Beschreibung
by Prof. Gavin Buckingham
In the last few years, immersive virtual reality (iVR) has become a significant part of the entertainment industry. In parallel, there has been a significant uptake in iVR for training in the context of sports, medicine, and dangerous industries. It also has exceptional potential for cognitive research, allowing for the strict control of sensory inputs in a range of ecologically-valid tasks. In this talk, I will give an overview of some of our recent iVR research in the context of lab-based perception and action research, remote assessment of upper-limb movements, and sports training.
Gavin Buckingham is a cognitive psychologist interested how humans perceive and act upon their environment with their hands. He was awarded his PhD in Psychology form the University of Aberdeen in 2008, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health and Sport Sciences at the University of Exeter. He leads the Object Interaction Lab and is a member of the Virtual Immersive Training and Learning group. At Exeter, Gavin co-leads the Exeter Immersive Research Network, and also serves as the University of Exeter UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) institutional co-lead, with a focus on research culture. He maintains a blog called 'Making it as an early-career academic', and runs workshops for PhD students and for academics at the start of their career as a lecturer.