| Michael Lewis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Science and Telecommunications in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. He has conducted human factors research in variety of areas including the nuclear power industry, robotics, and information retrieval. His interests in gerontology focus on the use of computer and robotics technologies to assist the elderly.
Research areas of interest: computer robotics technologies to assist the elderly alzheimer’s disease
Representative articles
Lewis, M. & Jacobson, J. (2002) Game Engines in Research. Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM), NY: ACM 45(1), 27-48.
Morse, E., Lewis, M., and Olsen, K. (2002) Testing visual information retrieval methodologies case study: comparative analysis of textual, icon graphical and 'spring' displays. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Silver Spring, MD: ASIST 53(1) 28-40.
Hughes, S., Lewis, M., and Wang, J. (to appear) Robotic camera control for remote exploration, Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2004), April 24-29, Vienna, Austria.
Lewis, M., Sycara, K., and Payne, T. (2003). Agent Roles in Human Teams Notes of the AAMAS 2003 Workshop on Humans and Multiagent Systems, Melbourne, AU, July 14.
Lewis, M., Sycara, K., and Nourbakhsh, I. (2003) Developing a Testbed for Studying Human-robot Interaction in Urban Search and Rescue Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCII'03), Crete, Greece, June 22-27. |
