Things were a bit uncertain at times, but... I am elated that this grant finally received the Notice of Award today and excited to continue our work with @noaa.gov on community-level #disaster preparedness!!

Spent the past few days on the Hill with colleagues at @emoryuniversity.bsky.social to advocate for children’s health research and NIH support! We shared “Weather the Storm” #VR during the Congressional briefing and held a demo 😎 #communication #research #children #health #metaverse #translational

Super excited to share this podcast with you! In this episode of #WeatherGeeks, I had a wonderful chat with host Jen Carfagno about Weather the Storm, our #VR integrated training package for communicating #hurricane and storm surge risks for #disaster #preparedness.

UGA Research write up of some of the cutting edge research on education and training taking place on campus - featuring our recent @noaa.gov project where I got to get into a little more detail about the motivations behind the #VR hurricane experience. research.uga.edu/news/brains-...

www.foxweather.com/watch/fmc-mb... Recent Fox Weather coverage on our “Weather the Storm” virtual reality application. If you’re interested in trying it out and have access to a Meta Quest headset, please visit www.ugavr.com/weatherthest....

#Hurricane season 2025 is almost here! 🌧️ ☔️ Join @ugavr.bsky.social CACHE and our project partners at the @noaa.gov 2025 Hurricane Awareness Webinars Series to learn about "Weather the Storm," a training package for hurricanes and storm surge events that combines #VR w/ PPT, videos, handouts.

Community-based work has been at the core of our vision at @ugavr.bsky.social Center for Advanced Computer-Human Ecosystems(CACHE). Even when we work with cutting-edge tech, we have strived to direct our findings back to communities so that they may benefit from critical scientific advancements.

Includes fireside chat with @sunjooahn.bsky.social and VR demos following the talk!

Chief Meteorologist @mattdevittweather.bsky.social of WINK News reviews "Weather the Storm," a life-saving #VR simulation we developed and tested at the @ugavr.bsky.social, in collab with @noaa.gov, Clemson University, the National Hurricane Center, Georgia Sea Grant, and South Carolina Sea Grant.

Our study on IEEEVR2020 was one of the craziest but exciting field studies we were able to pull together miraculously during the early days of COVID. Thanks to @drlauralevy.bsky.social for being such an amazing partner-in-crime 😎 Let's do it again soon! URL to the paper & findings in Laura's post!

Delighted to share the results of our 3-year partnership with NOAA and the National Hurricane Center! "Weather the Storm," a training and education package for hurricanes and storm surge events, is now available for public use (download link in the article). wpo.noaa.gov/bringing-sto...

In Paris to give a talk at Université Paris Nanterre 🇫🇷 This is a three university inter-laboratory collaboration, where the labs are interested in exploring the use of #VR in the psychological mechanisms that shape and drive embodiment and ensuing behavior change. If you're in Paris, swing by!

One of the best things about working on federally funded projects is getting to know the people behind the scenes. What used to feel like just numbers and calls for proposals is now filled with friends and familiar faces and that really changes what the job feels like.

[NEW PUBLICATION] This is the first in a series of pubs coming up from our @noaa.gov project in partnership with the National Hurricane Center, using #VR to communicate the risk of storm surge/flooding. One of the first Qs to address was, can we scale the use of VR as a risk communication tool?

CACHE is celebrating all the incredible students graduating this season — both from within our center and beyond! Your hard work, passion, and perseverance have paid off, and we can’t wait to see the amazing things you’ll achieve. 🎓 🌟

This is me after submitting a multi-institutional grant proposal with just 45 minutes left on the clock 😮‍💨 Everything that could possibly go wrong... did go wrong. Surprise. But we successfully crossed the finish line!!

The list of workshops #IEEEVR 2025 is out!!! 👉 ieeevr.org/2025/program... #VR #XR #AR #SpatialComputing Pleeeaaas share! 😊

In June, I had the delightful opportunity to speak at The Future of Scientific Conferencing workshop hosted by the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, to discuss inclusive #conferencing, innovative formats, and #sustainability of scientific gatherings.

There are many layers here, but I want to comment on one aspect of these findings for now--the editorial board representation. Some will see this and immediately think: we need to get more POC on our boards! I understand that impulse, but encourage you to think a few steps down the game tree 1/n.

