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 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.
Brain imaging, neuropsychological testing, and biomarker research in early Alzheimer's disease.
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, Small World Initiative
Interdisciplinary undergraduate science education with an emphasis on experimental biology.
Assistant Professor
Visual perception and cognition in information visualization and virtual reality.
Statistical Signal Processing, Machine learning and Optimization with Human feedback channels
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.
WID Optimization researchers have partnered with faculty across campus to work on ways to use computers to make better use of human brain power.
Tools for Discovery is a regular profile series that inspects the computer programs, gadgets and methods behind WID’s ideas and discoveries.
The New Yorker is using a machine learning system developed by WID Optimization researchers to sort through captions for their weekly cartoon caption contest.
For renowned primatologist Frans de Waal, observation tops the list of skills vital to his work.
