Zoom conveys visual signals about gaze behavior, but they are spurious. In a new paper, I discuss the problem as a general lack of directionality, and show that using display technology that simulates motion parallax is necessary and sufficient to fix it. jov.arvojournals.org/issues.…

Amazing. Thanks to @J_D_Crawford and the team that put the successful proposal together.

Binocular disparity for distance, motion parallax for direction and place! The geometry of BD and MP is almost identical, but their functional significance is vastly different. A new paper from @BioMotionLab @vistayorku postdoc Michael Wang just appeared. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

I (@NTroje ) am currently spending a sabbatical year with the Konstanz Collective Behaviour group. It's an amazing experience. Here is @tomscott's take on a current experiment. youtu.be/KRIBVykhpC4

Zoom disrupts eye contact behaviour! We know that. But what exactly is the problem and how can it be fixed properly? Here is my own approach, framed as a TICS Science & Society mini paper. @vistayorku @YUResearch @CentreforVisio1 authors.elsevier.com/a/1gqiY…

How to turn speech into full body animation: Saeed’s paper now appeared in Computer Graphics Forum. @SaGhorbani @UbisoftLaForge @YUResearch @vistayorku doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14734

New review on an ongoing topic: Life Detection from Biological Motion. We haven’t contributed a lot lately, but many other labs have. Here, @NTroje and Dorita Chang provide an update on what's new and exciting. @vistayork @YUResearch @CentreforVisio1 doi.org/10.1177/096372142211…

This is what @biomotionlab grad student @SaGhorbani worked on during his internship with @Ubisoft. Nice feature @twominutepapers @YorkUScience @vistayorku

news.mit.edu/2022/newly-sigh… MIT News features a study that resulted from collaboration between @BioMotionLab and @projectprakash

Congratulations, Saeed. I am glad your work gains so much visibility. @vistayorku

Does belief in free will influence biological motion perception? Probably not. But why would we expect that in the first place? Wei Peng, graduate student in the lab of Marcel Brass has answers to these questions. link.springer.com/article/10…

Lily Martin, PhD student at University of Heidelberg, and her supervisor Thomas Fuchs collaborate with the @biomotionlab to characterize motor abnormalities in schizophrenia that can be used for diagnosis and assessment. link.springer.com/content/pd…

Music is all about expectations and surprises. Former graduate student Anja Cui, now Assistent Professor at University of Vienna, publishes the last part of her PhD thesis: EEG correlates of musical knowledge. nature.com/articles/s41598-0…

Shlomit Ben-Ami and Pawan Sinha work with patients who recovered from congenital blindness to answer Molyneux's question from 1688: What does seeing mean to someone who experiences it for the first time? Here's a case study on biological motion. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsych…

A number of international collaborations have recently resulted in new publications @biomotionlab, @vistayork, @YUResearch:

This post features the work of @BioMotionLab graduate student Saeed Ghorbani @SaGhorbani who did an internship with @Ubisoft as a grad student and was then promoted to become an R&D Scientist with @UbisoftToronto. Congratulations, Saeed!

Ashley was also a graduate students in the @BioMotionLab. It is sad, that she leaves physically, but she will remain a much appreciated member of the lab until she defends her thesis later this year. We'll miss you, Ashley.

Thanks to @r2rnow for giving me the opportunity to think about my motivations and inspirations.