FAR Lab
The Future Automation Research Lab
The Future Automation Research Lab studies and designs human interaction with autonomous systems. The research group features multi-disciplinary collaboration aimed at an empirical and human-centric understanding of social interaction. Our research team specializes in design research, simulation studies, interactive prototyping, active data collection, and interaction intelligence.
WENDY JU
FACULTY RESEARCH DIRECTOR
Wendy Ju is an Assistant Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and in the Information Science field at Cornell University. She is also faculty at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
SHARON YAVO AYALON
RESEARCHER
Sharon is an architect and a postdoctoral Associate at Cornell Tech, researching displacement pressure resulting from the privatization of affordable housing and developing a computerized model to simulate visualize, and predict those changes.
ILAN MANDEL
PHD CANDIDATE
Ilan Mandel is an Information Science PhD candidate at Cornell University. His interests are computational methods for social scientists and interactive device design.
CHENG GONG
PHD CANDIDATE
Natalie Friedman is an Information Science PhD candidate at Cornell University.
Her primary interests are Human-Robot Interaction (motion, telepresence, and mobility) and assistive technology.
HARISSON YU
PHD CANDIDATE
David Goedicke is an Information Science PhD candidate at Cornell University. His primary interests are acoustically aware machines.