People

Directors

Mary Hegarty

Director, ReCVEB
Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences

3812 Psychology East
Individual differences in navigation and virtual environments for enhancing STEM education.

Michael Beyeler

Associate Director, ReCVEB
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Dynamical Neuroscience, Psychological & Brain Sciences

3201B BioEngineering
Visual impairment, VR/AR, assistive technologies, sight restoration.

Board Members

Walid Afifi

Advisory Board, ReCVEB
Professor, Department of Communication

SSMS 4129
Effects of chronic uncertainty on responses to threat.

Tamara Afifi

Advisory Board, ReCVEB
Professor, Department of Communication

Interpersonal Communication, Family Communication, Stress and Communication; Biosocial Markers of Stress, Resilience and Thriving; Inform

Andy Beall

Advisory Board, ReCVEB
CEO, Worldviz

CEO and CTO of Worldviz, a company that designs and creates cutting edge VR technology.

Jim Blascovich

Advisory Board, ReCVEB
Distinguished Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Psychology East 3839

Social motivation, and social influence within technologically mediated environments.

Nancy Collins

Advisory Board, ReCVEB
Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Psychology East 3815
Interface of close relationships, social cognition, and health psychology.

Shelly Gable

Advisory Board, ReCVEB
Chair, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Psychology East, Room 1823
Appetitive and aversive motivation in social interaction and close relationships. How approach and avoidance social motives contribute to the course and quality of social interactions and close relationships. The positive aspects of close relationships and their role in physical and emotional health.

Tobias Höllerer

Advisory Board, ReCVEB
Professor, Computer Science

Harold Frank Hall 2155
Augmented reality, Virtual Reality, Real-Time Vision, Visualization, and Interactive Data Mining

Richard Mayer

Advisory Board, ReCVEB
Distinguished Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Psychology East 3841

Evidence-based principles for the design of effective learning experiences with science simulations and games in VR.

Misha Sra

Advisory Board, ReCVEB
Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Perception, Interaction Design, Machine Learning, Applications

Yon Visell

Advisory Board, ReCVEB
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Assistant Professor, Media Arts & Technology

Elings Hall 2213
Future of interactive technologies, with emphasis on haptics, robotics, and electronics.

Graduate Students

Tikal Catena

Graduate Student

Mitch Munns

Graduate Student
Psychological & Brain Science

connection between different components of spatial cognition, i.e. navigating vs. mentally rotating an object vs. interpreting a graph, and how all of this relates to learning and memory.

Alexis Topete

Graduate Student
Psychological & Brain Sciences

Lily Turkstra

Graduate Student
Psychological & Brain Sciences

Neuropsychological components of vision loss, prosthetic vision rehabilitation strategies, and accessibility design

Apurv Varshney

Graduate student
Computer Science

Bionic Vision using Computer vision and human computer interaction (HCI) techniques

Mable Zhou

Graduate Student
Psychological & Brain Sciences

Navigation assistance and enhancement. Spatial learning in immersive and real environments.

Undergraduate Students

Tori LeVier

Lab Manager
Psychological & Brain Sciences

Anderson Liu

Student Assistant
Computer Science