Cognitive Load Measurement in a VR Training

This project leverages cutting-edge virtual reality technology to create an immersive training environment while advancing our understanding of human cognition. By combining the Varjo VR-3 headset's high-precision eye tracking capabilities with Shimmer3 GSR sensors, we aim to measure and adapt to users' cognitive load in real time. The training module is designed to replicate complex real-world tasks in a controlled VR environment, allowing for detailed analysis of user performance and mental workload. The ultimate goal is to develop an adaptive training system that optimizes learning outcomes by dynamically adjusting the VR environment based on the user’s cognitive state.

Cognitive Load in VR

A machine learning system that detects cognitive load in virtual reality training environments by analyzing pupil dilation and fixation duration. Tested on 22 participants learning cold spray manufacturing in VR, achieving 84% accuracy with Multi-Layer Perceptron models. This research enables adaptive VR training that personalizes difficulty based on real-time mental effort detection.

Tangible Intangibles: Exploring Embodied Mixed Reality for Art Therapy

An immersive art therapy system that transforms your body into a tree, using pupil dilation and biometric sensing to create responsive virtual environments. As you regulate your emotions, birds nest in your branches, and you connect through underground root networks to help other "trees" in a collective healing forest. Inspired by Persian poetry and mycorrhizal networks, the project explores how ancient wisdom about interconnection can guide therapeutic technology design.

Fourfold Presence

The Four-Hand Illusion VR project explores the boundaries of perception and embodiment in virtual environments. By introducing additional virtual limbs, it challenges conventional notions of self-representation. It seeks to deepen our understanding of how the brain integrates sensory inputs to create a sense of bodily ownership. This experience aims to evoke curiosity, provoke emotional responses, and provide a space where users can question their reality and relationship with their own bodies. The project is rooted in the belief that VR can transcend entertainment to become a medium for experimentation, self-reflection, and scientific exploration. It emphasizes the potential of immersive technology to alter the user's sense of self and enable transformative, almost otherworldly experiences.

VR Bicycle

VR bicycle is an exergame designed to research MS women patients in many factors, including depression and pain reception. In this interdisciplinary project, I am responsible for developing the VR and interface application. VR app is an interactive 360-degree video player in which based on the data received from a bicycle (via Bluetooth), the playback speed will regulate. Also, as the next step user could grab 3D objects or calculate random numbers during the VR experience to research cognitive improvements in patients.· Teaching Social Media Skills to Mid-aged Women Members of an Entrepreneurship Association.

In Awe: Exploring the Effect of Awe on Creativity

This project explores the intersection of art, emotion, and technology by harnessing the power of virtual reality to evoke the profound emotion of awe. Through carefully designed immersive experiences, we aim to inspire creativity and introspection, connecting participants with vast, transcendent stimuli that challenge their ordinary perspectives. We delve into how emotions like awe influence our creativity and emotional well-being by integrating artistic elements with cutting-edge physiological sensing—such as eye-tracking and skin conductance. This work celebrates the artistic potential of VR as a medium for emotional connection and pushes the boundaries of how we understand and model human emotions in the digital age (A: a VR scene to induce awe, B: a participant in the experience, C: eye-tracking camera in the headset.)

The Living

This is my graduation animation, which is under final editions to participate in international festivals. The story is about a girl who has lost all her family and tries to seek their presence in a tree that is grown up with her. In this film, I tend to experiment with multi techniques such as live movies, 2D animation, and stop motion using folded papers.

Entropy Escape

Entropy Escape is a VR escape room that watches how you look, not just what you do. We compute gaze entropy from eye tracking to tell when you’re focused, exploring, or stuck, and use that to model your problem-solving behavior.

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