Tag: psychology
WID’s research portfolio extends into certain social sciences, including projects at the intersection of machine learning, human cognition, and education, research in vision science and visualization, and examination of the psychophysical effects of virtual reality.
Joe Holt
Assist research software development, implementing a distributed variable batch size optimization
Myra Mohammad
Virus-host interactions and proofreading mechanisms in coronaviruses
Tam Nguyen
Applications of virtual reality in science education and learners' motivation, interest & engagement
Mateusz (Matt) Ferens
Cross-cultural exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean; Art and visual culture of Byzantium
Katherine Norman
The impact of pretend play and drama practices on cognition at different stages of development
Karen Schloss Receives Psychonomic Society Early Career Award
“Karen Schloss is at the forefront of the best and the brightest early career scientists in our field.” Schloss received the award for her significant contributions to scientific psychology early in her career.
Lauren Ciha
Assessing educational opportunities by exploring the relationship between perception and learning
Kushin Mukherjee
Modeling how we learn and represent visual concepts and use them to perform visual tasks
Ryan Herringa
Associate Professor
Neurodevelopmental mechanisms of stress and mental illness in youth
Bryce Sprecher
Acquire, process, interpret, and display spatial data for education, insight, and experience.
WSJ: Weather Forecasts Should Get Over the Rainbow
Professor Karen Schloss of WID’s Visual Reasoning Lab tells the Wall Street Journal about the pitfalls of the rainbow-colored maps used to communicate during storms like the recent Hurricane Florence.
Melissa Schoenlein
Role of perceptual features (e.g. color) in cognitive processing and information visualization
When Communicating with Color, Balance Can Be a Path to Accuracy
Karen Schloss and Laurent Lessard are working on a method for matching colors to people’s expectations to send the right message — starting with the best colors for waste and recycling bins.
Why Blue is the World’s Favorite Color
Karen Schloss talks about the psychology behind color preferences in an interview for Artsy.
Schloss Visual Reasoning Lab
Investigating how observers make predictions about objects and entities based on their cognitive and emotional responses to perceptual information; focusing on how people’s associations with colors influence cognitive processing in aesthetic response, judgment and decision making, and interpretation of information visualizations.
Scott Sievert
Large scale machine learning, distributed optimization and active learning.
Blake Mason
Metric learning and active machine learning, focussed on reducing the sample complexity of learning.
Josh Pultorak
Instructor, Tiny Earth
Interdisciplinary undergraduate science education with an emphasis on experimental biology.