Steven Cloete

BSc(Hons), PhD (Qld)

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Contact details

Perception and Motor Systems Laboratory
School of Human Movement Studies
University of Queensland
e: scloete@hms.uq.edu.au
p: +61 7 3365 6106
f: +61 7 3365 6877
m: +61 (0)411 772 883

Background

Dr Steven Cloete joined the School of Human Movement Studies in 2006, after a brief stint working in vision sciences at the School of Optometry and Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation at the Queensland University of Technology. He completed his PhD in Psychology and Human Factors in early 2006 at the University of Queensland. Dr Cloete's work is funded by the Australian Research Council.

Research Interests

Dr Cloete maintains a broad range of interests in Cognitive Psychology and human vision, and is currently collaborating with Drs Guy Wallis and Anna Plooy (HMS, UQ) and Prof James Tresilian (University of Warwick ), investigating different types of sensory information (visual and vestibular/kinesthetic) and control strategies for driving. Visual feedback in lateral position control tasks like lane-changing and lane-keeping is the dominant theme of this research.  Dr Cloete's team has gone to considerable lengths to build a real-world test vehicle equipped with a sub-centimetre differential GPS and a high-fidelity accelerometer, which will be instrumental in revealing the role of the vestibular senses in driving. This is a topic which is relatively poorly understood and this research will be of some importance in the development of a comprehensive model of driving behaviour.  Dr Cloete is also investigating simple models of interceptive timing and obstacle avoidance in a driving simulator, and in a departure from his usual research interests will be collaborating with Drs Carlos Coelho and Guy Wallis (HMS, UQ) and Prof Ottmar Lipp (Psychology, UQ), studying subliminal processing of threat-related stimuli.

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