Position:
Alumnus (former MSc Student)
Contact:
mlotfali [at] sfu.ca
http://ir.linkedin.com/in/matinlotfali
Affiliations:
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...