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Atlanta, GA | Posted: July 17, 2013
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Ali MazalekAlexandra Mazalek, associate professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, received a three-year National Science Foundation grant in July 2013.
Her project draws on recent work in embodied cognition, which suggests that the process of building models--particularly models with dynamic visualizations--can aid conceptual understanding in complex problem domains.
Ali's team will develop a system to support and enhance collaborative discovery by re-representing abstract scientific problems in an embodied way. The proposed system will allow researchers to couple visuo-spatial skills with computational techniques to develop understanding and collaborate to model complex biological systems. Simultaneously, the project will develop techniques to support collaborative modeling in science and engineering. The project will thus test how theories from embodied cognition can inform interaction design and create explicit knowledge about how collaborative discovery happens in the sciences.
