CURRICULUM VITAE
FRANK E. POLLICK
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Department of Psychology
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland
office phone: +44-0141-330-3945
fax: +44-0141-339-8889
mobile: +44-0771-161-6558
email: frank@psy.gla.ac.uk
WWW: http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~frank
CITIZENSHIP:
USA
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. 1991, University of California, Irvine, Cognitive Sciences
M.S. 1984, Case Western Reserve University, Biomedical Engineering
B.S. 1982, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Physics
B.S. 1982, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Biology
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
University of Glasgow, Department of Psychology. Professor (2008-present).
University of Glasgow, Department of Psychology. Reader (2005-present).
University of Glasgow, Department of Psychology. Senior Lecturer (2002-05).
University of Glasgow, Department of Psychology. Lecturer (1997-02).
ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories, invited researcher. Investigated human vision, motor control and human performance in virtual environments (1991-97).
Schlumberger Well Services, engineer. Developed CAD library to speed the design-cycle of electronics packaging (1985-86).
Baylor College of Medicine, research assistant. Evaluated cell damage and blood flow in artificial vascular conduits (1985-86).
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, engineer. Developed system to evaluate prosthetic heart valves during open heart surgery (1982-84).
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Brain mechanisms of action understanding
Expertise and the recognition of human actions
Sensory processes in autism
Interaction with humanoid robots
GRANTS – Principal & Lead Investigator:
Arts and Humanities Research Council – Watching dance: Kinesthetic empathy, £695, 423, 1/4/08 – 30/9/10 (Dee Reynolds at Manchester University is PI and I am the local lead at Glasgow with Marie-Helene Grosbras)
Ministry of Defence – Evaluation and training of expertise in judging intent based on eye movements and brain activity, £299,734, 1/1/08 – 30/11/09
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Larger Grant – Brain mechanisms of emotion processing in depression, £30,000, 1/10/06-30/6/08
National Alliance for Autism Research / Autism Speaks – The processing of biological
motion patterns in adults with high-functioning autism: A fmri study, $117,484, 1/10/06-30/9/08
British Academy – Beat Fusion in the Brain of a Drummer, £44,244, 1/7/06-31/1/08
EPSRC – Workshop on the psychology of face and gesture recognition, £5,728, 15/4/06-19/9/06,
British Academy – Investigations of a minimal architecture for action, understanding and imitation, £4,360, 1/6/03-31/5/04
EPSRC - Recognising the style of human movement, £152,416, 1/6/02 - 30/5/05
ESRC - Combining form and motion information to recognise emotion from human movement, £38,780, 1/4/02 - 31/3/03
The Royal Society – Visual recognition of objects and events by man and machine, £17,043, 1/4/01 - 31/3/04
EPSRC – Assessing the believability of real and synthetic 3D human movement, £50,000, 1/11/98 - 31/10/99
GRANTS – Co-Investigator:
ESRC – Social interaction: A
cognitive-neurosciences approach.
£4,624,215, 1/1/08 – 31/12/11. (PI Simon Garrod, I am one of 15 co-investigators and my role
is to supervise one postdoctoral RA and to use £100K equipment money to
establish a whole body motion capture system.)
EPSRC - Surveillance from all angles - Bridging the gaps between science, engineering, forensics and criminology, £58,412, 1/8/03-31/7/05, (PI Alex Hirschfield, University of Liverpool)
EU - Perception and Representation for Action (PRA), Û1,495,323, 1/9/02 - 31/1/04 (PI - Pascal Mamassian, University of Glasgow)
EPSRC - European Conference on Visual Perception, £16,711, 2/1/02 - 1/12/02, (PI - Pascal Mamassian, University of Glasgow)
Professional Service
NSF Perception Action Cognition (PAC) grants panel
meeting
Twice served as ad hoc panel member for Autism
Speaks grant review meetings in Philadelphia (May 2007 for the basic and
clinical large grants and February 2008 for the pilot grants). Area of expertise is vision and brain
imaging
Associate Editor for the International Journal of
Humanoid Robotics, published by World Scientific. Area of expertise is psychology and human-robot interaction
(HRI)
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Psychological Society
The Psychonomic Society
Society for Neuroscience
Vision Sciences Society
PhD STUDENT SUPERVISION:
Lukasz Piwek (2009-present) – Audiovisual
aspects of recognizing emotion
Scott Love (2006-present) – Audiovisual cue
combination and human movement
Lawrie McKay (2005-2009) – Biological Motion Perception in Autism
Phil McAleer (2003-2006) - Understanding intention from movement
Maria Tzoneva (2002-2006) - Perception for recognition and action
Vaia Lestou (2001-5) - Mechanisms of human movement imitation
