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Jonathan Kelly, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychology Office: W253 Lagomarcino Hall Phone: 515-294-2322 Fax: 515-294-6424 E-mail: Mailing address: Jonathan Kelly Department of Psychology W112 Lagomarcino Hall Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011-3180

About Me: I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Iowa State University, and I am also a member of the Human-Computer Interaction graduate program. I completed my graduate work in psychology at UC Santa Barbara, and later spent 3 years as a postdoc at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. Research Interests: My primary research areas are navigation and spatial memory. I am interested in how people remember new places and find their way to familiar places. Sometimes people use maps or other navigational aids, and other times they use their spatial memories. I am also interested in why some people are so good at finding their way, and never seem to get lost, while others get disoriented easily. Experiments in my lab often make use of virtual reality (VR) to create unique and well-controlled experimental settings. For example, one project in our lab focuses on the role of environmental shape in navigation. Using VR, we can readily create circular rooms, trapezoidal rooms, rooms with and without landmarks, and even rooms that change shape over time. Please follow the PROJECTS and PUBLICATIONS links to find out more about research in the Navigation Lab. Publications: Click to view Navigation Lab publications Teaching: - Fall 2009: Cognitive Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction - Spring 2010: Human Factors in Technology Curriculum Vitae: Download pdf