Weekly Seminar: Andrii Matvienko
September 19, 2024
When: September 26th @ 11am
Where: TMCB 1170
Talk Title: Interaction with(in) Extended Reality: Tangible, Dynamic, Simulated
Extended Reality (XR), which is an umbrella term for Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR), is poised to introduce new ways of interacting with people, education, entertainment, and training by employing new technological solutions. While many applications are focused on individual, indoor, and visual-auditory interactions for work and home entertainment, interactions outside living rooms, multimodal aspects, and simulations have a long way to go. In this talk, I will focus on three main aspects of interacting with and within XR: (1) tangible, (2) dynamic, and (3) simulated. I will present works that enable haptic feedback, ranging from facilitating a feeling of being touched, drawing in VR, and crafting for children; interaction with XR while moving, e.g., in cars, bicycles, e-scooters, and walking, and when interacting with participants in XR spaces; and lastly, I will talk about simulated environments and how to increase their realism and thus ecological validity of controlled experiments.
I am an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Computer Science specialized in Human-Computer Interaction at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. I work at the Department of Media Technology and Interaction Design (MID) which is part of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. My research focuses on assisting technology in urban environments. I design, construct, and evaluate multimodal and mixed reality interfaces for vulnerable road users. In particular, I investigate how to make evaluation environments for micro-mobility safe and realistic and what future micro-mobility, e.g., self- driving bicycles, can look like. Additionally, I focus on how adult and child cyclists interact with assistance systems designed for collision prevention, navigation, and traffic behavior recommendations.