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Social Psychology

Bailenson, J.N., Beall., A.C., Blascovich, J., Loomis, J., & Turk, M. (2005, in press). Transformed Social Interaction, Augmented Gaze, and Social Influence in Immersive Virtual Environments. Human Communication Research. PDF

Bailenson, J.N., Aharoni, E. Beall, A.C., Guadagno, R.E., Dimov, A., & Blascovich, J. (2004). Comparing Behavioral and Self-Report Measures of Embodied Agents’ Social Presence in Immersive Virtual Environments. Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Workshop on PRESENCE (Valencia, Spain). PDF

Bailenson, J. N., Swinth, K. R., Hoyt, C. L., Persky, S., Dimov, A., and Blascovich, J. (2004, in press). The independent and interactive effects of embodied agent appearance and behavior on self-report, cognitive, and behavioral markers of copresence in Immersive Virtual Environments. PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. PDF

Bailenson, J.N., Beall. A.C., & Blascovich, J (2003, in press) Using Virtual Heads for Person Identification: An Empirical Study Comparing Photographs to Photogrammetrically-Generated Models. Journal of Forensic Identification. (102K pdf)

Bailenson, J.N., Beall, A.C., Loomis, J., Blascovich, J., & Turk, M.

(2003, in press). Transformed Social Interaction: Decoupling

Representation from Behavior and Form in Collaborative Virtual

Environments. PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. PDF

 

Bailenson, J.N., Beall, A.C., Blascovich, J., & Rex, C. (2003, in press).

Examining Virtual Busts: Are Photogrammetrically-Generated Head Models

Effective for Person Identification? PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual

Environments. PDF

Bailenson, J.N., Blascovich, J.,Beall, A.C., & Loomis, J.M., (2003). Interpersonal distance in immersive virtual environments. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29 1-15. (646K pdf)

Bailenson, J.N., Blascovich, J., Beall, A.C., & Loomis, J.M. (2001). Equilibrium revisited: Mutual gaze and personal space in virtual environments. PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 10. 583-598. (905K pdf)

Bailenson, J.N., Beall, A.C., Blascovich, J, Raimundo, M., Weisbuch, M. (2001). Intelligents agents who wear your face: User's reactions to the virtual self . A. de Antonio, R. Aylett, D. Ballin (Eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents 2001, 86-99. (240K pdf)

Blascovich, J. (2002). Social influence within immersive virtual environments.  In R. Schroeder (Ed.) The social life of avatars (pp.127-145). Springer-Verlag.

Blascovich, J. (2001). Immersive virtual environments and social behavior.  Science Briefs: Psychological Science Agenda, 14, 8-9. (419K pdf)

Blascovich, J., Loomis, J., Beall, A., Swinth, K., Hoyt, C., & Bailenson, J. (2002). Immersive virtual environment technology:  Not just another research tool for social psychology. Psychological Inquiry, 13, 103-124.

Blascovich, J., Loomis, J., Beall, A. C., Swinth, K. R., Hoyt, C. L., & Bailenson, J. N. (2001, in press). Immersive Virtual Environment Technology as a Methodological Tool for Social Psychology . Psychological Inquiry, 13, 146-149.. (653K pdf)

Guadagno, R. E., & Cialdini, R. B. (2003, in press). Online persuasion and compliance: Social influence on the Internet and beyond. In Y. Amichai-Hamburger (Ed.), The social net: The social psychology of the Internet. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. (198k pdf)

Loomis, J.M., Blascovich, J.J., & Beall, A.C. (1999). Immersive virtual environments as a basic research tool in psychology. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 31(4), 557-564. (837K pdf)

 

Collaborative Virtual Environments

Bailenson, J.N., Beall. A.C., & Blascovich, J (2002) Mutual gaze and task performance in shared virtual environments. Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, 13 313-320. (158K pdf)

Beall. A.C., Bailenson, J.N., Loomis, J., Blascovich, J. & Rex, C. (2003) Non-zero-sum mutual gaze in immersive virtual environments. Proceedings of HCI 2003. (248k pdf)


Spatial Cognition

Oman, C.M., Howard, I.P., Smith, T., Beall, A.C., Natapoff, A., Zacher, J.E., & Jenkin, H.L. (2003). The role of visual cues in microgravity spatial orientation. J. Buckey, J. Homick (Eds) Neurolab Spacelab Mission: Neuroscience Research in Space, NASA SP-2003-535, 69-81. (3,374K pdf)

Kelly, J.W., Beall, A.C., & Loomis, J.M. (in press). Perception of shared visual space: Establishing common ground in real and virtual environments. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. (682k pdf)

