The IMPACT Cluster is the University of Calgary’s Extended Reality and Artificial Intelligence for Real World Impact research cluster.

Based in the Department of Computer Science, we host an integrated set of 6 research groups/labs including faculty members, post-doctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate student researchers.

IMPACT Cluster 2025

Serious XR (SEER) Lab

Dr. Frank Maurer

    Serious Games Research Group

    Dr. Richard Zhao

      Lindsay Lab

      Dr. Christian Jacob

        Behavioural Ecology and Data Science Lab

        Dr. Tyler Bonnell

          Human-X Interaction Lab

          Dr. Kangsoo Kim

            Virtual Environments and Reality Technologies Exploration (VERTEX) Lab

            Dr. Mayra Barrera Machuca

              IMPACT Cluster 2026