PsychEng Seminar 2023 April 11: Prof. Marianne Touchie, U of T MIE/CivMin

Room 2135, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada

Speaker: Prof. Marianne Touchie Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering and Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto Title: TBC Abstract: TBC Biography: Marianne Touchie is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and is jointly appointed in the Departments of Civil & Mineral Engineering, and Mechanical & Industrial Engineering. She completed […]

PsychEng Seminar 2023 March 21: Towards Environmental Adjustment for Social Communication with Autistic Individuals with Prof. Meng-Chuan Lai, U of T Psychiatry

Room 2135, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada

Speaker: Prof. Meng-Chuan Lai Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto Title: Towards environmental adjustment for social communication with autistic individuals Abstract: Autism has historically been viewed as a medical condition that requires intervention targeting at the diagnosed individual to develop their social-communication skills. With increasing appreciation of neurodiversity (i.e., the variety of different […]

PsychEng Seminar 2023 February 7: Prof. Dirk Bernhardt-Walther, U of T Psychology

Room 2135, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada

Speaker: Prof. Dirk Bernhardt-Walther Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Title: TBC Abstract: TBC Biography: Having been trained as a physicist and computer scientist, Dirk Bernhardt-Walther earned a Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology in 2006, working with Christof Koch on modeling visual attention and object recognition. […]

PsychEng Seminar 2022 November 22: Prof. Patricia Trbovich, U of T Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation

Room 2135, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada

Room 2135, Bahen Centre 40 St. George Street   Speaker: Prof. Patricia Trbovitch Associate Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto Title: Introduction to Human Factors and User Centred Design Abstract: will be available at latest 1 week before seminar date. Biography: will be available at latest 1 week before seminar date. Registration […]

PsychEng Seminar 2022 Oct 25: Prof. Jason Plaks, U of T Department of Psychology

Room 2135, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada

Room 2135, Bahen Centre 40 St. George Street   Speaker: Prof. Jason Plaks, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Title: What Makes a Robot Seem Like a Moral Entity? Abstract: will be available at latest 1 week before seminar date. Biography: will be available at latest 1 week before seminar date. Registration link: will be […]

PsychEng Seminar 2022 Oct. 4: Prof. David Fisman, U of T Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Room 2135, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada

Room 2135, Bahen Centre 40 St. George Street Speaker: Prof. David Fisman, MD, MPH Professor, Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Title: Why Can’t We Innovate During Pandemics? Registration link below. Abstract: The curious failure to use available science on aerosols, and aerosol-borne transmission of disease, has been a signal […]

PsychEng Seminar 2022 September 20: Prof. Li Shu, U of T Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Room 2135, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada

Room 2135, Bahen Centre 40 St. George Street Speaker: Prof. Li Shu, PhD, P.Eng. Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto Title: Overview of Collaborative Specialization in Psychology, Psychiatry and Engineering (PsychEng) Please register at the following link to help us plan: https://shulab.mie.utoronto.ca/events/psycheng-rsvp-2022sept20-shu-mie/ Abstract:  I will provide an overview of the graduate-level Collaborative Specialization in Psychology, […]

PsychEng Seminar: Analysis of Designer Performance and Emotion in Collaborative and Traditional Computer-Aided Design, Prof. Alison Olechowski

Room 2135, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada

Analysis of Designer Performance and Emotion in Collaborative and Traditional Computer-Aided DesignProf. Alison Olechowski, Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, U of TPlease use below link for abstract, biography, and to RSVP at least 24 hours before event:RSVP link

PsychEng Seminar: Young drivers, distraction, and advanced vehicle technologies with Birsen Donmez

Room 2135, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada

Registration required.View all upcoming PsychEng seminars.  AbstractDistraction is a significant contributing factor to young driver crashes. Crash risk is known to decrease with driving experience, partly because of the improved skills to control the vehicle, but also because of the improved capability to distribute attention, even when distracted. A series of empirical studies will be presented evaluating […]

PsychEng Seminar: Grouping visual elements in a meaningful way for human and computer vision with Prof. Dirk Bernhardt-Walther

Room 2135, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada

Registration required. View all upcoming PsychEng seminars.     Abstract: Research in the past three decades has propelled our understanding of both human and machine vision: We can describe much of the neural mechanisms of human visual perception, and state-of-the-art machine vision can detect objects with high accuracy. Yet research on both human and machine vision […]

PsychEng Seminar: Cognitive Assessment of Executive Functions using Serious Games with Mark Chignell

Room 2135, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada

Registration required. View all upcoming PsychEng seminars.     Abstract This presentation will review several years of work on developing serious games for cognitive assessment with particular focus on executive functioning. First reviewed is a game that Dr. Mark Chignell has developed for delirium screening in emergency departments, with Dr. Jacques Lee of Sunnybrook and Mt. […]

PsychEng Seminar: Using Cognitive Neuroscience to Understand the Creative Process with Prof. Donna Rose Addis

Room 2135, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada

Registration required. View all upcoming PsychEng seminars.     Abstract Recent neuroimaging research indicates that the brain networks engaged when we remember the past are also activated by various types of creative cognition, such as imagining the future and generating creative ideas (i.e., divergent thinking). In this seminar, Dr. Donna Rose Addis will discuss the […]