Erik Hofer
ORG University of Michigan
Title
BIO
Erik Hofer is a Research Intern at the
Collaboratory for Research on Electronic
Work (CREW) at the University of Michigan
School of Information. He holds a B.S. in
Psychology and a M.S. in Information, both
from the University of Michigan. He
currently works on the NEESgrid
(neesgrid.org) project as part of an
interdisciplinary team building the
national virtual collaboratory for
earthquake engineering research.
Additionally, Erik is heavily involved with
the Connection Project
(connectionproject.org) at the School of
Information, working on ways to support
distributed work. Erik will discuss the
role of video in remote instrumentation. He
will discuss the importance of and
challenges in building efficient video data
aquisition and telepresence systems in
earthquake engineering research.
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