My current interests most broadly involve cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience.

Specificially, I use an Immersive Virtual Environment (commonly referred to as a CAVE) to explore the uses of virtual reality in cognition and rehabilitation. I work at UCB's BP Center for Visualization where I am also Director for Academic Development. My work involves attempts to understand the circumstances and parameters that make full-scale immersive virtual reality a useful way to visualize and understand information and also make it a useful tool for rehabilitation of cognitive decline after injury, in progressive brain diseases, and in the presence of developmental disorders.

Please click to download these one-page PDF files to learn more about my work:

Description of the Academic Research Program at the BP Center

Visual Cognition in Alzheimer's Disease

Rehabilitation - Virtual Skiing Trainer

Assistive Technology Design - Tractor Entry

Molecular Visualization

Embodied Cognition in 3D VR

Virtual Field Trip - Mesa Verde

In my work participate in the Cognitive Lever Project in the Center for LifeLong Learning and Design (L3D), which is involved in developing compter-based assistive technology for persons with cognitive disabilities.