Chris Riehm

Dr. Riehm studies human perception and action by combining virtual reality, full-body motion capture, and mobile Electroencephalography (EEG). He also employs advanced statistical techniques to characterize data generated from the brain and body, aiming to clarify the complex aspects of sensorimotor function that both enable human performance and cause debilitating injury. Chris started his academic journey by studying ecological psychology and embodied cognition, which stress the importance of research methodologies that allow the function of brain-body-environment systems to be captured holistically. At SPARC, he applies this philosophy to the study of sports, which consistently prove the deeply dynamic and context sensitive nature of human behavior. Chris is also interested in music and sound; his dissertation addressed the dynamics of sound localization behavior using VR and HRTF based spatialization. In his free time, Chris plays instruments, sings, and builds virtual reality games and other software.