The research study “Dynamic perception of dynamic affordances: Walking on a ship at sea”, co-authored by Thomas Stoffregen, Ph.D., director of the School of Kinesiology’s Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), has been accepted for publication in Experimental Brain Research.
The other co-authors are:
- Hannah Walter, APAL grad student
- Dr. Jeffrey Wagman, Illinois State University
- Dr. Nick Stergiou, University of Nebraska at Omaha
- Dr. Nurtekin Erkmen, Selcuk University, Turkey (APAL visiting scholar, 2016-17)
The data were collected aboard the R/V Thomas G. Thompson in January 2016 after the researchers had endured 48 hours of hurricane conditions. The video below shows hurricane force winds in the Pacific Northwest, January 12, 2016, as seen from the main deck starboard portal of a US scientific research vessel transiting from Seattle to San Diego.
