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Affordances are opportunities for action for a given animal (or animals) in a given environment or situation. The concept of affordance has been widely adopted in the behavioral sciences, but important questions remain. We propose a new way of understanding the nature of affordances; in particular, how affordances are related to one another. We claim that many - perhaps most - affordances emerge from non-additive relations among other affordances, such that some affordances are of higher order...

Stoffregen was a co-author with Chih-Hui Chang, PhD, a former doctoral student of the School of Kinesiology. Using data collected in Taiwan, they examined connections between real driving experience and motion sickness in VR.

Stoffregen shared advice for managing motion sickness and flight anxiety for MarketWatch.

We asked whether the quantitative kinematics of standing postural activity might be related to short-term learning of affordances. Standing participants viewed a narrow path for 15 s, and then gave perceptual reports about the distance that they could walk along the path while wearing a weighted vest (novel affordance) or while not wearing the vest (familiar affordance). In a control condition, participants gave perceptual reports about egocentric distance along the path. During the 15 s viewing...

Purpose: We investigated youth volleyball players' perception of affordances for different types of serves. Methods: Participants were separated into Less Experienced (n = 13, maximum of 3 years of competitive volleyball experience) and More Experienced (n = 11, minimum of 4 years of competitive volleyball experience) groups. In the Sideline Condition, participants were asked to report the narrowest gap, relative to either the left or right sideline, into which they could serve the ball. In the...

Chang received the PhD in Kinesiology from the University of Minnesota in 2006, and has returned to spend a full year in APAL, working with Dr. Stoffregen.

Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), PhD candidate Dani Arruda, MS, and Claire Lewis recently conducted research on affordance perception off the coast of Northern California.

Members of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL) led by Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology, recently participated in the International Conference on Perception and Action, held in Guadalajara, Mexico over June 27-30.

Research from the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL) was represented at the annual North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA) conference held June 1-3, 2023, in Toronto, Canada.\

Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor of perceptual-motor control and learning in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, for his work on the study, entitled, Perception of higher-order affordances for kicking in soccer.

Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor of perceptual-motor control and learning in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, for his work on the study, entitled, Perception of higher-order affordances for kicking in soccer.

Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor of perceptual-motor control and learning in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), was recently quoted in a Longreads article about motion sickness on amusement park rides by Emily Latimer, entitled, "I Think I’m Going to Be Sick."

We investigated the perception of higher-order interpersonal affordances for kicking that emerged from lower-order personal and interpersonal affordances in the context of soccer. Youth soccer players reported the minimum gap width between two confederates through which they could kick a ball. In Experiment 1, we independently manipulated the egocentric distance of gaps from participants, and the nominal role of the confederates, either as teammates or opponents. In Experiment 2, we additionally...

Dani Arruda, MS, a PhD candidate in the School of Kinesiology and member of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL) led by Tom Stoffregen, PhD, recently received the 2023 Mace Travel Award from the International Society for Ecological Psychology to attend the 2023 International Conference on Perception and Action.

Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor of perceptual-motor control and learning in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), recently spoke for a content series hosted by TU Delft's Intelligent Vehicles Group.

Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor of perceptual-motor control and learning in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), recently received a Long Service Award from PLOS One's editorial board.

Eugenia Garza, an undergraduate kinesiology major, has been awarded a Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) for her project, “Perceiving affordances for volleyball serving in virtual reality.”

Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor of perceptual-motor control and learning in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), was recently interviewed for a podcast from Nautilus International, an organization representing maritime professionals.

School of Kinesiology faculty, Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL) and Zan Gao, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Physical Activity Epidemiology Laboratory (PAEL), were invited to give keynote presentations via Zoom to the International Academic Forum on Intelligent Sports and Human Health that was held in China on January 7th.

This month School of Kinesiology student Eugenia Garza will compete at the 2023 FISU World University Games in Lake Placid, NY