Researcher profile

JOAN SEVERSON

Built a multidisciplinary team of designers and developers integrating computer science, engineering, human factors, human computer interaction, medicine, GIS, and design to provide creative, robust and leading edge solutions to government, corporate and educational research institutions. Core competencies: mobile instrumentation design and development for cognitive assessment and analysis, real-time simulation, systems and human behavioral modeling, integrated systems research development and prototype development, scientific data visualization, geo-specific virtual environment design and development for engineering, human behavior research, instrumentation design and development for cognitive assessment and analysis, instrumented vehicle design and development, web design and development, multimedia design and development, simulation based gaming for education and research. Collaborated with and/or directed research and development of user interfaces, laboratory and in-vehicle instrumentation, virtual environments, scientific animations, multimedia, web, mobile, gaming applications, and software for interdisciplinary research. Organizations include the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, ACT, NASA, NOAA, DARPA, the National Institutes of Health, behavioral researchers (psychologists and neurologists) corporate and university research and development organizations.