Tom Stoffregen, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL,) George Bailey, a graduate student researcher in APAL, Fei Wu, a doctoral student in computer science at the U of M, and Evan Suma Rosenberg, PhD, an associate professor of computer science at the U of M, received an honorable mention for best paper at the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Spatial User Interaction 2021 virtual conference.

The paper, titled “Don’t Block the Ground: Reducing Discomfort in Virtual Reality with an Asymmetric Field-of-View Restrictor,” won them a $50.00 cash prize. The work for this paper was done under their NSF (National Science Foundation) grant, “CHS: Medium: Prediction, Early Detection, and Mitigation of Virtual Reality Simulator Sickness.”