Research Roundup is a sequence that options Q&As with UNC college to share insights about their analysis in an approachable, bite-sized format. Each installment highlights the questions driving their work, why it issues and the way it connects to broader points in our neighborhood and past.
It’s no secret that the area of know-how is advancing at an ever-increasing tempo.
In the final decade alone, improvements like synthetic intelligence (AI), self-driving vehicles, digital actuality (VR), augmented actuality and extra have developed by leaps and bounds, changing into virtually unrecognizable when in comparison with what they have been at their inception.
The development of know-how is in every single place — typically offering a significant profit to individuals’s lives and sometimes…less so.
But there’s little question that know-how is enabling humanity to do issues beforehand not possible — or, at the very least, unfeasible. That’s actually the case for Joanna Lewis, Ph.D., affiliate professor of Psychological Sciences in the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences.
“Not only does technology allow us to conduct research in psychology in ways that are far more immersive and realistic than we’ve ever been able to before, it also enables us to do it in an ethical way.”
-Joanna Lewis, Ph.D.
From AI to VR, on this month’s Research Roundup, Lewis dives into how she’s leveraging rising applied sciences to achieve additional perception into the workings of the human thoughts.