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.
INTEGRATE
INTEGRATE, short for “Integrating Robots into the Future of Work,” is a National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) program developed to provide a unique academic environment to enrich the training of graduate students in STEM disciplines, including computer science, engineering, psychology, and economics, to address fundamental research challenges in realizing the integration of robots into the future of work at the micro, systems, and macro scales.
Siddharth Suresh
Understanding how we acquire concepts using computational modelling.
Ivette Colón
Encoding of social and visual concepts in the brain and in deep learning models of human cognition
Bingbin Xia
Color visualization and the impact of visual cues on decision-making processes
Christopher Endemann
Data Science Facilitator
Facilitating connections and training researchers in data science.
Researchers use virtual reality to demonstrate effectiveness of 3D visualization as a learning tool
Researchers from the Neuroimaging Center at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) and Dr. Karen Schloss from Wisconsin Institute for the Discovery at University Wisconsin-Madison have developed the UW Virtual Brain Project, producing unique, interactive, 3D narrated diagrams to help students learn about the structure and function of perceptual systems in the human brain.
Myra Mohammad
Virus-host interactions and proofreading mechanisms in coronaviruses
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.
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.