People

Lab Director

Bernhard E. Riecke

Bernhard E. Riecke

 Positions and Affiliations: Associate Professor at SFU-SIAT (School of Interactive Arts and Technology) Associate Member of SFU Cognitive Science Program Contact: ber1 at sfu dot ca SIAT home­page: www.sfu.ca/siat/people/faculty/bernhard-riecke.html Brief Biography I am a psycho-physicist and Cognitive Scientist who’s excited about study­ing how humans orient in vir­tual and r… Read more



Students

Allen Chen

Allen Chen

Allen joined the iSpace lab in Spring 2023 as a MSc stu­dent [more details coming soon]… Read more

  • Position:
    • MSc Student
  • Email:
    • xca114 at sfu dot ca
  • Projects:
    • No projects to display.

Denise Quesnel

Denise Quesnel

Denise joined the iSpace team in Fall 2016 as a grad­u­ate stu­dent and has been involved in the immer­sive real­i­ties as a designer and researcher since 2009. Denise explores how con­tem­pla­tive prac­tices of com­pas­sion and pos­i­tive emo­tion cul­ti­va­tion like awe and wonder, com­bined with social sup­port, can be opti­mized into ther­a­peu­tic vir­tual real­ity (VR) expe­ri­ences for both clin­i­cal and non-clinica… Read more


Ivan Aguilar

Ivan Aguilar

Ivan joined the iSpace team in Fall 2017 as a PhD stu­dent. He has a Bachelor in Computer Science and Master’s in Media and Technology, both from the Sao Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil, where he researched in the areas of Augmented Reality, Pre-visualization for the Film Pipeline, Photogrammetry, and Computer Graphics. His cur­rent research focuses on using inter­dis­ci­pli­nary approaches … Read more


Jacob Sauer

Jacob Sauer

Jacob joined the iSpace lab in Fall 2023 as a MSc stu­dent. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Software Systems Engineering from the University of Regina. During his time at URegina, he also worked as an under­grad­u­ate researcher in the Department of Computer Science’s aRMADILo Lab; his research focus was inter­dis­ci­pli­nary appli­ca­tions for immer­sive vir­tual real­ity expe­ri­ences, specif… Read more

  • Position:
    • MSc Student
  • Email:
    • jacob_sauer at sfu dot ca
  • Projects:
    • No projects to display.

John Desnoyers-Stewart

John Desnoyers-Stewart

John Desnoyers-Stewart is an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary artist-researcher pur­su­ing his PhD in Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He is a pro­fes­sional engi­neer with a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies who seeks oppor­tu­ni­ties to bring knowl­edge from diverse dis­ci­plines together to pro­mote cre­ativ­ity and inno­va­tion. He is also a con­sul­tant with … Read more


Kenneth Karthik

Kenneth Karthik

Kenneth joined the iSpace lab in Fall 2021 as a Masters stu­dent. He has a back­ground in com­puter engi­neer­ing and [more details coming soon] … Read more


Noah Miller

Noah Miller

Noah joined the iSpace team in Fall 2018 as a PhD stu­dent. He has a Bachelor and Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota Duluth. In his Master’s, he researched the dif­fer­ence between inter­face affor­dances of real-world and vir­tual objects in vir­tual real­ity. During this time, he also worked in the inter­dis­ci­pli­nary MMAD Lab as a motion cap­ture tech­ni­cian and research assis… Read more


Rose Rouhani

Rose Rouhani

Rose joined the iSpace lab in Spring 2022 as a MSc stu­dent. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at Amirkabir University of Technology. Her aca­d­e­mic jour­ney is marked by a deep inter­est in the inter­sec­tion of tech­nol­ogy and human expe­ri­ence, par­tic­u­larly within the realm of VR. Her research focuses on an explo­ration of VR sick­ness — a form of tra­di­tional motion sick­ness experie… Read more



PostDocs


Research Interns


Alumni

Abraham Hashemian

Abraham Hashemian

Abraham is a Ph.D. stu­dent in School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University (SFU) with a back­ground in com­puter sci­ence. He is inter­ested in UX/UI research in vir­tual, aug­mented, and mixed real­i­ties. Moreover, he is inter­ested in immer­sive game design regard­ing his knowl­edge and prior expe­ri­ences. Background: After fin­ish­ing his M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence (A… Read more


