Abraham Hashemian

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Position:

PhD Student

Contact:

hashemia at sfu dot ca
http://www.sfu.ca/~hashemia

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Biography

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 (AI) at 2003, Abraham taught for 12 years as a uni­ver­sity instruc­tor, while focus­ing on game design (for the first 5 years) and Holographic inter­face design (for the next 5 years) as his field of research. In 2015, he started his Ph.D., focus­ing on design­ing inter­faces for nav­i­ga­tion within vir­tual envi­ron­ments. Please check his per­sonal web­site for more details.

Projects

Embodied & Intuitive Flying for VR, Gaming, and TeleOperation

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, noah miller, ashu adhikari, matin lotfaliei & ernst kruijff, Read more
Gamified Research

Gamified Research

Gamifying Research - Researchifying Games While traditional experimental paradigms offer tight stimulus control and repeatability, then tend to be a bit boring and removed from many real-world situations, which can limit real-world transferability of results. How can we bring together the methodological strenghs of research with the intrinsic motivation of playfulness and gaming? The ...

By bernhard riecke, thinh nguyen vo, abraham hashemian, noah miller & ashu adhikari Read more
Lean and Elegant Motion Cueing in VR

Lean and Elegant Motion Cueing in VR

How do we best design locomotion interfaces for VR that provide "enough" physical motion cues (vestibular/proprioceptive) while still being effective, affordable, compact, and safe? Despite amazing progress in computer graphics and VR displays, most affordable and room-sized VR locomotion interfaces provide only little physical motion cues (e.g., vestibular & proprioceptive cues). To provide...

By bernhard riecke, ernst kruijff, daniel feuereissen, alex kitson, timofey grechkin, markus von der heyde, jake freiberg, abraham hashemian, thinh nguyen vo & katerina stepanova Read more
Immersive & Embodied Teleoperation Interfaces

Immersive & Embodied Teleoperation Interfaces

Developing virtual interfaces for embodied tele-operation and locomotion. How can we best design and implement an embodied telepresence system for tele-robotics, so we can safely explore remote, hard-to-reach, or potentially hazardous areas or situations? The goal of the "TeleSpider" project is to design and implement a telepresence system where users can remotely operate a robotic spid...

By bernhard riecke, alex kitson, abraham hashemian, markus von der heyde, katerina stepanova, amber choo & derek chen Read more
Motion Seats for VR

Motion Seats for VR

Using motion seats for enhancing locomotion and immersion in VR How can we provide a "moving experience" through VR without having to use a full-scale motion platform? Could a compact and relatively low-cost "motion seat" provide some of the same benefits, thus reducing cost, complexity, space & safety requirements? Despite considerable advances in Simulation and Virtual Real...

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Publications

Kitson, A., Riecke, B. E., Hashemian, A. M., & Neustaedter, C. (2015). NaviChair: Evaluating an Embodied Interface Using a Pointing Task to Navigate Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (pp. 123–126). Los Angeles, CA, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2788940.2788956
Hashemian, A. M., & Riecke, B. E. (2017, April). Rotate and Lean: Does Leaning toward the Target Direction Improves the Virtual Reality Navigation? Poster presented at the Second International Workshop on Models and Representations in Spatial Cognition, Tübingen, Germany.
Hashemian, A. M., & Riecke, B. E. (2017). Leaning-Based 360° Interfaces: Investigating Virtual Reality Navigation Interfaces with Leaning-Based-Translation and Full-Rotation. In S. Lackey & J. Chen (Eds.), Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality (VAMR 2017) (Vol. 10280, pp. 15–32). Cham: Springer.
Kitson, A., Hashemian, A. M., Stepanova, E. R., Kruijff, E., & Riecke, B. E. (2017). Comparing Leaning-Based Motion Cueing Interfaces for Virtual Reality Locomotion (pp. 73–82). Presented at the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 3DUI, Los Angeles, CA, USA. https://doi.org/10.1109/3DUI.2017.7893320
Kitson, A., Nguyen-Vo, T., Hashemian, A. M., Stepanova, E. R., & Riecke, B. E. (2017, November). A User Study Comparing Two Low-Cost Chair Interfaces for Embodied Virtual Locomotion. Talk presented at the Psychonomic Society 58th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Kitson, A., Stepanova, E. R., Hashemian, A. M., Riecke, B. E., Nagy, G., Choo, A., & Chen, D. (2016, May). TeleSpider: investigating motion-cueing interfaces for control of a remote robotic spider. Project exhibition presented at the Consumer Virtual Reality (CVR) conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada.