Background
Badler, Norman Ira was born on May 3, 1948 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Bernard and Lillian Lorraine Badler.
(During the past decade, high-performance computer graphic...)
During the past decade, high-performance computer graphics have found application in an exciting and expanding range of new domains. Among the most dramatic developments has been the incorporation of real-time interactive manipulation and display for human figures. Though actively pursued by several research groups, the problem of providing a synthetic or surrogate human for engineers and designers already familiar with computer-aided design techniques was most comprehensively solved by Norman Badler's computer graphics laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. The breadth of that effort as well as the details of its methodology and software environment are presented in this volume. The book is intended for human factors engineers interested in understanding how a computer-graphics surrogate human can augment their analyses of designed environments. It will also inform design engineers of the state of the art in human figure modeling, and hence of the human-centered design central to the emergent concept of concurrent engineering. In fulfilling these goals, the book additionally documents for the entire computer graphics community a major research effort in the interactive control of articulated human figures.
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computer and information science educator
Badler, Norman Ira was born on May 3, 1948 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Bernard and Lillian Lorraine Badler.
Bachelor in Creative Studies, University California, Santa Barbara, 1970. Master of Science in Computer Science, University Toronto, Toronto, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, University Toronto, Toronto, 1975.
Lecturer, U. Toronto, 1973-1974; assistant professor computer and information science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1974-1979; associate professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1979-1986; professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1986; Cecilia Fitler Moore professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1990-1994; director Center for Human Modeling and Simulation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1994. Member, chairman program committees numerous conferences and workshops.
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(During the past decade, high-performance computer graphic...)
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, Association for Computing Machinery (vice chairman special interest group on graphics 1979-1981, member special interest group on artificial intelligence), Cognitive Science Society, American Association for ArtificialIntelligence, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Virginia Renke, June 14, 1968. Children: Jeremy, David.