Lab Publications
2023
Parr, M. D. N, O’Neal, E. O., Zhou, S., Williams, B., Butler, K. M., Chen, A., Kearney, J. K., & Plumert, J. M. (2023). How children judge affordances when walking and bicycling across virtual roads: Does mode of locomotion matter? Developmental Psychology. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0001520
Malik, J., Kim, N. Y., Parr, M. D. N., Kearney, J. K., Plumert, J. M., & Rector, K. (2023). Do simulated augmented reality overlays influence street-crossing decisions in non-mobility-impaired older and younger adults? Human Factors.https://doi.org/10.1177/00187208231151280
2022
Subramanian, L. D., O’Neal, E. E., Mallaro, S., Williams, B., Sherony, R., Plumert, J. M., & Kearney, J. K. (2022). A comparison of daytime and nighttime pedestrian road-crossing using an immersive virtual environment. Traffic Injury Prevention, 23 (2), 97-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2021.2023738
O’Neal, E. E., Rahimian, P., Jiang, Y., Zhou, S. Nikolas, M., Kearney, J. K., & Plumert, J. M. (2022). How do child ADHD symptoms and oppositionality impact parent-child interactions when crossing virtual roads? Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 47(3), 337-349. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsab102
2021
Rahimian, P., Plumert, J. M., & Kearney, J. K. (2021). The effect of visuomotor latency on steering behavior in virtual reality. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Volume 2, Article 727858. https://doi.org/10.3389/frvir.202727858
Subramanian, L. D., O’Neal, E. E., Roman, A., Sherony, R., Plumert, J. M., & Kearney, J. K. (2021). How do pedestrians respond to adaptive headlamp systems in vehicles? A road-crossing study in a virtual environment. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 160, 106298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.202106298
Parr, M. D. N., Tang, H., Mallaro, S. R., Kearney, J. K., & Plumert, J. M. (2021). Do inattention/hyperactivity and motor timing predict children's virtual road-crossing performance? Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 46(9), 1130-1139. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsab054
Malik, J., Parr, M. D. N., Flathau, J., Tang, H., Kearney, J. K., Plumert, J. M., & Rector, K. (2021). Determing the effect of smartphone alerts and warniongs on the street-crossing behavior of non-mobility-impaired older and younger adults. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21), May 08-13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan, ACM, New York, USA, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445234
O'Neal, E.E., Zhou, S., Jiang, Y., Kearney, J. K., & Plumert, J. M. (2021). Let’s cross the next one: Parent-child road crossing in a virtual environment. Child Development, 92(2), e173-e185. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13457
2020
Jiang, Y., O'Neal, E.E., Zhou, S., Plumert, J. M., & Kearney, J. K. (2020). Crossing roads with a computer-generated agent: Persistent effects on perception-action tuning. ACM Transactions in Applied Perception (TAP), 18(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3431923
Brown, T., Schwarz, C., Sherony, R., Plumert, J., Kearney, J., & O'Neal, E. (2020). Evaluating the safety benefits of adaptive headlamps for reducing vehicle crashes with pedestrians at night. Traffic Injury Prevention, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2020.1829928
2019
Jiang, Y., O'Neal, E.E., Rahimian, P., Yon, J.P., Plumert, J. M., & Kearney, J. K. (2019). Joint action in a virtual environment: Crossing roads with risky vs. safe human and agent partners. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Graphics, 25, 2886-2895. 10.1109/TVCG.2018.2865945
O’Neal, E. E., Jiang, Y., Brown, K., Kearney, J. K., & Plumert, J. M. (2019). How does crossing roads with friends impact risk taking in young adolescents and adults? Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 44(6), 726-735. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsz020
O’Neal, E. E. & Plumert, J. M. (2019). Do mother-child conversations about safety differ in middle- and low-income families? Journal of Injury and Violence Research, 11(2). 10.5249/jivr.v11i2.1093
2018
Powell, J., Stroh, O., & Thomas, G. W. (2018). Hardware Design for an Electro-Mechanical Bicycle Simulator in an Immersive Virtual Reality Environment. International Journal of Virtual Reality (IJVR), 18(02), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.20870/IJVR.2018.18.2.2903
Plumert, J. M., & Kearney, J. K. (2018). Timing is almost everything: How children perceive and act on dynamic affordances. In J. M. Plumert (Vol. Ed.), Studying the perception-action system as a model system for understanding development. Edited volume in J. Benson (Series Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior: 55. Cambridge, UK: Elsevier.
