Shanaa Modchalingam

Visuomotor Experiment Framework

A framework and set of tools for designing, creating and conducting visuomotor learning experiments in immersive virtual reality environments. Once created, experiments can be run on various platforms (including head mounted displays and standard computers screens). Used by the Sensorimotor Control Lab.

Methodologies used: Unity (C#), storyboarding, human-focused design, hardware and software prototyping, usability testing, experiment piloting.

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Example Tasks in Visuomotor Experiment Framework

Examples of available tasks within the framework (this is not exhaustive).

Transporting objects in VR

Gaze-based localization of unseen limbs

Simple target acquisition task

Target hitting task

Visualization of reach trajectories

An intuitive tool for visualizing movements from various lab setups and experiments. Includes useful transformations of the data and the ability to label key time points. Used by sensorimotor control lab.

Methodologies used: R (shiny), usability testing, machine learning.

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Helper tools for Visuomotor Experiment Framework

Tools to assist experimenters to easily create experiments. The tool below allows for fast creation or itteration of experiments through a graphical user interface.

Methodologies used: Unity (C#), storyboarding, human-focused design, usability testing

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Open data

Data and code used for data exploration, analysis and figure-creation for all first-authored research articles hosted on Open Science Framework.

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