Here’s a video of my pre­sen­ta­tion at the 2016 International Psychonomics Conference in Granada about an online spa­tial ori­en­ta­tion study and the rather unex­pect­ed response pat­terns that we observed — and how we might be able to make sense of them. You can find more infos about this project at this page [youtube miiPjAUb77Y] Here’s the reference […]

Last year Alex Kitson gave a great pre­sen­ta­tion at the 2^nd International Workshop on Movement and Computing (MoCo) in Vancouver, co-locat­ed with ISEA. here’s at last a record­ing and the full ref­er­ence: Kitson, A., Riecke, B. E., & Stepanova, E. R. (2015).  (pp. 100–103). Presented at the MOCO’15 – 2^nd International Workshop on Movement and Computing, Vancouver, Canada: […]

  Here’s a record­ing of an invit­ed talk I just gave about some aspects of our the­o­ret­i­cal frame­work on spa­tial ori­en­ta­tion and ref­er­ence frame con­flicts. The talk was enti­tled “Qualitative Modeling of Spatial Orientation Processes and Concurrent Reference Frame Conflicts using Logical Propositions” and pre­sent­ed at the International Workshop on Models and Representations in Spatial […]

I just pre­sent­ed 2 papers at the 2015 ACM Spatial User Interaction Symposium in LA. Below are ref­er­ences & a simple video record­ing for those who could­n’t make it down to LA.  Kruijff, E., Riecke, B. E., Trepkowski, C., & Kitson, A. (2015). Upper Body Leaning can affect Forward Self-Motion Perception in Virtual Environments (pp. 103–112). […]

Jake Freiberg just suc­cess­ful­ly defend­ed his Master’s thesis about Design Representations in Architectural Practice.  Congratulations!! here’s the video of the defense talk for those who could­n’t attend in person, enjoy! For more info about the project, see our VR in Architecture Design & Review page. 

On Friday June 26^th, the stu­dents from the summer 2015 course offer­ing of “immer­sive envi­ron­ments” course (IAT 445) will be pre­sent­ing their final projects in the Mezzanine on our SFU Surrey campus, from about 10:30am — about 1:30pm. 10 stu­dent teams will show­case their own immer­sive Virtual Reality projects that they devel­oped in the pop­u­lar game engine Unity3D and will present […]

Over the last year we’ve been col­lab­o­rat­ing with the Vancouver offices of Perkins + Will, and just fin­ished a project video on it (thanks to the great stu­dents team from IAT334: Linda Nguyen, Danny Blackstock, Jason Chen, and Justin Poon!). One guid­ing ques­tion for the project was how to best use immer­sive Virtual Reality and […]

On November 26^th, the 9 stu­dents in my grad course on “Quantitative Research Methods & Design (IAT802)” that I taught in Fall 2014 gave their final 7‑min project pre­sen­ta­tions in the SIAT research col­lo­quium at Simon Fraser University. Enjoy! I think the stu­dents did an amaz­ing job, quite proud of them! — for many it […]

On Friday November 28^th, the stu­dents from the “immer­sive envi­ron­ments” course (IAT 445) will be pre­sent­ing their final projects in the Mezzanine on our SFU Surrey campus, from about 10:30am — about 1:30pm. Three teams will show­case their own immer­sive Virtual Reality projects that they devel­oped in the pop­u­lar game engine Unity3D and will present using either the Oculus Rift DK2 […]

We just start­ed our first online spa­tial ori­en­ta­tion exper­i­ment — below’s the ad. Enjoy! Want to help out the Science?! Have 10 min­utes to spare in front of your com­put­er? Contribute to the research in spa­tial ori­en­ta­tion in Virtual Reality by taking part in this online exper­i­ment study­ing spa­tial nav­i­ga­tion. The process will involve nav­i­ga­tion tasks […]

On Friday June 20^th, the stu­dents from the “immer­sive envi­ron­ments” course (IAT 445) will be pre­sent­ing their final projects in the Mezzanine on our SFU Surrey campus, from about 10:30am — 2:30pm. 10 Teams will show­case their own immer­sive Virtual Reality projects that they devel­oped in the pop­u­lar game engine Unity3D and will present on […]