Joshua Hale (1998-2003) - Biomimetic motion synthesis for synthetic
humanoids
Helena Paterson (1998-2002) - Perception and
cognition of emotion from motion
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
TEACHING WITHIN PYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT:
Lecture in the Perception and Visual Cognition Strand, Levels 1,2, 3, 4
Supervise practical work of small groups of Level 3 Honours students
Supervise Critical Reviews of Level 4 Honours students
Supervise Final Year Projects of Level 4 Honours students
Lecture to Postgraduate students about research methods
TEACHING OUTWITH PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT:
Seminar to Masters Students at Glasgow School of Art, Digital Design Studio
Course on visual perception to Glasgow School of Art, Product Design
MSc STUDENT SUPERVISION:
Catherine Mulvenna (2003-4) – Synaesthesia and Creativity
ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES:
Portfolio Holder for Departmental Computing Support (2000- ) – oversee the budget of computing support and the running of the departments computing environment
Member of Departmental Management Group (2000- ) – participate in weekly meetings with other portfolio holders in the department to plan and decide on departmental policies
Junior Year Abroad Coordinator (2000- ) –
initiated and currently manage programmes with UCSD , UCSB, UCB, UNSW, Otago
for exchange of our 3rd year students
Psychology Summer Fellowship (2000-2002) – initiated and managed summer internship programme for 3rd year studentÕs summer work experience
Level 3 Course Tutor (1999-2001) – administration of third year classes and students; responsibilities include writing course handbook, running class exams, organising 2 day retreat, pastoral duties
International Student advisor (1998-1999) – advised foreign undergraduates within the department
FACULTY ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES:
Recruitment (2003-2004 ) – departmental representative for recruitment of undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Faculty of Information and Mathematical Sciences
Promotion Committee (2002-2003 ) – departmental representative for promotions in the Faculty of Information and Mathematical Sciences
PUBLICATIONS
ARTICLES:
McKay, L. S.,
Simmons, D. R., McAleer, P., & Pollick, F. E. (2009). Contribution of
configural information in a direction discrimination task: Evidence using a
novel masking paradigm. Vision Research, 49(20),
2503-2508.
Petrini, K., Dahl,
S., Rocchesso, D., Waadeland, C. H., Avanzini, F., Puce, A., et al. (2009).
Multisensory integration of drumming actions: musical expertise affects
perceived audiovisual asynchrony. Experimental Brain Research, 198(2-3), 339-352.
Petrini, K.,
Russell, M., & Pollick, F. (2009). When knowing can replace seeing in
audiovisual integration of actions. Cognition, 110(3), 432-439.
Pollick, F. E.,
Maoz, U., Handzel, A. A., Giblin, P. J., Sapiro, G., & Flash, T. (2009).
Three-dimensional arm movements at constant equi-affine speed. Cortex, 45(3), 325-339.
Simmons, D. R.,
Robertson, A. E., McKay, L. S., Toal, E., McAleer, P., & Pollick, F. E.
(2009). Vision in autism spectrum disorders. Vision Research, 49(22), 2705-2739.
Vangeneugden, J.,
Pollick, F., & Vogels, R. (2009). Functional Differentiation of Macaque
Visual Temporal Cortical Neurons Using a Parametric Action Space. Cerebral
Cortex, 19(3), 593-611.
McAleer, P. &
Pollick, F.E. (2008). Understanding Intention from Minimal Displays of Human
Activity. Behavior Research
Methods, 40(3), 830-839.
Pollick, F.E.,
Maoz, U., Handzel, A., Giblin, P.J., Sapiro, G., & Flash, T. (in press).
Three-Dimensional Arm Movements at Constant Equi-Affine Speed. Cortex.
Lestou, V., Pollick,
F.E., Kourtzi, Z. (2008). Neural substrates for imitation at
different levels of action description in the human brain. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 324-341.
Ma, Y., Paterson, & Pollick, F.E. (2006). A motion-capture library for the
study of identity, gender, and emotion perception from biological motion. Behavior
Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 38, 134-141.
Pollick, F.E., Kay, J., Heim, K. & Stringer,
R. (2005). Gender recognition from point-light
walkers. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Human
Perception and Performance, 31,
1247-1265.
Pollick, F.E., Hale, J.G. &
Tzoneva-Hadjigeorgieva, M.
(2005). Perception of
humanoid movement. International
Journal of Humanoid Robotics. 2,
277-300
Hale, J. & Pollick, F.E. (2005). ÔSticky HandsÕ: Learning and generalization for
cooperative physical interactions with a humanoid robot. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man
and Cybernetics – Part C: Applications and Reviews, 35, 512-521.
MacFarlane, L, Kulka, I & Pollick, F.E.
(2004). The representation of
affect revealed by butoh dance. Psychologia
-An International Journal of Psychology in the Orient (Special Issue: Nonverbal communication and action
recognition), 47(2), 96-103.
