Stephen Palmisano, PhD

Affiliations:

2000-

Psychology

University of Wollongong, Keiraville, New South Wales, Australia

Area:

Self-motion Perception, Vection, Motion Sickness, Cybersickness, Virtual Reality, Stereopsis

Website:

https://scholars.uow.edu.au/stephen-palmisano

Google:

"https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=5A517ooAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao"

Bio:

Stephen Palmisano is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Wollongong. His interest in visual simulation, illusions of self-motion (vection) and motion sickness began in 1992, when he completed his undergraduate Honours thesis on “The perception of self-motion in central and peripheral vision”. He subsequently completed his PhD on “Perceiving self-motion in depth” at the University of New South Wales under Professor Barbara Gillam. After working as a post-doctoral fellow with Professor Ian P Howard on vection and stereopsis at York University in Canada, he returned to Australia in 2000 to build his own Perception and Action Laboratory (PAL). Stephen’s research disproves several common assumptions about self-motion perception, reveals the importance of previously overlooked visual consequences of self-motion, and has produced new physiological measures of vection (based on eye-movements, postural activity, EEG and fMRI). More recently, his research has focused on user experiences of vection, presence and motion sickness during HMD VR. While modern HMDs provide many new and exciting opportunities, cybersickness remains a major hurdle to the success of this technology. Stephen is therefore interested in identifying the most provocative conditions for this cybersickness and the users who are most likely to suffer from it.
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