Immersive Virtual Environments (C03)

• Subject Area: Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology ; Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
• Term: from 2015 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 251654672

Immersive virtual environments (IVEs) simulate real-world scenarios for purposes ranging from entertainment to safety-critical training (e.g., surgery, aerospace). This project investigates how computationally demanding IVEs can be optimized to ensure realistic user performance, by focusing on how users seek out and process information for real-time operations. For this purpose, mobile gaze-tracking and EEG methods will be extended for use in IVEs. The context for research is aircraft simulation because it encompasses the rendering demands of a realistic world scene, intuitive visualization of in-vehicle instrumentation, and accurate synchronization of non-visual modalities (i.e., real motion).

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 161: Quantitative Methods for Visual Computing
• Applicant Institution: Universität Stuttgart
• Co-Applicant Institution: Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Heinrich H. Bülthoff; Professor Lewis Chuang, Ph.D.