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Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Dr. Kanav Kahol is an assistant professor in department of biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University. He is affiliated with Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, Phoenix as a research faculty in simulation education and training center (SimET Center). He is also affiliated with Center for Cognition and Decision Making (CDMC) and Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC) at Arizona State University and is the manager of the Human Machine Symbiosis Lab. Dr. Kanav Kahol's primary research interest lies in development of human-machine symbiotic entities. His background in multimedia information systems and cognitive psychology has fueled a theoretical construct that both humans and machines have certain features that are both positive and negative. This theoretical construct catalyzes a design philosophy in which machines are designed to accentuate human's positive traits and compensate for their negative traits (mutualism). It also recognizes the fact that bad design can lead to mutually destructive results for both the involved entities and design considerations always need to bear in mind this possibility (parasitism). The design is viewed as an evolutionary paradigm in which rewards are made implicit and not explicit for the entities. This makes the reward process ubiquitous not requiring humans or machines to make special efforts in symbiotic participation. Dr. Kahol conducts applied research in human machine symbiosis in the area of haptic user interfaces, multimodal simulations, human movement analysis and psychology of haptics. The projects Dr. Kahol is involved in reflect his primary research interest. In the area of cognitive surgical simulations, modeling complexity and error in critical care, assistive devices, investigations on haptic memory in Alzheimer's patients and golf movement analysis, Dr Kahol and his students explore means to render the human-machine entity productive. Dr. Kahol's teaching interest revolves around multimedia information systems, human computer interaction, pattern recognition, virtual reality and simulation environments. Dr. Kahol has published in several journals and conferences. He has guest edited a special issue in IEEE Multimedia magazine on haptic user interfaces in multimedia systems. He has organized the haptics in ambient systems (HAS) workshop in Feb 2008. He and his students have won 4 best paper awards (till Jan 2008).
My principle areas of teaching and research lie in haptic user interfaces, human computer interaction and multimedia. I have taught courses in multimedia information systems and have recently designed and taught a course on haptic user interfaces.
Education
Ph.D. - Arizona State University 2006
Contact Info
Phone: 602.827.2546
Email: kanav@asu.edu
Research/Areas of Expertise
- Haptic user interfaces
- Multimedia
- Human computer interaction
- Surgical simulation
- Assistive and rehabilitation systems
Research Center Involvement
- Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC)
Courses Taught
- BMI 502 Foundations of Biomedical Informatics Methods
Honors and Distinctions
- Best Poster aware for a poster Kahol K, Smith M, Panchanathan, S. Configurable haptic training system for laparoscopy, at Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference 15 Feb 6th â€"Feb 9th 2007.
- Best Poster award for a poster Kahol K, Smith M, Ferrara J, et al. Gesture Based Hand Movement Analysis and Haptic Feedback for Surgical Training. at Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference 14 Jan. 24 Jan. 27 2006.
- Guest Editor Special Issue, IEEE Multimedia Magazine, Haptic user interfaces in multimedia systems, July September 2006 Issue.
Selected Publications
K Kahol, P Tripathi, T McDaniel, S Panchanathan, Modeling Context in Haptic Perception, Rendering and Visualization, to be published in ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications special issue on context in multimedia Aug 2006 issue.
K. Kahol, N.C. Krishnan, V.N. Balasubramanian, M. Smith, J Ferarra, S. Panchanathan, A Leibowitz, "Measuring Movement Expertise in Surgical Tasks"?, to be published in ACM Multimedia 2006.