Rahimian, P., O’Neal, E., Zhou, S., Plumert, J. M., and Kearney, J. K. (2018). Harnessing vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) communication technology: Sending traffic warnings to texting pedestrians. Human Factors. Advance online publication: https://doi.org/10.1177/0018720818781365
Jiang, Y., O’Neal, E.E., Yon, J.P., Franzen, L., Rahimian, P., Plumert, J.P., and Kearney, J.K. (2018). Acting together: Joint pedestrian road crossing in an immersive virtual environment. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception,15 (2), Article 8, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3147884
O’Neal, E. E., Jiang, Y., Franzen, L. J., Rahimian, P., Yon, J. P., Kearney, J. K., & Plumert, J. M. (2018). Changes in perception–action tuning over long time scales: How children and adults perceive and act on dynamic affordances when crossing roads. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(1), 18-26. http://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000378.
2017
Rahimian, P., & Kearney, J. (2017). Optimal camera placement for motion capture systems. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 23, 1209-1221.
2016
Nikolas, M., Elmore, A., Franzen, L., O’Neal, E., Kearney, J. K., & Plumert, J. M. (2016). Risky bicycling behavior among youth with and without attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 57,141-148. https://doi:10.1111/jcpp.12491
Jiang, Y., Rahimian, P., O'Neal, E. E., Plumert, J. M., Yon, J. P., Kearney, J. K., & Franzen, L. (2016). Acting together: Joint pedestrian road crossing in an immersive virtual environment. Virtual Reality (VR), 2016 IEEE, 193-194.
Rahimian, P., O’Neal, E.E., Yon, J.P., Franzen, L., Jiang, Y., Plumert, J.M., Kearney, J.K. (2016). Using a virtual environment to study the impact of sending traffic alerts to texting pedestrians. Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE-VR Conference, Greenville, SC.
O’Neal, E. E., Plumert, J. M., McClure, L. A., & Schwebel, D. C. (2016). The role of body mass index in child pedestrian injury risk. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 90, 29-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2016.02.001
O’Neal, E., Plumert, J. M., & Peterson, C. (2016). Parent-child injury prevention conversations following a trip to the emergency department. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 41, 256-264. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsv070
2015
Hilliard, C.A., O’Neal, E.E., Plumert, J.M., & Wagner-Cook, S. (2015). Mothers gesture for their children: Dynamic modulation of gesture during communication about safety. Cognition, 140, 89-94.
2014
Grechkin, T., Plumert, J. M., & Kearney, J. K. (2014). Dynamic affordances in embodied interactive systems: The role of display and mode of locomotion. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 20, 596-605. https://doi:10.1109/TVCG.2014.18
Chihak, B. J., Grechkin, T. Y., Kearney, J. K., Cremer, J. F., & Plumert, J. M. (2014). How children and adults learn to intercept moving gaps. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 122, 134-152. https://doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2013.12.006
O’Neal, E. E. & Plumert, J. M. (2014). Mother-child conversations about safety: Implications for socializing safety values in children. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 39, 481- 491. https://doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsu005
Plumert, J. P., & Kearney, J. K. (2014a). Linking decisions and actions in dynamic environments: How child and adult cyclists cross roads with traffic. Ecological Psychology, 26, 125-133. [special issue in honor of Herbert L. Pick, Jr.]. https://doi:10.1080/10407413.2014.874933
Plumert, J. M., & Kearney, J. K. (2014b). How do children perceive and act on dynamic affordances in crossing traffic-filled roads? Child Development Perspectives, 8, 207-212. https://doi:10.1111/cdep.12089
2013
Ziemer, C. J., Branson, M. J., Chihak, B. J., Kearney, J. K., Cremer, J.F., & Plumert, J. M. (2013). Manipulating perception versus action in recalibration tasks. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 75, 1260-1274.
Stevens, E., Plumert, J. M., Cremer, J. F., & Kearney, J. K. (2013). Preadolescent temperament and risky behavior: Bicycling across traffic-filled intersections in a virtual environment. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 38(3), 285-295.
Grechkin, T. Y., Chihak, B. J., Cremer, J. F., Kearney, J. K., & Plumert, J. M. (2013). Perceiving and acting on complex affordances: How children and adults bicycle across two lanes of opposing traffic. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 39, 23-36.
2011
Nguyen, T. D., Ziemer, C. J., Grechkin, T., Chihak, B., Plumert, J. M., Cremer J. F., & Kearney, J. K. (2011). Effects of scale change on distance perception in virtual environments. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 8(4), 1-18.
Babu, S., Grechkin, T., Chihak, B., Ziemer, C., Kearney, J., Cremer, J., & Plumert, J. (2011). An immersive virtual peer for studying social influences on child cyclists’road-crossing behavior. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 17, 14-25.
Plumert, J. M., Cremer, J., Kearney, K., Recker, K., & Strutt, J. (2011). Changes in children's perception-action tuning over short time scales: Bicycling across traffic-filled intersections in a virtual environment. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 108, 322-337.
