ASPIRE Human Factor Ergonomics Society (HFES) - Chicago, USA 2025

Post-doc Brittney Hartle travelled to the Windy City (Chicago) this October to present her and PHD student Alreen Aksay's work done in collaboration with the Waterloo Institute of Sustainable Aeronautics at the ASPIRE HFES Conference. Brittney presented a poster on her and Arleen's work about the false horizon illusion in aviation.

 
 

See snapshots of the famous Wrigley Building and other Chicago architecture captured on the trip.

Iroshini's Defence

After tirelessly working for two years this August 18th, 2025, Iroshini Gunasekera successfully defended her thesis on “The Contributions of Monocular and Binocular Depth Cues to Size Discrimination of 3D Objects.” Iroshini finished her defence in just over an hour, almost unheard of, but she was so well-spoken that the committee had no more questions. Her committee consisted of her co-supervisors, Laurie Wilcox and Rob Allison, along with the committee chair, Erez Freud, and Niko Troje.

Iroshini has now obtained her Master of Arts in Psychology - Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science and is planning to pursue her PhD in the Wilocx Lab.

Congratulations, Iroshini! Glad you are sticking around! 💜 💛

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) VR Conference - Saint-Malo, France 2025

PDH student and our resident augmented reality expert, Domenic Au, attended the IEEE VR conference in Saint-Malo, France, this March and met with extended reality (XR) leaders in industry and academia.

Domenic had the opportunity to speak about his latest work on distance estimation for virtual objects in augmented reality.

See a snapshot of the view from IEEE VR 2025.

 
 

Lake Ontario Visionary Establishment (LOVE) Conference - Niagara Falls, Canada 2025

This February, master's students Camille Proszanski and Nathaniel Goldstein presented posters of their current master's thesis work at the 52nd annual LOVE Conference in Niagara Falls.

Camille presented a poster on visual-field processing asymmetries in 2D and 3D face perception.

See snapshots of sights and attractions around the LOVE Conference.

Electronic Imaging (EI) Stereoscopic Displays and Applications - San Francisco, USA 2025

On February 3-6, 2025 postdoctoral student Brittney Hartle travelled to the 36th iteration of the Electronic Imaging Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference in San Francisco, USA.

Brittney was selected for a speaking opportunity to discuss her research on convexity biases when viewing 3D ground terrain, with applications in surveying, search and rescue, and aviation landing safety.