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Stephen Palmisano is a researcher affiliated with the University of Wollongong in Australia. Their work spans the fields of Neuroscience and Computer Science, with significant focus on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Human-Computer Interaction, Media Technology, Social Psychology, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The scientist's research primarily addresses topics related to virtual reality, visual perception, and sensory interactions. Main research themes include:

  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Vestibular and auditory disorders
  • Image and Video Quality Assessment
  • Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare

Stephen Palmisano has published extensively in venues known for their focus on perception, visualization, and human-computer interfaces. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Virtual Reality
  • Journal of Vision
  • Frontiers in Virtual Reality
  • International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
  • Perception

Collaborations feature several frequent co-authors, notably:

  • Juno Kim
  • Robert S. Allison
  • Sébastien Miellet
  • Joel Teixeira
  • Shinji Nakamura

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Palmisano illustrate an emphasis on cybersickness, visual stability, and virtual reality training methods. Selected recent publications include:

  • Effects of dynamic field-of-view restriction on cybersickness and presence in HMD-based virtual reality, 2020, Virtual Reality
  • Cybersickness in Head-Mounted Displays Is Caused by Differences in the User's Virtual and Physical Head Pose, 2020, Frontiers in Virtual Reality
  • Investigating the process of mine rescuers' safety training with immersive virtual reality: A structural equation modelling approach, 2020, Computers & Education
  • Multisensory integration and the experience of scene instability, presence and cybersickness in virtual environments, 2020, Computers in Human Behavior
  • Reductions in sickness with repeated exposure to HMD-based virtual reality appear to be game-specific, 2022, Virtual Reality

Best Publications

  • Future challenges for vection research: definitions, functional significance, measures, and neural bases.

    Stephen Palmisano;Robert S. Allison;Mark M. Schira;Robert J. Barry

  • Vection and cybersickness generated by head-and-display motion in the Oculus Rift

    Stephen A. Palmisano;Rebecca Mursic;Juno Kim

  • Effects of steering locomotion and teleporting on cybersickness and presence in HMD-based virtual reality

    Jeremy Clifton;Stephen A. Palmisano

  • Postural stability predicts the likelihood of cybersickness in active HMD-based virtual reality

    Benjamin Arcioni;Stephen A. Palmisano;Deborah Apthorp;Deborah Apthorp;Juno Kim

  • Combined pitch and roll and cybersickness in a virtual environment.

    Frederick Bonato;Andrea Bubka;Stephen A Palmisano

  • Jitter and Size Effects on Vection are Immune to Experimental Instructions and Demands

    Stephen Palmisano;Amy Y C Chan

  • Simulated viewpoint jitter shakes sensory conflict accounts of vection.

    Stephen A Palmisano;Robert S Allison;Juno Kim;Frederick Bonato

  • The Oculus Rift: a cost-effective tool for studying visual-vestibular interactions in self-motion perception.

    Juno Kim;Charles Y. L. Chung;Shinji Nakamura;Stephen Palmisano

  • Stimulus eccentricity and spatial frequency interact to determine circular vection

    Stephen A Palmisano;Barbara Gillam

  • Consistent stereoscopic information increases the perceived speed of vection in depth.

    Stephen A Palmisano

  • Investigating the process of mine rescuers' safety training with immersive virtual reality: A structural equation modelling approach

    Shiva Pedram;Stephen A. Palmisano;Richard Skarbez;Pascal Perez

  • Multisensory integration and the experience of scene instability, presence and cybersickness in virtual environments

    Juno Kim;Wilson Luu;Stephen A. Palmisano

  • Expanding and contracting optic-flow patterns and vection.

    Andrea Bubka;Frederick Bonato;Stephen A Palmisano

  • Effects of gaze on vection from jittering, oscillating, and purely radial optic flow

    Stephen A Palmisano;Juno Kim

  • Coherent perspective jitter induces visual illusions of self-motion.

    Stephen A Palmisano;Darren Burke;Robert S Allison

  • Chaos in Balance: Non-Linear Measures of Postural Control Predict Individual Variations in Visual Illusions of Motion

    Deborah Apthorp;Fintan Nagle;Stephen Palmisano

  • Predicting vection and visually induced motion sickness based on spontaneous postural activity.

    Stephen Palmisano;Benjamin Arcioni;Paul J. Stapley

  • Examining the potential of virtual reality to deliver remote rehabilitation

    Shiva Pedram;Stephen A. Palmisano;Pascal Perez;Rebecca Mursic

  • Cost–benefit analysis of virtual reality-based training for emergency rescue workers: a socio-technical systems approach

    Shiva Pedram;Robert Ogie;Stephen A. Palmisano;Matthew Farrelly

  • Effects of Linear Visual-Vestibular Conflict on Presence, Perceived Scene Stability and Cybersickness in the Oculus Go and Oculus Quest

    Juno Kim;Stephen A. Palmisano;Wilson Luu;Shinichi Iwasaki

  • Spontaneous postural sway predicts the strength of smooth vection

    Stephen Palmisano;Deborah Apthorp;Takeharu Seno;Paul J. Stapley

  • Vection in depth during treadmill walking

    April Ash;Stephen Palmisano;Deborah Apthorp;Robert S Allison

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Barry
Robert J. Barry University of Wollongong
Rodney J. Croft
Rodney J. Croft University of Wollongong

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