Summary

Prof. Bernhard Riecke will be introducing students from his IAT 812 class: Cognition, Learning and Collaboration, and the Craft of Research and Scientific Writing for Publication.

IAT 812

[Felwa Abukhodair] - "Effectiveness of Interactivity in Animated Trend Visualization".

[Leila Aflatoony] - "Comparing the creativity of sketching informed by appropriated, and industrial objects".

[Sabrina Hauser] - "The Impact of an Economic Score System on Driving Behaviour: A case study with car2go Vancouver".

[Carolyn Pang] - "Staying Connected: Communication and Social Support for Families Coping with Chronic Illnesses".

[Samar Al-Hajj] - "Collaborative Visual Analytics to Support Public Health Decision-Making".

[Maryam H. Kashani] - "The art of ambient eco-visualization: Does distance, and size affect comprehension of displays?".

[Nadya Calderon] - "Augmenting Visual Representation with Sound Graphs for the Assessment of Affective Charged Information".

[Chao Feng] - "The Affective Motion".

[Ivy Wang] - "The Magic of Design Expertise : Measurable Differences Between Novice and Expert Designers".

[Vitomir Kovanovic] - "Improving the Usability of Business Rule Modeling: Comparison of Controlled English and Graphical Representations".

[Mina Soltangheis] - "Comparison between effectiveness of two grid-like overlays for uncertainty visualization".

Biography

BERNHARD RIECKE received his PhD in Physics from the Tübingen University in Germany and researched for a decade in the Virtual Reality group of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany. After a post-doc in Psychology at Vanderbilt University he joined the School of Interactive Arts & Technology of Simon Fraser University as an assistant professor in 2008. His research approach combines fundamental scientific research with an applied perspective of improving human-computer interaction. He's leading the iSpaceLab ("immersive Spatial Perception Action/Art Cognition Embodiment") at SIAT.