Sile O'Modhrain

Sile O'Modhrain

Professor of Performing Arts Technology and Professor of Information at the University of Michigan

Handling Perspective

As the boundaries between real and virtual environments become blurred and we begin to use real objects as handles for objects in virtual scenes, interesting questions relating to the relationship between real objects and their virtual counterparts arise.

In this project we address one such question: What is the effect of cross-modal disparity in “field of view” on our ability to make the link between the behaviour of an object we are holding in the real world and viewing in a virtual environment. To address this question, we designed a series of tasks in which we manipulated the relationship between haptic properties (orientation, number of parts etc.) of the real-world object and visual properties of its virtual counterpart.

Diagram of a hand and eye with arrows showing encoding and integration of sensory information

  • Woods, A., O’Modhrain, S. & Newell, F., (2004). “The effect of temporal delay and spatial differences on cross-modal object recognition.” Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol 4, No.1 PP260-269, Psychonomic Society Publications, June 2004

People:

  • Andy Woods
  • Fiona Newell (Trinity College Dublin)
  • Sile O’Modhrain