Daniel Belcher joined the HITLab in Summer of 2001 as an intern, and then
in 2002-2003 as a Research Assistant. After serving in the Peace Corps
in Senegal, West Africa, he returned to the HITLab in the Autumn of
2006. Currently associated with the PARVAC project
(http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/parvac/), his research interests
include Spatial Cognition, Computer Graphics, Augmented Reality and
Tangible Interfaces, Design Computing Interfaces, Environmental Modeling
and Sustainable Architecture.
Dan is currently pursuing an MS in Design Computing in the College of
Architecture and Urban Planning at the UW, where he is a member of the
Design Machine Group (http://dmg.caup.washington.edu/). He received his
Bachelors in Cognitive Science and Philosophy, magna cum laude, from
Brown University in 2002. At Brown, he was a member of the Virtual
Environment Navigation Lab (http://www.cog.brown.edu/Research/ven_lab/),
where his undergraduate honors thesis focused on the "Behavioral Dynamics
of Steering and Obstacle Avoidance" in fully immersive virtual
environments.
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