Nicholas Giudice received the PhD degree in the cognitive and braine sciences program in the Department of Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 2004 and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 2005 to 2008. Since the Fall of 2008, he has worked at the University of Maine, where he is an associate professor of spatial informatics in the School of Computing and Information Science and directs the Virtual Environments and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) lab (www.vemilab.org). His research program combines techniques from experimental psychology and human-computer interaction with an emphasis on studying multimodal spatial cognition (vision, touch, audition, and language). He has specific research interests in the domains of spatial learning and navigation with and without vision across the lifespan and in the specification of information requirements for the design and evaluation of spatial interfaces for use in assistive technology and gerontechnology. He has authored or co-authored more than 80 peer reviewed publications, including journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, and edited volumes with the leading researchers in these areas.