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Author Archives: Bernhard
Bernhard Riecke presenting at Psychonomics in Granada, Spain
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 Here’s the reference for […]
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Bernhard Riecke presenting spatial orientation framework at “Modeling Spatial Cognition” workshop
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 […]
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2 new iSpace presentations from ACM SUI - Spatial User Interaction Conference
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). […]
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Jake Freiberg defends his Masters Thesis!
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.
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Project showcase from Bernhard's "immersive environments" course (IAT445, Friday July 26th, 2014)
On Friday June 26th, 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 […]
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New iSpace project video on VR in Architecture
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 […]
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9 Student Presentations from Bernhard's Research Methods course (IAT802)
On November 26th, 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 […]
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Project showcase from Bernhard's "immersive environments" course (IAT445, Friday Nov 28, 2014)
On Friday November 28th, 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 […]
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Our first online experiment goes live
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 […]
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Project showcase from Bernhard's "immersive environments" course (IAT445, Friday June 20th, 2014)
On Friday June 20th, 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 […]
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More iSpace presentations: 2 defenses + 1 conference talk
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 […]
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"Creating a moving experience without moving the observer": Bernhard presenting at Toronto Stereoscopic Film Conference 2013
Here’s a simple video of the invited talk I had the honour to give at the 2013 International Toronto Stereoscopic Film Conference last fall, for those who couldn’t make it. It was entitled “Creating a moving experience without moving the observer: Perceptual aspects & display factors in immersive Virtual Reality”.
Opening: Admitting new PhD/MSc students
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 […]
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Bernhard gave Keynote Lecture at Vection Symposium in Japan
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…
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14 Grad Student Presentations from Bernhard's Research Methods course (IAT802)
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 […]
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Final project showcase from Bernhard's "immersive environments" course (IAT445 Fall 2013, Th 28 Nov.)
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 […]
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Final project showcase from Bernhard's "immersive environments" course (IAT445)
On April 4 & 5th (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 […]
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Opening: Admitting new PhD/MSc students
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 […]
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10 Student presentations from Bernhard's graduate course
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 […]
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Bernhard presenting at Spatial Cognition Conf. in Bavaria
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 […]
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Bernhard presenting at ICSC 2012 in Rome
Earlier this month, Bernhard presented at the International Conference on Spatial Cognition (ISCS 2012) in Rome, Italy, on “Moving through virtual reality without moving”. Below is a video of the presentation for those who couldn’t make it to Rome 😉 The paper was published in Cognitive Processing as Riecke, B. E., Sigurdarson, S., & Milne, […]
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Award for IEEE VR conference paper
The short paper entitled “Self-Motion Illusions (Vection) in VR – Are They Good For Anything?” that we presented earlier this year at the IEEE VR conference was not only accepted (with a 9.5% acceptance rate for short papers) but also received an honorable mention to be amongst the best short papers! We are honored! Below […]
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11 student presentations from Bernhard's grad course
Here’s a recording of the final 5-min student project presentations from a course that Bernhard was teaching in Spring 2012 at SIAT, entitled “Cognition, Learning, and Collaboration, and the Craft of Research and Writing for Publication (IAT812)”. Enjoy!
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Bernhard presenting at TEDactive
I’m quite excited and honoured (and did I mention nervous?) about the opportunity to give a short TEDyou presentation at TEDactive 2012 in Palm Springs! Title will be “Moving you in and through virtual reality”. After that I’ll definitely need to relax in the Sonic Cradle — get it ready Jay. one of the demos […]
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Sonic Cradle exhibit at TEDactive 2012
Jay Vidyarthi and Bernhard Riecke will be demonstrating the Sonic Cradle at TEDactive 2012 in Palm Springs! It’s going to be a jam packed week, but we will try to keep the system up and running for as long as possible. Come visit us and take a few minutes to pacify your mind and solidify […]
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