Now You See It: Immersive Tech for Leisure and Health

University of Essex, University of Essex

My research investigates how we encode and process visual information to create our experience of living in a three-dimensional world. This research is used in the development of virtual and augmented reality, and particular in the creation of assistive technology for people with visual impairments. It is also applied in the development of neural network models of visual processing, and in the understanding of the sensory basis of migraine.

Professor of Environment and Society, University of Essex

University of Suffolk, University of Suffok

Abigail is a clinical research fellow at the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Suffolk. Abigail completed her PhD at the University of Essex, where her research explored human facial emotion perception using psychophysical and behavioural approaches. Between 2019 and 2021, Abigail was recipient of the Economic and Social Research Council’s (South East Network for Social Sciences) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, at the University of Essex. During this time, Abigail’s research focused on visual processing biases for facial displays of fear and exploring the efficacy of virtual reality as a platform for existing and potential audiences of theatre.