Bridget Baird: Research

Ongoing research is looking at connections between haptics and audio and how multimodal experiences can assist in the performance of spatial cognition tasks such as way finding. Other research interests include virtual reality and archaeology, language parsers. Past research interests include conducting a virtual orchestra and the visualization of sound. Student research projects have included looking at virtual reality to assist people with phobias, exploring correlations between haptics and sound, experiments in way-finding, human-computer interaction and using haptics to produce a virtual violin bow. During the past several summers I have also worked with students in haptics and audio, in categorizatoin of musical grammars, enumerations of trees, and artificial intelligence and music. Earlier research includes natural language processing, visualization of parallel algorithms, ordered groups, and semigroups of homeomorphisms. I am a great believer in involving students, as much as possible, in research. Students have wonderful insights and ideas and they benefit from exposure to interesting and sustained research. Other areas of interest include concern about gender equity, efforts to increase the participation by women and minorities in mathematics and computer science, mathematics in the K-12 curriculum, and the role of technology in education.

Research Projects