Human Perception

Mission

Our main research interest is the perception of space, form and material properties by humans. We study both the visual and the haptic system.
Professor    
Astrid Kappers    
Postdoc Title of project Funding
Wouter Bergmann Tiest Haptic perception of materials and its influence on shape perception EU (Postdoc)
Sander Jansen Psychophysics of the hand EU (Postdoc)
PhD    
Femke van Beek Human parameters for haptic control and human perception of haptic feedback STW (PhD)
Mieke Bijveld Children with night blindness ODAS/Bartiméus (PhD)
Virjanand Panday Psychophysics of the hand EU (PhD)
Vonne van Polanen Psychophysics of the hand EU (PhD)
Technical support    
Pieter Schiphorst    
Publications    
  2012 - 2001  
Emeritus Professor    
Jan Koenderink    
Maarten Bouman    
Former employees    
Mirela Kahrimanovic Haptic perception of shape, space and materials  
Yoshihiro Tanaka    
Myrthe Plaisier Haptic pop-out  
Stefan Karlsson Shape from shading for rough surfaces  
Hans Kolijn    
Bram Sanders Haptic perception of space  
Ans van Doorn    
Sylvia Pont    
Alexander Mury Ecological optics - light fields  
Maarten Wijntjes Haptic perception of two-dimensional shapes and line drawings  
Bernard van der Horst Haptic perception of shape under influence of spatial location  
Robert Volcic The structure of haptic space in object manipulation  
Balaraju Battu Visual perception of shape  
Oscar van Hoof Ecological (plen-)optics of natural scenes: Material appearance  
Michelle Doumen The structure of optical space under free viewing conditions  
Byung-Geun Khang Visual perception of material properties  
Stefan Louw Haptic perception of relief at various spatial scales  
Harold Nefs 3D shape and material properties for recognition  
Jan Joris Roessingh Perceptual motor learning