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Professor Kirsh, Shailo, and Justin discuss research concepts.
Studying Humans in their Natural Settings

We know more about how baboons forage and play than about how humans behave in the privacy of their offices. In the Interactive Cognition Lab we are studying human behavior in natural settings such as offices, computer games, and classrooms in order to deepen our understanding of the principles underlying everyday activity.
"How do office dwellers work in their everyday environment?"
Designers are eager to create new digital supports for offices, kitchens and classrooms, but before such tools can be invented it is important to learn how people actually work and manage their tasks. The product that has been emerging is a better theoretical grasp of the dynamics of activity, one that is based on a richer ontology of resources and the activity space in which people operate. This work is helping to set the stage for Context Aware Environments in which networked sensors and processors continuously model the state of an environment, and work with new digital artifacts to help offices and other environments adapt to the changing needs of their inhabitants.
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Outstanding Cognitive Science Graduates
Jun 15

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2009 Outstanding Graduates Overcame Challenges, Worked with Nobel Prize Laureates
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2008-9 TAs and IA Teaching Awards
Jun 10

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The outstanding CogSci TAs and IAs for 2008-2009 have been named. Congratulations to all!
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MINORITY ACCESS TO RESEARCH CAREERS PROGRAM (MARC)
Jun 08

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NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 2-YEAR STIPEND OPPORTUNITY
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Katherine DeLong - PhD Defense
Jul 23 -- CSB 180, 11:00am

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Electrophysiological explorations of linguistic pre-activation and its consequences during online sentence processing
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