Bio:
Eva Hudlicka is a Principal Scientist and President of Psychometrix Associates,
in Blacksburg, VA. Her primary research focus is the development of computational
models of emotion, aimed at enhancing our understanding of the mechanisms
underlying cognition-emotion interaction, and the nature of affective biases in
decision-making. She is currently exploring the applications of this research in
the development of 'serious games' in healthcare. Her prior research interests
include affect-adaptive user interfaces, UI and visualization design, decision-support
systems, and knowledge elicitation. Prior to founding Psychometrix Associates in 1995,
she was a Senior Scientist at Bolt Beranek & Newman in Cambridge, MA.  Dr. Hudlicka
was recently a member of the National Research Council (NRC) committee on "Behavioral
Modeling and Simulation", and has contributed to an earlier (1998) NRC report on human
performance modeling. She has taught courses and tutorials in "Affective Computing",
"Computational Emotion Modeling", and "Affective Gaming", and has authored a number
of book chapters, articles and reports in these research areas, organized workshops
and symposia, and served on conference program committees. She is currently writing a
book entitled "Affective Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications", to be published
by Taylor and Francis in 2010. Dr. Hudlicka received her BS in Biochemistry from
Virginia Tech, her MS from The Ohio State University in Computer Science, and her
PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.