Pollick, F.E., Hill, H., Calder, A. & Paterson,
H. (2003). Recognizing facial expression from
spatially and temporally modified movements. Perception, 32,
813-826.
Green, P.R. & Pollick, F.E. (2003). Recognising
actions. Behavioural and Brain Sciences,
25, 106-107.
Pollick, F.E., Lestou, V., Ryu, J. & Cho,
SB. (2002) Estimating the
efficiency of recognizing gender and affect from biological motion. Vision Research, 42,
2345-2355.
Pollick, F.E., Paterson, H., Bruderlin, A. &
Sanford, A.J. (2001) Perceiving affect from arm movement. Cognition, 82. B51-B61.
Pollick, F.E., Fidopiastis, C.M., & Braden,
V. (2001). Recognizing the style of spatially
exaggerated tennis serves. Perception, 30, 323-338.
Atkeson, C.G., Hale, J.G., Kawato, M., Kotosaka, S.,
Pollick, F.E., Riley, M., Schaal, S., Shibata, T., Tevatia, G., Ude, A.,
Vijayakumar, S. (2000). Using
humanoid robots to study human behavior.
IEEE Intelligent Systems, 15,
46-56.
Hill, H, H., Pollick, F.E. (2000). Exaggerating
temporal differences enhances recognition of individual from point light
displays. Psychological Science, 11,
223-228.
Watanabe, H., Pollick, F.E., Watanabe, H.,
Koenderink, J.J., & Kawato, M. (1999). Using motor tasks to quantitatively
judge 3-D surface curvatures. Perception and Psychophysics., 61, 1116-1139.
Pollick, F.E. (1998). Virtual surfaces and the
influence of visual cues on grasp.
Virtual Reality, 3,
85-101.
Koenderink, J.J., Kappers, A.M.L., Pollick, F.E.
& Kawato, M. (1997). Correspondence in pictorial space. Perception and Psychophysics., 59, 813-827.
Pollick, F.E. (1997). The perception of motion and structure in
structure-from-motion: Comparisons
of affine and Euclidean formulations.
Vision Research. , 37,
447-466.
Pollick, F.E., Sapiro, G. (1997). Constant affine velocity predicts the
1/3 power law of drawing and planar motion perception. Vision Research, 37, 347-353.
Pollick, F.E., Watanabe, H. & Kawato, M.
(1996). Perception of local
orientation in shaded images. Perception
and Psychophysics., 58,
762-780.
Pollick, F.E., Ishimura, G. (1996). The three-dimensional curvature of
straight-ahead movements. Journal
of Motor Behavior, 28,
271-279.
Pollick, F.E., Nishida, S., Koike, Y. & Kawato,
M. (1994). Pointing responses to
the perceived axis of rotation. Perception
and Psychophysics, 56,
91-109.
Giblin, P.J., Pollick, F.E. & Rycroft, J.E.
(1994). Recovery of an unknown
axis of rotation from the profiles of a rotating surface. Journal of the Optical Society of
America A, 11, 1976-1984.
Pollick, F.E. (1994). Perceiving shape from profiles. Perception and Psychophysics, 55, 152-161.
Pollick, F.E., Giblin, P.J., Rycroft, J. &
Wilson, L.L. (1992). Human
recovery of shape from profiles. Behaviormetrika, 19, 65-79.
Braunstein, M.L., Hoffman, D.D. & Pollick, F.E.
(1990). Discriminating rigid from
nonrigid motion: Minimum points
and views. Perception and
Psychophysics, 47, 205-214.
Pollick, F.E., Barnes, K.L. & Ferrario, C.M.
(1987). Effect of area postrema
lesion on low-frequency arterial pressure oscillations in dogs. American Journal of Physiology, 253(Heart Circ. Physiol. 22),
H524-H530.
BOOK CHAPTERS:
Pollick, F.E. (in press). In Search of the Uncanny Valley. UC Media 2009, LNICST 40 proceedings, Springer.
Pollick, F.E. (2009). Psychology of Gait and Action
Recognition. Encyclopedia of
Biometrics, edited by Stan Li, Springer. ISBN: 978-0-387-73002-8
Pollick, F.E. & Paterson, H.M. (2008). Movement Style, Movement Features and the Recognition of Affect from Human Movement. Understanding Events: How Humans See, Represent, and Act on Events, edited by Thomas F Shipley and Jeffrey M. Zacks. Oxford University Press.
Pollick, F. E. (2003). The features people use to recognize human movement style. In Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction (Vol. 2915, pp. 10-19). Berlin: Springer-Verlag Berlin.
Pollick, F.E., Chizk, C. Hager-Ross, C. & Hayhoe, M. (2001). Implicit accuracy constraints in two-fingered grasps of virtual objects with haptic feedback. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer.
