Bioaffect:Community Portal
information about yourself and your interests + ideas you’d like to explore
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Your Name
Background:
Research interests:
Supervisor:
Ideas I'd like to explore in class:
Ideas for projects:
Diane Gromala
background: dubious
official degrees in Design, Film Studies and Computer Science
unofficial and quasi-official studies in cultural studies (Yale), EE (Georgia Tech), and Consciousness Studies (UArizona)
Taught in a School of Fine Art (UTexas), a School of Communications (UW), a School of Literature, Communication & Culture (Georgia Tech)
Affiliate status at the HITLab, GVU, Oxford and the National Pain Centre
Research interests: technological interventions for chronic pain, embodiment, monsters & zombies, viscera
Supervisor: the gods
Ideas I'd like to explore in class: producing an iTunes U segment (it is odd that SIAT doesn't have a presence!),
rediscovering my groove re: teaching a class that is wildly fun
Ideas for projects: creating something related to affect, pain and comfort; creating a funny pain project
Terry Lavender
Background: army brat, ex-journalist, wannabe novelist, ex-PR hack for SFU, SIAT MSc (2009), current PhD student studying persuasive video games
Research interests: persuasive video games (especially social activism games), mobile games, immersion in games
Supervisor: Magy Seif el-Nasr
Ideas I'd like to explore in class: effect of immersion on the body and the emotions, biofeedback and emotions. I also like the iTunes U idea.
Ideas for projects: 1. setting up a feedback loop to respond to physiological signifiers that result from a speech impediment (still working this out, so this may change). 2. measuring physiological reactions to playing a persuasive video game on an iPhone/iPad.
Mark Nazemi
Background: Sound Designer, VJ Artist, teach and designing music production & audio engineering courses, music gear junkie, BA in Media Arts 2010, currently an MA student.
Research interests: Evaluate the use of interactive sound in VR systems for treating chronic pain.
Supervisor: Diane Gromala
Ideas I'd like to explore in class: controlling media such as sound & visuals using biofeedback. Interactive meditation systems using biofeedback.
Ideas for projects: Immersive soundscapes in VR that are controlled by biofeedback, techno-medicine for the body...more to come.... :D
Daniel Feuereissen
Background: Computer Science, Communication Technology, POS Systems, some exposure to traditional distribution media (TV News and Radio), Electronics, Classic Car Restoration, Reefkeeping.
Research interests: Reducing the perception of mediation in Virtual Reality, helping people with brain damage, injuries or disabilities through VR/adaptive systems, design and implementation of fully automated environmental systems that control marine habitats.
Supervisor: Dr. B. E. Riecke
Ideas I'd like to explore in class: I'd like to focus more on helping people get better and get back on track with their life after a life changing event. I have not yet spent much time and effort on this which led me to take this class and it looks like a good starting point. I am particularly interested in how we can exploit VR/adaptive technology/neural interfaces to train people use their perceptual systems after a related area of the brain has been damaged.
Ideas for projects: Not quite sure yet, preferably a craft and related software component that pertains to above stated topic.
Jay Vidyarthi
Background: Academic experience in cognitive psychology, industry experience in technological research/design, live music recording/mixing, performing on drums/guitar/vocals, songwriting.
Research interests: Social relationships between humans and technology, and how we can design specifically for them.
Supervisor: Bernhard Riecke and Diane Gromala
Ideas I'd like to explore in class: Using biosensors to create an intimate relationship between technology and user in a way that reduces stress/anxiety (just a brainstorm)
Ideas for projects: Was thinking about some kind of sound/music based stress detector for a computer users (again, just a brainstorm).
Lonnie Hastings
Background: Computer Science, cognitive systems, design and perception of interfaces-- specifically attention and how it modulates what we perceive, Visual Analytics
Research interests: How human perception in virtual reality differs from the real world. I'm particularly interested in perception of spatial information and spatial updating.
Supervisor: Bernhard Riecke
Ideas I'd like to explore in class: Sense of presence/immersion in virtual environments, and how biosensors could be used to measure this.
Ideas for projects: Possibly expanding the idea of landmarks in VR to include more than just visual stimuli
Veronica Zammitto
Background: Psychology, usability, gaming
Research interests: Evaluating video game user's experience (using psychophysiology, for instance), and how such information can be used in crafting better game designs.
Supervisor: Steve DiPaola
Ideas I'd like to explore in class: the physiology of emotions and more 'abstract' concepts of experience such as flow, engagement, and immersion. The potentials of adaptive systems based of users' information, like biofeedback.
Ideas for projects: Maybe employing psychophysiological data to create art pieces, or to measuring affective responses to video games and represent them in a meaningful way, or still open for more.
