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School of Psychology alumnus Myounghoon "Philart" Jeon has received the Earl Alluisi Award for Early Career Achievement from the American Psychological Association. The award recognizes outstanding achievements made by psychologists within 10 years of receiving their PhD. Jeon is currently an associate professor at Virginia Tech. Jeon received his Ph.D. in Engineering Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction from the School of Psychology, where he was a member of Professor Bruce Walker's Sonification Lab.
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Lauren Moran, a first-year doctoral student in the School of Psychology's Work Family Health Lab, is working with the United Nations to develop its talent management systems, including measurement of employee engagement, and improve reward and recognition systems. Moran and her colleagues recently published an article about their work in The Industrial Psychologist Magazine.
wearable sensorImproving creativity, managing anxiety, and strengthening relationships are just three of the benefits of daydreaming, according to this Yahoo!Life story that cites academic studies touting the good side of occasionally checking out from your own head. A 2019 study that showed increased productivity from daydreaming is Georgia Tech's entry; that study was co-authored by Kelsey Merlo, now at the University of South Florida who received her M.S. and Ph.D. from the School of Psychology.
hurricane reliefIf you noticed a Tom Cruise deepfake video making the rounds recently on your social media accounts, you'll want to check out another video — this tutorial on deepfakes (videos that use artificial intelligence to replace the likeness of one person with another) by School of Psychology graduate student Zachary Tidler, who is investigating the phenomenon and the ethical issues raised by them. Here's an earlier story about Tidler's research and how he hopes it leads to more media literacy in the U.S.
Tami PhillipsThe headline on this story doesn't refer to the actual lifting of a piano. It's about learning a complicated skill (like piano) at a later age in life, long after the neuroplasticity that helps younger people learn the necessary dexterity and musical skils has faded. The story quotes Alexander P. Burgoyne, a postdoctoral researcher in Randall Engle's Attention and Working Memory Lab in the School of Psychology.
Emily KaufmanIn addition to encouraging weekly testing, mask-wearing, and physical distancing, Georgia Tech researchers have developed even more ways for members of the Georgia Tech community to help slow the spread. Those include a unique voice-related project led by Bruce Walker, professor in the School of Psychology.
Campus Initiatives Continue to Tackle Challenge of Covid-19Samsung is partnering with Georgia Tech on research associated with consumer electronics so that individuals with disabilities can achieve independence, improve quality of life, and enhance their community participation. The electronics manufacturing giant is highlighting its partnership with the Wireless Inclusive Technologies Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC), a collaboration including Shepherd Center’s Virginia C. Crawford Research Institute and Georgia Tech. Bruce Walker, professor in the School of Psychology and director of the Sonification Lab, is a member of the RERC.
Benjamin ShipleyDobromir Rahnev, assistant professor in the School of Psychology, has won the American Psychological Assocation's Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions Award.
The APA Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology honor early career scientists for contributions in the first nine years post-PhD.
Audio & Video Processing and Learning; Radar & Array Processing
By listening for specific vocal changes, BRAVE Innovation's COVIDvoice will be able to detect if a voice donor has COVID-19. This will act as an early warning system for donors who provide contact information, and will help us get our schools, teams, and communities back together, safely. To complete research, tens of thousands more voice recordings are needed to finalize the voice-based AI-automated COVID-19 screening tool, according to Bruce Walker, BRAVE Innovation's CEO and Chief Research Officer, and professor in the School of Psychology and the School of Interactive Computing.
The ask is simple: visit the http://covidvoice.net/ website, take 15 seconds to record the short scripted prompt, then repeat this process two more times.
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A 2021 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award goes to Terri Dunbar, an engineering psychology graduate student in the School of Psychology. The Association for American Colleges & Universities presents the award, which recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education, and who are committed to academic innovation in the areas of equity, community engagement, and teaching and learning.
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