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Alexander C. Kirlik

Associate Professor,
Industrial and Systems Engineering
School of Psychology


Alexander Kirlik is an Assistant Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, with an adjunct appointment in the School of Psychology. He was a Systems Engineer prior to earning his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1989. His dissertation, The Organization of Perception and Action in Complex Control Skills, received the George Briggs Award from the American Psychological Association, Division of Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychologists, for the best dissertation of 1989. He spent two summers as a visiting scholar at Stanford University and joined Georgia Tech in 1989; he became a member of the GVU Center in 1995. His current research interests concern understanding the psychological mechanisms underlying skilled human activity, and ecological approaches to understanding activity and guiding design.

Contact information:

    Alexander Kirlik
    Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center
    College of Computing
    801 Atlantic Drive
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Atlanta, GA, 30332-0280
    E-mail: alexander.kirlik@isye.gatech.edu

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