From left to right; Me, Professor Wade (also a CCS member), and graduate student Tony Mayo. The photo was taken on the R/V Atlantis in the Sea of Cortez (aka Gulf of California), en route from Guaymas to Manzanillo, Mexico.

Tom Stoffregen
Director, Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory
School of Kinesiology
University of Minnesota

People have been going to sea for millennia. There are myriad anecdotal accounts of how ship motion affects both subjective experience and perceptual-motor performance but very little experimental research. Ours are the first studies ever done that include measurements of how the body moves at sea. We are also the first to study how movement (of the ship as well as the body) influences visual perception. Finally, we are the first to study the reciprocal relationship: How vision serves to stabilize the body at sea, and how that differs from visual stabilization of the body on land. Our research has appeared in specialty journals, such as Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, but also in general behavioral science journals, including Psychological Science, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology.

• Fu-Chen Chen and Thomas A. Stoffregen (2011) Specificity of Postural Sway to the Demands of a Precision Task at Sea, J Exp Psychol Appl, Dec.
• Anthony M. Mayo, Michael G.Wade, and Thomas A. Stoffregen (in press) Postural Effects of the Horizon on Land and at Sea, Psychological Science 22(1) 118–124

Brock Dubbels
Post Doctoral Fellow - G-ScalE project
Dept of Computer Software Engineering
McMaster University

After identifying all of the issues of general user interface relating to usability at different scales for software, I plan to help design (and implement) a set of domain-specific languages which capture the constraints of user-interface features with respect to scale. This will be done through models from psychology and user-interface literature. This process is intended to identify cognitive issues relating to scale perception, and capture these in a formal model.

• Special Issue Editor: Ludica Medica - Medical Software, Games, Modeling, and Simulations for Health Care, International Journal of Games and Computer Mediated Simulation
• Speaker: Ludica Medica at Games for Health Conference 2012 Boston, MA
• Speaker: Games in Education Conference 2012 Troy, NY
• Speaker: Serious Play Conference 2012 Redmond, WA

Stephen Engel
Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota

• Min Bao and Stephen A. Engel (2012) Distinct mechanism for long-term contrast adaptation. PNAS vol. 109, no. 15 http://www.pnas.org/content/109/15/5898