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• Virtual Reality Applications Center
• HCI graduate students Jim Koopman and Alan Vetter are working to improve and expand the use of assistave technology at Iowa State.
— Iowa State University Office of the CIO: 04/26/2012
• You should get to know … Sondra Ashmore. Des Moines Register runs a business feature on HCI Ph.D. graduate Sondra Ashmore.
— Des Moines Register: 04/11/2012
• HCI faculty member Daniela Dimitrova examines how media coverage impacts campaigns worldwide.
— Ames Tribune: 02/25/2012
• Video game playing can compound kids' existing attention problems according to research by Douglas Gentile, an associate professor of psychology at Iowa State and HCI faculty member.
— ISU News Service: 02/23/2012
• A video game developed at Iowa State University is helping students understand biology better
— WHO TV: 02/22/2012
• Sondra Ashmore, PhD student in human computer interaction (HCI), is part of the Business Record’s Forty under 40 Business Leaders Class of 2012.
— ISU CoE News: 02/10/2012
Women in HCI Lecture: Roberta Klatzky,
October 31, 2008 at noon, Howe Hall Auditorium
Title Centering the Human in Virtual and Augmented Reality: The Role of Psychophysics.
Title Centering the Human in Virtual and Augmented Reality: The Role of Psychophysics.
The HCI Graduate Program will kick off their new Women in HCI Lecture Series on Friday, October 31 at noon in the Howe Hall Auditorium. Roberta Klatzky, a Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and a faculty of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will speak on, Centering the Human in Virtual and Augmented Reality: The Role of Psychophysics.
Professor Klatzky received a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Stanford University. Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, she was a member of the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Klatzky’s research interests are in human perception and cognition, with special emphasis on spatial cognition and haptic perception. She has done extensive research on human haptic and visual object recognition, navigation under visual and nonvisual guidance, and perceptually guided action. Her work has application to navigation aids for the blind, haptic interfaces, exploratory robotics, teleoperation, and virtual environments. She is the author of over 200 articles and chapters, and has authored or edited 6 books.