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Research Interest
I’m a teacher in the UPC
and I’m currently working on my PhD thesis, directed by Dr. Antonio
Aznar-Casanova. I’ve obtained the Advanced Studies Diploma in September 2006
and I hope to finish my PhD thesis in 2009. The principal subject of my work is
studying spatial cue integration by the visual system to achieve the three
dimensional perception. I’m particularly interested in knowing how the visual brain
organizes information about distances between objects in two and three
dimensional space. For example, questions like, (1) is there a correspondence
between physical distances and perceived distances?
(2) Does context interferes
with distance judgments between objects? (3) Is alignment of vertical objects
easier than horizontal or oblique ones?
To try to answer some of these
questions, we have done experiments in a virtual environment with LCD glasses
and OpenGL computing programs to verify the orientation and the background
influence in three dimensional perception and alignment tasks. At the moment,
we are working with a Howard Dolman apparatus to compare some experimental
results between virtual and real environment. Furthermore, we have found some results
about the compression of the perceived space.
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