Rachael B Brady

Research Interests:

Rachael Brady specializes in the use of technology to aid data exploration and analysis. She promotes the use of visualization and virtual reality technologies for improved understanding of scientific data and human cognition. With nearly twenty-years of experience, she is a leader in the creation of facilities and development of solutions that combine statistical methods, digital image processing methods and visualization methods to provide insight into scientific questions. Brady is the founding director of the Visualization Technology Group at Duke University (vis.duke.edu), where she is responsible for the installation and operation of a 6-sided CAVE-like virtual reality theater. She is also actively involved with developing innovative cross-disciplinary research programs through her role as faculty advisor to the ISIS (interdisciplinary studies + information sciences) program (isis.duke.edu). In this capacity she has worked on art and engineering collaborations that have produced the FreeSpace and soundSense demonstration/performances.

Recent Publications: (More Publications)

• McMahan RP, Bowman DA, Zielinski DJ, Brady RB, Evaluating Display Fidelity and Interaction Fidelity in a Virtual Reality Game, Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality (2012) [abs]
• Zielinski, DJ, McMahan RP, Brady R, Shadow Walking: an unencumbered locomotion technique for systems with under-floor projection, IEEE Virtual Reality Conference (2011)
• Huff NC, Hernandez JA, Fecteau ME, Zielinski DJ, Brady R, Labar KS, Revealing context-specific conditioned fear memories with full immersion virtual reality, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, vol 5 no. 75 (2011)
• Huff NC, Zielinski DJ, Fecteau ME, Brady R, LaBar KS, Human fear conditioning conducted in full immersion 3-dimensional virtual reailty, Journal of Visualized Experiments, vol 9 no. 42 (2010) [doi]
• Block, Jeremy and Zielinski, David and Chen, Vincent and Davis, Ian and Vinson, E and Brady, Rachael and Richardson, Jane and Richardson, David, KinImmerse: Macromolecular VR for NMR ensembles, Source Code for Biology and Medicine, vol 4 (2009), pp. 1-14 [1751-0473-4-3] [abs]
• Bohrer G, Longo M, Zielinski DJ, Brady R, VR visualization as an interdisciplinary collaborative data exploration tool for large eddy simulations of biosphere-atmosphere interactions, Proceedings of International Symposium in Visual Computing (2008), pp. 866-876
• Halpin, H. and Zielinski, D.J. and Brady, R. and Kelly, G., Redgraph: Navigating Semantic Web Networks using Virtual Reality (2008), pp. 257 -258 [doi] [abs]
• Halpin, Harry and Zielinski, David and Brady, Rachael and Kelly, Glenda, Exploring Semantic Social Networks Using Virtual Reality, vol 5318 (2008), pp. 599-614 [978-3-540-88564-1_38] [abs]
• Huff NC, Alba Hernandez, Brady R, LaBar KS, The role of context in conditioned fear recovery as revealed by fully-immersive virtual reailty, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts (2008)
• R.B. BradyHuff NC, Zielinski D, Alba-Hernandez J, Brady R, LaBar KS, Adapting Human Fear Conditioning to Fully-Immersive 3-Dimensional Virtual Reality Environments, Social and Affective Neuroscience Conference Abstracts (2008)
• Huff NC, Alba-Hernandez J, Zielinski DJ, Thompson HS, Brady R, LaBar KS, Fear conditioning in a fully immersive virtual reality environment, Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts (2008)
• Bohrer, G., Wolosin, M., Brady, R., Avissar, R, A virtual canopy generator (V-CaGe) for modelling complex heterogeneous forest canopies at high resolution, Tellus B, vol 56 no. 3 (2007), pp. 566-576
• Thérézien, Mathieu and Palmroth, Sari and Brady, Rachael and Oren, Ram, Estimation of light interception properties of conifer shoots by an improved photographic method and a 3D model of shoot structure, Tree Physiology, vol 27 no. 10 (2007), pp. 1375-1387 [abs]