Giblin, P.J., Rycroft, J.E. & Pollick, F.E. (1994). Moving Surfaces. In R. Fisher (Ed.), Design and Applications of Curves and Surfaces, Mathematics of Surfaces V (pp. 433-453). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Berger, R.D., Bailin, M.T., Pollick, F. & Cohen, R.J. (1984). Experimental application of a computer model of atrial fibrillation. The Applications of Computers in Cardiology: State of the Art and New Perspectives. New York: Elsevier Science.
PROCEEDINGS:
Ma Y.L., Paterson H.,Dolia A.,Cho S.B.,Ude
A.,Pollick F.E.(2004) Toward A Biologically-Inspired Representation of Human
Affect, Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems , Strirling, Scotland, 2004, ISBN:
1-85769-199-7.
McAleer, P., Mazzarino, B., Volpe, G., Camurri,
A., Smith, K., Paterson, H., Pollick, F.E. (2004) Perceiving Animacy and
Arousal in Transformed Displays of Human Interaction. Proceedings for The 2nd
International Symposium on Measurement, Analysis and Modelling of Human Functions
and The 1st Medditeranean Conference of Measurement, 67-71
Cho, S. B., & Pollick, F. E. (2003). Toward person authentication
with point light display using neural network ensembles. In Audio-and
Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, Proceedings (Vol. 2688, pp. 878-885). Berlin: Springer-Verlag
Berlin.
Hale, J.G., Pollick, F.E., & Tzoneva, M. (2003). The visual categorization of humanoid movement as natural. Humanoids 2003, Munich & Karlsruhe 1-3 October 2003.
Pollick, F.E., Hale, J.G., & McAleer, P. (2003). Visual perception of humanoid movement. Epigenetic Robotics Third Annual Workshop, Boston 4-5 August 2003.
Pollick, F.E. (2003). The features people use to recognize human movement style. Gesture Workshop 2003, The 5th international Workshop on Gesture and sign language based human-computer interaction, Genoa 15-17 April 2003.
Hale J.G. & Pollick F.E. (2002). Biomimetic motion synthesis for the upper limb based on human motor production, Workshop on motor control in humans and robots (SAB 2002), Edinburgh University, August 10 - 11
Pollick, F. E., Chizk, C., Hager-Ross, C., & Hayhoe, M. (2001). Implicit accuracy constraints in two-fingered grasps of virtual objects with haptic feedback. In Haptic Human-Computer Interaction, Proceedings (Vol. 2058, pp. 98-107). Berlin: Springer-Verlag Berlin.
Paterson, H.M., Pollick, F.E., Sanford, A.J. (2001). The role of velocity in affect discrimination . Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Edinburgh) pp756-761
Hale, J.G. & Pollick, F.E. (2000). Playing ÔSticky HandsÕ with a humanoid robot. Humanoids 2000. Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 2000.
Hale, J.G & Pollick, F.E. (2000). Sticky Hands
interaction with an anthropomorphic robot. In Proceedings of AAAI Workshop on Interactive Robotics for
Entertainment (WIRE 2000).
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 2000
Watanabe, H., Pollick, F.E., Koenderink, J.J. & Kawato (1996). Perceived surface curvature from drawing movements. In The Institute of Electronics Information and Communication Engineers, Technical Report MBE96-22(1996-05), p. 149-156. (In Japanese)
Ishimura, G., & Pollick, F.E. (1993). Information utilization of motor-error tolerance ranges in the visuomotor system. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication (pp. 35-38). Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society Press.
Pollick, F.E., Nishida, S., Koike Y. & Kawato, M. (1993). The perceived motion in structure-from-motion: pointing responses to the axis of rotation. In Proceedings of the Institute of Television Engineers of Japan Annual conference (p. 117).
ABSTRACTS:
Love, S., Hillis, J. M., Waadeland, C.,
Rocchesso, D., Avanzini, F., Dahl, S., & Pollick, F. E. (2007). How audio
and visual cues combine to discriminate tempo of swing groove drumming
[Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 7(9):870, 870a,
http://journalofvision.org/7/9/870/,
doi:10.1167/7.9.870.
McKay, L., McAleer, P., Simmons, D.,
& Pollick, F. (2007). Quantifying the contribution of structure information
in direction discrimination of scrambled walkers [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 7(9):474, 474a,
http://journalofvision.org/7/9/474/,
doi:10.1167/7.9.474.
Petrini, K. and Pollick, F. and
Russell, M. (2007). Ability to
anticipate human action affects perceived audiovisual synchrony, Perception, 36, 75-75.
Pollick, F. E. and Petrini, K. and
Russell, M. and Rocchesso, D. and Waadeland, C. H. and Dahl, S. and Avanzini,
F. (2007). Effects of musical
expertise on perceived audiovisual synchrony, Perception, 36, 171-172.
