Associated Labs


The Applied Cognitive Science Lab

URL: http://acs.ist.psu.edu/

Key Faculty: Frank Ritter

Explores computation models of human behavior, their application to interface design, their use in synthetic environments, and tools for their use.





URL:http://www.dolcelab.org/

Key Faculty:Dr. Christopher Hoadley

Studies the relationship between learning, design, collaboration, and technology. They design, build, and study sociotechnical systems that empower people as they learn and grow.




URL: http://cscl.ist.psu.edu

Key Faculty: John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson, Craig H. Ganoe,

Focuses on the study of collaboration and informal learning in teams and communities, emphasizing how information technology can motivate, energize, enhance, or otherwise support collaboration and learning. The research objective of the lab is to design and investigate architectures and systems to integrate synchronous and asynchronous activity, to develop and study new applications and user interface techniques for collaborative software, and to evaluate and understand the consequences for people and their communities as they learn and apply new information technologies.





URL: http://www.ist.psu.edu/SeifEl-Nasr/rael/

Key Faculty: Magy Seif El-Nasr, Brian K. Smith

Investigating the design of future computing experiences with a focus on exploring techniques that bridges the gap between theatrical and cinematic practice and the design of computational interactive real-time experiences. As well as exploring the role of computational tools in facilitating reflective practice and enhancing cognition and performance.





URL: http://spatial.ist.psu.edu/

Key Faculty: Guoray Cai, Fred Fonseca, Prasenjit Mitra

This laboratory hosts research activities for the development of a conceptual, computational, and usability engineering approaches toward natural, multimodal, multi-user dialogue-enabled interfaces to geographic information systems that make use of large-screen displays, virtual environment, and mobile computing technologies. The goal is to make distributed and highly complicated geographical information resources accessible to (non-expert) users and to facilitate collaborative spatial decision-making among teams





URL: http://minds.ist.psu.edu/

Key Faculty: Michael M. McNeese

Integrates experimental research on socio-cultural cognition with field study work in collaborative domains to envision/test new tools of support.