{"223251":{"#nid":"223251","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Mazalek receives Three-Year NSF Grant","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/mazalek\u0022\u003EAlexandra Mazalek\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eassociate professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E, received a three-year National Science Foundation grant in July 2013.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer\u0026nbsp; project draws on recent work in embodied cognition, which suggests\u0026nbsp;that the process of building models--particularly models with dynamic \u0026nbsp;visualizations--can aid conceptual understanding in complex problem\u0026nbsp;domains.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAli\u0027s team will develop a system to support and enhance collaborative\u0026nbsp;discovery by re-representing abstract scientific problems in an embodied\u0026nbsp;way. The proposed system will allow researchers to couple visuo-spatial\u0026nbsp;skills with computational techniques to develop understanding and\u0026nbsp;collaborate to model complex biological systems.\u0026nbsp;Simultaneously, the project will develop techniques to support\u0026nbsp;collaborative modeling in science and engineering. The project will thus\u0026nbsp;test how theories from embodied cognition can inform interaction design\u0026nbsp;and create explicit knowledge about how collaborative discovery happens\u0026nbsp;in the sciences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"\u0022Getting a Grip on the Numerical World: Kinesthetic Interaction with Simulations to Support Collaborative Discovery in Systems Biology\u0022"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27725","created_gmt":"2013-07-17 10:05:45","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:34","author":"Carol Senf","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-07-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-07-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"223241":{"id":"223241","type":"image","title":"Ali Mazalek","body":null,"created":"1449243535","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:38:55","changed":"1475894894","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:14","alt":"Ali Mazalek","file":{"fid":"197352","name":"img_24.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_24_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_24_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":24503,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_24_0.jpg?itok=PoaOV36a"}}},"media_ids":["223241"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"340","name":"collaboration"},{"id":"69821","name":"complex problem domains"},{"id":"69811","name":"dynamic visualizations"},{"id":"69801","name":"model building"},{"id":"7011","name":"NSF grant"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ali.mazalek@lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eali.mazalek@lmc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}