Faculty Profile

Clayton Lewis, continued

This year, Lewis established a new research opportunity program in the computer science department, which allows undergraduates to assist Boulder campus faculty in applying educational technology to their teaching. The students develop a broader technical awareness through projects that require them to harness a variety of technical resources to solve a problem.

"We need to give students the experience of working in close collaboration with faculty and in teams to solve problems," Lewis says. "Undergraduate involvement in research should be an essential part of their learning experience."

Lewis came to CU-Boulder in 1984 from the IBM Watson Research Center, where he worked on problems related to human-computer interaction. With bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology, he continues to focus his research on the way people interact with computers, while also designing more user-friendly computer systems.