SPATIAL VISION: CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue on the use of display systems in visual psychophysics.
Guest Editor: Hans Strasburger
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In the last two decades, the ubiquity of computers has dramatically
changed our experimental approach to visual psychophysics. More flexible
and powerful techniques have become available, yet at the same time they
have revealed unexpected limitations. Some are due to the coarseness of
the visual interface, the CRT display: optical systems still offer far
better spatial and temporal resolution. More severe limitations,
however, result from our difficulties in handling the flexibility of
computer-controlled displays. The continous development of innumerable
incompatible software systems, tied to hardware that rapidly becomes
obsolescent, poses serious obstacles to creativity. Scientific
communications dealing with technical issues are widely scattered in the
literature, and are often to be found in methods journals that are not
always read by the psychophysics community.
This Special Issue of Spatial Vision provides a platform for encouraging
communications about computer-based experimental techniques. The CRT
display is the medium through which stimuli are presented and can thus
serve as a focus of thought.
Topics include
Spatial and temporal display characteristics
Software for psychophysical experimentation
Limitations on CRTs for visual psychophysics
Non-raster-scan CRTs
Use of displays in optical set-ups
Display calibration
Programming 3-D or `virtual reality'
Visualization
Simulation
Papers should be concerned with issues in spatial vision or motion, or
interactions of these with luminance, color, or flicker. Papers could
address issues in any of these areas, technical developments, or
problems. Tutorial-style informtion could be part (but not all) of a
paper.
Software Notes
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In addition to full-length and short papers, there will be a `Software
Notes' section. Descriptions of software packages by their authors are
expected to have two printed pages, with a maximum of three, per major
package; smaller packages should take less space. The editor may
condense the material. The description should include the package's
intended use, what platforms it runs on, its limitations, where it is
described in further detail, and so on. Apart from the obvious technical
information, specific emphasis should be on giving the experimenter a
flavour of how the software might be useful; how it would `fit in' with
the experimental environment. Thus, how would it link to other
packages? Who has used it? And which experiments have been realised with
it?
Manuscripts should be submitted not later than February 1, 1996, to:
Hans Strasburger | hans@groucho.imp.med.uni-muenchen.de
Inst. f. Medizinische Psychologie | Tel: (+49)(89) 5996-217
Goethestr. 31 | Fax: -615
D-80336 Muenchen, Germany | priv: (+49)(89) 48 59 19