Recent Lab News

On Friday, September 11, School of Kinesiology professor and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, Thomas Stoffregen, PhD, presented at the Driving Simulation Conference (DSC2020), held in Antibes France. The conference featured “driving simulation specialists from the industrial and academic communities as well as commercial simulation.” Stoffregen gave an invited keynote address titled, “Motion sickness in physical and […]

Thomas Stoffregen, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), recently published an article titled “Perception of Affordances for Vertical and Horizontal Jumping in Children: Gymnasts Versus Non-Athletes” in the journal Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport.  Read the abstract here. Co-authors of the publication include visiting APAL […]

Members of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, directed by Thomas Stoffregen, PhD and housed in the School of Kinesiology, published an article titled “Postural precursors of motion sickness in head-mounted displays: drivers and passengers, women and men,” on August 24, 2020. Publishing authors are lab members and School of Kinesiology doctoral students Christopher Curry, Nicolette Peterson, […]

Thomas Stoffregen, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology published an article on August 16, 2020 titled “It doesn’t add up: Nested affordances for reaching are perceived as a complex particular.” The article was published in the journal Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, and was co-authored by Jeffrey B. Wagman. The abstract of the article is […]

Lab members of the Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory, Jinseok Oh and Arash Mahnan, as well as lab member in the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, Chris Curry, recently published a paper titled “Investigation of the effect of virtual reality on postural stability in healthy adults.” The paper was published in the 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality […]

School of Kinesiology professor, and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, Thomas Stoffregen PhD, gave the keynote presentation, “Cybersickness: The method and the movement,” at the Workshop on Immersive Sickness Prevention (WISP). The WISP meeting was held virtually. The second annual workshop was held in tandem with the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces on […]

School of Kinesiology professor, and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, Thomas Stoffregen PhD, was cited in an article from The Economist, “Cyber-sickness Is Still A Challenge For VR”.  The article examined the two dominant hypotheses behind the triggers of VR cyber-sickness. One of which being Stoffregen’s theory of unstable posture. The article had a […]

Christopher Curry, Ruixuan Li, Nicolette Peterson, and Thomas A. Stoffregen, PhD, co-published an article titled, “Cybersickness in Virtual Reality Head-Mounted Displays: Examining the Influence of Sex Differences and Vehicle Control” published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.  The study noted past research stating motion sickness is more common among women, and motion sickness in […]

School of Kinesiology professor, and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, Thomas Stoffregen PhD, has been appointed to the Scientific Committee of the 21st International Conference on Perception and Action. The event will take place on July 26-30 2020, in Cincinnati, Oh.

School of Kinesiology professor Thomas Stoffregen, PhD, director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, was appointed to a panel for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) program, Human Exploration Research Opportunities (HERO). The experts will conduct merit reviews of funding proposals for HERO and meets from February 17 – 19, 2020 in Arlington, VA.

Chris Curry, School of Kinesiology doctoral candidate and member of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, gave a guest lecture in Computer Science & Engineering course 5619: Virtual Reality (VR) and 3D Interaction.  The goal of this course is to provide a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the art in virtual reality technologies and user interfaces. Curry presented […]

School of Kinesiology professor Tom Stoffregen, PhD, director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), was quoted in an article, “Virtual reality continues to make people sick,” by The Economist. Although virtual reality (VR) has powerful technological impacts, the publication highlights virtual reality’s negative effects. According to Dr. Stoffregen, women are four times as susceptible to this as […]

Chris Curry, School of Kinesiology doctoral candidate and member of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory , recently presented his research, “Cybersickness in Virtual Reality: Examining the Influence of the Virtual Environments on Sex Susceptibility,” at SIGGRAPH Asia in the Fast Forward Thesis competition. In addition to participating in the Fast Forward Thesis competition, Curry showcased a poster, “Gamification in a […]

On November 15, 2019, Michael G. Wade, PhD, Kinesiology professor of movement science, delivered the 14th Annual Geraldine Pellechia Memorial Lecture. The invited address was given to the Department of Psychology at the University of Connecticut, and titled “The Cause of Developmental Coordination Disorder; A Case of Degraded Perception-Action Coupling.”

Chris Curry, School of Kinesiology doctoral candidate and member of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory,  received a $1,000 National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) student travel grant to attend SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 in Brisbane, Australia, November 17-20. Curry will be presenting a poster that will describe ongoing efforts to create a game to accompany the Wristbot, a medical device […]

Chris Curry, School of Kinesiology doctoral candidate and member of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, was awarded an NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program $1000 grant. The funds will be allocated towards Curry’s dissertation research, which focuses on cybersickness in head-mounted displays.

Our School has a rich tradition of hosting academics from all over the world to study and pursue research at the U of M, working with faculty and their students on particular projects or in their labs. We are pleased to introduce Yu Xu, who will work with Dr. Thomas Stoffregen in the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory. Yu Xu, […]

School of Kinesiology professor Tom Stoffregen, PhD, director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), has published an article with colleagues in the online publication, Journal of Civil Engineering. “Effects of Linear Acceleration on Passenger Comfort During Physical Driving on an Urban Road” has the potential to offer new insights into motion sickness causality. Authors are […]

Members from the School of Kinesiology’s Human Sensorimotor Control Lab presented four posters at Institute for Engineering in Medicine.  Below are the images of the posters with their respective titles and the presenters. 

Thomas Stoffregen, PhD, School of Kinesiology professor and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, was interviewed and quoted in the book, “Invisible women: Data bias in a world designed for men,” authored by Caroline Criado-Perez. Dr. Stoffregen theorizes that women experience more motion sickness than men due to differences in body control adjustments when placed in an unstable […]