CITIZENSHIP
Canada and the United Kingdom.
Resident Alien, United States.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, 1998. University of Washington.
Dissertation title: The Role of Rest Frames in Vection, Presence and
Motion Sickness.
M.S.E. Industrial Engineering, 1993. University of Washington.
Thesis title: The Treatment of Akinesia Using Virtual Images.
This thesis was the first study of a pioneering technique for reducing
Parkinson's disease symptoms using visual displays. The technique has since
been the frequent topic of televised documentaries.
B.S. Physics (with honors), 1986. University of Washington.
B.S. Computer Science, 1986. University of Washington.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Research Assistant/Associate, 1991-1998. University of Washington.
OTHER DISTINCTIONS
Top 0.5% on SAT and PSAT (U.S. pre-collegiate tests).
United States and International (FIDE)-rated chess master.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
PUBLICATIONS
Hoffman, H, Prothero, J, Wells, M & Groen, J. Virtual chess: meaning enhances users' sense of presence in virtual environments. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. In press.
Prothero, J & Parker, D. (1998). A Unified Approach to Presence and Motion Sickness. Accepted book chapter for L. Hettinger and M. Haas (Eds). Psychological Issues in the Design and the Use of Adaptive, Virtual Interfaces.
Prothero, J, Draper, M, Furness, T, Parker, D & Wells, M. The use of an independent visual background to reduce simulator side-effects. Submitted journal article.
Prothero, J, Draper, M, Furness, T, Parker, D & Wells, M (1997). Do visual background manipulations reduce simulator sickness? Presented at the International Workshop on Motion Sickness, May 26-28, 1997. HITL Technical Report, R-97-12.
Prothero, J (1997). Rest frames and `Class A' presence measures. Abstract and poster, 41st Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (refereed).
Draper, M, Prothero, J, Viirre, E (1997). Physiological adaptations to virtual interfaces: results of initial explorations. Abstract and poster, 41st Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (refereed).
Prothero, J (1996). The political science of the internet. HITL Technical Report R-96-2.
Prothero, JD (1996). Annotations from the 1996 Washington State Chess Championship. Northwest Chess.
Prothero, J (1996). Three queen knight pawns. Northwest Chess.
Prothero, J (1996). An adventure with the Frenkel French. Northwest Chess.
Prothero, J, Hoffman, H, Parker, D, Furness, T, & Wells, M (1995). Foreground/background manipulations affect presence. Paper presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (refereed).
Prothero, J, Parker, D, Furness, T & Wells, M (1995). Towards a robust, quantitative measure for presence. In Proceedings of the Conference on Experimental Analysis and Measurement of Situation Awareness, 359-366.
Prothero, J & Hoffman, H (1995). Widening the field-of-view increases the sense of presence in immersive virtual environments. HITL Technical Report R-95-5.
Weghorst, S, Prothero J, Furness, T, Anson, D, & Reiss, T. (1994). Virtual images in the treatment of Parkinson's disease akinesia. Medicine Meets Virtual Reality II, San Diego, California.
Prothero, J (1994). A Survey of interface goodness measures. HITL Technical Report R-94-1.
Emerson, T, Prothero, J & Weghorst, S (1994). A resource guide to VR in medicine. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. 6:335-49, 1994.
Emerson, T, Prothero, J & Weghorst, S (1994). Medicine and virtual reality: A guide to the literature. HITL Bibliography B-94-1.
Prothero, JD & Prothero, JW (1985). TOPPER, a software package in FORTRAN for scaling studies. International Journal of Biomedical Computing. 17(3-4):185-191.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Sole principal developer (1995). Invention disclosure ``Devices and techniques which increase the sense of presence or facilitate a rest frame switch and applications thereof.'' With T. Furness and M. Wells.
SELECTED PUBLISHED ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Alstyne, M (1997). Higher education's information challenge. Executive Strategies 2(4), May, 1997 pp. 1-14. (Acknowledged for discussions relating to my essay ``The Political Science of the Internet.'')
Macedonia, M, Zyda, M, Pratt, D, Barham, P & Zeswitz, S (1994). NPSNET: a network software architecture for large-scale virtual environments. Presence 3(4):265-287. (Acknowledged for an unpublished survey of software supporting distributed virtual environments.)