Position & Affiliations

• Assistant Professor at SFU-SIAT (School of Interactive Arts and Technology)
• Associate Member of SFU Cognitive Science Program

Research Lab:

iSpaceLab: Immersive Spatial Perception Action/Art Cognition Embodiment

Brief 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.

Research Interests

My research inter­ests include:

• Human multi-modal spa­tial cog­ni­tion, spa­tial ori­en­ta­tion, spa­tial updat­ing, and navigation
• Enabling robust and effort­less spa­tial ori­en­ta­tion in vir­tual environments
• Self-motion per­cep­tion, illu­sions (“vec­tion”), and sim­u­la­tion; Multi-modal con­tri­bu­tions and interactions
• Design and iter­a­tive eval­u­a­tion and improve­ment of per­cep­tu­ally ori­ented, multi-modal human-computer inter­faces and human-centered, effec­tive vir­tual real­ity simulations
• Multi-modal, inter­ac­tive art/dance performances