Jennifer L. Campos
Papers
2
Total Citations
70
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2
About
Jennifer L. Campos is a leading researcher in the fields of spatial cognition, self-motion perception, and driving safety. Her work focuses on understanding how humans perceive and interact with their environment during movement, particularly in complex real-world settings like driving. Campos is best known for developing innovative methodologies to measure instantaneous perceived self-motion, as demonstrated in her highly cited 2009 paper (45 citations), where she introduced a continuous pointing technique to capture real-time changes in perceived location, velocity, and acceleration during passive translations. This breakthrough provided a more precise and ecologically valid way to study full-body motion perception. She has also made significant contributions to driving simulation research, notably in her 2017 work on creating realistic headlight glare effects (25 citations), which has implications for understanding visual challenges in nighttime driving. Campos’s work bridges basic perceptual science and applied research, with her methodologies widely adopted in studies of aging, vestibular function, and human factors. Her contributions have advanced both theoretical understanding of self-motion perception and practical applications in transportation safety.
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Top Papers
- 1Measurement of instantaneous perceived self-motion using continuous pointing45 citations · 2009
- 2Creating headlight glare in a driving simulator25 citations · 2017