Overview of PPTG
The Perception and Performance Technical Group's primary
purpose is to promote exchanging information about perception
and its relation to human performance. As its name implies,
PPTG encompasses all sensory/perceptual modalities,
not just vision, and encourages multi-modal approaches.
Areas of concern include the nature, content, and quantification
of sensory information and the context in which it is
displayed; the physics and psychophysics of information
display; perceptual and cognitive representation and
interpretation of displayed information; assessment
of workload using tasks having a significant perceptual
component; as well as the actions and behaviors that
result from information presented to the various sensory
systems.
PPTG Sponsors
Cambridge Research Systems is our current
sponsor.
Cambridge Research Systems was founded
by Professor John Robson FRS and his son, Tom Robson,
to design and manufacture equipment for vision scientists.
They have now been supplying Visual Stimulus
Generators (VSG) for over 20 years, and previous
VSGs in their range have been used in literally thousands
of experimental systems.
The CRS website is continually updated
with the latest news from the vision science community
as well as research topics from many distinguished vision
scientists. The CRS web site has recorded lectures from
Colour Group meetings, such as those by David Brainard
(2006) and Qasim Zaidi (2007), which are available to
watch again with slides and audio on their website,
or Mike Webster (2008) whose lecture will be coming
to our site very soon. www.crsltd.com/research
CRS also has a quarterly e-newsletter
of lectures and research to news stories and events.
You can sign up today at http://www.crsltd.com/corp-info/news/newsletter/newsletterSubscribeForm.html.
Benefits of Membership
The PPTG provides its members with numerous benefits.
For example, the PPTG is sponsoring more than 8 outstanding
technical sessions and a special vibrotactile/haptic
symposium “In Touch” as well as cosponsoring
an invited address on attention and performance by Professor
Michael Posner at the annual HFES meeting in San Francisco.
The PPTG also sponsors $500 awards for the two best
student submissions to the PPTG program. Members receive
PPTG’s newsletter INSIGHT and can both send and
receive email messages via our new list server –
all of this helps foster communication among the members
and provides timely, useful information.
Membership is open to everyone who shares
the PPTG’s interests, regardless of whether they
are HFES members. Annual dues are $5.00 within the U.S.A.
and Canada (US$7.00 outside) and apply to the calendar
year. We invite you to join the PPTG and receive the
many benefits of being a PPTG member!
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