Biomotion Lab have and incredibly useful walking visualisation tool. Click this link and play with the sliders.
Directed by Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Troje, the lab is located at York University in Toronto, Ontario.
Goals
Their main research interest is focused on questions concerning the nature of perceptual representations. How can a stream of noisy nerve cell excitations possibly be turned into the coherent and predictable perception of a “reality”? They work on questions involving the processing of sensory information, perception, cognition and communication.
Topics
People perception: The biology and psychology of social recognition
detection of animate agents
conspecific recognition
gender recognition
individual recognition
action recognition
recognition of emotions, personality traits and intentionality
recognition of bodies, faces, and biological motion
Vision in virtual reality
pictorial vs physical spaces
space perception
simulator sickness
perception of self-motion (vection)
multisensory integration
perception of the own body
the nature of presence
Visual ambiguities and perceptual biases
depth ambiguities
the “facing-the-viewer” bias