Pollick, F., McAleer, P., Gleicher, M.,
Vangeneugden, J., & Vogels, R. (2007). Human recognition of action blends
[Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 7(9):553, 553a, http://journalofvision.org/7/9/553/, doi:10.1167/7.9.553.
Russell, M., Petrini, K., McAleer, P.,
Rocchesso, D., Dahl, S., Haakon Waadeland, C., Avanzini, F., & Pollick, F.
(2007). Audiovisual congruence and the processing of synchrony in swing groove
drumming [Abstract]. Journal of
Vision, 7(9):874, 874a,
http://journalofvision.org/7/9/874/, doi:10.1167/7.9.874.
Simmons, D. R. and McKay, L. and
McAleer, P. and Toal, E. and Robertson, A. and Pollick, F. E. (2007). Neural noise and autism spectrum
disorders, Perception, 36, 119-120.
White, G., McKay, L., & Pollick, F.
(2007). Motion and the uncanny valley [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 7(9):477, 477a,
http://journalofvision.org/7/9/477/,
doi:10.1167/7.9.477.
Pollick, F.E., Tzoneva-Hadjigeorgieva, M., Price, G.M. & Jang, S.
(2006). Form and motion coherence
in the perception of possible point-light ballet movements. Society for Neuroscience 36th
Annual meeting, Atlanta.
Vangeneugden, J., Pollick, F. & Vogels, R. (2006). Responses of macaque superior temporal
sulcus neurons to a parameterized set of dynamic images of visual actions.
Society for Neuroscience 36th Annual meeting, Atlanta.
McAleer, P., McKay, L., Piggot, J., Simmons, D.R.
& Pollick, F.E. (2006).
Intention recognition in autistic spectrum condition (ASC) using video
recordings and their corresponding animacy displays. http://journalofvision.org/6/6/1035/
McKay, L., Mackie, J., Piggott, J., Simmons, D.R.
& Pollick, F.E. (2006). Biological motion
processing in autistic spectrum conditions: Perceptual and social factors.
http://journalofvision.org/6/6/1036/
Pollick, F.E., Lestou, V., Kourtzi, Z.,
Vangeneugden, J., & Vogels R. (2005) Using movement blends to study action
recognition, Society for Neuroscience, 35th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC,
USA, 12-16 November
Paterson H.M. & Pollick F.E.
(2005) Space and time in
categorisation of emotion from motion, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 145
Hadjigeorgieva, M., Seon Hee Jang, Pollick E, F
(2005) The effect of perception of complex human movement on late event-related
brain potentials 5th Annual VSS
conference, Sarasota, Florida, USA, 5-11 May 2005 .
McAleer P. & Pollick F.E., (2005)
Understanding Intention from Minimal Displays of Human Activity 46th Annual Meeting of the
Psychonomics Society, November 10th - 13th, Toronoto, Canada .
McAleer P., Mazzarino B., Volpe G., Camurri A.,
Smith K., Paterson S. & Pollick F.E. (2005) Creating animacy displays from
scenes of human action Journal
of Cognitive Neuroscience pp 145.
McAleer P., Paterson H.M., Mazzarino B.
& Pollick F.E., (2005) Towards canonical views of animacy from scenes of
human action Journal of Vision 5 (8) pp 936a.
McAleer, P., Mazzarino, B., Volpe, G., Camurri,
A., Patterson, H., & Pollick, F. (2004). Perceiving Animacy and Arousal in
Transformed Displays of Human Interaction [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 4(8), 230a,
http://journalofvision.org/4/8/230/, doi:10.1167/4.8.230.
Hadjigeorgieva, M., Jang, S. H., Park, S.-J.,
Jung, W. H., Chung, C. S., & Pollick, F. E. (2004). The influence of
temporal offset noise on the perception of possible versus impossible movement
[Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 4(8), 238a,
http://journalofvision.org/4/8/238/,
doi:10.1167/4.8.238.
Pollick, F. E., Paterson, H., & Mamassian, P.
(2004). Combining faces and movements to recognize affect [Abstract]. Journal
of Vision, 4(8), 232a, http://journalofvision.org/4/8/232/, doi:10.1167/4.8.232.
Mulvenna,
C., Hubbard, E.M., Ramachandran, V.S. & Pollick, F. (2004, April). The
relationship between synaesthesia and creativity. Eleventh Annual meeting of
the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. San Francisco, CA.
Lestou, V., Pollick, F.E., & Kourtzi, Z., (2003), A differential
involvement of prefrontal and parietal areas revealed by fMRI adaptation,
Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 7-11November.
Paterson, H. M., & Pollick, F. E. (2003). Perceptual consequences
when combining form and biological motion [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 3(9),
786a,
http://journalofvision.org/3/9/786/, doi:10.1167/3.9.786.