Kearney, J. K., & Grechkin, T. Y. (2011). Scenario authoring. In D. Fisher, M. Rizzo, J. Caird, & J. Lee (Eds.), Handbook for driving simulation in engineering, medicine, and psychology. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
2010
Chihak, B. J., Plumert, J. M., Ziemer, C. J., Babu, S., Grechkin, T., Cremer, J. F., & Kearney, J. K. (2010). Synchronizing self and object movement: How child and adult cyclists intercept moving gaps in a virtual environment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 36, 1535-1552.
Grechkin, T. Y., Nguyen, T. D., Plumert, J. M., Cremer, J. F., & Kearney, J. K. (2010). How does presentation method and measurement protocol affect distance estimation in real and virtual environments? ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 7(4), Article 26.
2009
Ziemer, C., Plumert, J. M., Cremer, J., & Kearney, J. K. (2009). Estimating distance in real and virtual environments: Does order make a difference? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71, 1095-1106.
Oakes, L. M., Newcombe, N. S., & Plumert, J. M. (2009). Are dynamic systems and connectionist approaches an alternative to “Good Old Fashioned Cognitive Development?” In J. P. Spencer, M. Thomas, & J. McClelland (Eds.), Toward a unified theory of development: Connectionism and dynamic systems theory re-considered. New York: Oxford University Press.
2008
2007
2006
2005
Wang, H., Kearney, J.K., Cremer, & Willemsen, P. (2005). Steering behaviors for autonomous vehicles in virtual environments. IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, March, Bonn, Germany, 155-162.
Plumert, J. M., Kearney, J. K., Cremer, J. F., & Recker, K. (2005). Distance perception in real and virtual environments. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 2, 216-233.
Hund, A. M., & Plumert, J. M. (2005). The stability and flexibility of spatial categories. Cognitive Psychology, 50, 1-44.
2004
Plumert, J. M., Kearney, J. K., & Cremer, J. F. (2004). Children’s perception of gap affordances: Bicycling across traffic-filled intersections in an immersive virtual environment. Child Development, 75, 1243-1253.
Plumert, J. M. (2004). Accidents. In A. J. Christensen, R. Martin, & J. M. Smyth (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Health Psychology. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
2003
Wang, H., Kearney, J.K., & Atkinson, K. (2003). Arc-length parameterized spline curves for real-time simulation. In T. Lyche, M. Maure, and L. Schumaker (Eds.), Curve and Surface Design: Saint-Malo 2002, pp. 387-396. Brentwood, TN: Nashboro Press.
Schwebel, D. C., Binder, S. C., Sales, J. M., & Plumert, J. M. (2003). Is there a link between children’s motor abilities and unintentional injuries? Journal of Safety Research, 34, 135-141.
Plumert, J. M. (2003). Children's overestimation of their physical abilities: Links to injury proneness. In G. Savelsbergh, K. Davids, J. van der Kamp, & S. Bennett (Eds.), Development of movement coordination in children: Applications in the field of ergonomics, health sciences and sport. New York: Routledge.
2002
J. Severson, J. Cremer, K. Lee, D. Allison, S. Gelo, J. Edwards, R. Vanderleest, S. Heston, J. Kearney, and G. Thomas (2002). “Exploring Virtual History at The National Museum of American History,” Proc. 8th Intl. Conf. on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM2002), Gyeong-ju, Korea, 61-70.
Y. He, J. Cremer, and Y. Papelis (2002). “Real-time Extendible-resolution Display of On-line Dynamic Terrain,” Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2002, May 2002, Calgary, 151-160.
2000
M. Choi and J. Cremer (2000). “Geometric Awareness for Interactive Object Manipulation,” Computer Graphics Forum, 19(1), 65-76.
J. Cremer, J. Severson, J. Kearney, S. Gelo, M. McDermott, and R. Riccio (2000). “This Old Digital City: Virtual Historical Cedar Rapids, Iowa circa 1900,” Proc. 6th Intl. Conf. on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM200), Gifu, Japan, 2000, 27-34.
Schwebel, D. C., Plumert, J. M., & Pick, H. L. (2000). Integrating basic and applied developmental research: A new model for the twenty-first century. Child Development, 71, 222- 230.
1999
1997
J.F. Cremer, J.K. Kearney, and P. Willemsen (1997). Directable behavior models for virtual driving scenarios. Transactions of the Society of Computer Simulation International, 14(2), 87-96.
1996
1995
1993
J.K. Kearney, S. Hansen, and J.F. Cremer (1993). Programming mechanical simulations. The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, 4(2), 113-129.