Externalization and Presence
in Real and Virtual Environments
A Presentation by Jack Loomis
Professor, Department of Psychology, UCSB
Friday, February 26, 1999 at 3:30 - 5:00pm
Flying A Studios Room, UCEN
Background
Jack Loomis's research is concerned with the perceptual and cognitive
processes underlying complex spatial behavior. The basic research problems
he is working on include visual space perception, the visual control of
action, navigation with and without visual information, auditory space
perception, externalization of sensory experience, and the internal representations
serving spatial behavior. He is also director of a project developing a
prototype navigation aid for the blind. A good deal of this research employs
virtual acoustic and virtual visual displays, tools that he believes greatly
expand the possibilities for research on the link between perception and
action.
