Winning proposals for GVU Research Grants announced

In collaboration with IPaT, the GVU Center will fund these efforts in the 2012-2013 fiscal year:

Cycle Atlanta Crowd-Sourced Bike Route Desirability
Kari Watkins (Civil Engineering) & Chris Le Dantec (LCC)

Georgia Tech Campus Driving Simulation and Research
Bruce Walker (Psych/IC) & Racel Williams (Architecture)

Computational Play
Brian Magerko (LCC), Andrea Thomaz (IC), & Mark Riedl (IC)

Collaborative Analysis of DMITRI Project Data
Thad Starner (IC) & Nate Heintzman (Biomedical Informatics, UCSD Dept. of Medicine)

The grants provide seed funding to conduct interdisciplinary research. The objective of the grant program is to promote research activities involving faculty and students from the many disciplines represented in GVU. In particular - bold new work that by its preliminary nature difficult to fund through ordinary channels.