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Professor Guy Wallis

Professor

School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
gwallis@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 56108

Overview

Prof. Guy Wallis studies visual recognition and visuomotor behaviour. His investigations combine computational modelling with data drawn from behavioural studies. Many of these behavioural studies are conducted in computer-controlled, virtual environments.

Guy holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Imperial College, London) and a PhD in Visual Neuroscience (Oxford University, UK). He joined the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences in 1998 after a three year period as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany. His research has been funded by the Australian Research Council, the Human Frontier Science Program, and the Wellcome Trust, as well as through industry partnerships with the Queensland Construction Training Centre, the Australian Coal Association Research Program, Queensland Health, the US Air Force and Boeing.

  • ARC Medical Research Advisory Group (2022-2024)
  • Elected Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences (2022)
  • ARC College of Experts (2019-2021)
  • CSIRO CSS Human Research Ethics Committee member (2020-2022)
  • UQ Health and Behavioural Sciences Faculty, HDR Supervision Award (2018)
  • ARC Future Fellowship (2011-2014)
  • ARC QEII Fellowship (2003-2007)
  • UQ Postdoctoral Fellowship (2001-2003)

Research Interests

  • Object recognition
  • Visuomotor control
  • Virtual environments
  • Simulator-based training
  • Visual neuroscience

Research Impacts

Prof. Wallis' scientific investigations have had a lasting impact on the understanding of how visual recognition is achieved in biological systems and has challenged thinking on how everyday visuomotor tasks are regulated.

His applied work, in partnership with industry and health services, has established novel training programs for health professionals learning advanced surgical skills, has impacted the design of man-machine interfaces for underground and surface mining equipment, and has helped set the design parameters for equipment intended for training pilots using head-mounted display technology.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Cognitive Neuroscience), Oxf.
  • Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), University of London

Publications

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Supervision

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Publications

Book Chapter

  • Media presence and inner presence: The sense of presence in virtual reality technologies

    Coelho, C., Tichon, J G, Hine, T.J., Wallis, G and Riva, G. (2006). Media presence and inner presence: The sense of presence in virtual reality technologies. From Communication to Presence. (pp. 25-45) edited by G. Riva, M.T. Anguera, B.K. Wiederhold and F. Mantovani. Amsterdam: IOS Press.

  • Learning to Recognize Objects

    Wallis, Guy and Bülthoff, Heinrich (2002). Learning to Recognize Objects. Perceptual Learning. (pp. xx-xx) edited by M. Fahle and T. Poggio. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

  • Object Recognition, Neurophysiology

    Wallis, G. and Bülthoff, H. H. (2002). Object Recognition, Neurophysiology. The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks. (pp. 792-796) edited by Michael A. Arbib. Cambridge, Mass, USA: MIT Press.

  • Time to learn about objects

    Wallis, G. (2000). Time to learn about objects. Information Theory and the Brain. (pp. 139-163) edited by R. Baddeley, P. Hancock and P. Foldiak. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Journal Article

Conference Publication

Other Outputs

  • Experiments conducted with a joystick.

    Louiset, Lionel and Wallis, Guy (2023). Experiments conducted with a joystick.. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/626ba74

  • Categorical Perception

    Parker, Amira, Wallis, Guy, Obergrussberger, Rainer and Siebeck, Ulrike (2020). Categorical Perception. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.641

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Visuomotor learning in a multisensory world

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Perceptual learning through cross-modal cue recruitment: How action conditions visual perception

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • The sensory make-up of virtual environments and its role in the effective transfer of learning to real-world tasks

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Neural Correlates of Express Visuomotor Response

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • New pilot training technologies that enable skill acquisition within virtual reality

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

  • The Effects and Applications of Manipulating Saccadic Eye Movements on Express Motor Behaviour

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

Completed Supervision

This staff member is a UQ Expert for media in the following fields:

Object recognition, Visual neuroscience, Neuroscience - visual, Virtual reality technology, Eyesight, Technology - virtual reality, Brain and sight, Vision and brain

They are happy to lend their expertise to your articles or broadcasts and share their research discoveries and insights with the community via media channels.

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ResearcherID: G-2342-2011

ORCID: 0000-0003-1601-1540

Scopus ID: 7102196682

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