Presenter

Dr. B. Adrian Flowers, Senior Research Engineer, Aptima, Inc. Is the lead of Aptima’s Perceptual and Physical Augmentation capability area, and has a specialization in cognition and perception in virtual, mixed, and augmented reality (XR) environments. He has leveraged this expertise in two capacities: (1) mitigation of negative physiological events in real-time systems, and (2) enhancement of human perception using a full-body approach to human augmentation. In pursuit of these goals, he has designed and executed a number of human subjects studies and used the results to develop an expanding suite of XR capabilities. These include a psychophysical study on visual and cognitive degradation in augmented reality (AR) funded by C5ISR's Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD), which was used to develop an AR remote collaboration tool for Mission Command and a Department of Transportation-funded study on the use of multimodal sensory alerting to inform the design of future roadway alerting capabilities. Dr. Flowers also has extensive experience with real-time system design, from his work with Lockheed Martin, where he was the lead software engineer, designer, and team lead on the development of a highly-connected real-time system to support submarine training. He received his PhD from University of Rhode Island, where he led studies on the detection of physiological signatures of cybersickness in the Virtual Immersive Biometry-Enabled Environment Lab. Dr. Flowers also holds an MS in computer science from University of Rhode Island and a BS in computer science from Rutgers University. US Citizen.