Alexander Bretin

Alexander Bretin

Alexander joined the iSpace Lab in Fall 2020 as a PhD stu­dent work­ing on a Locomotion Interface for Virtual Reality and Telepresence. He is fas­ci­nated by altered states of con­scious­ness and Human-Machine Interfaces. In his Bachelor in Cognitive Science from the University of Osnabrück, Germany he con­cen­trated on psy­chol­ogy, com­puter sci­ence, math, and phi­los­o­phy. His Master’s in the inter­disci… Read more


Andrew Milne

Andrew Milne

My work is about using edu­ca­tion and tech­nol­ogy to empower people. As a Master’s stu­dent, my research explores the DIY or ‘maker’ com­mu­nity. It stems from my inter­est in rapid pro­to­typ­ing tools, such as 3D print­ers and micro­con­troller boards, and the community’s inno­v­a­tive use of online tools for col­lab­o­ra­tion, includ­ing: open edu­ca­tion resources, open licens­ing on hard­war… Read more


Daniel Feuereissen

Daniel Feuereissen

Daniel’s back­ground is in com­puter sci­ence and psy­chol­ogy. He was study­ing the effect of visual motion illu­sions (vec­tion) on spa­tial per­cep­tion in vir­tual real­ity.… Read more


Daniel Sproll

Daniel Sproll

While actu­ally still in his under­grad­u­ate pro­gram of Cognitive Science at the lovely University of Osnabrueck in Germany, Daniel came to the iSpace Lab to finally get his hands dirty with some real sci­en­tific work, gather new skills and get an impres­sion of the diverse work done at SIAT — and of course to learn how to cheat the mind and get away with it (all in the name of sci­ence, of course).… Read more


Elena Kneer

Elena Kneer

Elena is a Masters stu­dent at RWTH Aachen and cur­rently a vis­it­ing researcher in the iSpace lab doing her Master’s project in Cognitive Psychology in real and vir­tual envi­ron­ments.… Read more


Jacqueline Jordan

Jacqueline Jordan

Jacqueline joined the lab in Fall 2013 work­ing on self-motion per­cep­tion in VR… Read more

  • Position:
    • Alumnus (MSc Student in iSpace Lab)
  • Email:
    • jdjor­dan at sfu.ca
  • Projects:
    • No projects to display.

Jake Freiberg

Jake Freiberg

Jake is driven by a con­stant desire to under­stand how things work, be they mechan­i­cal, psy­cho­log­i­cal, elec­tri­cal, con­cep­tual, etc. Following his grad­u­a­tion from Iowa State University with a B. Arch and a B.S. in Psychology, he plans to inte­grate this back­ground into a larger under­stand­ing of vir­tual design tools in the con­text of psy­cho­log­i­cal processes.… Read more


Jay Vidyarthi

Jay Vidyarthi

Jay Vidyarthi is simul­ta­ne­ously a per­form­ing musi­cian, human-computer inter­ac­tion designer and psy­cho­log­i­cal researcher.  His expe­ri­ence spans from indus­try to acad­e­mia, where he is presently pur­su­ing a Masters degree at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at SFU. Jay’s port­fo­lio includes a unique brand of psy­che­delic blues music, com­pre­hen­sive inter­face design spec­i­fi­ca­tions… Read more


Jim Silvester

Jim Silvester

Jim has a broad back­ground in Interactive Multimedia and Design. He has devel­oped a mul­ti­tude of soft­ware appli­ca­tions with numer­ous devel­op­ment envi­ron­ments, hard­ware devices, and oper­at­ing sys­tems such as: Unity, UDK, Processing, Xbox Kinect, Occulus Rift, HTML5, Android, and iOS. His pri­mary research inter­ests include cre­at­ing and eval­u­at­ing inno­v­a­tive new inter­faces for users to move and … Read more


Lisa Donaldson

Lisa Donaldson

interim stu­dent in Fall 2012 — Spring 2013, work­ing on the influ­ence of con­trast on human self-motion per­cep­tion in Virtual Reality.… Read more


