Graduate and Professional Student Research Conference Thingamajigger

Robert Young

English 250

Section PN

4/7/14

Graduate and Professional Student Research Conference

The only think I was really able to go to was the thesis competition toward the end of the day, so I didn’t have a lot of options to choose from when I decided what topic to write this paper about. Luckily, two of the theses that were discussed had to do with my major. One presentation, by Micheal Curtis, a student in Human Computer Interaction, was about how you could temporarily cure motion sickness caused by differences in virtual reality and real life (for example, when your eyes tell you you are moving forward, but actually, you are moving sideways). I thought this was cool because virtual reality, to me, is kind of like a video game. You use controls to move around while you yourself are staying in one place, which is hard for your brain to comprehend. Anyway, the solution that this guy was going to research was doing some sort of physical activity or puzzle or something of the sort to get the virtual part and the real life part of your brain back in sync.