Schedule: CSE-PSY 8990 Readings in Depth Perception in Virtual Environments

All dates and assignments are tentative except for the final exam date.  I will adjust this schedule as the semester progresses.

Week Class Dates Events and Reading Assignments VOD?
1 Mon, Aug 20 Course introduction no
Wed, Aug 22
Introduction / Overview
:
(1) Goldstein, "Perceiving Depth and Size", chapter 7, Sensation and Perception, 6th ed., Wadsworth Group, 2002.
Questions due Wednesday Noon; Questions; Presented by Ed Swan
no
2 Mon, Aug 27 (2) Cutting, Vishton, "Perceiving Layout and Knowing Distances", in Perception of Space and Motion; Epstein, Rogers, eds., Academic Press, 1995
Questions due Sunday Midnight; Questions; Presented by Gurjot Singh
yes
Wed, Aug 29
Medium-Field Distance Perception
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(3) Loomis, Da Silva, Fujita, Fukusima, "Visual Space Perception and Visually Directed Action", Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 18(4), 1992
Questions due Tuesday Midnight; Questions; Presented by Kenny Moser
yes
3 Mon, Sep 3
no class —labor day  
Wed, Sep 5 (4) Loomis, Knapp, "Visual Perception of Egocentric Distance in Real and Virtual Environments", in Virtual and Adaptive Environments; Hettinger, Haas, eds, Mahwah, 2003
Questions due Tuesday Midnight; Questions; Presented by Sujan Anreddy
yes
4 Mon, Sep 10 (5) Kunz, Wouters, Smith, Thompson, Creem-Regehr. "Revisiting the effect of quality of graphics on distance judgments in virtual environments: A comparison of verbal reports and blind walking". Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71(6), 2009.
Questions due Sunday Midnight; Questions; Presented by Donald Johnson
yes
Wed, Sep 12 (6) Willemsen, Colton, Creem-Regehr, Thompson, (2009). "The effects of head-mounted display mechanical properties and field of view on distance judgments in virtual environments". ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 6(2), 1–14, 2009.
Questions due Tuesday Midnight; Questions; presented by Nate Phillips
yes
5 Mon, Sep 17 (7) Wu, B., Ooi, T. L., & He, Z. J. (2004). Perceiving distance accurately by a directional process of integrating ground information. Nature, 428(6978), 73–77.
(8)  Creem-Regehr, S. H., Willemsen, P., Gooch, A. A, & Thompson, W. B. (2005). The influence of restricted viewing conditions on egocentric distance perception: Implications for real and virtual indoor environments. Perception, 34(2), 191–204.
Questions due Sunday Midnight; Questions; presented by Fangyan Zhang
yes
Wed, Sep 19 Dr. Swan out of town; no class
6 Mon, Sep 24 (9) Livingston, M. A., Hix, D., Swan II, J. E., Julier, S. J., Gabbard, J. L., Tobias, H. H., Brown, D., et al. (2003). Resolving Multiple Occluded Layers in Augmented Reality. Proceedings of International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) (pp. 7–10).
Questions due Sunday Midnight; Questions; presented by Kenny Moser (chosen article)
no
Wed, Sep 26 (10) Richardson, A. R., & Waller, D. (2005). The effect of feedback training on distance estimation in virtual environments. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19(8), 1089–1108
Questions due Tuesday Midnight; Questions; presented by Anara Kozhokanova
Midterm out 9am Thu, Sep 27; due Noon Fri, Sep 28
yes
7 Mon, Oct 1 (11) Richardson, A. R., & Waller, D. (2007). Interaction with an immersive virtual environment corrects users’ distance estimates. Human Factors, 49(3), 507–17.
Questions due Sunday Midnight; Questions; presented by Chunya Hua
no
Wed, Oct 3 (12) Jones, J. A., Swan II, J. E., Singh, G., & Ellis, S. R. (2011). Peripheral visual information and its effect on distance judgments in virtual and augmented environments. Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (pp. 29–35).
Questions due Tuesday Midnight; Questions; presented by Gurjot Singh
yes
8 Mon, Oct 8
No class  
Wed, Oct 10 (13) Ziemer, C. J., Plumert, J. M., Cremer, J. F., & Kearney, J. K. (2009). Estimating distance in real and virtual environments: Does order make a difference? Attention, perception & psychophysics, 71(5), 1095–106.
