CAVE home to cutting-edge experiments

The “Daily Illini”, the independent student paper of the University of Illinois, has an article about their CAVE systems including some interesting research projects they’ve undertaken recently.

Kaczmarski said the CAVE was recently used for an experiment conducted by Art Kramer, professor of psychology at the University, to determine why people are distracted and inadvertently walk in front of buses.

“We found out when a person is engaged in a very personal cell phone conversion, the mental attention required takes away from visual attention needed,” he said.

One research project underway in the CAVE is another experiment focusing on distractions that children between the ages of 7-9 face when crossing the street

Also, the article makes comment to the “$1,000 pair of 3d glasses” that users must wear.  Usually these are CrystalEyes glasses, but I’m not aware of these costing $1000, usually far from it.  Perhaps they are including the price of attached trackers?

via CAVE home to cutting-edge experiments | The Daily Illini.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .