Biography

Denise joined the iSpace team in Fall 2016 as a grad­u­ate student.

Denise stud­ies pro­found emo­tion­al shifts, like awe and wonder, that can occur through inter­ac­tion with immer­sive, mul­ti­sen­so­ry artis­tic arte­facts and tech­no­log­i­cal expe­ri­ences. She is a researcher of the immer­sive real­i­ties, specif­i­cal­ly cre­ation and design of virtual/augmented real­i­ty (VR/AR) con­tent and interfaces.

After spend­ing over a decade in the film and VFX indus­try, she found­ed an immer­sive R&D studio, worked in University research depart­ments, and is now a PhD stu­dent with the iSpace Lab at SFU’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology. Her artis­tic and work expe­ri­ence feeds into her moti­va­tion around under­stand­ing how emo­tion­al shifts com­bined with tech­nol­o­gy can help facil­i­tate com­pas­sion, under­stand­ing, inter­con­nec­tiv­i­ty for our­selves, one anoth­er, and our planet. As an active vol­un­teer with ser­vice to the global com­mu­ni­ty, Denise cre­at­ed the SIGGRAPH VR Village in 2015 to help create a venue for inter­dis­ci­pli­nary immer­sive works in the sci­en­tif­ic, enter­tain­ment, med­ical, and edu­ca­tion fields. She is also involved in advo­ca­cy and policy-making in the health care and tech­no­log­i­cal communities.

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