Alissa Antle

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Position:

Associate Professor

Contact:


http://antle.iat.sfu.ca/

Affiliations:

SIAT, SFU

Biography

Colleague and col­lab­o­ra­tor on var­i­ous projects.

Projects

Compassionate Connection Oasis VR Toolkit (ccOasisVR)

Compassionate Connection Oasis VR Toolkit (ccOasisVR)

Empowering Emerging Adults through Compassion and Enhanced Social Connection: Co-creating a Compassionate Connection Oasis VR Toolkit (ccOasisVR) Emerging adulthood (18-25) is a critical developmental phase, a tumultuous transition marked by heightened distress, and, unfortunately, a decreased likelihood that Emerging Adults (EAs) will seek support. The COVID-19 pandemic further exposed the urge...

By bernhard riecke, alex kitson, denise quesnel, noah miller, jacob sauer, andrea gaggioli, katarina tabi, patrick pennefather, alissa antle, steve dipaola, david glowacki & maja wrzesien Read more
Being in Virtual Worlds

Being in Virtual Worlds

Being in Virtual Worlds: How Interaction, Environment, and Touch Shape Embodiment in Immersive Experiences Embodiment is an everyday experience that typically goes unnoticed. While we often take it for granted, with the adoption of virtual reality (VR) technology, embodiment in virtual bodies and worlds has become an important consideration for designers of immersive experiences. To date, the VR ...

By John desnoyers stewart, alissa antle & bernhard riecke Read more
Designing with Biosignals Workshop at ACM DIS 2023

Designing with Biosignals Workshop at ACM DIS 2023

Designing with Biosignals: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions for Integrating Physiological Signals in Human-Computer Interaction ABSTRACT Biosensing technologies are a rapidly increasing presence in our daily lives. These sensor-based technologies measure physiological processes including heart rate, breathing, skin conductance, brain activity and more. Researchers are exploring...

By katerina stepanova, john desnoyers stewart, alex kitson, bernhard riecke, alissa antle, abdallah el ali, jeremy frey, vasiliki tsaknaki & noura howell Read more
Auditory Navigation Displays

Auditory Navigation Displays

Can spatial auditory cues enable us to remain oriented while navigating real or virtual environments? Non-visual navigation interfaces are crucial for the blind, who suffer great reductions in mobility because of the difficulty of navigating new environments. Sighted users may also benefit from these types of displays when they are navigating but can't see the screen of their mobile devi...

By andrew milne, bernhard riecke & alissa antle Read more
Sympathetic Guitar

Sympathetic Guitar

Do humans response socially to abstract, expressive human-computer interfaces? To interact with the Sympathetic Guitar is to use a familiar and comfortable Western musical interface to feel an instant connection to musical culture and style of the East.  The prototype senses guitarists' hand motions and performance dynamics to augment a standard classical guitar with a digital drone...

By jay vidyarthi, bernhard riecke & alissa antle Read more

Publications

Warren, J. (2014). Exploring Context: Using Teacher Perspective to Guide Tangible Multi-Touch Tabletop Design [MSc Thesis]. Simon Fraser University.
Pang, Carolyn E. 2013. “Technology Preferences and Routines for Distributed Families Coping with a Chronic Illness.” MSc Thesis, Surrey, BC, Canada: Simon Fraser University. http://summit.sfu.ca/item/12921.
Cramer, Emily. 2015. “A Code of Many Colours: A Rationale, Validation and Requirements for a Sound-Based Letter Colour-Code That Might Support Some Children with Dyslexia in Spelling Certain Words.” MSc Thesis, Surrey, BC, Canada: Simon Fraser University. http://summit.sfu.ca/item/15715.
Wang, Sijie. 2010. “Comparing Tangible and Multi-Touch Interfaces for a Spatial Problem Solving Task.” MSc Thesis, Surrey, BC, Canada: Simon Fraser University. https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/thesis/etd6352.
Macaranas, Anna. 2013. “The Effects of Intuitive Interaction Mappings on the Usability of Body-Based Interfaces.” MSc Thesis, Surrey, BC, Canada: Simon Fraser University. https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/thesis/etd7660.
Sigurdarson, Salvar. 2014. “The Influence of Visual Structure and Physical Motion Cues on Spatial Orientation in a Virtual Reality Point-to-Origin Task.” MSc Thesis, Surrey, BC, Canada: Simon Fraser University. http://summit.sfu.ca/item/14532.
Milne, Andrew P. 2014. “What Makes a Maker: Common Attitudes, Habits and Skills from the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Community.” MSc Thesis, Surrey, BC, Canada: Simon Fraser University. http://summit.sfu.ca/item/14578.
Cole, Amelia W., Denise T. Quesnel, Serkan Pekcetin, Diane Gromala, Heather O’Brian, Alissa N. Antle, and Bernhard E. Riecke. 2017. “Integrating Affective Responses and Gamification into Early Reading Acquisition Software Applications.” In CHI PLAY’17 Extended Abstracts, 73–85. Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1145/3130859.3131433.
Macaranas, Anna, Alissa N. Antle, and Bernhard E. Riecke. 2015. “What Is Intuitive Interaction? Balancing Users’ Performance and Satisfaction with Natural User Interfaces.” Interacting with Computers 27 (3): 357–70. https://doi.org/10.1093/iwc/iwv003.
Veldhuis, Annemiek, Alissa N. Antle, and Bernhard E. Riecke. 2023. “TangiTeam: Supporting Social Regulation of Learning during Design-Based Learning.” In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, 1–6. TEI ’23. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3573111.
Seaborn, K. 2011. “A Guiding Hand: Augmenting Novice Gameplay With Haptic Feedforward Guidance.” MSc Thesis, Surrey, BC, Canada: Simon Fraser University. https://summit.sfu.ca/item/11238.
Stepanova, Ekaterina R, John Desnoyers-Stewart, Alexandra Kitson, Bernhard E. Riecke, Alissa N Antle, Abdallah El Ali, Jeremy Frey, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, and Noura Howell. 2023. “Designing with Biosignals: Detailed Workshop Description.” In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’23), 1–6. Pittsburgh, PA, USA: ACM.
Stepanova, Ekaterina R, John Desnoyers-Stewart, Alexandra Kitson, Bernhard E. Riecke, Alissa N Antle, Abdallah El Ali, Jeremy Frey, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, and Noura Howell. 2023. “Designing with Biosignals: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions for Integrating Physiological Signals in Human-Computer Interaction.” In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS Companion ’23), 1–4. Pittsburgh, PA, USA: ACM.
Freiberg, Jacob. 2015. “Experience Before Construction: Immersive Virtual Reality Design Tools for Architectural Practice.” MSc Thesis, Surrey, BC, Canada: Simon Fraser University. https://summit.sfu.ca/item/16052.
Feuereissen, Daniel. 2013. “Self-Motion Illusions (Vection) in Virtual Environments: Do Active Control and User- Generated Motion Cueing Enhance Visually Induced Vection?” MSc Thesis, Surrey, BC, Canada: Simon Fraser University. https://summit.sfu.ca/item/13651.
Desnoyers-Stewart, John, Alissa N. Antle, and Bernhard E. Riecke. 2025. “Being in Virtual Worlds: How Interaction Environment and Touch Shape Embodiment in Immersive Experiences.” In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–16. CHI ’25. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713586.