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Mr. Perry McDowell

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United States MOVES Institute

Biography

Mr. Perry McDowell attended nuclear power training after commissioning as a naval officer. He served in USS VIRGINIA (CGN-38) as M-division officer, R-division officer, and DCA from 1990-1993. He later served as operations officer in USS ELROD (FFG-55) from 1996-1997 and reactors control assistant and main propulsion assistant in USS ENTERPRISE (CVN-65) from 1997-2000. He served as sea and anchor/special evolutions OOD on his first two ships and conducted well over 50 of these evolutions, including multiple transits of the Panama and Suez Canals. In 1995, Perry earned a Masters of Science degree in computer science at the Naval Postgraduate School, where he was awarded the Grace Murray Hopper Award as outstanding computer science student. Upon leaving the Navy in 2000, he returned to NPS and joined the faculty. Although he has served as a principle investigator for a wide variety of projects in the MOVES Institute, from 2003 – 2012 he worked primarily as the Executive Director for the Delta3D open source game engine. From 2012 to the present, he has taught courses in simulation for training and conducted research in the areas of training effectiveness and the creation of systems to improve warfighter performance.

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Mitigation and Management of Minimize Cybersickness in the Design and Implementation of Learning Systems with Virtual Environments
Perry McDowell MOVES Institute
Perry McDowell MOVES Institute
Kay Stanney Design Interactive
Kay Stanney Design Interactive
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TUT
TUT 4: It Starts With You (The Human)
I/ITSEC 2024
Assessing Cognitive Workload in Mixed Reality Flight Simulators for Naval Aviation
Perry McDowell MOVES Institute
Perry McDowell MOVES Institute
Thomas Cecil United States Marine Corps
Thomas Cecil United States Marine Corps
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Paper Paper
Best Paper Nominee Session 2
I/ITSEC 2024
Impact of Decision-Support Tools on Novice Workload in VR
Jin Hong Yu Naval Postgraduate School
Charles Rowan The MOVES Institute, Naval Postgraduate School
Perry McDowell MOVES Institute
Amela Sadagic Naval Postgraduate School
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Human Performance Analysis and Engineering Paper Paper
HPAE 3: Gimme a Break! Assistance in Workload Reduction
I/ITSEC 2025
Assessing Virtual Reality Head-Mounted Display-Induced Cybersickness in Simulated Maritime Dynamic Environments
Ethan Williams United States Navy
Perry McDowell MOVES Institute
Charles Rowan The MOVES Institute, Naval Postgraduate School
Jon Vogl U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory, Fort Rucker, AL
Human Performance Analysis and Engineering Paper Paper
HPAE 4: Sassy Assessments with Multi-Modal Measurement
I/ITSEC 2025
Minimizing Cybersickness in the Design, Implementation and Management of Learning Systems with Virtual Environments
Perry McDowell MOVES Institute
Bruce Haycock University Health Network - KITE
Nicholas Adriaanse NSWCDD DNA
Tutorial Tutorial
TUT 8: Enhancing Comfort in Immersive Training
I/ITSEC 2025