Andy Woods
Senior Research Engineer-Psychologist at CoSTAR Network
Woking, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Woods is a Senior Research Engineer-Psychologist with 12 years of experience building web apps that bridge experimental psychology and product-facing interfaces. He holds a PhD in Multisensory Perception and combines deep psychophysics expertise with hands-on front-end engineering—contributing video playback and preload features to the widely used jsPsych library for browser-based experiments. His career spans academia and industry (Sheffield, Dublin, Bangor, Manchester, Royal Holloway, Unilever) and three startups, where he’s steered technical direction as CTO while prioritising inclusive user research. Based in Woking, he excels at mashing together new technologies to make robust, reproducible web experiments and novel UX prototypes.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Pychology, BSc, Pychology at Sheffield UniversityPhD, Multisensory perception, PhD, Multisensory perception at Trinity College Dublinfriends' school saffron walden
Github Skills (6)
experiment10
javascript10
exp10
360-video10
experimental-design9
html9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jspsych/jsPsych
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Create behavioral experiments in a browser using JavaScript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 22 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Andy focused on implementing and improving video playback functionality within the jsPsych library, a JavaScript library for creating behavioral experiments. They added the ability to preload video files and integrated this feature within the core jsPsych functionality. Additionally, they introduced options for controlling video attributes like autoplay and controls and addressed the inclusion of minimum reaction time requirements.
jspsychsciencebrowsersbmlpsychology
ContributeToScience/participant-booking-app
Mar 2014 - Jul 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 4 years 5 months
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