Chance, S. S. (2000). How we use sensory information to keep oriented as we move. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Chance, S. S., Gaunet, F., Beall, A. C., Loomis, J. M. (1998). Locomotion mode affects the updating of objects encountered during travel: The contribution of vestibular and proprioceptive inputs to path integration. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 7, 168-178. (204K pdf)

Klatzky, R.L., Beall, A.C., Loomis, J.M., Golledge, R.G., & Philbeck, J.W. (1999). Human navigation ability: Tests of the encoding-error model of path integration, Spatial Cognition and Computation, 1, 31-65. (199K pdf)

Klatzky, R.L., Loomis, J.M., Beall, A.C., Chance, S.S., & Golledge, R.G, (1998). Spatial updating of self-position and orientation during real, imagined, and virtual locomotion, Psychological Science, 9, 293-298. (578K pdf)


Oman, C. M., Shebilske, W. L., Richards, J. T., Tubre, T. C., Beall, A. C., Natapoff, A. (2002).  Three dimensional spatial memory and learning in real and virtual environments, Spatial Cognition and Computation, 2, 355-372, 2000.(197K pdf)

Richardson, Anthony E.; Montello, Daniel R.; Hegarty, Mary, (1999). Spatial knowledge acquisition from maps and from navigation in real and virtual environments, Memory & Cognition, 27(4), 741-750.
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Waller, D., Loomis, J. M., Gollege, R. G., Beall, A., C., (2002).  Place learning in humans: the role of distance and direction information,  Spatial Cognition and Computation, 2: 333-354, 2000. (222K pdf)


Conference presentations

Chance, S.S., Loomis, J.M. (1997). From sensory inputs to knowledge of spatial layout. 38th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Philadelphia, PA. Abstract in: Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, Vol. 2, November 1997, 372.

Guadagno, R. E., Dimov, A., Bailenson, J. N., Beall, A. C., & Blasocvich, J. (2004, April). He or a she? Nonverbal gender detection in immersive virtual environments. Paper submitted for presentation at the Western Psychological Association Conference, Phoenix, AZ.

Klatzky, R.L., Loomis, J.M., Beall, A.C., Chance, S.S., & Golledge, R.G. (1997). Updating an egocentric spatial representation during real, imagined and virtual locomotion. 38th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Philadelphia, PA. Abstract in: Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, Vol. 2, 373.

Richardson, A. E. & Montello, Daniel R. (1997) Spatial knowledge acquired from maps and from navigation in real and virtual environments. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Fortworth, TX. April 1-5.

Richardson, A. E., Hegarty, M.; & Montello, D. R. (1997) Spatial knowledge acquired from maps and from navigation in real and virtual environments. 38th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Philadelphia, PA. November 20 - 23.

Richardson, A. E. & Montello, D. R. (1998) Orientation specificity in virtual environments. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Boston, MA. March 25-29.

 

Vision

Beall, A.C., & Loomis, J.M. (1997). Visual control of the base-to-final turn, International Journal of Aviation Psychology, 7, 201-223. (1242K pdf)

Beall, A.C., & Loomis, J.M. (1996). Visual control of steering without course information, Perception, 25, 481-494. (1125K pdf)

Beall, A.C., Loomis, J.M., Philbeck, J.W., & Fikes, T.G. (1995). Absolute motion parallax weakly determines visual scale in real and virtual environments. Proceedings of the SPIE - The international Society for Optical Engineering, 2411, 288-97. (182K pdf)

Beall, A.C. (1998). Visual control of the base-to-final turn in fixed-wing aircraft. Unpublished dissertation. (3019k pdf)

Fukusima, S. S., Loomis, J. M., & Da Silva, J. A. (1997) Visual perception of egocentric distance as assessed by triangulation, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23, 86-100. (1544K pdf)

Knapp, J. M. (1999). The visual perception of egocentric distance in virtual environments. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Loomis, J. M., Da Silva, J.A., Fujita, N., & Fukusima, S. S. (1992) Visual space perception and visually directed action. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 18, 906-921. (1423K pdf)

Loomis, J. M., Klatzky, R. L., Philbeck, J. W., & Golledge, R. G. (1998) Assessing auditory distance perception using perceptually directed action. Perception & Psychophysics, 60, 966-980. (1707K pdf)

Loomis, J. M. & Knapp, J. M. (in press). Visual perception of egocentric distance in real and virtual environments. In L. J. Hettinger and M. W. Haas (Eds.), Virtual and Adaptive Environments. Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum (1652K pdf)

