News & Events

[2025-04-30] Charbel joined the team as an undergrad researcher.

[2025-04-29] A journal article co-authored by Ryan and Kangsoo has been published at Wiley Advanced Science.

[2025-03-15] Hyeongil awarded the Alberta Innovates Postdoctoral Fellowship! Congrats!

[2025-03-08 – 2025-03-13] So many great things happened at IEEE VR 2025!

• Hyeongil and Seoyoung (a former visiting student) presented our co-authored TVCG papers!

• Omar and Taeyeon (a former visiting student) presented our co-authored posters at IEEE VR 2025. Nanjia (a PhD student in CS) presented our collaborative co-authored poster as well.

• Kangsoo organized the Research Demo sessions as one of the Demo Chairs.

• Nanjia (a PhD student in CS) presented our collaborative workshop paper at the XRIOS workshop, and received the Best Presentation Award! Congrats!

• Omar and Hyeongil presented our workshop papers at the ReViSI workshop and the XRMemory workshop (IEEE VR 2025 in Saint Malo, France), which Kangsoo co-organized with the international collaborators.

[2025-02-27] Our papers at IEEE VR 2025 (TVCG Journal Track) have received the Best Paper Awards! Congrats Hyeongil Nam et al. and Seoyoung Kang et al.!

[2025-02-21] Jazeb and Arjun have joined the lab as undergrad interns. They will be working with us throughout the summer! Welcome!

[2025-01-13] Four workshop papers and three posters have been accepted for the IEEE VR 2025 conference.

[2025-01-10] Ryan and Kangsoo participated in the InterFACE-AR Team workshop at IMSH 2025.

[2025-01-10] Ryan (and the InterFACE-AR Team) received a grant at the INSPIRE Shark Tank Competition during IMSH 2025.

[2025-01-08] Farewell for Michael and Anh

[2025-01-03] Zaid joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher.

[2025-01-03] Jessica begins her MSc program in BME.

[2025-01-03] Michael successfully defended his MSc thesis.

[2024-12-23] Two papers have been conditionally accepted for the IEEE VR 2025 conference in the TVCG journal track.

[2024-12-13] Taeyeon successfully completed his visiting research through the Mitacs GRA program.

[2024-12-13] Michael successfully completed the second seminar for his MSc thesis research.

[2024-11-19] Muskan was elected as the VP Academic Associate of the Electrical and Software Engineering Graduate (ESEG) Society.

[2024-11-16] Hyeongil and Kangsoo participated in CIHR-funded Inuit Hub project workshop, and discussed the project directions and showcased VR/AR demos.

[2024-11-12] Muskan, Anh, Ryan, and Hyeongil demonstrated multiple in-house VR/AR applications at UCalgary XR Open House event.

[2024-11-08] Svara has joined our lab as an undergraduate researcher.

[2024-11-07] Ryan received first place at the IPSSV 2024 Shark Tank competition for his presentation, "The Augmented Resuscitation Assistant."

[2024-11-01] Omar won the Faculty of Science Award at the Undergraduate Research Symposium for a presentation of his summer research project.

[2024-10-25] Hyeongil, Muskan (remotely), Anh, and Kangsoo attended ISMAR 2024 in Seattle, where we presented our papers and demo.

[2024-10-20] Hyeongil presented his WatchBuddy paper at ISUVR 2024 at the University of Washington.

[2024-10-04] Dr. Heejin Jeong visited our lab and gave a talk about the recent and ongoing research in his lab.

[2024-09-23] Taeyeon has joined the lab as a visiting graduate student through the Mitacs Globalink Research Award (GRA) program.

[2024-09-16] Jessica has joined the lab as a research intern.

[2024-08-28] Mehak presented her summer research at 2024 ACHRI/Owerko Centre Summer Student Research Symposium.

[2024-08-23] Two demo papers and one poster paper have been accepted at IEEE ISMAR 2024.

[2024-08-15] Ahmad joined the lab as a PhD student.

[2024-07-16] Five conference papers have been accepted at IEEE ISMAR 2024.

[2024-05-31] Hyeongil returned to the lab as a post-doctoral researcher.

[2024-05-07] Muskan started her PhD.

[2024-05-01] Omar, Anh, and Mehak started their summer research programs.

[2024-03-16] Muskan, Ryan, Omar, and Dr. Kim attended IEEE VR 2024, and presented our research works.

[2024-03-11] Omar and Mehak got Alberta Innovates SRS and Alberta Children’s Hospital BME grants for their research experience this summer.

[2024-02-06] There will be a Research Demo session and an XRIOS workshop co-organized by Dr. Kim at IEEE VR 2024.

[2024-02-06] Three posters and two workshop papers have been accepted at IEEE VR 2024.

[2024-01-19] A journal article written in collaboration with the HCI Lab at the University of Delaware has been accepted for publication in Computers & Graphics (CAG): XR Technologies for Healthcare and Wellbeing.

[2023-12-22] A journal article about a virtual dairy farm simulation, which Anh and Michael have been leading, has been accepted at Computer & Graphics Journal.

[2023-11-07] A journal article that we collaborated with Dr. Changgu Kang has been accepted at IEEE Access.

[2023-10-15] Kangsoo and Seoyoung attended and made presentations at IEEE ISMAR 2023 and ISUVR 2023.

[2023-10-01] Michael won 1st place and Anh, Muskan, and Omar won 3rd place in the Project VOICE Hackathon, hosted by IEEE SAS SIGHT; their solutions used the HoloLens and AR to help people with autism communicate and learn.

[2023-09-04] Hyeongil and Kisub (HYU) joined the lab as visiting graduate research students from Korea through Mitacs Globalink Research Award.

[2023-08-21] Two conference papers and one poster were accepted at IEEE ISMAR 2023.

[2023-08-17] Seoyoung (KAIST) and Chaeheon (GNU) joined the lab as visiting graduate research students from Korea through Mitacs Globalink Research Award.

[2023-08-07] Kangsoo gave a talk at SIGGRAPH 2023 BoF: Digital Twin and Open XR.

[2023-07-20] Kangsoo received the AKCSE Early Achievement Award at CKC 2023.

[2023-07-17] Ryan and Kangsoo attended and gave research presentations at CKC 2023 in Ottawa.

[2023-05-02] A journal article has been published at Springer Virtual Reality (VIRE).

[2023-03-25] XRIOS 2023 has been finished successfully.

[2023-03-25] Three workshop papers and one poster paper were published at IEEE VRW 2023. (Publications)

[2023-03-17] Anh and Omar got PURE and NSERC USRA grants for their research experience this summer.

[2023-03-01] Dr. Changgu Kang (GNU, S. Korea) joined the lab as a visiting researcher.

[2023-02-04] Two workshop papers were accepted at XRIOS 2023.

[2023-01-03] A book chapter was published at Springer Handbood of AR. "The Augmented Reality Internet of Things" (Publications)

[2022-12-26] Dr. Kim is organizing The 2nd XRIOS Workshop at IEEE VR 2023. The submission is open.

[2022-12-20] Movie night! Avatar: The Way of Water.

[2022-11-11] A journal article was published at ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP). "Virtual Big Heads in Extended Reality" (Publications)