Questions due Tuesday Midnight; Questions; presented by Fangyan Zhang (chosen article)
no
9 Mon, Oct 15 (14) Li, Z., Phillips, J., & Durgin, F. H. (2011). The underestimation of egocentric distance: evidence from frontal matching tasks. Attention, perception & psychophysics, 73(7), 2205–17.
Questions due Sunday Midnight; Questions; presented by Sujan Anreddy (chosen article)
no
Wed, Oct 17 (15) J. P. Wann, S. Rushton, and M. Mon-Williams, Natural problems for stereoscopic depth perception in virtual environments., Vision research, vol. 35, no. 19, Oct 1995, pp. 2731–2736.
Questions due Tuesday Midnight; Questions; presented by Ed Swan
yes
10 Mon, Oct 22
(16) Linkenauger, S. A., Witt, J. K., Stefanucci, J. K., Bakdash, J. Z., & Proffitt, D. R. (2009). The effects of handedness and reachability on perceived distanceJournal of experimental psychology: Human perception and performance, 35(6), 1649–60.
Questions due Sunday Midnight; Questions; presented by Nate Phillips (chosen article)
no
Wed, Oct 24
(17) G. P. Bingham and C. C. Pagano, "The Necessity of a Perception-Action Approach to Definite Distance Perception: Monocular Distance Perception to Guide Reaching," Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 24, no. 1, 1998, pp. 145–168.
Questions due Tuesday Midnight; Questions; presented by Anara Kozhokanova
yes
11 Mon, Oct 29 (18) Napieralski, P. E., Altenhoff, B. M., Bertrand, J. W., Long, L. O., Babu, S. V., Pagano, C. C., Kern, J., et al. (2011). Near-field distance perception in real and virtual environments using both verbal and action responses. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 8(3), 1–19.
Questions due Sunday Midnight; Questions; presented by Chunya Hua (chosen article)
no
Wed, Oct 31 (19) Rieser, J. J., Pick, H. L., Ashmead, D. H., & Garing, A. E. (1995). Calibration of human locomotion and models of perceptual-motor organization. Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, 21(3), 480–97.
Questions due Tuesday Midnight; Questions; presented by Chunya Hua
yes
12 Mon, Nov 5 Dr. Swan out of town  
Wed, Nov 7 Dr. Swan out of town  
13 Mon, Nov 12 (20) Mohler, B. J., Creem-regehr, S. H., Thompson, W. B., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2010). The Effect of Viewing a Self-Avatar on Distance Judgments in an HMD-Based Virtual Environment. Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments, 19(3), 230-242.
Questions due Sunday Midnight; Questions; presented by Donald Johnson (chosen article)
no
Wed, Nov 14 (21) S. R. Ellis and B. M. Menges, Localization of Virtual Objects in the Near Visual Field, Human Factors, vol. 40, no. 3, 1998, pp. 415-431.
Questions due Tuesday Midnight; Questions; presented by Gurjot Singh (chosen article)
no
14 Mon, Nov 19 no class  
Wed, Nov 21 no class — Thanksgiving  
15 Mon, Nov 26 (22) Nguyen, T. D., Ziemer, C. J., Grechkin, T., Chihak, B., Plumert, J. M., Cremer, J. F., & Kearney, J. K. (2011). Effects of scale change on distance perception in virtual environments. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 8(4), 1–18.
Questions due Sunday Midnight; Questions; presented by Anara Kozhokanova (chosen article)
no
Wed, Nov 28
(23) M. Mon-Williams and G. P. Bingham, Calibrating Reach Distance to Visual Targets, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 33, no. 3, 2007, pp. 645– 656.
Questions due Tuesday Midnight; Questions; presented by Nate Phillips; supporter Fangyan Zhang; detractor Sujan Anreddy
yes
16 Mon, Dec 3 (24) R. J. van Beers, A. C. Sittig, and J. J. Denier van der Gon, How Humans Combine Simultaneous Proprioceptive and Visual Position Information, Experimental Brain Research, vol. 111, no. 2, Sep 1996, pp. 253–61.
Questions Due Sunday Midnight; Questions; presented by Kenny Moser; supporter Anara Kozhokanova; detractor Donald Johnson
yes
Wed, Dec 5
no class — reading day  
17 Tue, Dec 11 Final Exam, 3–6 pm, Butler 102  
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