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.
“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.
Assessing educational opportunities by exploring the relationship between perception and learning
Modeling how we learn and represent visual concepts and use them to perform visual tasks
Associate Professor
Neurodevelopmental mechanisms of stress and mental illness in youth
Acquire, process, interpret, and display spatial data for education, insight, and experience.
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.
Role of perceptual features (e.g. color) in cognitive processing and information visualization
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.
Karen Schloss talks about the psychology behind color preferences in an interview for Artsy.
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.
Large scale machine learning, distributed optimization and active learning.
Develop computational models to improve our understanding of neurodevelopmental disorders
Machine learning techniques, such as metric learning, to analyze human generated data
Instructor, Tiny Earth
Interdisciplinary undergraduate science education with an emphasis on experimental biology.
Assistant Professor
Visual perception and cognition in information visualization and virtual reality.
In a paper forthcoming in the journal Cognitive Science, Living Environments Lab professor Karen Schloss and her colleagues investigated whether and why color preferences change according to the season.
