Hank Virtual Environments Lab

Publications

Nguyen, T., Ziemer, C., Grechkin, T., Chihak, B., Plumert, J., Cremer, J.,& Kearney, J. (in press). How do scale changes after adaptation affect distance perception in virtual environments? ACM Transactions on Applied Perception.

Kearney, J.K. & Grechkin, T.Y. (in press). Scenario authoring. In D. Fisher, M. Rizzo, J. Caird, and J. Lee (Eds.), Handbook for Driving Simulation in Engineering, Medicine and Psychology. CRC Press.

Grechkin, T., Nguyen, T., Plumert, J., Cremer, J., Kearney, J. (2010). How does presentation method and measurement protocol affect distance estimation in real and virtual environments? ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 7, Article 26.

Chihak, B., Plumert, J., Ziemer, C., Babu, S., Grechkin, T., Cremer, J., & Kearney, J. (2010). Synchronizing self and object movement: How child and adult cyclists intercept moving gaps in a virtual environment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36, 1535-1552.

Plumert, J. M., Cremer, J., Kearney, K., Recker, K., & Strutt, J. (2010). Changes in children's perception-action tuning over short time scales: Bicycling across traffic-filled intersections in a virtual environment. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Babu, S., Grechkin, T., Chihak, B., Ziemer, C., Kearney, J., Cremer, J., & Plumert, J. (2011). An immersive virtual peer for studying social influences on child cyclists’ road-crossing behavior. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 17, 14-25.

Ziemer, C., Plumert, J. M., Cremer, J., & Kearney, K. (2009). Estimating distance in real and virtual environments: Does order make a difference? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71, 1095-1106.

Oakes, L. M., Newcombe, N. S., & Plumert, J. M. (2009). Are dynamic systems and connectionist approaches an alternative to “Good Old Fashioned Cognitive Development?” In J. P. Spencer, M. Thomas, & J. McClelland (Eds.), Toward a unified theory of development: Connectionism and dynamic systems theory re-considered. New York: Oxford University Press.

Plumert, J. M. (2008). Children’s thinking is not just about what’s in the head: Understanding the organism and environment as a unified system. In R. V. Kail (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior, pp. 373- 417. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Plumert, J. M., & Spencer, J. (Eds.) (2007). The emerging spatial mind. New York: Oxford University Press.

Spencer, J. P., & Plumert, J. M. (2007). What makes thinking about development so hard? In J. M. Plumert & J. Spencer (Eds.), The emerging spatial mind. New York: Oxford University Press.

Plumert, J. M., Kearney, J. K., & Cremer, J. F. (2007). Children’s road crossing: A window into perceptual-motor development. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 255-258.

Willemsen, P, Kearney, J.K., and Wang H. (2006). Ribbon networks for modeling navigable paths of autonomous agents in virtual environments. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 12(3), 331-342.

Wang, H., Kearney, J.K., Cremer, & Willemsen, P. (2005). Steering behaviors for autonomous vehicles in virtual environments. IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, March, Bonn, Germany, 155-162.

Plumert, J. M., Kearney, J. K., Cremer, J. F., & Recker, K. (2005). Distance perception in real and virtual environments. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 2, 216-233.

Hund, A. M., & Plumert, J. M. (2005). The stability and flexibility of spatial categories. Cognitive Psychology, 50, 1-44.

Plumert, J. M., Kearney, J. K., & Cremer, J. F. (2004). Children’s perception of gap affordances: Bicycling across traffic-filled intersections in an immersive virtual environment. Child Development, 75, 1243-1253.

Plumert, J. M. (2004). Accidents. In A. J. Christensen, R. Martin, & J. M. Smyth (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Health Psychology. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Wang, H., Kearney, J.K., & Atkinson, K. (2003). Arc-length parameterized spline curves for real-time simulation. In T. Lyche, M. Maure, and L. Schumaker (Eds.), Curve and Surface Design: Saint-Malo 2002, pp. 387-396. Brentwood, TN: Nashboro Press.

Schwebel, D. C., Binder, S. C., Sales, J. M., & Plumert, J. M. (2003). Is there a link between children’s motor abilities and unintentional injuries? Journal of Safety Research, 34, 135-141.

Plumert, J. M. (2003). Children's overestimation of their physical abilities: Links to injury proneness. In G. Savelsbergh, K. Davids, J. van der Kamp, & S. Bennett (Eds.), Development of movement coordination in children: Applications in the field of ergonomics, health sciences and sport. New York: Routledge.

J. Severson, J. Cremer, K. Lee, D. Allison, S. Gelo, J. Edwards, R. Vanderleest, S. Heston, J. Kearney, and G. Thomas (2002). “Exploring Virtual History at The National Museum of American History,” Proc. 8th Intl. Conf. on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM2002), Gyeong-ju, Korea, 61-70.

Schwebel, D. C., Dawes, B. A., & Plumert, J. M. (2002). Using an injury diary to describe the ecology of children's daily injuries. Journal of Safety Research, 33, 301-319.

Y. He, J. Cremer, and Y. Papelis (2002). “Real-time Extendible-resolution Display of On-line Dynamic Terrain,” Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2002, May 2002, Calgary, 151-160.

Plumert, J. M., Spalding, T. L., & Nichols-Whitehead, P. (2001). Preferences for ascending and descending hierarchical organization in spatial communication. Memory & Cognition, 29, 274-284.

Plumert, J. M., & Hund, A. M. (2001). The development of memory for location: What role do spatial prototypes play? Child Development, 72, 370-384.

M. Choi and J. Cremer (2000). “Geometric Awareness for Interactive Object Manipulation,” Computer Graphics Forum, 19(1), 65-76.

J. Cremer, J. Severson, J. Kearney, S. Gelo, M. McDermott, and R. Riccio (2000). “This Old Digital City: Virtual Historical Cedar Rapids, Iowa circa 1900,” Proc. 6th Intl. Conf. on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM200), Gifu, Japan, 2000, 27-34.

Schwebel, D. C., Plumert, J. M., & Pick, H. L. (2000). Integrating basic and applied developmental research: A new model for the twenty-first century. Child Development, 71, 222- 230.

Schwebel, D. C., & Plumert, J. M. (1999). Longitudinal and concurrent relations between temperament, ability estimation, and accident proneness. Child Development, 70, 700-712.

Plumert, J. M., & Schwebel, D. C. (1997). Social and temperamental influences on children’s overestimation of their physical abilities: Links to accident proneness. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 67, 317-337.

Plumert, J. M. (1995). Relations between children’s overestimation of their physical abilities and accident proneness. Developmental Psychology, 31, 866-876.

Plumert, J. M., Carswell, C., DeVet, K., & Ihrig, D. (1995). The content and organization of communication about object locations. Journal of Memory and Language, 34, 477-498.

Sancilio, M. F. M., Plumert, J. M., & Hartup, W. W. (1989). Friendship and aggressiveness as determinants of conflict outcomes in middle childhood. Developmental Psychology, 25, 812-819.