| rbrady at cs.duke.edu | |
| Office | 2509 CIEMAS |
| Phone | (919) 660-0185 |
| Web page | http://vis.duke.edu/ |
Education
M.A., Statistics, University of California, 1986B.A., Mathematics and Physics, Macalester College, 1984
Research
Rachael Brady specializes in the use of technology to aid data exploration and analysis. She promotes the use of visualization and virtual reality technologies for improved understanding of scientific data and human cognition. With over twenty-years of experience, she is a leader in the creation of facilities and development of solutions that combine statistical methods, digital image processing methods and visualization methods to provide insight into scientific questions. Brady is the founding director of the Visualization Technology Group at Duke University (vis.duke.edu), where she is responsible for the installation and operation of a 6-sided CAVE-like virtual reality theater. She is also actively involved with developing innovative cross-disciplinary research programs through her role as faculty advisor to the ISIS (interdisciplinary studies + information sciences) program (isis.duke.edu). In this capacity she has worked on art and engineering collaborations that have produced the FreeSpace and soundSense demonstration/performances. Most recently, Rachael Brady has been deeply involved with the Visual Studies Initiative, housed in the Art, Art History , and Visual Studies (visualstudies.duke.edu).
Selected Publications
- McMahan RP, Bowman DA, Zielinski DJ, Brady RB, Evaluating Display Fidelity and Interaction Fidelity in a Virtual Reality Game, Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality (Accepted, March 2012).
- Zielinski, DJ, McMahan RP, Brady R, Shadow Walking: an unencumbered locomotion technique for systems with under-floor projection, IEEE Virtual Reality Conference (March 2011).
- Huff NC, Hernandez JA, Fecteau ME, Zielinski DJ, Brady R, Labar KS, Revealing context-specific conditioned fear memories with full immersion virtual reality, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, vol.5 no.75 (2011).
- Huff NC, Zielinski DJ, Fecteau ME, Brady R, LaBar KS, Human fear conditioning conducted in full immersion 3-dimensional virtual reality, Journal of Visualized Experiments, vol.9 no. 42 (August 2010).
- Block, Jeremy and Zielinski, David and Chen, Vincent and Davis, Ian and Vinson, E and Brady, Rachael and Richardson, Jane and Richardson, David, KinImmerse: Macromolecular VR for NMR ensembles, Source Code for Biology and Medicine, vol.4 (2009), pp. 1-14, BioMed Central [1751-0473-4-3].