Lestou, V., Pollick, F. E., BŸlthoff, H. H., & Kourtzi, Z. (2003).
The involvement of parietal and prefrontal areas in human imitation revealed by
fMRI adaptation [Abstract]. Journal
of Vision, 3(9), 525a,
http://journalofvision.org/3/9/525/, doi:10.1167/3.9.525.
Hale, J. G., & Pollick, F. E. (2003). Visual analysis of
movements generated by biomimetic motor-production criteria and displayed via
computer animations and humanoid robots [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 3(9), 524a, http://journalofvision.org/3/9/524/, doi:10.1167/3.9.524.
Hadjigeorgieva, M., Friedrich, B., & Pollick, F. E. (2003).
Perception and action in drawing circles [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 3(9), 265a,
http://journalofvision.org/3/9/265/, doi:10.1167/3.9.265.
McAleer, P., Fidopiastis, C., Braden, V., & Pollick, F. E.
(2003). Obtaining features for the recognition of human movement style [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 3(9),
527a,
http://journalofvision.org/3/9/527/, doi:10.1167/3.9.527.
Paterson, H.M., Pollick, F.E. & Ude, A. (2002). Shaping
Biological Motion: Adding realistic form cues to biological motion displays.
Journal of Vision 2(7), 336a. Presented at VSS 2002.
Pollick, F. E., Kay, J., Heim, K., & Stringer, R. (2002). A
review of gender recognition from gait. Perception, 31, 118-118.
Paterson, H. M., Pollick, F. E., & Jackson, E. (2002). Movement
and faces in the perception of emotion. Perception, 31, 118-118.
Lestou, V., & Pollick, F. E. (2002). The imitation and perception
of morphed arm movements. Perception, 31,
118-119.
Hill, H., Pollick, F. E., Kamachi, M., Troje, N. F., Watson, T.,
& Johnston, A. (2002). Using the principles of facial caricature to
exaggerate human motion. Perception, 31,
60-61.
Lestou, V., Pollick, F. E., & Vogt, S. (2002). Evidence for
action-level imitation of temporally morphed throwing movements. Journal of
Cognitive Neuroscience, D98.
Pollick, F.E., Lestou, V., Ryu, J. & Cho, S-B (2001). Estimating
efficiency in the categorization of biological motion. Vision Sciences Society
First Annual Meeting, pp 98.
Paterson, H.M., Pollick, F.E. (2001). Form and animacy in the
perception of affect from biological motion. Vision Sciences Society First
Annual Meeting, pp 98.
Pollick, F.E., Paterson, H.M, Hill, H., Hale, J.G. & Atkeson, C.G
(2001). Recognising the style of human movement. European Society for Cognitive
Psychology and the XVIII Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society
Cognitive Psychology Section
Paterson, H.M., Pollick, F.E., Sanford, A.J. (2001). The role of velocity in affect
discrimination. Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society.
Pollick, F.E., Lestou, V., Ryu, J. & Cho, S-B (2001). Estimating
efficiency in the categorization of biological motion. Vision Sciences Society First Annual
Meeting, pp 98.
Paterson, H.M., Pollick, F.E. (2001). Form and animacy in the
perception of affect from biological motion. Vision Sciences Society First Annual Meeting, pp 98.
Pollick, F.E., Paterson, H., Calder, A.J., Bruderlin, A. &
Sanford, A.J. (2000). Perceiving
affect from point-light displays of arm movements. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 41st Annual
Meeting, 5, 39.
Paterson, H, Pollick, F.E., Walker, A.M.B.
(2000). Movement duration
influences judgments of affect for point-light displays of simple arm
movements. European Conference on
Visual Perception. Perception, 29, S113.
Pollick, F.E., Hill, H., Folwaczny, Gray, G.,
Holmes, R. & Love, S. (1999).
Contributions of facial and head motion in the interpretation of
expression. European Conference on
Visual Perception. Perception, 28, S52
Paterson, H, Pollick, F.E., Calder, A.J. &
Sanford, A.J. (1999). The perception
of affect from point-light displays of simple arm movements. European Conference on Visual
Perception. Perception, 28, S53.
Pollick, F.E., Fidopiastis, C.M., & Braden, V.
(1999). Training the recognition
of biological motion. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 40, S740.
Hill, H. & Pollick, F.E. (1999). Temporal exaggeration of human
movements. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 39, S413.
Pollick, F.E. & Kourtzi, Z. (1998). The visual perception of human arm
movements. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 39.
Fidopiastis, C.M. & Pollick, F.E. (1998). Recognition of exaggerated human
movement. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 39.
Pollick, F.E., Flash, T., Giblin, P.J. & Sapiro,
G. (1997). Three-dimensional
movements at constant affine velocity. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol 23, Part 2, p. 2237.
