Geb Thomas

Research Links:
Grok Laboratory

Research Highlights

Joined the College of Engineering: 1997

Education:
Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Penn State University, 1996
M.S., Industrial Engineering, Penn State University, 1995
B.S., Physics, State University of New York, 1991

Special Fields of Knowledge:
Human/computer interface; Robotics; Virtual Reality; Human Factors

Present Research Interests:
Virtual Reality, Haptics, Robotics and Interface Design

Selected Publications:
Wagner, J., G. Thomas, and C. Stanford (2003), Forces Exerted by a Conventional Dental Explorer during Clinical Examination, Carries Research, 37:365-368.

Thomas, G. (2002), Real-Time Panospheric Image Dewarping and Presentation for Remote Mobile Robot Control, Advanced Robotics, Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, 17(4), 259-368.

Thomas, G., J.H. Goldberg, D. Cannon, and S. Hillis (2002), Surface textures improve the robustness of stereoscopic displays, J. of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 44(1): 157-170.

Thomas, G.; M. Reagan, E.A. Bettis, III; N. Cabrol, A. Rathe (2001), Analysis of science team activities during the 1999 Marsokhod Rover Field Experiment: Implications for automated planetary surface exploration, Journal of Geophysical Research—Planets, 106(E4): 7775-7783.

Wu, J., W. Chan, and G. Thomas (2001), Rapid and Accurate Inter-Robot Position Determination in Robot Teams, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 50(1): 163-168.

Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships:
Member, Phi Kappa Phi-Engineering Honor Society, March 1993, IEEE