My name is Tabitha C. Peck and I am a visiting faculty member at Duke University where I will be instructing undergraduate computer science courses. For the past two years I was a post-doctoral researcher at the Event Lab in Barcelona, Spain, working in the European project, Virtual Embodiment and Robotic Re-Embodiment (VERE). While involved with the VERE project my research focused on the psychological effects of virtual body-swap illusions in fully immersive virtual environments. I received my PhD from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the supervision of Professors Henry Fuchs and Mary C. Whitton. My PhD research focused on locomotion interfaces in virtual environments and enabling people to physically walk in small spaces while walking in much larger virtual spaces. Please see my dissertation for more information about Redirected Free-Exploration with Distractors.
My research interests include: Virtual reality, virtual embodiment, human-computer interaction, 3D user interfaces, locomotion, navigation, system design and evaluation, and human perception.
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