Biography

Lonnie’s has a back­ground in com­put­er sci­ence and psy­chol­o­gy. She com­plet­ed her under­grad­u­ate degree at the University of British Columbia with a BSc in Cognitive Systems, a pro­gram that com­bined psy­chol­o­gy, com­put­er sci­ence, lin­guis­tics, and phi­los­o­phy. While at UBC she worked as an RA and man­ag­er of the Visual Cognition Lab with Dr. Ron Rensink, where her pri­ma­ry focus was a study on visual atten­tion & inat­ten­tion­al blindness.

Lonnie’s cur­rent work in the iSpace Lab is focused on indus­try appli­ca­tions of Virtual Reality sys­tems and how indi­vid­ual and/or system fac­tors can impact the effec­tive­ness of those appli­ca­tions.  Earlier this year, she com­plet­ed a study at the Boeing Company that looked at the impact of screen size, visual fideli­ty and indi­vid­ual dif­fer­ences (specif­i­cal­ly: com­put­er expe­ri­ence and spa­tial ori­en­ta­tion) on nav­i­ga­tion per­for­mance in a 3D CAD model of a com­mer­cial airplane.

Lonnie is also a part of the Visual Analytics research part­ner­ship between Simon Fraser and The Boeing Company. Since 2010 she has worked in the Boeing Environmental Health and Safety depart­ment devel­op­ing a new method of analy­sis to cor­re­late injury and pro­duc­tion data.

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