Dennis R. Proffitt
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- University of Virginia, Department of Psychology
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 1994
Dennis Proffitt received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University in 1976. After three years at Wesleyan University, he moved to the University of Virginia where he is now Professor of Psychology and of Biomedical Engineering. Proffitt’s research has been focused on issues related to the visual perception of space. Since 1985, Proffitt has maintained a research collaboration with scientists at the NASA- Ames research center and has, thereby, observed the development of their VIEW virtual reality (VR) system. More recently, he has collaborated with Randy Pausch, Director of the Virginia VR laboratory, on vision research using interactive head mounted displays.
Learning Category: Presentation(s):
![Are You Here? Presence in Virtual Reality: What Is It All About and Why Care?](https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1998-Panels-11-Are-You-Here_-Presence-in-Virtual-Reality-150x150.jpg)
Type: [Panels]
Are You Here? Presence in Virtual Reality: What Is It All About and Why Care? Presenter(s): [Durlach] [Hettinger] [Pausch] [Proffitt]
Entry No.: [11]
[SIGGRAPH 1998]
![Immersive Environments: Research, Applications, and Magic](https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1998-Course-Cover-38-Immersive-Environments-Research-Applications-and-Magic-150x150.jpg)
Type: [Courses]
Immersive Environments: Research, Applications, and Magic Organizer(s): [Wraga]
Presenter(s): [Wraga] [Bryson] [Kaiser] [Mine] [Schell] [Pausch] [Proffitt]
Entry No.: [38]
[SIGGRAPH 1998]
![Quantifying immersion in virtual reality](https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/1997-Technical-Papers-Pausch_Quantifying-Immersion-in-Virtual-Reality-150x150.jpg)
Type: [Technical Papers]
Quantifying immersion in virtual reality Presenter(s): [Pausch] [Proffitt] [Williams]
[SIGGRAPH 1997]