Wei Kang Yap

• MBBS (NUMed Malaysia)
• Normative scores for new digital stereoacuity test

The supervisor is developing a new stereoacuity test presented on a tablet computer (known as “ASTEROID” for “Accurate Stereo”). This measures how well the two eyes work together to see depth. For any test, it’s important to know how a person with “normal vision” performs, in order to know when a patient has a deficit. Previous work showed that scores on ASTEROID were around twice as high as one other stereo tests. We think this is because the ASTEROID test uses quite large, chunky dots. We have modified ASTEROID to use smaller dots. We now need to compare the two versions to see if scores are smaller on the new version. This is what I will carry out over the summer.

Funding source: Newcastle University

Project supervisor: Professor Jenny Read