XR Open House
Naznin Shishir and Farhan Aslam demonstrated their research in virtual reality technology in the University of Calgary XR Open House event! See video of the event.
Category: News
Three New Publications by Kimiya, Mahdi, and Michael
Our graduate students Kimiya Saadat, Mahdi Farrokhi Maleki, and our former graduate student Michael Shomoye each have a new publication! Kimiya‘s paper “Enhancing Two-Player Performance Through Single-Player Knowledge Transfer: An Empirical Study on Atari 2600 …
New Publication by Mohamad Elzohbi
Ph.D. candidate Mohamad Elzohbi has a new publication, “Poems, Pulses and Polygons: How Classical Arabic Poetry Resonates with Music and Geometry“, accepted at the 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Computational Linguistics (ACLing 2024). …
Congratulations to Mohamad Elzohbi
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Mohamad Elzohbi for getting his paper “Let the Poem Hit the Rhythm: Using a Byte-Based Transformer for Beat-Aligned Poetry Generation” accepted for publication at the 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity …
Teaching with XR Community of Practice
On May 2, as part of the Teaching with XR Community of Practice hosted by the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, Dr. Richard Zhao joined a panel on the topic of Discussing Viable XR Options …
Congratulations to Farhan Aslam
Congratulations to master’s student Farhan Aslam for getting his work “Voice-Augmented Virtual Reality Interface for Serious Games” accepted as a research paper in the 2024 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG)!
New Publication on Enhancing Metaphor Detection
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Mohamad Elzohbi for having his paper “ContrastWSD: Enhancing Metaphor Detection with Word Sense Disambiguation Following the Metaphor Identification Procedure” accepted at the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources …
Welcome new graduate students!
We welcome two new graduate students, Matthew McConnell and Parsa Rahmati!
Congratulations to Michael Shomoye
Congratulations to M.Sc. student Michael Shomoye in our research group for successfully defending his thesis today! Michael’s work examines the recognition of emotions (boredom, confusion, etc.) using convolutional neural network in future Virtual Reality-based classrooms, …
Alberta Research Network Presentation
Today, Dr. Richard Zhao, Dr. Meadow Schroeder, and Dr. Lauren Goegan were invited to present at the Alberta Research Network Symposium organized by the Ministry of Education, on the research work on GEARS, an educational …