Lonnie Hastings

Lonnie Hastings

Lonnie’s has a back­ground in com­puter sci­ence and psy­chol­ogy. She com­pleted her under­grad­u­ate degree at the University of British Columbia with a BSc in Cognitive Systems, a pro­gram that com­bined psy­chol­ogy, com­puter sci­ence, lin­guis­tics, and phi­los­o­phy. While at UBC she worked as an RA and man­ager of the Visual Cognition Lab with Dr. Ron Rensink, where her pri­mary focus was a study on visua… Read more

  • Affiliations:
    • SIAT, SFU, UBC Visual Cognition Lab, The Boeing Company

  • Position:
    • Alumnus (MSc Student, defended in 2013)
  • Email:
    • bhasting@sfu.ca
  • Projects:

Matin Lotfaliei

Matin Lotfaliei

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 conf… Read more


Mirjana Prpa

Mirjana Prpa

Mirjana Prpa is an archi­tect, a vir­tual real­ity utopian and a grad­u­ate stu­dent ­ researcher at iSpace lab for Virtual Reality at School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Vancouver, Canada. She received a Master Degree in archi­tec­ture from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, and has worked mainly on ephemeral designs for per­for­mance art projects includ­ing projects for the­aters and open public sp… Read more


Pinyao Liu

Pinyao Liu

Pinyao became a research intern at the iSpace lab in July 2019 and started his Masters in Fall 2020. He has a back­ground in Engineering and is always fas­ci­nated by the inter­sec­tion of design and emerg­ing tech­nol­ogy. His cur­rent research inter­ests involve inter­ac­tion design in XR and employ­ing tech­nol­ogy as a medium to create mean­ing­ful expe­ri­ences.… Read more


Salvar Sigurdarson

Salvar Sigurdarson

Salvar is a project-oriented viking who cannot turn down a chal­lenge. With a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Iceland, his expe­ri­ence includes report­ing for the largest news­pa­per in Iceland and pro­gram­ming safety-critical soft­ware used in air traf­fic con­trol. Salvar’s latest project involved sell­ing all his belong­ings and moving to Vancouver to study Virtual Reality, and i… Read more


Sumin Kim

Sumin Kim

Sumin joined the iSpace lab in Fall 2021 as a PhD stu­dent, but then had to take care of her own startup com­pany so inter­rupted her PhD.… Read more

  • Position:
    • PhD stu­dent
  • Email:
    • sumin_kim at sfu.ca
  • Projects:
    • No projects to display.

Thinh (Ted) Nguyen-Vo

Thinh (Ted) Nguyen-Vo

Thinh (Ted) has a BSc in Computer Science from HCMC University of Science. He stared an MSc at School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT), Simon Fraser University in Fall 2016, and joined the iSPACE research lab, where he started his stud­ies on VR tech­nol­ogy and human spa­tial per­cep­tion in immer­sive vir­tual envi­ron­ments. His research inter­ests involve using tech­nolo­gies such as arti­fi­cial in… Read more


Timofey Grechkin

Timofey Grechkin

Timofey joined iSpace Lab from 2012 — 2014 after receiv­ing his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Iowa. … Read more


Yaying Zhang

Yaying Zhang

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  • Position:
    • Alumnus (MSc Student, defended in 2018)
  • Email:
    • yayingz@sfu.ca
  • Projects:
    • No projects to display.


Collaborators

(incom­plete list — still under construction)

Alexander Stahn

Alexander Stahn

Alexander C. Stahn is an Assistant Professor in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He obtained his under­grad­u­ate and grad­u­ate degrees from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, after which her worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town,  from 2003 to 2005. In 2008 he obtained his doc­toral degree at Charité – Un… Read more


Bobby Bodenheimer

Bobby Bodenheimer

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David Clement

David Clement

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John Rieser

John Rieser

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Klaus Gramann

Klaus Gramann

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Petra Jansen

Petra Jansen

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Siamak Arzanpour

Siamak Arzanpour

Collaborator on exoskele­ton project.… Read more


Stephen Palmisano

Stephen Palmisano

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Timothy McNamara

Timothy McNamara

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