Biography

Matin joined the iSpace team in Fall 2017 as a grad­u­ate stu­dent. He is an expe­ri­enced pro­gram­mer, with a back­ground in com­puter sci­ence. He started fol­low­ing his fields of inter­ests in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Virtual Reality (VR) during his B.Sc in Computer Software Engineering.

After fin­ish­ing his B.Sc at 2015, he worked at an indus­trial video con­fer­ence ser­vice provider for 2 years as a soft­ware devel­oper. Then, he decided to con­tinue through acad­e­mia and research envi­ron­ment. Right now, he is work­ing on Functional Significance of Vection as his M.Sc thesis.

Projects

Embodied & Intuitive Flying for VR, Gaming, and TeleOperation

Flying has been a dream for mankind for millenia - but flying interfaces for VR, gaming, and teleoperation (e.g., drones) typically rely on cumbersome double-joystick/gamepads and do not allow for intuitive and embodied flying experiences. Here, we develop low-cost embodied flying interfaces that adapt leaning-based motion cueing paradigms thus freeing up hands for additional tasks beyond just na...

By bernhard riecke, abraham hashemian, ashu adhikari, ivan aguilar, noah miller, alexander bretin, matin lotfaliei & ernst kruijff, Read more

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Publications