Last year Daniel & Lonnie suc­cess­ful­ly defend­ed their MSc thesis, con­grat­u­la­tions! Here are the videos of their thesis pre­sen­ta­tions, enjoy (and thanks Daniel for the video edit­ing)! Lonnie B. Hastings (2013, December). The Influence of Shading, Display Size and Individual Differences on Navigation Performance in Virtual Reality in an Applied Industry Setting (MSc Thesis). Simon […]

Interested in con­tribut­ing to inno­v­a­tive research at the inter­sec­tion of Psychology/Cognitive Science, Informatics, Human Factors/HCI, and Virtual Reality in an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary team? I’m cur­rent­ly look­ing for bright and moti­vat­ed PhD/MSc stu­dents to join the iSpace lab at the School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT), Simon Fraser University in the greater Vancouver region in beautiful […]

Earlier this Fall Steve Palmisano and I had the honor to be invit­ed to present our vec­tion research at the vec­tion sym­po­sium in Fukuoka, Japan, orga­nized by Takeharu Seno. Lots of inspir­ing con­ver­sa­tions (and incred­i­ble Japanese hos­pi­tal­i­ty and food). Hope to find some time to edit the pre­sen­ta­tion video and upload it soon… 

Recently, all 14 SIAT grad­u­ate course in my grad course on “Quantitative Research Methods & Design (IAT802)” that I taught in Fall 2013 gave their final 6‑min project pre­sen­ta­tion pub­licly in the SIAT research col­lo­qui­um. Enjoy! I think the stu­dents did an amaz­ing job — for many it was their first sci­en­tif­ic research project and […]

On Thursday Nov 28, the stu­dents from the “immer­sive envi­ron­ments” course (IAT 445) will be pre­sent­ing their final projects in the Mezzanine on our SFU Surrey campus, from about 2:30 — 6:30pm. 10 Teams will show­case their own immer­sive Virtual Reality projects that they devel­oped in the pop­u­lar game engine Unity3D and will present on […]

On April 4 & 5^th (Thursday/Friday), the stu­dents from the “immer­sive envi­ron­ments” course (IAT 445) will be pre­sent­ing their final projects in the Mezzanine on our SFU Surrey campus, from about noon — 2:30pm. 9 Teams will show­case their own immer­sive Virtual Reality projects that they devel­oped in the pop­u­lar game engine Unity3D and will […]

The IEEE VR/3DUI 2013 Conference was held in beau­ti­ful Orlando, Florida in mid-March and fea­tured poster pre­sen­ta­tions from two iSpace Lab mem­bers.   Paving the way into vir­tu­al real­i­ty — a tran­si­tion in five stages Daniel Sproll and Jacob Freiberg revealed their poster and abstract at IEEE 3DUI. They present a frame­work for improv­ing immersion […]

Interested in con­tribut­ing to excit­ing research at the inter­sec­tion of Informatics, Psychology/Cognitive Science, Human Factors/HCI, and Virtual Reality in an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary multi-nation­al team? We’re cur­rent­ly look­ing for bright and moti­vat­ed PhD/MSc stu­dents to join the iSpace lab at the School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT), Simon Fraser University in the greater Vancouver region in […]

This passed week I suc­cess­ful­ly defend­ed my Master’s thesis about Sonic Cradle and Immersion.  Thanks to SIAT, NSERC, GRAND and my advi­so­ry com­mit­tee: Dr. Bernhard Riecke, Dr. Diane Gromala, Dr. Carman Neustaedter, & Dr. Halil Erhan. Special thanks to Jim Silvester for help­ing out with this video of the pre­sen­ta­tion I gave at the thesis defense :

For the first time, stu­dents from the SIAT grad­u­ate course on “Quantitative Research Methods & Design (IAT802)” that I taught in Fall 2012 at SIAT gave their final 6‑min project pre­sen­ta­tion pub­licly in the SIAT research col­lo­qui­um. Enjoy! I think the stu­dents did a won­der­ful job — for many it was their first sci­en­tif­ic research […]

At this year’s spa­tial cog­ni­tion con­fer­ence in Kloster Seeon in Bavaria, Germany, Bernhard co-orga­nized a work­shop on “VR in Spatial Cognition Research” with Klaus Gramann.  He also also pre­sent­ed a paper on “Why the heck do we have not clue where we are in VR?” — below is the video of it. (after 10min the […]