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Go Patrick Go!

Congratulations to Patrick on placing top 8 finalists at the City of Vancouver Data Science Competition hosted by DataSense, a local organization aimed at promoting Data Science at UBC! The goal of the competition was to find interesting trends by analyzing years of business licensing data from the city of Vancouver. As a top 8 contestant, Patrick […]

Pavel is now a Master

Last week Pavel Kozic successfully defended his MA thesis on using Impressionist Art brushstrokes to create more engaging data visualizations for scientific use. Congrats!!  Pavel is now joining the PhD program in our department and will be jointly supervised by Christiane Hoppman (Health) and Jim Enns (Cognitive Science).

Ana at APS

Ana will be presenting her poster on how “Person perception facilitates the reactive advantage: Seeing decision-making in action” in New York City at APS 2015.

Vision lab @ VSS 2015

Rob Whitwell, Stefan Bourrier, and Nathan Wispinski will be flying out to Florida this week for VSS 2015! Stefan will be presenting his poster, “Attentional control strategies lead to different task performance across cognitive domains”, followed by Nathen with his poster titled, “More than distractor devaluation: The emotional boost of grasping a real object”. Rob […]

Good-bye Thunderbirds… Hello Golden Bears!

Congratulations to Nathan Wispinski on being accepted into the grad program at the University of Alberta! Best of luck and May the fourth be with you! <insert Oh, The Places You’ll Go! quote here>

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About us

Welcome to the UBC Vision Lab…where we study how the human mind selects information. Learn more about about our research.