Presenter

Dr. E. Vincent Cross II's research in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has led to over millions in funding and numerous publications. Within HCI, Dr. Cross’s research focuses on how multimodal interfaces improve the interaction between man and machine, ultimately leading to his development of Prime III, a multimodal electronic voting system. More recently, Dr. Cross has assisted NASA in designing guidelines for how User Interfaces (UI) should be developed to display critical information for astronauts during Extravehicular Activities. Dr. Cross has also been able to apply HCI principles and techniques to solving HRI issues. This has led to research projects ranging from robots utilizing simple anthropomorphic behaviors that improve the accuracy of an operator’s mental model, to wearable robotic systems.