Applied Vision Association Christmas meeting, 2018, Birkbeck, University of London.

We will be celebrating the twenty third year of AVA (Applied Vision Association) Christmas meetings in 2018. The meeting will be on Monday, December 17th, at the Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck, University of London. 

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers describing recent work of interest to the AVA
• Posters describing recent work of interest to the AVA

Keynote speakers

• Dr Jenny Bosten, the 2018 recipient of the David Marr medal. School of Psychology, University of Sussex.

  "Calibrating colour perception to visual environments.”

  About Jenny: My research interests lie in visual perception, particularly in colour vision, individual differences and spatial information processing. In colour vision I am interested in visual polymorphisms, their genetic determinants, and minority phenotypes including anomalous trichromacy and tetrachromacy. I am interested in how colour perception may be tuned genetically or developmentally to the colour statistics of natural scenes. I use a combination of psychophysical and genetic methods to explore the structure, function and biological basis of the human visual system.

• Dr Ute Leonards. Reader in Neuroscience, School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol.  

• "The impact of the visual environment on locomotion."

  About Ute: My research interests fall into two big areas, sensory neurosciences and human-robot-interaction. What unifies them for me is my focus on human vision. Why vision? Because what we see guides our movements, shapes our experiences and thoughts, influences how we interact with others, and ultimately defines who we are. Who we are defines what we see and how we see it.

  I have a long history of working with other disciplines. For example, I have been working with neurologists, neuropsychologists and psychiatrists to study the mechanisms underlying visual perception, attention and action in the context of a person’s individual characteristics and the environment they live in. 

  More recently, and my main research area, I have been collaborating closely with colleagues in biomechanics, computer vision, civil engineering and humanities to understand how patterns in the visual environment impact our movements, health and wellbeing.

• Dr Annette Allen. Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology,  University of Manchester. 

  "Redesigning visual displays to understand melanopsin’s contribution to vision."

  About Annette: My research combines my expertise in the development of bespoke lighting/display architecture with anatomical, physiological and behavioural assays of vision. A direct impact of that research is improved insight into how ambient/artificial lighting and displays can be used to optimise visual experience and/or regulate the subconscious effects of light over the course of the day.

Organizing committee: The Applied Vision Association

Venue

The conference will be held in the Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck, University of London, Torrington Square, WC1E 7HX. See the map at this link: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/downloads/maps/central-london.pdf/view. The Clore is building number 2. Please note that the lecture room and reception area are on the lower ground floor, so enter the building and take the stairs to the right, or use the lift.

Birkbeck is very easy to get to. It is located on Malet St, London, WC1E 7HX (it's at the rear of the British Museum). Kings Cross, St Pancras and Euston rail stations are just a few minutes walk away. The Clore Management Centre (number 2 on the map) faces the Birkbeck main building (number 1 on the map) on Torrington Square. Russell Square is the nearest tube station, although several others are also nearby (Goodge St, Warren St, Tottenham Court Road, Euston Square, Holborn).

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to the local organiser, Dr Alex Shepherd. Email: a.shepherd@bbk.ac.uk. Telephone: 020 7631 6212.

The meeting:

Registration opens at 10am, with the first talk session starting at 11am. The meeting should end around 5:30, with a drinks reception after.

If you would like to offer a talk or poster:

The local organiser is Dr Alex Shepherd, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck. Email: a.shepherd@bbk.ac.uk. Telephone: 0207 631 6212. Please send abstracts directly to her by midnight November 11th, 2018. No more than 500 words and please include authors, affiliation, whether you are offering a talk or a poster, and who would be presenting. You will be notified of acceptance within approximately two weeks.

Registration: please see the AVA website: http://www.theava.net/meetings.php