Kyoto-Bristol collaboration on human visual perception and attention

Project Gist

Towards understanding of visual perception and attention

Keywords

experimental psychology, visual perception, attention, robotics

Background and Purpose

Bristol was the home of Professor Richard Gregory, one of the most influential vision researchers in history, and now is one of the strongest research group on experimental psychology in UK. We had been collaborating on a personal basis, and now, under the general memoranda for academic exchange and cooperation between the universities, this project aimed at establishing stronger and wider collaborations among psychologists. It was also intended to start collaboration between psychology and robotics on both sides, by approaching psychological aspects in human-robot interactions.

Project Achievements

Throughout the mutual visits between Kyoto and Bristol, we achieved deeper understanding with each other, especially among prospective young scientists including PhD students, and established the basis for long-term international collaborations. Numbers of research collaboration plans have been proposed and discussed, and we are already obtaining some practical results. We are currently discussing application to research grants for continuing these works. We also established basic communication channels with robotics researchers for near-future collaboration works.

Future Prospects

Besides on-going collaboration works, we will try to extend collaborations in wider topics in psychology. I have discussed with social psychologists in Bristol and they were eager to collaborate with Kyoto. Now we continue to find researchers who can actually take part in the collaboration research on our side.

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Principal Investigator