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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 […]

We investigated the perception of affordances for walking along a narrow path. We asked whether participants could perceive changes in affordances brought about by manipulation of properties of the body, or of the environment, without direct practice of the to-be-perceived affordance, and without external feedback about the accuracy of perception. In Experiment 1, participants made a series of 8 judgments of how far they could walk along a narrow path either, 1) without added weight, 2) while...

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 […]

Kinesiology professor and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL) Tom Stoffregen, PhD, was quoted in a recent WCCO feature story about motion sickness, and why some people are affected and others aren’t.  The article was searching for an answer to the question: what happens to our bodies on an intense MN State Fair ride? […]

Kinesiology professor Tom Stoffregen, PhD, has published a chapter in a newly released book, Perception as Information Detection: Reflections on Gibson’s Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. The book commemorates the 40th anniversary of James J. Gibson’s landmark work, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (1979). Current scholars were asked to reflect on individual chapters from […]

ABC News Inside Science has published a story on how despite improvements made in virtual reality (VR) systems over the years, many VR users still experience motion sickness, quoting Kinesiology professor Tom Stoffregen, PhD, extensively. Individuals, particularly women, experience motion sickness differently, and Stoffregen’s theory of postural instability as the cause was discussed in the […]

Thomas Stoffregen, PhD, School of Kinesiology professor and director of the Affordance Perception Action Laboratory, is quoted in the article, “Cybersickness: Why People Experience Motion Sickness During Virtual Reality,” by Meeri Kim, Inside Science reporter. The publication analyzes the significant rates of nausea in virtual reality systems, which are between 40% and 70% of the population after only […]

School of Kinesiology professor and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL) Thomas Stoffregen, PhD, is the co-principal investigator on a new, four-year study from the National Science Foundation. The award, “Prediction, Early Detection, and Mitigation of Virtual Reality Simulator Sickness,” allocates over $1,100,000 towards research on motion sickness in virtual reality environments. The interdisciplinary grant is […]

On Monday, July 29, Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, presented at SIGGRAPH 2019 in Los Angeles, CA. The conference, from July 28 – August 1, featured “global innovators who are changing what’s possible in computer graphics, animation, VR, Gaming, and Emerging Technologies.” Stoffregen, invited speaker […]

We asked whether body sway would be influenced by visual information about motion of the ground surface. On a ship at sea, standing participants performed a demanding visual search task or a simple visual inspection task. Display content was stationary relative to the ship or relative to the Earth. Participants faced the ship's bow or its port side. Performance on the visual search task was representative of terrestrial studies. Body sway was greater during viewing of the Earth Stationary...