Pollick, F.E. & Tittle, J.S. (1996). Grasping stereo and texture cue
combinations. ECVP 96.
Pollick, F.E., Koenderink, J.J., Kappers, A.M.L.
& Kawato, M. (1996).
Correspondence in pictorial space.
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 37, S1125.
Watanabe, H., Pollick, F.E., Koenderink, J.J. &
Kawato, M. (1996). Estimating
perceived surface curvature from drawing motion. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 37, S287.
Pollick, F.E., Watanabe, H. & Kawato, M.
(1995). Three-dimensional drawing
movements on the surface of a virtual object. Fourth IBRO World Conference of Neuroscience (p. 342).
Oxford: Rapid
Communications.
Watanabe, H., Pollick, F.E., Kawato, M. (1995). Surface curvature as indicated by
drawing movements on virtual surfaces.
In Proceedings of the 59th Annual meeting of the Japanese
Psychological Association (p. 594).
Pollick, F.E. & Sapiro, S. (1995). Constant affine velocity and the
generation and perception of uniform planar motion. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 36, S360.
Watanabe, H., Pollick, F.E. & Kawato M.
(1995). Perception of surface
geometry as indicated by three-dimensional drawing movements. Investigative Ophthalmology and
Visual Science, 36, S475.
Pollick, F.E. (1994). Vision and Grasp.
In Program of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (p. 8).
Pollick, F.E., Ishimura, G. (1994). The
three-dimensional curvature of unconstrained straight-ahead movements. In Society for Neuroscience
Abstracts, 20(Part 2), 1409.
Watanabe, H., Pollick, F.E., Kawato, M. (1994). Perception of local orientation in
shape from shading. In Proceedings
of the 58th Annual meeting of Japanese Psychological Association (p. 567).
Pollick, F.E., Watanabe, H. & Kawato, M.
(1994). Surface perception and the
combination of visual cues in grasping a virtual object. Investigative Ophthalmology and
Visual Science, 35, 1628.
Watanabe, H., Pollick, F.E. & Kawato M.
(1994). Pointing reports of local
surface orientation from shaded images.
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 35, 2111.
Pollick, F.E. (1993). The tradeoff between motion and structure: Rigid interpretations of affine
stretching displays. Investigative
Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 34,
1034.
Imamizu, H., Pollick, F.E., Uno, Y. & Kawato, M.
(1993). The effect of a visual
illusion in grasping. Investigative
Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 34,
1084.
Pollick, F.E., Nishida, S., Koike Y. & Kawato, M. (1992). Pointing responses to the perceived
axis of rotation. Investigative
Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 33,
1051.
Pollick, F.E., Giblin, P.J. & Rycroft, J.
(1991). Recovering shape from the
profiles of a rotating surface. In
Optical Society of America Annual Meeting Technical Digest, 17, 225.
Pollick, F.E. & Wilson, L.L. (1991). Perceiving shape and angular velocity
from the profiles of a rotating solid.
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 32, 1277.
Pollick, F.E. & Cheng, L.S. (1990). The effects of three-dimensional
nonrigidity on discriminating rigid from nonrigid motion. Investigative Ophthalmology and
Visual Science, 31, 522.
Pollick, F.E. (1989). Shape perception from dynamic occluding contours. Investigative Ophthalmology and
Visual Science, 30 (3,
Supplement), 271.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Keynote speech at the Korean Association of Dance Annual Meeting. Sejong University, Seoul Korea, (June 2006). Brain mechanisms for understanding human action.
University
of Glasgow, Faculty of Information and Mathematical Sciences Annual Talk (May
2005). Movement Features and Brain Mechanisms for the Recognition of Human
Action.
Forum on Standardization in Intelligent Robots, Korea Association of Robotics. Seoul, Korea, (December, 2004). Designing Human-Robot Interactions: The Good, the Bad and the Uncanny.
Analogue Communication, Workshop at the Konrad-Lorenz-Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research. Altenberg Austria, (September, 2004) In search of the uncanny valley.
Keynote speech at the Opening seminar of The Musical Gestures Project, Research Council of Norway and the University of Oslo, Department of Music and Theatre. (May, 2004) Emotion from motion.
Keynote speech at The 5th international Workshop on Gesture and sign language based human-computer interaction. Genoa, Italy (April 2003). The features people use to recognize human movement style.
Three-Dimensional Sensory and Motor Space - Euroconference on Computational Mechanisms for the Generation and Perception of Action in 3D Space. Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, (April 2003). Recognizing the style of human movement.
Experimental Psychology Conference 2002. Leuven, Belgium (April 2002). Recognizing the Style of Human Movement.
