Robert B. Welch, Ph.D.

Education

• B.A., 1962, Occidental College, Psychology
• M.A., 1964, University of Oregon, Psychology
• Ph.D., 1967, University of Oregon, Psychology

Current Area of Research/Work

Perception and Performance, Intersensory Organization, Adaptation to Altered
Sensory Environments, Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems

Background/Employment History

1967-1968 Lecturer
University of California, Riverside
1968-1989 Assistant
Associate, and Full Professor of Psychology, University of Kansas
1969-1980 Research Investigator
VA Hospital, Topeka
1974-1975 Visiting Scholar
University of California, Riverside
Fall 1981 Visiting Scholar
University of California, Riverside
Summer 1986; 1989 NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow
NASA Ames Research Center
1986-1988 NRC Senior Research Associate
NASA Ames Research Center
1989-present Research Scientist
NASA Ames Research Center
1989-1995 Research Associate
Univertsity of California, Santa Cruz
1995-present Adjunct Professor
University of California, Santa Cruz

Professional Organizations

• Psychonomic Society
• Sigma Xi
• Aerospace Medical Association (Life Sciences and Biomedical Engineering; Human Factors)

Other Duties

• 1990-present Founding Associate Editor of Presence: Teleoperators and
  Virtual Environments
• 1991-1994 Research Manager for NASA-Ames Neurosciences Program
• 1989-present Regular mentor for the SHARP, STELLAR, and Astrobiology Academy student programs, and research colleague for the NASA-ASEE program.
• Ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Perception and Performance, Perception & Psychophysics, Perceptual & Motor Skills, Science, Perception, Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments and other journals.

Representative Publications

Welch, R. B. (1994). The dissection of intersensory bias: Weighting for Radeau. Current Psychology of Cognition, 13, 117-123.

Welch, R. B., Cohen, M. M., & DeRoshia, C. W. (1996). Reduction of the elevator illusion from continued hypergravity exposure and visual error-corrective feedback. Perception & Psychophysics, 58, 22-30.

Welch, R. B., Liu, A., Blackmon, T. T., Mellers, B. A., & Stark, L. W. (1996). The effects of pictorial realism, delay of visual feedback, and observer interactivity on subjective presence in a virtual driving task. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 5, 263-273.

Welch, R. B. (1997). The presence of aftereffects. In: Designs of computing Systems: Cognitive Considerations, G. Salvendy, M. J. Smith, & R. J. Koubek (Eds.). Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 271-276.

Post, R. B. & Welch, R. B. (1998). Simultaneous opposite adaptations of apparent concomitant motion contingent on the frequency of head motion. Perception & Psychophysics, 60, 821-825.

Welch, R. B. (2002). Adapting to virtual environments. In K. Stanney (Ed.), The Handbook of Virtual Environments Technology (HVET), Lawrence Erlbaum. Nahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Welch, R. B. (in press, 2003). Adapting to telesystems. In Lawrence Hettinger & Michael W. Haas (Eds), Virtual and Adaptive Environments: Applications, Implications, and Human Performance Issues. New York: Erlbaum.

Please see our Publications for further information.