A select small group of people have an amazing opportunity to see the Earth from a unique
perspective—from space. The effect this experience has on an individual has been …

A crucial but thus far overlooked dimension of mental health benefits of nature interaction
involves the extent to which the self is experienced as a separate, stand-alone identity cut off …

Most virtual environments that people locomote through with head-mounted displays are flat
to match the physical environment that people are actively walking on. In this paper we …

Virtual Reality (VR) has immersive powers that can teleport an im-mersant into a virtual
world and provide them with an experience of being somewhere that they may not have …

The overview effect is the commonly reported experience of astronauts viewing planet Earth
from space and the subsequent reflection on and processing of this experience. The …

Looking out over the Pacific Ocean or the Grand Canyon can lead to a sense of vastness. As
a perceptual phenomenon, vastness poses a unique challenge because traditional …

Virtual Reality (VR) is one of the scientific and technological frontiers of our era, a new mode
of knowledge that puts the person at the center, becoming the highest point of approach of …

Past work has suggested that perception of object distances in natural scenes depends on
the environmental surroundings, even when the physical object distance remains constant …

Albeit the recent progress in single image 3D human pose estimation due to the
convolutional neural network, it is still challenging to handle real scenarios such as highly …

The aim of this study was to systematically examine the effect of awe-inducing stimuli on the
judgment of time. Three experiments were conducted using temporal bisection tasks in …