Graduate Student, Psychology
Thesis Title: Vection in Depth during Active Self-Motion: Effect of Active Control, Multisensory Stimulation and Sensory Conflict
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A/Prof Stephen Palmisano (Action and Perception Lab, School of Psychology)
Prof Julie Steele (Biomechanics Lab, School of Health Sciences) |
About
I'm currently in the 3rd Year of my Ph.D at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
My research interests are in the field of visual perception, particularly the role of vision in self-motion perception and aircraft landings. My honours research investigated visual cues used by pilots while landing an aircraft, focusing on factors that affect pilots’ glideslope accuracy and landing quality.
For my PhD research, I'm examining factors that affect the perception of self-motion through a 3-D simulated virtual environment. I induce self-motion visually (also known as vection) and systematically stimulate additional senses to self-motion, such as the vestibular, somatosensory and proprioceptive systems under a range of different conditions. Specifically, I'm interested in how these senses integrate during the illusion of self-motion (with the hope of generalising to real-world settings) and what happens when there is conflict between the different sensory systems (e.g. postural instability and motion sickness).
