Publications
Journal Papers
Search task performance using subtle gaze direction with the presence of distractions. McNamara, A., Bailey, R., and Grimm, C. 2009. ACM Trans. Applied Perception 6, 3 (Aug. 2009), 1-19
Subtle gaze direction. Bailey, R., McNamara, A., Sudarsanam, N., and Grimm, C. 2009. ACM Transactions on Graphics 28, 4 (Aug. 2009), 1-14.
Exploring visual and automatic measures of perceptual fidelity in real and simulated imagery. Ann McNamara ACM TAP 3(3): 217-238 (2006)
Visual Perception in Realistic Image Synthesis. Ann McNamara ,Computer Graphics Forum 20(4): 211-224 (2001)
Comparing Real & Synthetic Scenes using Human Judgements of Lightness, Ann McNamara, Alan Chalmers, Tom Troscianko, Iain Gilchrist. Rendering Techniques 2000: 207-218
Fidelity of Graphics Reconstructions: A Psychophysical Investigation, Ann McNamara, Alan Chalmers, Tom Troscianko, Erik Reinhard: Rendering Techniques 1998: 237-246
Conference Papers/Talks
Using eye tracking to investigate important cues for representative creature motion. McLendon, M., McNamara, A., McLaughlin, T., and Dwivedi, R. In Proceedings of the 2010 Symposium on Eye-Tracking Research & Applications (Austin, Texas, March 22 - 24, 2010). ETRA '10. ACM, New York, NY, 85-88.
Exploring perceptual equivalence between real and simulated imagery. Ann McNamara, Proceedings of the 2nd symposium on Applied perception in graphics and visualization, A Coruna, Spain, 2005
Assessing the visual perception impact of indirect lighting. Morvan, Y. and McNamara, A. In Proceedings of the 2003 Eurographics Ireland Workshop. Eurographics Ireland,, 87--103.
Application of the Golden Ratio to 3D Facial Models: Rachel McDonnell and Ann McNamara, In Proceedings of the 2003 Eurographics Ireland Workshop. Eurographics Ireland,, 39--51.
Comparing Real & Synthetic Scenes using Human Judgements of Lightness, Ann McNamara, Alan Chalmers, Tom Troscianko, Iain Gilchrist, The 11th Eurographics Rendering Workshop 2000.
Fidelity of Graphics Reconstructions: A Psychophysical Investigation, Ann McNamara, Alan Chalmers, Tom Troscianko, Erik Reinhard, The 9th Eurographics Rendering Workshop,1998.
Measures of Lightness Constancy as an index to the perceptual fidelity of computer graphics. Tom Troscianko, Ann McNamara, Alan Chalmers, European Conference on Visual Perception 1998, Perception Vol 27 Supplement, pp. 25–25. 1998.
Abstracts
"The effect of tiled display on performance in multi-screen immersive virtual environments,", McNamara, A.; Parke, F.;Agana, A.; Davalath, M.; , Virtual Reality Conference (VR), 2010 IEEE , vol., no., pp.249-250, 20-24 March 2010
Evaluating performance in immersive displays. Davalath, M., Sanford, M., Agana, A., McNamara, A., and Parke, F. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Posters (Los Angeles, California, July 26 - 30, 2010). SIGGRAPH '10. ACM, New York, NY, 1-1.
Lions and tigers and bears: investigating cues for expressive creature motion. McLendon, M., McNamara, A., McLaughlin, T., and Dwivedi, R. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Posters (Los Angeles, California, July 26 - 30, 2010). SIGGRAPH '10. ACM, New York, NY, 1-1
I'm not there: extending the range of human senses to benefit wildlife corridors. LaFayette, C., Parke, F., McNamara, A., and Galanter, P. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Art Gallery (New Orleans, Louisiana, August 03 - 07, 2009). J. Martino, Ed. SIGGRAPH '09. ACM, New York, NY, 1-1.
Connecting the dots: discovering what's important for creature motion. McLendon, M., McNamara, A., McLaughlin, T., and Dwivedi, R. In SIGGRAPH 2009: Talks (New Orleans, Louisiana, August 03 - 07, 2009). SIGGRAPH '09. ACM, New York, NY,
Subtle Gaze Direction, Reynold Bailey, Ann McNamara, Cindy Grimm and Nisha Sudersanham, ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Sketches Program
Subtle Gaze Direction, Reynold Bailey, Ann McNamara, Nisha Sudarsanam, and Cindy Grimm, In ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Posters (San Diego, California, August 05 - 09, 2007). SIGGRAPH '07. ACM, New York, NY, 178. (Finalist in Student Research Competition)
Evaluating image quality metrics vs. human evaluation, Ann McNamara, ACM SIGGRAPH 2000 Sketches Program
Eye-tracking for Interactive Computer Graphics, Carol O'Sullivan, John Dingliana, Gareth Bradshaw and Ann McNamara European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM11) pp-S45, (2001)
Other
Perceptually-motivated graphics, visualization and 3D displays. McNamara, A., Mania, K., Banks, M., and Healey, C. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Courses (Los Angeles, California, July 26 - 30, 2010). SIGGRAPH '10. ACM, New York, NY, 1-159.
Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Applied perception in graphics and visualization, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 73 archive, Victoria Interrante and Ann McNamara, 2004, ISBN:1-58113-914-4,
Proceedings of the Eurographics Ireland Workshop, John Dingliana, Ann McNamara and Carol O'Sullivan (Eds.) (2002)
Comparing Real & Synthetic Scenes using Human Judgements of Lightness, Ann McNamara, ERCIM News No.44, January 2001
Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Campfire on Perceptually Adaptive Graphics,
Ann McNamara and Carol O'Sullivan (Eds.),, Snowbird Utah, May (2001)
Eye-tracking for Interactive Computer Graphics, Carol O'Sullivan, John Dingliana, Gareth Bradshaw and Ann McNamara European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM11) pp-S45, (2001)
Comparing Real and Synthetic Scenes using Human Judgements of Lightness, Ann McNamara, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, 2000
Light and the Culture of Medieval Pottery, Ann McNamara, Alan Chalmers, Duncan Brown, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Medieval Archaeology, Brugge, Belgium, October 1997.