Distinguished Lecture Series: William H. Warren (Brown University)

Distinguished Lecture Series

On 12 December 2019, Professor William H. Warren (Brown University) will kick off the SCIoI Distinguished Lecture Series.

William Warren earned his undergraduate degree at Hampshire College (1976), his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from
the University of Connecticut (1982), did post-doctoral work at the University of Edinburgh, and has been a professor at Brown ever since.

My research focuses on the visual control of action – in particular, human locomotion and navigation.
On the one hand, I want to understand how motor behavior such as gait and other rhythmic movements are dynamically organized.
On the other, I seek to explain how such behavior is adaptively regulated by visual information in complex environments.
Using virtual reality techniques, my research team investigates problems such as the visual control of steering, obstacle avoidance,
pedestrian interactions, and collective crowd behavior.