What the facility does
Research on the perception of orientation and self-motion.
Areas of expertise
The facility includes specially constructed rooms that can be arranged at different orientations or moved around a stationary or rotating observer, as well as a large field display.
Research services
The infrastructure can be booked for use. Some assistance may be available to assist in developing programs to run on these items.
Sectors of application
- Healthcare and social services
- Life sciences, pharmaceuticals and medical equipment
Specialized labs and equipment
| Equipment | Function |
|---|---|
| Dymech Tumbling Room (custom-built) | A fully decorated room that can be rotated in pitch or roll around an observer who can also be rotated. |
| Dymech Sphere Room (custom-built) | A spherical surround screen which can be rotated around an observer-vertical axis but with the observer tilted between 0 and 90°. |
| Christie Edgeless Graphics Geometry (EGG) Display | A very large surround screen (±110° in all directions) with stereo vision and head tracking. |
| Moog 6-DOF motion platform | 6-Degree-of-Freedom (DOF) moving platform. Chair for moving people in a controlled way (max. linear travel 50cm, angular ± 30°). |
| Tumbled Room (custom-built) | Room built sideways. |
| EyeLink 2000 | Eye Tracking infrastructure. Video-based and magnetic search coil eye tracking hardware. |
| Wheatstone stereoscopic displays (custom-built) | Stereoscope displays and projection-based stereoscope for presenting stereoscopic imaging. |
| InterSense IS-900 Motion Tracking System | Virtual reality motion tracking and displays. |
Additional information
| Title | Hyperlink |
|---|---|
| Research infrastructure at the Sherman Health Sciences Research Centre. | https://www.yorku.ca/harris/cfi_picks.html |
| Using optic flow in the far peripheral field. | http://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2642896 |
| The role of binocular vision in avoiding virtual obstacles while walking. | http://percept.eecs.yorku.ca/papers/zhao%20tvcg%202020.pdf |
| Media coverage of the Tumbling Room, Sphere Room and large-field Graphics Display. | http://www.yorku.ca/harris/media_nov_2016.html |
| Combined head-eye tracking for immersive virtual reality. | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.2.3781 |
| Cue conflict between disparity change and looming in the perception of motion in depth. | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2009.11.005 |
| Using saccadic suppression to hide graphic updates. | http://www.cse.yorku.ca/percept/papers/Schumacher-Using_Saccadic_Suppression.pdf |
| Stereoscopic transparency: Constraints on the perception of multiple surfaces. | https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2194353 |
| Detection and discrimination of motion-defined form: Implications for the use of night vision devices. | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/THMS.2013.2284911 |
| Interactions between cues to visual motion in depth. | http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/14.2.14 |
| Impact of depth of field simulation on visual fatigue: Who are impacted? and how? | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2016.03.001 |