2024
Maneuvrier, A. (2024). Experimenter Bias: Exploring the Interaction between Participant’s and Investigator’s Gender/Sex in VR. Virtual Reality, 28(2), 96.
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Cognitive Science · Experimental Methodology · Data Analysis
Understanding how we experience the world.
My research focuses on how human cognition, perception and behaviour can be studied through rigorous experimental methods, quantitative analysis and carefully designed research protocols.
I work at the intersection of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, education, human-computer interaction, psychophysiology, statistics and philosophy of mind. Virtual reality is one of the experimental technologies I use to investigate these questions, alongside more conventional behavioural and psychophysiological approaches.
My academic work combines experimental design, statistical modelling, nonlinear and multivariate analysis, psychometrics, data quality and reproducible research workflows, as well as the development of technological tools for collecting and analysing human behavioural data.
Current
Positions
Associate Professor
Université du Québec en Outaouais, Laboratory of Cyberpsychology.
Associate Researcher
Institut de Psychiatrie Légale Philippe-Pinel de Montréal.
Previous
Temporary Assistant Professor
Cognitive Psychology — UBO, Lab-STICC, UMR 6285, France.
Post-doctoral Researcher
Lead Experimental Engineer — UBO, France.
Temporary Research and Teaching Assistant
Department of Psychology — UBO, France.
PhD Candidate cognitive neurosciences
Psychology, University of Caen Normandy and Montréal.
Research
Experimental methodology
Experimental design, operationalisation of psychological constructs, control of confounding factors, measurement strategies and robust protocols.
Statistics & data analysis
Statistical modelling, multivariate approaches, nonlinear relationships, repeated-measures data, modelling of complex behavioural datasets.
Psychophysiology & human factors
Cognitive performance, physiological responses, attentional resources, individual differences, sensory integration and human factors.
Virtual reality & human-computer interaction
Virtual environments as experimental tools for studying perception, spatial cognition, presence, interaction and behaviour.
Psychological evaluation
Psychometrics, cognitive assessment, automated evaluation and the development and validation of experimental paradigms.
Philosophy of mind & epistemology
Consciousness, perception, rationalist and enactivist approaches, experimental methodology and the philosophical foundations of scientific knowledge.
Teaching
Research supervision
Supervisor of 9 Master's students.
Experimental methodology & statistics
More than 450 hours of teaching within the psychology degree.
Course coordination
Responsible for six teaching modules within the psychology degree course.
Cognitive psychology
More than 150 hours of teaching.
Data analysis & research methods
Training in quantitative reasoning and statistical analysis in different fields : education science, psychology, movement science, humanities.
Virtual reality & neuroscience
More than 60 hours of lectures and workshops presenting experimental applications of virtual reality and immersive technologies.
Main publications
2023
Maneuvrier, A., Nguyen, N.-D.-T., & Renaud, P. (2023). Predicting VR cybersickness and its impact on visuomotor performance using head rotations and field (in)dependence. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 4.
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2022
Maneuvrier, A., & Westermann, H. (2022). The Phi Angle: A Theoretical Essay on Sense of Presence, Human Factors, and Performance in Virtual Reality. PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality, 141–169.
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2022
Maneuvrier, A., Ceyte, H., Renaud, P., Morello, R., Fleury, P., & Decker, L. M. (2022). Virtual reality and neuropsychological assessment: An analysis of human factors influencing performance and perceived mental effort. Virtual Reality.
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2022
Costa, S., Madeleine, S., & Maneuvrier, A. (2022). Apport de la réalité virtuelle pour l’appropriation de l’aléa submersion marine. Bulletin de l’association de géographes français. Géographies , 98(3/4), 514–529.
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2021
Maneuvrier, A., Decker, L. M., Renaud, P., Ceyte, G., & Ceyte, H. (2021). Field (In)dependence Flexibility Following a Virtual Immersion Is Associated With Cybersickness and Sense of Presence. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2, 110.
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2020
Maneuvrier, A., Decker, L. M., Ceyte, H., Fleury, P., & Renaud, P. (2020). Presence promotes performance on a virtual spatial cognition task: Impact of human factors on virtual reality assessment. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 1.
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2020
Maneuvrier, A. (2020). Le sentiment de présence en réalité virtuelle: Rôle modérateur des facteurs humains sur la performance [PhD thesis, Normandie Université; Université de Montréal].
