活動

2022年11月16日

16:00 – 17:30 (GMT+8)

Webinar

Prof. Christoph Hoelscher

Prof. Christoph Hoelscher is Full Professor of Cognitive Science at ETH Zurich, with an emphasis on Applied Cognitive Science. He is also the Programme Director of Future Resilient Systems FRS Programme at the Singapore ETH Center (SEC) , as well as Co-Director of Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), heading a research group on ‘Cognition, Perception, and Behaviour in Urban Environments’.

For enquiries, please contact us at fssc06@cuhk.edu.hk .

For the built environments to support human needs in a sustainable fashion, it is essential to understand the cognitive, emotional, and behavioural patterns of its users. Virtual Reality and video-game based experiments can provide a broad range of empirical data that supports the development of theoretically grounded, cognitive agent-based models of occupancy, movement, and wayfinding.

Large-scale mobile games like Sea Hero Quest are designed to test the spatial abilities of millions of game players, while lab and online studies on individual and small-groupspatial behaviour in immersive virtual environments allow for integrating visual attention (eye-tracking) and physiological data to understand, e.g., emergency evacuation behaviour and psychological response to social density and crowding.