Collaborators: Those with whom we have published, conducted research, received competitive awards, or are professionally affiliated.

From 2005 onward, alphabetized:

All links lead to external webpages.

Bakdash, Jon (Dept. Psychology, University of Utah and Human Factors researcher, Utah VA Center). Collaborator on several papers; first unofficial grad student; thanks for all your statistical support. 

Betty, Maryann *(Dept. Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara). Collaborator on our JEP-LMC paper; collaborator on our VSS-06  presentation; thanks for all your inimitable help and ruthless organization during my postdoc. (Now in Med School).

Corey, Rick (Intermedia Dept., University of Maine). Thanks for your dedication and input on course, lab, and webpage development. This site would not have happened without your expertise. Thanks also for your big picture thinking and no BS views.

Cuddy, Kit (Dept. SIE, University of Maine). First official grad student; thanks for your help with VEMI Lab development, for your expertise in teaching the VR lab section, and for going over this website with a fine-toothed comb as many times as I asked you to without complaining about it.

Daniilidis, Kostas (Dept. Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania). Collaborator and PI of multi-institution NSF grant CDI-0835689.

Golledge, Reg *(Dept. Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara). Collaborator on several papers; and thanks for all the instructive discussions on matters spatial (and all those references). * deceased, June 2009.

Havey, Gary (President, Advanced Medical Electronics). Collaborator on several SBIR Phase I initiatives.

Kalia, Amy *(Dept. Psychology, University of Minnesota). Collaborator (lead) on our Perception-08 paper; collaborator on several conference presentations, thanks "buddy". * Now postdoc at MIT

Klatzky, Roberta (Dept. Psychology, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University). Collaborator on several papers; collaborator on NIH grant R01-EY016817 and NSF grant BCS-0745328; and thanks for sharing so freely of your appreciation of science and gift of words.

Legge, Gordon (Dept. Psychology and Minnesota Laboratory for Low-Vision Research, University of Minnesota). Collaborator on several papers; primary graduate school advisor; sponsor of multiple grad school fellowships; and mentor. You have had more influence on my academic development than anyone.

Lichter, Patrick (President and CTO, Koronis Biomedical Technologies). Collaborator on our EMBC-08 conference paper; and collaborator (PI) of NIH grant EY017228-02A2.

Lobben, Amy and Lawrence, Megan (Dept. Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene). Collaborators on several projects; thanks also both for all your support.

Long, Richard (Dept. Blindness and Low Vision Studies, Western Michigan University). Collaborator/lead on our “Red Book” chapter.

Loomis, Jack (Dept. Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara). Collaborator on several papers; collaborator on NIH grant R01-EY016817 (PI) and NSF grant BCS-0745328 (PI); Postdoc supervisor; and mentor, thanks for so many great conversations, you taught me more about research and science than anybody. 

Manduchi, Roberto (Dept. Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz). Collaborator on NSF grant CDI-0835689

Marston, James (Dept. Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara). Collaborator on several papers, Thanks for your introduction to SB.

May, Mike (President and CEO, Sendero Group). Collaborator (and lead) on CSUN-07 presentation and NIDRR grant H133A011903.

McGrath, Tim (Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Maine). Thanks for your programming perseverance and enthusiasm for the VEMI Lab.  I could choose no better Cheerfulness Czar, and your demos are excellent.

McHugh, Brendan (Dept. Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara). Thanks for your invaluable assistance with all those experiments.

Miyanohara, Masaki (Dept. Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara). Thanks for all your contributions to my postdoc research and for your guidance on setting up the lab.

Montello, Dan (Dept. Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara). Thanks for your candor and for your thoughts and input on so many things spatial (and beyond).

Pick, Herb (Dept. Psychology and Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota). Grad school co-advisor; credited for: my decision to go to UMN, my first hook-up in MPLS, and finding my current position in ME; thanks for your support and humility.  

Ponchillia, Paul (Dept. Blindness and Low Vision Studies, Western Michigan University). Collaborator on CSUN-07 presentation.

Riehle, Tim (Koronis Biomedical Technologies). Collaborator and lead on our EMBC-08 conference paper.

Roumeliotis, Stergios (Dept.  Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota). Collaborator on NSF grant CDI-0835689.

Roy, Rudrava (Dept. Computer Science, University of Minnesota). Collaborator on our ACM-TAP paper; thanks for all the programming assistance and code development for my dissertation research.

Tietz, Jerry (Dept. Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara). Collaborator on our SC08 paper; thanks for all the software/hardware development during my postdoc.

Wolbers, Thomas (Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems, University of  Edinburgh). Collaborator on several papers; and collaborator on a UCSB Neuroimaging seed grant.

Worboys, Mike (Dept. SIE University of Maine). Collaborator and PI on NSF grant IIS-0916219.

Wutte, Magdalena *(Dept. Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara). Collaborator on Psychonomics-09 conference presentation. *now back in Munich

Acknowledgments: For those who have substantively benefited our projects by giving of their wisdom, time, technical expertise, support, or food.

Bachmann, Eric and Hodgson, Eric (The HIVE: Miami University). Thanks both for your insight on open source solutions for VR and for providing a wealth of information, your input greatly aided the often murky convolutions of developing a new lab.

Baker, Tim (University of Maine). Thanks for being the only active participant in my first class as a new prof and for your early support of the lab.

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