Thank you AJC for covering our project! We tested the efficacy of a #MR system with 300+ kids & their parents across 19 afterschools: The system is particularly effective for kids who tend to be sedentary at baseline. Conversion of sedentary time is mostly to light intensity physical activity.

Agreed. It also involves a group of ppl saying that your work is brilliant and matters, and another group of ppl saying that your work is worthless, and you hope that the former group is larger than the latter group 😂

‘Tis the season for homemade marshmallows! Are they worth the extra effort? 💯 You need: sugar, gelatin, water, high powered stand mixer, and a candy thermometer. Then enjoy the fresh fluffy bliss 🤤

Been having a series of delightful meetings, yes, even at the university level. Although we gathered for business, at the end of the day, it was ppl caring about the well-being of ppl. Committee work is often grueling and thankless but sometimes, you have the good ones. I was happy to serve today. 🫡

#HMC starter pack…let me know if you want added.

Behavioral science is troubled and overly influential in general, but “business-school psychology,” as my colleague and editor @engber.bsky.social calls it, is basically just a machine for fraud, erected to enrich its fraudsters. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Hi 🦋, I rolled in my own poop this morning and got a warm bath and a blowout at 7:30am, while my owners went to work looking tired and disheveled. Hope your day is off to a refreshing start as mine! 🐶

Hi #commsky friends -- if you're a member of HCTD at NCA, a reminder that we're seeking nominations for leadership and committees:

As this platform grows, I thought I'd share a starter pack of #XR + #HCI researchers I've come across! This includes individuals exploring augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality, and related areas. Let me know if you would like to be added or have any recommendations! #VR #AR #MR

[NEW PUBLICATION 🧵] Most of the projects at the CACHE center involves a community partner in under-resourced communities (e.g., YMCA, Boys & Girls Club, public libraries, science museums, aquariums) but we rarely get to tell the backstory of how we work in close partnership with these communities.

Hey #commsky. Hot off the presses in JMCQ! An insightful piece by Mats Ekström & Adam Shehata. Read it to find out about the circumstances under which people develop #authoritarian attitudes and the of role #news media within. @profdimitrova.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Rutgers University School of Communication and Information is searching for a new Dean! Below is the posting but also happy to answer questions or tell you more about SC&I! www.agbsearch.com/searches/dea...

There are the meetings that make you feel like you're slowly dying inside. Then there are the meetings that light every part of your brain and you wonder, "Where have you BEEN all my life!" - the potential spark of a lifelong academic partnership. Those are the moments that make this job worth it ✨

Super excited to join the speaker list for the Spring School on Social #XR in Amsterdam, this time, in person! If you're interested in anything related to VR/AR/MR, hope you'll join us! Registration for the event closes on Dec 15th. See below for more info #CommSky 🔗 www.dis.cwi.nl/spring-schoo...

The CACHE team wrapped up our very first NIHR01 project this past summer in partnership with the YMCA of Metropolitan ATL - here's a nice summary of what we've been doing! #CommSky #healthcomm #PublicHealth news.uga.edu/vr-may-help-...

Processing some visa related paperwork for scholars at our center; am reminded of why it’s so hard for immigrant scholars to secure a stable position in academia. And am heartbroken that it might get worse. 😢

Our group is hiring a postdoc. Applications due Nov 22. It’s a sweetheart job, self-directed research, mentoring, great colleagues and so many opportunities to learn new things. socialmediacollective.org/2024/10/07/s...

Come join the Center for Advanced Computer-Human Ecosystems (CACHE) at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia as a Postdoctoral Research Associate! Review of application begins Feb 29, 2024. tinyurl.com/mvpwebsd

Current state of affairs in editing a journal: Everyone wants to submit but no one wants to review. 🤷‍♀️

I've always wanted to attend SXSW but the timing was slightly off. This year, I am delighted to participate in one of the XR Track sessions at SXSW 2024! If you're attending this year's SXSW, I'd love to meet with you - please reach out! www.sxsw.com/news/2023/pa...

Last call! Abstracts (250 words) due Nov 1.

Well I guess it’s time to close my “X” account and start getting more active here 👋