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2018
Madeleine, S., Grieu, J., Lecroq, F., Galinho, T., Boukachour, H., Brunet, P., Dehut, J., Lecouvey, G., Gonneaud, J., Legrand, N., Rauchs, G. G., Eustache, F., Desgranges, B., Benguigui, N., Mandil, C., Mallek, M., Lejeune, L., Thouvarecq, R., Dupuy, E., … Haddouk, L. (2018). Virtualia 2016. La réalité virtuelle au service de la recherche.
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2016
Dupuy, E. G., Maneuvrier, A., Besnard, S., Bienvenu, B., & Decker, L. M. (2016). Le syndrome d’Ehlers-Danlos type hypermobile (SEDh): Évolution des stratégies posturales en réponse à un programme de rééducation à visée proprioceptive. Neurophysiologie Clinique / Clinical Neurophysiology , 46(4), 256.
DOI →Other work
2025 — « Des corpus audiovisuels en sciences humaines et sociales » — Ouvrage collectif.
2024 — « L’ANR DEEC et son utilisation des outils vidéo collaboratifs » — Webinaire consortium CANEVAS.
2024 — « Des Systèmes Hybrides Texte-Image-Son au sein d'ingénierie coopérative » — Colloque consortium CANEVAS.
2023 — « Prise en charge de la douleur chronique de l’enfant, approche comportementale et cognitive, le projet Starwalker » — Groupe d'intérêt et d'étude de gestion de la douleur chronique.
2023 — « Issues and benefits of virtual reality in neurosciences » — Conférence Humanités Numériques, Université de Caen Normandie.
2022 — « Réalité virtuelle & neurosciences » — Conférence Humanités Numériques, Université de Caen Normandie.
2021 — « La réalité virtuelle en psychologie » — Conférence publique au Département de Psychologie de l'Université de Brest.
2021 — « Psycho-physiology of virtual reality » — Séminaire laboratoire Lab-STICC.
2021 — « Réalité virtuelle & rééducation » — Séminaire projet BEaCHILD.
2020 — « Réalité virtuelle & neurosciences » — Conférence Humanités Numériques, Université de Caen Normandie.
2020 — « Nouvelles technologies en sciences biomédicales: apports, enjeux, éthiques » — Conférences Nouvelles technologies & e-santé, Université de Caen.
2020 — « Le sentiment de présence en réalité virtuelle: rôle modérateur des facteurs humains sur la performance » — Séminaire laboratoire COMETE.
2019 — « Impact des facteurs humains sur la performance en réalité virtuelle » — Conférence publique lors des Journées du Département de Psychologie de l'Université de Montréal.
2018 — « Réalité virtuelle, immersion et neurosciences » — A la découverte de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales. Conférence publique au Dôme de Caen.
2020 — « Le sentiment de présence en réalité virtuelle étudiée par les sciences du mouvement » — Séminaire laboratoire COMETE.
Reviewer
Nature Communications
Numerosity estimation of virtual humans as a digital-robotic marker for hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease (Albert et al. 2024).
Virtual Reality
Testing the ‘differences in virtual and physical head pose’ and ‘subjective vertical conflict’ accounts of cybersickness (Palmisano et al., 2024).
Cybersickness and sense of presence as predictors of VR task performance in individuals with and without Post-COVID-19 condition (Llana et al. 2025).
DVP predicts the probability of becoming sick and dropout times during head mounted display based virtual reality (Palmisano et al. 2025).
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Frontiers in Virtual Reality
Direct comparison of virtual reality and 2D delivery on sense of presence, emotional and physiological outcome measures (Kuhne et al. 2023).
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
Age-related directional asymmetry in the rod-and-frame test (Adamski et al. 2026).
PLOS ONE
The Virtual Navigation Toolbox: Providing tools for virtual navigation experiments (Müller et al., 2023).
In rod we trust — The evaluation of a virtual rod and frame test as a cybersickness screening instrument (Josepeit, 2024).
Computers in Human Behavior
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The Visual Computer
Gender influences on virtual reality colour matching task: performance, presence, usability, cognitive load, accuracy and physiological response (Namrouti et al. 2026).
Other reviewer work
Scientific Reports · Frontiers in Psychology · IEEE VR · CYPSY
Media coverage
Article in ACFAS Magazine:
Virtual reality: a tool that has become an object of research.Article by the French Consulate in Québec:
Discover the recipient of the French-Québécois co-supervised PhD thesis award.Article in Tendance Ouest:
In Caen, virtual reality at the service of medical research.
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