Chris Curry, Kinesiology doctoral candidate and member of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, has been awarded a $1000 NSF Research Trainee Mini-grant for lab equipment. The lab equipment will be used for two research projects that focus on Virtual Reality (VR). One project is related to Curry’s dissertation research, which involves investigating ways to potentially mitigate cybersickness in VR. The second project will focus on validating commercial VR equipment as a way to capture movement data.

Curry, a member of the Affordance-Perception Action Laboratory, will work with fellow graduate students Jinseok Oh and Arash Mahnan, members of the Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory, on the second project. The grants are administered by the U of M’s Center for Applied and Translational Sensory Science (CATSS) and Center for Cognitive Sciences (CCS).