This wiki documents the academic research of Jack Ratcliffe (jacktionman). Jack Ratcliffe is currently a PhD candidate in the Media, Art, Technology (MAT) and cognitive science (CogSci) laboratories at Queen Mary, University of London.
His research interests include:
His primary supervisor is Dr. Laurissa Tokarchuk (CogSci) and secondary supervisor is Dr. Agnieszka Lyons (Applied Linguistics).
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Embodied cognition and immersive virtual environments: doing, being, seeing and language learning. Exploring human cognition inside immersive virtual environments (IVEs) and the implications for language learning, by examining the impact of “doing” an embodied action, the experience of “being” in an embodied space, and “seeing” embodied agents.