Biography
Projects
Immersive Installation for Creative Expression and Public Performance: Transcending Perception
Artist Statement Transcending Perception is an interactive Virtual Reality (VR) installation developed by John Desnoyers-Stewart that allows participants to collaborate in the creative, improvisational production of multisensory experiences. Bodies and space are transformed into instruments which translate presence into performance. This installation reminds participants that they are cre...
Publications
Stepanova, Ekaterina R., Markus von der Heyde, Alexandra Kitson, Thecla Schiphorst, and Bernhard E. Riecke. 2017. “Gathering and Apply Guidelines for TeleSpider Design for Urban Search and Rescue Applications on a Mobile Robot.” In Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Contexts (HCI 2017), edited by M. Kurosu, 10272:562–81. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer.
Liu, P., Stepanova, E. R., Kitson, A. J., Schiphorst, T., & Riecke, B. E. (2022). Virtual Transcendent Dream: Empowering People through Embodied Flying in Virtual Reality. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517677
Zhang, Y., Riecke, B. E., Schiphorst, T., & Neustaedter, C. (2019). Perch to Fly: Embodied Virtual Reality Flying Locomotion with a Flexible Perching Stance. Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 253–264. https://doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3322357
Kitson, Alexandra, Thecla Schiphorst, and Bernhard E. Riecke. 2017. “Are You Dreaming? A Phenomenological Study on Understanding Lucid Dreams as a Tool for Introspection.” Presented at the CogSci Conference at SFU, Burnaby, BC, Canada, June 3.
Prpa, M., Stepanova, E. R., Schiphorst, T., Riecke, B. E., & Pasquier, P. (2020). Inhaling and Exhaling: How Technologies Can Perceptually Extend our Breath Awareness. Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376183
Zhang, Yaying (Sunny). 2018. “Affordances and Performance of the Limbic Chair in Embodied Virtual Reality Flying: A Comparison between Flexible Perching Interface and Existing Sitting and Standing Interface.” MSc Thesis, Surrey, BC, Canada: Simon Fraser University. https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/4889.