Loomis, J. M. & Beall, A. C. (1988). Visually-controlled locomotion: Its dependence on optic flow, 3-D space perception, and cognition. Ecological Psychology, 10, 271-285. (1074K pdf)

Philbeck, J. W. & Loomis, J. M. (1997) Comparison of two indicators of visually perceived egocentric distance under full-cue and reduced-cue conditions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23, 72-85. (1514K pdf)

Philbeck, J. W., Loomis, J. M., & Beall, A. C. (1997). Visually perceived location is an invariant in the control of action. Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 601-612. (1069K pdf)

 

Virtual Sound

Zahorik, P., & Wightman, F. L. (2001). Loudness constancy with varying sound source distance. Nature Neuroscience, 4(1), 78-83. (77K pdf)

Zahorik, P., Tam, C., Wang, K., Bangayan, P., & Sundareswaran, V. (2001, in press). Localization accuracy in 3D sound displays: The role of visual-feedback training. Advanced Displays Consortium: ARL's 5th Federated Laboratory Annual Symposium.
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Zahorik, P. (2000). Limitations in using Golay codes for head-related transfer function measurement. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 106, 1793-1796. (57K pdf)

Zahorik, P. (1997). Scaling perceived distance of virtual sound sources. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 101, 3105-3106. (287K pdf)

Zahorik, P., Wightman, F. L., & Kistler, D. J. (1996). The fidelity of virtual auditory displays. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 99, 2596.
-To request reprint, please email author: zahorik@waisman.wisc.edu

Zahorik, P., Wightman, F. L., & Kistler, D. J. (1995). On the discriminability of virtual and real sound sources. Proceedings of the ASSP (IEEE) Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics. New York: IEEE Press.
-To request reprint, please email author: zahorik@waisman.wisc.edu

Zahorik, P., Kistler, D. J., & Wightman, F. L. (1994). Sound localization in varying virtual acoustic environments. In G. Kramer (Ed.), Proceedings of the 1994 International Conference on Auditory Displays, Santa Fe, NM. pp. 179-186.
-To request reprint, please email author: zahorik@waisman.wisc.edu

 

Computer Science

C. Hu, Y. Chang, R. Feris, M. Turk, "Manifold based analysis of facial expression," IEEE Workshop on Face Processing in Video (to appear), Washington, D.C., June 2004. (263K pdf)

Y. Chang, C. Hu, M. Turk, "Probabilistic expression analysis on manifolds," International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Washington DC, June 2004. (520K pdf)

Y. Wang, Y. Jiar, C. Hu, M. Turk, "Fisher non-negative matrix factorization for learning local features," Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Korea, January 27-30, 2004. (337K pdf)

Y. Wang, Y. Jiar, C. Hu, M. Turk, "Face recognition based on kernel radial basis function networks," Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Korea, January 27-30, 2004. (285k pdf)

M. Turk, "Computer vision in the interface," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 47, Issue 1, pp. 60-67, January 2004. (132K pdf)

Y. Chang, C. Hu, and M. Turk, "Manifold of facial expression," Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures, Nice, France, Oct. 17, 2003. (1104K pdf)

C. Hu, R. Feris, and M. Turk, "Real-time view-based face alignment using active wavelet networks," Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures, Nice, France, Oct. 17, 2003. (353K pdf)

C. Hu, R. Feris, and M. Turk, "Active wavelet networks for face alignment," Proc. British Machine Vision Conference, Norwich, U.K., Sept.9-11, 2003. (274K pdf)

M. Turk, J. Bailenson, A. Beall, J. Blascovich, & R. Guadagno, R. (2004). Multimodal transformed social interaction. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces.

Education

Moreno, R., & Mayer, R. E. (in press).  Learning science in virtual reality environments: Role of methods and media.  Journal of Educational Psychology.

Publications relating to Blind Navigation

Loomis, J. M., Golledge, R. G., Klatzky, R. L., Speigle, J. M., & Tietz, J. (1994) Personal guidance system for the visually impaired. Proceedings of the First Annual ACM/SIGGAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies, Marina Del Ray, CA, October 31-November 1, 1994, pp. 85-91. New York: Association for Computing Machinery.
-To request reprint, please email author: loomis@psych.ucsb.edu

Loomis, J. M., Golledge, R. G., & Klatzky, R. L. (1998). Navigation system for the blind: Auditory display modes and guidance. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 7, 193-203. (144K pdf)

Golledge, R. G., Klatzky, R. L., Loomis, J. M., Speigle, J., & Tietz, J. (1998). A geographical information system for a GPS based personal guidance system. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 12, 727-749. (1549K pdf)