Author: Bella Virgilio

driving / Germany / hci / ires / nsf

IRES 2018: WeimAR/VR Summer School

Last week I had the amazing opportunity to participate in the summer school for NSF IRES students at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. I recognized the name Weimar from my european history education, but I had never known about the rich tradition of Bauhaus architecture and design that was born there. The Bauhaus school[…]

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driving / Germany / hci / ires / nsf / travel / ubicomp / unhires

IRES 2018: Researching Pedestrian Interactions with Autonomous Vehicles in Oldenburg, Germany

Hallo! I’m starting my fourth week in Oldenburg. Last week, I really enjoyed going deeper into my project, which involves finding out whether gesture-based interactions between pedestrians and autonomous vehicles makes pedestrians feel safer and more in-control in jaywalking situations. Most research on interactions between pedestrians and autonomous vehicles gives the vehicles all of the[…]

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