff for your instances by which their assistance taught me to be along the way. Thanks can also be to individuals who provided record advice at occasions of critical need Dr. Theresa Kline, Dr. Nick Scialfa, Dr. Lorne Sulsky, and Dr. Tak Fung. I’d like to thank my pals within the Vision and Aging Lab, particularly Lisa Lynk, for your philosophical debates, exchanges of understanding, skills, and venting of frustration within my graduate program, which helped enrich the understanding.

I’d like to thank the kids for the support they provided me through my entire existence especially, I have to acknowledge my lady and finest friend, Nancy, without whose love, encouragement and editing assistance, I wouldn’t have completely finished this thesis.

In summary, I understand these studies will not happen to be possible with no educational funding of NSERC (Kline), the college of Calgary Graduate Studies (Connolly), the Department of Psychology inside the College of Calgary (Teaching Assistantships, Graduate Research Scholarships) along with the Province of Alberta Graduate Scholarship fund (Connolly), and express my gratitude to folks agencies.

This site last updated June, 1998 by: Kevin Connolly – gkconnol@acs.ucalgary.ca