Rebecca Perry
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Rebecca Perry

Rebecca Perry has been a visual journalist with The Los Angeles Times and a freelance graphics editor and artist for the New York Times, Technology Review and many other publications. She holds a BFA and a master's degree in Media Studies, and spent a year as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. She has been involved with the Image and Meaning series of conferences and workshops on scientific visualization.

Research Areas

Rebecca's current academic interests center on cultures of seeing and representation in science, the interactions between interface and inquiry, and the emergence of a powerful class of tools and technologies facilitating the creation, collection and exploration of scientific evidence in the virtual space.

Key words

representation in science; scientific visualization; visual communication of science; computer graphics; HCI; virtual and augmented reality; virtual worlds

E-mail

rebperry@mit.edu

 

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