Wednesday July 9, 2025
6 pm-8 pm | Welcome reception at Frazier Alumni Pavilion |
Thursday July 10, 2025
8:55 am-9 am | Welcome and opening remarks |
9 am-9:30 am | James Gibson and the Ecologizing of Cognitive Psychology: Influence of a Distinguished Dissident. Claudia Carello |
9:30 am-10 am | The Möbius Strip in the Ecological Approach: A Critical Examination Robert Heath & Thomas Stoffregen |
10 am-10:30 am | What do clocks measure? Thomas Stoffregen & Robert Heath |
10:30 am-11 am | Break |
11 am-11:30 am | Is this your final destination? Created stepping-stone paths differ depending on whether paths terminate or continue Jeffrey Wagman & Thomas Stoffregen |
11:30 am-12 pm | Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences Juliane Baron |
12 pm – 12:30 pm | TBD Phil Sizer |
12:30 pm-2:30 pm | Lunch and Poster Session |
2:30 pm-3:00 pm | An Ecological Approach to Sensory Thresholds Chris Pagano, Balagopal Raveendranath, & Jeffrey Wagman |
3:00 pm-3:30 pm | The Application of Ecological Psychology in Forensic Analyses Leah Hartman |
3:30 pm-4:00 pm | Break |
4:00 pm-4:30 pm | F illing in the G ps: Ecological Education at the Introductory Level Julia Blau & Jeffrey Wagman |
4:30 pm-5:00 pm | Treating psychology’s WEIRDness: A socio-ecological remedy Varun Ravikumar |
6 pm-8 pm | Dinner |
Friday July 11, 2025
9 am-9:30 am | Normativity in Dissipative Structures James Dixon |
9:30 am-10 am | Human Movement Complexity - Implications for Human Movement Research Roger James |
10 am-10:30 am | Mobility assistive devices with compliance inspired by biological networks of compressive and tensile members Dobromir Dotov |
10:30 am-11 am | Break |
11 am-11:30 am | In Search of an Invariant for Grasping Alen Hajnal, McKenzie Gunter, & Myah Kelly |
11:30 am-12 pm | Does bimanual haptic exploration reveal information for length and weight judgment? Balagopal Raveendranath & Chris Pagano |
12 pm-1 pm | Lunch |
2 pm-2:30 pm | What Variables Do People Pick Up When Perceiving Other People’s Maximum Vertical One Degree-of-Freedom Reach Heights? Keith Jones, Nicholas Garcia, & Dana Wilder |
2:30 pm-3 pm | Do People Pick Up Variables that Reflect Object Height Relative to Actor Height When Perceiving Others’ Maximum Vertical One Degree-of-Freedom Reach Heights? Nicholas Garcia & Keith Jones |
3 pm-3:30 pm | The Role of Anthropometry and Biomechanics in Judging Others’ Maximum Horizontal Reach Abigail Loddeke, Nicholas Garcia, & Keith Jones |
Poster Presentations: July 10th, 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm
[1] Beyond Technique: Applying an Ecological Dynamics Framework to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Instruction
Bren Veziroglu & Emily Wughalter
[2] Pushing on ahead: Perceived heaviness of a wheeled cart
Sanako Hishinumna & Jeffrey Wagman
[3] Navigating Non-Intuitive Doors: Observational Insights And Implications For Building Safety
Alison Guthrie, Jeffrey Wagman, & Christopher Pagano
[4] Contact Surface Curvature Length Specifies Graspability
McKenzie Gunter & Alen Hajnal
[5] An Ecological Approach to Pseudo-Haptic Mass Perception in VR
Sabarish Babu, Tyler Duffrin, Christopher Pagano, Andrew Robb, &
Mark Tolchinsky
[6] Exploring Dynamic Affordances in an Object Retrieval Task in Virtual Reality
Elenah Rosopa, Mark Tolchinsky, Sabarish Babu, & Chris Pagano
[7] The Effect of Illumination and Posture on Affordance Perception
Shadman Shakib, Pratima Rajbanshi, & Alen Hajnal
[8] Investigating the Effects of Eye Height on Interpersonal Reachability Judgments in Virtual Reality
Vyomakesh Shivakumar, Sabarish Babu, Chris Pagano, Andrew Robb, &
Mark Tolchinsky
[9] Percipient Engineering: Applying Ecological Psychology to Health Care
Daniel Nystrom & Russell Leslie
[10] Functional Specificity of Grasping by Hand and Tool: A Pilot Study
Myah Kelly, McKenzie Gunter, & Alen Hajnal
