[visionlist] VSS 2023 | Announcing the Recipient of the Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence

Wed Mar 1 16:34:49 -04 2023

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VSS is Honored to Present William H. (Bill) Warren
with the 2023 Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science

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Congratulations to Bill Warren, the eighth recipient of the Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science. The Nakayama Medal was created to honor Professor Ken Nakayama's contribution to the Vision Sciences Society, as well as his innovations and excellence to the domain of vision sciences. The winner of the Ken Nakayama Medal receives this honor for work that has made exceptional, significant or lasting contributions to vision science.

Dr. Warren is Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. He founded the Virtual Environment Navigation Lab (VENLab) to study perception and action, well before the recent adoption of virtual reality techniques in research. 

Bill Warren has broadened the view of vision at VSS to include many questions about how vision guides people’s interactions with the real and virtual world, which is obviously what vision is really for. His work has revealed how people use vision to perceive their environment, as well as how they subsequently control their actions. The former involves demonstrating people’s proficiency at judging affordances, surface layout, and self-motion. The latter involves demonstrating how adaptive behavior emerges from the dynamic interaction between an organism and its environment. Bill has examined all this in a rigorous manner for a wide variety of topics such as judging whether one can step onto or pass between surfaces, judging where one is heading on the basis of the optic flow, controlling locomotion between obstacles, towards targets, and in large crowds, and navigating over longer distances. 

He has collaborated with movement scientists on visual-motor coordination, with biologists on insect flight control, with computer scientists on collective crowd dynamics, and with safety researchers on emergency evacuation. He has consistently combined experimental, computational and theoretical analyses of the problems he has tackled, often exposing implicit assumptions that others are making. Finally, he used mobile virtual reality — long before it became popular and accessible — to conduct ground-breaking experiments on how walking subjects use visual information to guide naturalistic behavior in controlled settings. Building on the theoretical insights of James Gibson, he has introduced the VSS community to a new way of considering vision. His work has been instrumental in defining the field that we know as Perception and Action. 

For more information about Bill Warren, visit  <https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001dNwFyRf3yg-S9lcH-8384fTFsby0UAoTRFLKFcLzUxWmfYCwD9LIX-ZYQFEyomieHltNl_k3Da6OInwHRVncQkcQbYRIWUU9JWZ9IaBzOaio90VsNGJSOmFLYmfrG2frU89AQPlDh6Y5Rbbx-qY4j5aQeNr6OUMsQPSjiA6tsk1FpXsJ2Vs-aRFCBY4mqZSH&c=QsAi_WA00fRcaQcEn1S7jOJbaFuZn9QvYBBdbdibA4lFCdoagXagjA==&ch=--hptGNp8LF3ATjsyVwBdko4k3akr272C28-APVkA85KE2-nL9ecgw==> 2023 Ken Nakayama Medal.

Dr. Warren will be presented with his award and deliver a talk at the 2023 VSS Awards Session on Monday, May 22, 2023, 12:30-2:00 pm. 

Important Dates

March 1 Board of Directors Nominations Close

March 1 Undergraduate Just-In-Time Poster Submissions Open

March 13 VSS Student-Postdoc Advisory Committee Applications Deadline

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