Summary
I am a doctoral student working with Dr. Paul MacNeilage at the University of Nevada, Reno. My research focuses on understanding how both separate and joint head and eye movements made during everyday behavior can affect or bias future judgments of one's own motion. Understanding this process not only furthers our understanding of human self-motion perception, but can also inform development of vocational training paradigms and diagnosis and/or treatment of certain clinical conditions.
I earned my B.A. in Psychology and M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Oregon State University, where I investigated personality and academic differences between rural and non-rural college students. Currently, I am working on observing and statistically characterizing human head orientation and heading during everyday, as well as unconstrained behavior. When not in the lab, I enjoy weightlifting and playing music.
Research interests
Largely, I am interested in understanding how humans leverage sensory cues to perceive their own motion during everyday tasks like locomotion, in both natural and "less" natural environments (such as microgravity and underwater). My work currently focuses on characterization of human head orientation relative to gravity and heading during long (5 hour), unconstrained recording sessions, and using the statistics of these head movements to predict observed bias in human perception. This characterization involves use of multiple research paradigms including mobile eye tracking, mobile motion tracking using computer vision (e.g. visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping), computational modeling, and psychophysics.
Publications
- Hausamann, P., Sinnott, C.B., Daumer, M., MacNeilage, P.R. (2021). Evaluation of the Intel RealSense T265 for tracking natural human head motion. Scientific Reports, 11 (1), 1-12. Nature Publishing Group.
- Binaee, P., Sinnott, C., Capurro, K.J., MacNeilage, P., Lescroart, M.D. (2021). Pupil Tracking Under Direct Sunlight. ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, 1-4.
- Shankar, B., Sinnott, C., Binaee, K., Lescroart, M.D., MacNeilage, P. (2021). Ergonomic Design Development of the Visual Experience Database Headset. ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, 1-4.
- Ramanujam, S., Sinnott, C., Shankar, B., Halow, S.J., Szekely, B., MacNeilage, P., Binaee, K. (2021). VEDBViz: The Visual Experience Database Visualization and Interaction Tool. ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, 1-4.
- MacNeilage, P., Sinnott, C., Hausamann, P. (2020). Geometric model of the determinants of retinal flow during natural viewing. Journal of Vision 20 (11), 1492-1492. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
- Hausamann, P., Sinnott, C., MacNeilage, P.R. (2020). Positional head-eye tracking outside the lab: an open-source solution. ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, 1-5.
- Sinnott, C., Liu, J., Matera, C., Halow, S., Jones, A.E., Moroz, M., Mulligan, J., Crognale, M., Folmer, E., MacNeilage, P. (2019). Underwater Virtual Reality System for Neutral Buoyancy Training: Development and Evaluation. 25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 1-9.
- Sinnott, C., Liu, J., Matera, C., Halow, S., Jones, A., Moroz, M., Mulligan, J., Crognale, M., Folmer, E., MacNeilage, P. (2019). Underwater virtual reality for spatial orientation research. Journal of Vision 19 (10), 302a-302a. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
- MacNeilage, P.R., Nguyen, L., Sinnott, C. (2019). Characterization of natural head and eye movements driving retinal flow. Journal of Vision 19 (10), 147d-147d. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
- Sinnott, C., MacNeilage, P. (2019). Statistical characterization of heading stimuli in natural environments using SLAM. Journal of Vision 19 (8), 53-53. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
- Sinnott, C., Dang, T., Papachristos, C., Alexis, K., MacNeilage, P. (2018). Statistical characterization of heading stimuli in natural environments using SLAM. Journal of Vision 18 (10), 41-41. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
- Sinnott, C.B. (2016). Investigating Differences between Rural and Non-rural Students.
- Sinnott, C.B., Lien, M.C. (2014). Without words for emotions: Is the emotional processing deficit in alexithymia caused by dissociation or suppression?
Education
- M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2016, Oregon State University
- B.A. in Psychology, 2014, Oregon State University