Thomas Wehrle, Ph.D. | Address: University of Geneva ThomasDOTWehrleATunigeDOTch |
1983 - 1989 | Studies in Psychology (Biological-mathematical, Applied, and Clinical Psychology) and Computer Science at the University of Zürich |
1989 - 1992 | Research and teaching assistant at the AI-Lab of the Dept. of Information Technology, University of Zürich |
1993 | Ph.D. from the University of Zürich (Thesis: A psychological modeling environment for autonomous agents) |
1994 - 2001 | Research fellow (Maître assistant) at the Geneva Emotion Research Group at the University of Geneva with an interesting 4 months excursion to the LATL in 1997. |
2001-2004 | Assistant professor (Maître d'enseignement et de recherche) at the GERG and TECFA at the Faculty of Psychology and Education of the University of Geneva. |
since January 2004 |
Scientific collaborator at the Psychological Institute of the University of Zurich, and external scientific collaborator at the Faculty of Psychology and Education of the University of Geneva. |
Since 2004 |
Project on Motivation, Cognition, and Emotion in Virtual Environments (as principal researcher, together with Susanne Kaiser) |
2000 - 2004 |
Swiss National Science Foundation project on Analyzing the relation between emotional experience, appraisal, and facial expression using synthetic stimuli (FNRS1114-061657.00, as principal researcher, together with Susanne Kaiser) |
2000 - 2003 |
SpaceMiners: Project on Motivational and affective aspects of computer supported collaboration in the context of a 3D micro world, in collaboration with Susanne Kaiser, Caroline Floccia, and Jeremy Goslin (supported by GIL funding). |
2000 | DupliCode: Joint venture project with a software company in Zürich on advanced techniques for the detection of similarities and duplication in source code. |
1997 - 2003 |
Swiss Priority Program on Emotion, stress and coping in families with adolescents: Assessing personality factors and situational aspects in an experimental computer game (SPP 5004-047771/058462, as principal researcher, together with Susanne Kaiser) |
1994 - 2000 |
Swiss National Science Foundation project on Dynamic man-computer interactions as a paradigm in emotion research (FNRS 11-39551.93/049629.96, as principal researcher, together with Susanne Kaiser) |
1998 –2001 |
Swiss National Science Foundation project on Robust Facial Expression Recognition through Temporal and Appearance-based Models (FNRS 2151-054000.98, first principal researcher: Dr. Jürgen Lüttin, Computer Vision Group, IDIAP, Martigny). |
1997 |
Development of the GBGen system (a sentence generator) at the Laboratory for Language Analysis and Technology (Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Technologie du Langage; LATL), University of Geneva (as collaborator). |
1989 - 1992 |
National Science Foundation Project Portable AI Lab (40-27006.89) as part of the National Research Program (NFP 23): Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (as collaborator). |
1990 - 1991
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Joint venture project with the Psychological Institute at the University of Zürich and a publishing company (Curti Medien AG) on Registration of eye movements in the domain of reader research (as collaborator). |