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Chris Curry, PhD student in the School of Kinesiology and member of the Affordance-Perception Action Laboratory, has published an article, “3D Hand Scanning to Digital Draping for Glove Design,” in the Advances in Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design book series. The article investigates new technologies such as 3D simulation and prototyping in relation to glove […]

Ruth Rath, PhD candidate in the School of Kinesiology and member of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), was awarded a travel grant from the School to attend the International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA). The event will be held in Groningen, the Netherlands from July 3 – 6, 2019. Rath will present two posters, […]

Chris Curry, PhD student in the School of Kinesiology and member of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, was awarded a student travel grant from the Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI). Curry will use the award funds to attend the Virtual Reality Software and Technology Symposium (VRST) 2019, co-sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH. […]

Chris Curry, Kinesiology doctoral candidate and member of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, has been awarded a $1000 NSF Research Trainee Mini-grant for lab equipment. The lab equipment will be used for two research projects that focus on Virtual Reality (VR). One project is related to Curry’s dissertation research, which involves investigating ways to potentially mitigate […]

Chris Curry, doctoral student at the School of Kinesiology and lab assistant in the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, received a NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) travel grant to attend the Advanced Technology Institute’s Nonlinear Methods for Psychological Science, hosted by the American Psychological Association. The conference will be held from June 17 – 21, 2019 at the […]

Nicolette Peterson, doctoral student in the School of Kinesiology and member of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, has received the Mace Travel Award to participate in the International Conference on Perception and Action. The conference will be held in Groningen, Netherlands from July 3 – 7, 2019. The grant is funded by the International Society for […]

Chris Curry, PhD candidate in the School of Kinesiology, has received a certificate of appreciation for mentoring Mehul Maheshwari, a junior attending Wayzata High School (WHS), along with Victoria Interrante, PhD, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the U of M. Curry was recognized at the 2019 WHS Honors Mentor […]

School of Kinesiology doctoral candidate Christopher Curry, movement science emphasis, was awarded a professional development grant from CEHD’s graduate and professional student organization, GradSEHD. Curry will be using the $250 award to attend a non-linear methods workshop. He is a member of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL) and is advised by Tom Stoffregen, PhD.

Christopher Curry, a doctoral student in the School of Kinesiology, has been awarded a renewal of his NSF-funded fellowship based on his strong interest in interdisciplinary research. Curry received a 2018-19 NSF-funded fellowship last year. This 2019-20 award will continue to fund his new research focusing on cybersickness in virtual reality. The NSF-funded fellowship is […]

School of Kinesiology professor and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL) Thomas Stoffregen, PhD, collaborated with choreographer Pramila Vasudevan, Aniccha Arts and the Weisman Art Museum to create “#1 of 30.” This Collaboration Incubator project explores the phenomenon of bodily sway and motion, and was inspired by Stoffregen’s research about body sway: the innate […]

Chris Curry, PhD student at the School of Kinesiology and member of the Affordance Perception Action Laboratory, presented his poster, “Using Natural Hand Positions to Improve Anthropometric Product Design Data,” at the 2019 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care (HFES). The Symposium offers innovative research, workshops and keynote speakers on issues […]

Thomas Stoffregen, PhD, School of Kinesiology professor and director of the Affordance Perception Action Laboratory, and Pramila Vasudevan, choreographer of Aniccha Arts, are collaborating on a spring “Incubator Project” at the Weisman Art Museum (WAM). Their installation, #1 of 30, uses movement and “performance as a method of scientific and creative inquiry.” By destabilizing the dancers’ environment through external […]

Motion sickness is preceded by differences in the quantitative kinematics of body sway between individuals who (later) become sick and those who do not. In existing research, this effect has been demonstrated only in measures of body sway, relative to the earth. However, body sway can become coupled with imposed oscillatory motion of the illuminated environment, and the nature of this coupling may differ between individuals who become sick and those who do not. We asked whether body sway would...

School of Kinesiology doctoral candidate Hannah Walter lead authored the article, “Unstable coupling of body sway with imposed motion precedes visually induced motion sickness,” published in Human Movement Science. Walter is an advisee of Thomas Stoffregen, PhD, professor and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL). Stoffregen co-authored this article with Walter along with APAL […]

Tom Stoffregen, PhD, School of Kinesiology professor and director of the Affordance Perception Action Laboratory, and colleagues have published an article in the online publication, Human Movement Science.  The article, Adaptive perception of changes in affordances for walking on a ship at sea,  studied how subjects walking on a ship at sea experienced changes in judgments of their walking […]

Ocean waves cause oscillatory motion of ships. Oscillatory ship motion typically is greater in roll (i.e., the ship rolling from side to side) than in pitch (i.e., tipping from front to back). Affordances for walking on a ship at sea should be differentially influenced by ship motion in roll and pitch. When roll exceeds pitch, the maximum walkable distance within a defined path should be greater when walking along the ship's short, or athwart axis than when walking along its long, or fore-aft...

Ruixuan Li has completed the PhD in Human Factors at the U of M. Her dissertation, “Postural Time-to-Contact, Real-Time Visual Feedback of Postural Activity, and Motion Sickness,” has been accepted by the Graduate School. Dr. Li was a member of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL) in the School of Kinesiology for four years; her adviser was […]

BACKGROUND: Several studies have shown that the kinematics of standing body sway can be influenced by the provision of real time feedback about postural activity through visual displays.

The Frommer’s Travel Show weekly podcast on November 25 featured a discussion of Dr. Thomas Stoffregen’s work on seasickness. The seven-minute discussion takes place from roughly 12:00 – 19:00 in the podcast. Stoffregen is a professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL).

Thomas Stoffregen, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, was quoted in an article, “Land Rover bets a vomit-y teacups ride could cure car sickness,”  in Wired. The Jaguar Land Rover is implementing “wellness scores” and features to reduce motion sickness based on Spencer Salter’s research. While the cars will […]