BowersLab

Dr Alex Bowers Lab. Our focus is on low vision assessment and rehabilitation in the field of driving. Affiliated with Harvard Medical School and part of MEEI.

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Extremely proud to announce that Garrett Swan was awarded the prestigious Envision-Atwell Award For Low Vision Research for his work on “Predicting early hazard detection from head scanning magnitude in individuals with hemianopia”
https://t.co/Z4dZf4rGfw

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Our most recent paper on the effects of simulated vision impairment on pedestrian detection performance was published in Transportation Research Part F and is now available online: https://t.co/OwZCZgXT0G

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We've published a first paper from our collaboration with @TU_Muenchen in Accident Analysis and Prevention! "The effects of simulated mild vision loss on gaze, driving and interaction behaviors in pedestrian crossing situations" is now available online: https://t.co/gDUb9cf7RW

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We're honored to have Alex Bowers, PhD, from @bowers_lab @Harvard join our family conference to explain driving challenges for people with homonymous henmianopia, as well as prism use and other possible interventions. https://t.co/W1kSDUyiM5

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We've published our first paper of 2019!
"The effects of age and cognitive load on peripheral-detection performance" is now available on the @ARVOJOV website https://t.co/1T6VCWaW9Z @Savage_Psych

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@Savage_Psych will be presenting some of our most recent work at @NECO424 this evening at 5pm. He will be discussing how age affects the contribution of head and eye movements to scanning at intersections as part of NECO'S Research Lecture Series.

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Looking forward to seeing you all there :)

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If you’re at the #Harvard Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Sciences (#HUROS) fair today, come by Poster 11 and ask us about all the exciting projects we have going on in our lab @harvardmed @Harvard @HMSeye

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3) An evaluation of peripheral prism glasses for patients with left hemispatial neglect and hemianopia (in collaboration with Kevin Houston, Eli Peli and Russell Woods)

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Three of our papers have just been published in the Optometry and Vision Science special issue on Assistive Technology for Vision Impairment!

https://t.co/iFMTvRporA

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2) A preliminary evaluation of a wearable camera-based collision warning device for blind individuals (in collaboration with Gang Luo)

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Christine presenting her work on the effects of simulated vision impairment and distraction on the detection of pedestrian hazards @VSSMtg thanks for all the feedback to everyone who dropped by this morning #VSS2018

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Last year we were interviewed by a science writer for a feature that the NEI were putting together about research on driving with low vision. Here is the feature that was published online at the end of February!

https://t.co/RP6fCTaoUB

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We have just published the sixth paper in our series on Driving with Hemianopia:

Houston KE, Peli E, Goldstein RB and Bowers AR. (2018) Driving with Hemianopia VI: Peripheral prisms and perceptual-motor training improve detection in a simulator. Transl. Vis. Sci. Technol.7(1):5

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Our new Lab website has just gone live!
Have a look at https://t.co/w0eucrToC7
See you there

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Research study for drivers aged 20 – 40 years

If interested, contact Dr. Steven Savage:
617-912-2527
[email protected]

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Tomorrow the @bowers_lab will be visiting @jeremymwolfe at the Visual Attention Lab. Dr Bowers will be giving a talk entitled: " How well do people with hemianopia compensate for their vision loss in simulated driving tasks?" Looking forward to seeing you all there!

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Steven's talk @Savage_Psych at yesterday's Post Doctoral Fellows Work in Progress Seminar Series.

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Our paper "Driving with Hemianopia V: Do Individuals with Hemianopia Spontaneously Adapt Their Gaze Scanning to Differing hazard Detection Demands?" was recently published in @ARVOtvst DOI: 10.1167/tvst.6.5.11