European Society of Cognitive Psychology, Symposium on recognizing dynamic events. Edinburgh, UK (August 2002). Visual Recognition of Human Movement Style
British Academy for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting. Glasgow, UK (August 2001) Do Robo-dogs Dream of Digital Legs?
ORAL PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES
Pollick F E, Petrini K, Russell M,
Rocchesso D, Waadeland C H, Dahl S, Avanzini F, (2007),
Effects of musical expertise on perceived audiovisual synchrony, ECVP 2007
Pollick F. Love S. Hillis J. Russell M. Petrini K.
(2007) Is musical experience equal
to the sum of sight and sound? An investigation of swing groove drumming., Society
for Music Perception and Cognition, Montreal, Canada, July 30 - August 3
Pollick , F.E., McAleer, P., Gleicher,
M., Vangeneugden, J. & Vogels, R. (2007) Human Recognition of Action
Blends. VSS 2007.
Pollick, F.E., Tzoneva-Hadjigeorgieva, M., Price, G.M. & Jang, S.
(2006). Form and motion coherence
in the perception of possible point-light ballet movements. Society for Neuroscience 36th
Annual meeting, Atlanta.
McAleer P. & Pollick F.E., (2005)
Understanding Intention from Minimal Displays of Human Activity 46th Annual Meeting of the
Psychonomics Society, November 10th - 13th, Toronoto, Canada .
Pollick, F. E., Johnson, K. L., & McKay, L. S.
(2005) Recognizing gender from affective arm movements: How to throw like a man. 46th Annual Meeting of the
Psychonomics Society, November 10th - 13th, Toronoto, Canada .
TALKS & COLLOQUIA
The University of Southampton, Image Speech, and Intelligent Systems (March 2005). Visual Recognition of Human Movement Style.
The University of Manchester, Department of Psychology (March 2003). Recognizing the Style of Human Movement
The University of Surrey, Department of Psychology (March 2003). Recognizing the Style of Human Movement
The University of Edinburgh, Department of Psychology (December 2003). Recognizing the Style of Human Movement
The University of Liverpool, Department of Psychology (October 2002). Recognizing the Style of Human Movement
The University of Saint Andrews, Department of Psychology (October 2002). Recognizing the Style of Human Movement
The Experimental Psychology Conference - Leuven 2002, (April 2002) Recognizing the Style of Human Movement
University College London, Department of Psychology (March 2002). Recognizing the Style of Human Movement.
Korean Institute of Science & Technology (September 2001) Visual Recognition of Human Movement Style
British Academy for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting (August 2001) Do Robo-dogs Dream of Digital Legs?
ESRC-PEN Workshop (June 2001) Recognizing the Style of Human Movement
University of Southern California, Humanoid Robotics Group (November, 2000) Visual Recognition of Human Movement Style
The University of California, San Diego, Cognitive Science Colloquium (November, 2000) Visual Recognition of Human Movement Style
ATR International (September, 2000) Visual Recognition of Human Movement Style
Yonsei University Department of Psychology (September, 2000) Visual Recognition of Human Movement Style
Georgia Tech College of Computing (May, 2000) Visual Recognition of Human Movement Style
University of Rochester Center for Visual Science (May, 2000) Visual Recognition of Human Movement Style
Mitsubishi Engineering Research Labs (May, 2000) Visual Recognition of Human Movement Style
Carnegie Mellon University (March, 2000) ) Visual Recognition of Human Movement Style
Cambridge Computing Science Labs (March, 2000). The Production and Perception of Human Movement
Glasgow University Department of Psychology (December, 1999). The Production and Perception of Human Movement
Stirling University Department of Psychology (October, 1999). The Production and Perception of Human Movement
Conference and
Workshop Organisation / Program Committee
Views of the Uncanny Valley, December 2005. A workshop held at the IEEE-RAS
International Conference on Humanoid Robots Humanoids December 5-7, 2005
Tsukuba, Japan. Chaired by Frank
Pollick, Christian Keysers and Karl MacDorman ( http://www.androidscience.com/theuncannyvalley/cfp.html )
Workshop on Psychology of Face and Gesture
Recognition, A workshop held at the 7th IEEE International Conference on
Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, April 10-12, 2006 Southampton UK. Chaired by Frank Pollick and Jim Haxby
(http://www.fg2006.ecs.soton.ac.uk/workshop.html )
Workshop on Psychology of Face and Gesture
Recognition, A workshop to be held at the 8th IEEE International
Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Sep 17-19, 2008
Amsterdam. Chaired by Frank
Pollick and Aina Puce ( http://paco.psy.gla.ac.uk/events.php )
Program Committee
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The 6th
International Conference of Cognitive Science, Seoul, 2008
á
7th IEEE
International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture, Southamption, 2007
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8th IEEE
International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture, Amsterdam, 2008 (I was
invited back due to success of first event)