Sarah Creem-Regehr

About

Sarah Creem-Regehr, PhD, is a Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Utah and holds faculty appointments in the School of Computing and the Neuroscience program. Her research focuses on how humans perceive, learn, and navigate spaces across various environments, including natural, virtual, and visually impoverished settings. The lab she leads adopts an interdisciplinary approach that combines the study of space perception and spatial cognition with practical applications in visualization and virtual environments. Outside of her professional work, she balances her time with family life, including caring for two cats and two teenagers.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Psychology
• Artificial Intelligence
• Human–computer interaction
• Geography
• Computer vision
• Geology
• World Wide Web
• Data science
• Epistemology

Selected publications

• Perceiving distance in virtual reality: theoretical insights from contemporary technologies

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2022 · 73 citations

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  Decades of research have shown that absolute egocentric distance is underestimated in virtual environments (VEs) when compared with the real world. This finding has implications on the use of VEs for applications that require an accurate sense of absolute scale. Fortunately, this underperception of scale can be attenuated by several factors, making perception more similar to (but still not the same as) that of the real world. Here, we examine these factors as two categories: (i) experience inher…

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• Depth Perception in Augmented Reality: The Effects of Display, Shadow, and Position

  2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) · 2022 · 71 citations

  Although it is commonly accepted that depth perception in augmented reality (AR) displays is distorted, we have yet to isolate which properties of AR affect people’s ability to correctly perceive virtual objects in real spaces. From prior research on depth perception in commercial virtual reality, it is likely that ergonomic properties and graphical limitations impact visual perception in head-mounted displays (HMDs). However, an insufficient amount of research has been conducted in augme…

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• Effects of home environment structure on navigation preference and performance: A comparison in Veneto, Italy and Utah, USA

  Journal of Environmental Psychology · 2021 · 36 citations

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• New Approaches to 3D Vision

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2022 · 11 citations

  New approaches to 3D vision are enabling new advances in artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles, a better understanding of how animals navigate the 3D world, and new insights into human perception in virtual and augmented reality. Whilst traditional approaches to 3D vision in computer vision (SLAM: simultaneous localization and mapping), animal navigation (cognitive maps), and human vision (optimal cue integration) start from the assumption that the aim of 3D vision is to provide an acc…

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• Integration of auditory and visual cues in spatial navigation under normal and impaired viewing conditions

  Journal of Vision · 2024-10-09 · 6 citations

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  Auditory landmarks can contribute to spatial updating during navigation with vision. Whereas large inter-individual differences have been identified in how navigators combine auditory and visual landmarks, it is still unclear under what circumstances audition is used. Further, whether or not individuals optimally combine auditory cues with visual cues to decrease the amount of perceptual uncertainty, or variability, has not been well-documented. Here, we test audiovisual integration during spati…

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Frequent coauthors

• Jeanine K. Stefanucci

  University of Utah

  134 shared

• William B. Thompson

  University of Utah

  61 shared

• Erica M. Barhorst-Cates

  Monterey Technologies (United States)

  54 shared

• Corey S. Shayman

  University of Utah

  51 shared

• Rachel Rise

  University of Colorado Boulder

  48 shared

• Annemiek D. Barsingerhorn

  Radboud University Medical Center

  48 shared

• L W H I T F I E L D

  Vancouver General Hospital

  48 shared

• Jacob M. Pogson

  48 shared

Labs

• Vision, Audition, Action in Space & Time LabPI

  How humans perceive, learn, and navigate spaces in natural, virtual, and visually impoverished environments.

Education

• PhD, MA, Psychology

  University of Virginia

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