Daniel Belcher is a MS in Design Computing Student in the CAUP at the UW. His interests include Spatial Cognition, Computer Graphics, Augmented Reality and Tangible Interfaces, Computer Support Collaborative Work, Environmental Modeling and Sustainable Architecture.
Dan is also a member of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory (
http://www.hitl.washington.edu) at the University of Washington, where he works on various applications of Augmented Reality and Tangible Interfaces in Human Computer Interaction.
He received his Bachelors in Cognitive Science and Philosophy, magna cum laude, from Brown University in 2002. At Brown, he was a member of the Virtual Environment Navigation Lab (
http://www.cog.brown.edu/Research/ven_lab/), where his undergraduate honors thesis focused on the "Behavioral Dynamics of Steering and Obstacle Avoidance" in fully-immersive virtual environments.
Dan joined the Design Machine Group in Fall of 2006.