#DIMENSIONSXR2020: Architecture And Construction

Join for the presentations, the panel discussion, demos, and networking centered around exploring how immersive technologies are being applied to architecture and construction research and more.

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Yassin Aziz Rekik

Ph.D. Computer Sciences, Federal Institute of Technologies in Lausanne - EPFL / Switzerland
Master in Computer Sciences, École Nationale des Sciences de l’Informatique - ENSI / Tunisia

From 2001 to 2005, Yassin Rekik worked as Senior Researcher at EPFL in the field of eLearning and Online Experimentation. Since 2006, he has been an associate professor in computer sciences at HES-SO. He is a specialist in Software Engineering and IT project management. He has led various research projects in the fields of Human Computer Interaction, Serious Gaming, and AR-VR Technologies.

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Arzu Çöltekin

As for 1st of February 2019, I work at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland's Institute for Interactive Technologies as a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Extended Reality. Also, I am a research affiliate at the Seamless Astronomy group in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics of the Harvard University in Cambridge, USA, which specializes in scientific data analysis and visualization. I chair the international Geovisualization, Augmented and Virtual Reality working group within the ISPRS; co-chair the Commission on Visual Analytics , and I am a council member with the International Soceity of Digital Earth.

My interdisciplinary work covers topics related to information science, visual analytics, visualization and cartography, virtual/augmented reality, gaze-contingent displays, eye-tracking, vision (perception and cognition), and human-computer interaction.

Prior to this post (between November 2007 and February 2019), I was a Group Leader and Senior Lecturer in the Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis (GIVA) unit of the Geographic Information Science Center at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

In my professionally formative years, I have received many individual scholarships and personal grants from international institutions including IAESTE, CIMO Finland, The Scientific and Technological Council of Turkey, Finnish Cultural Foundation, NRC Canada. In my later years, I was awarded various project grants, which are detailed on the projects page.

I (co-)organize conferences and workshops, and serve in program committees of many scientific events, including, for example, the ISPRS, GIScience, InfoVis, IEEE VisWeek, Geocomputation, ETRA, AutoCarto, ISPRS, AGILE, and the ICC. I also have guest edited various journal special issues (detailed under publications), and I review for a wide range of journals and grant agencies. I am an active member of several international commissions and working groups with the ICA (International Cartographic Association) and ISPRS (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing). I am in the editorial boards of several journals including International Journal of Geographic Information Science (IJGIS), and Kartographische Nachrichten (KN), and I review for various grant agencies.

I have delivered many invited talks at internationally reputed universities as well as large scientific outreach events (e.g., TEDxZurich 2011 on interdisciplinary science and TEDGlobal 2013 on women in Turkey). Aside from my professional roles, I am the Zurich chapter lead for Turkish Women's International Network, a network for professional women.

Before I moved to Switzerland, I was at the Geoinformatics & Cartography and the Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing labs of the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) doing my PhD (see my thesis on foveation for 3D visualization and stereo imaging) and teaching half the time; and later at the Media Lab of the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland as a post-doctoral researcher. Prior to that, I was in Istanbul, Turkey; living, studying, working & growing up.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Professor Arzu Çöltekin

As for 1st of February 2019, I work at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland's Institute for Interactive Technologies as a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Extended Reality. Also, I am a research affiliate at the Seamless Astronomy group in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics of the Harvard University in Cambridge, USA, which specializes in scientific data analysis and visualization. I chair the international Geovisualization, Augmented and Virtual Reality working group within the ISPRS; co-chair the Commission on Visual Analytics , and I am a council member with the International Soceity of Digital Earth.

My interdisciplinary work covers topics related to information science, visual analytics, visualization and cartography, virtual/augmented reality, gaze-contingent displays, eye-tracking, vision (perception and cognition), and human-computer interaction.

Prior to this post (between November 2007 and February 2019), I was a Group Leader and Senior Lecturer in the Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis (GIVA) unit of the Geographic Information Science Center at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

In my professionally formative years, I have received many individual scholarships and personal grants from international institutions including IAESTE, CIMO Finland, The Scientific and Technological Council of Turkey, Finnish Cultural Foundation, NRC Canada. In my later years, I was awarded various project grants, which are detailed on the projects page.

I (co-)organize conferences and workshops, and serve in program committees of many scientific events, including, for example, the ISPRS, GIScience, InfoVis, IEEE VisWeek, Geocomputation, ETRA, AutoCarto, ISPRS, AGILE, and the ICC. I also have guest edited various journal special issues (detailed under publications), and I review for a wide range of journals and grant agencies. I am an active member of several international commissions and working groups with the ICA (International Cartographic Association) and ISPRS (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing). I am in the editorial boards of several journals including International Journal of Geographic Information Science (IJGIS), and Kartographische Nachrichten (KN), and I review for various grant agencies.

I have delivered many invited talks at internationally reputed universities as well as large scientific outreach events (e.g., TEDxZurich 2011 on interdisciplinary science and TEDGlobal 2013 on women in Turkey). Aside from my professional roles, I am the Zurich chapter lead for Turkish Women's International Network, a network for professional women.

Before I moved to Switzerland, I was at the Geoinformatics & Cartography and the Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing labs of the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) doing my PhD (see my thesis on foveation for 3D visualization and stereo imaging) and teaching half the time; and later at the Media Lab of the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland as a post-doctoral researcher. Prior to that, I was in Istanbul, Turkey; living, studying, working & growing up.

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Isabella Pasqualini

Isabella Pasqualini is an architect (ETHZ 2000) and a scientist with a PhD in architecture and cognitive neuroscience (EPFL 2012).

Her works explore the mutual and intimate relationship between body and space using immersive and interactive multimedia, with a particular interest in the multisensory enhancement of the user’s horizon. For her post-doc project Visual Touches, touching Views at the Center of Neuroprosthetics EPFL, she received the prestigious fellowship grant from the cogito foundation in 2013. Currently, she is a faculty member of the >> LeaV at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles and of the NAAD Master class at IUAV University of Venice. She has been a guest researcher at the Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience EPFL. Isabella has planned a new City in Angola and built a temporary bank building in Luanda. She is a scientific reviewer, and works as an expert for Innosuisse as well as other innovation platforms.

Isabella has won several international competition prizes and her work was presented at Swiss and international art venues: Mappings Visual-Audio and Deviant Electronics Festival 2018; MAXXI Rome 2018; Guiyang International Comics and Animation Festival 2018; Venice Biennale 2016; Werkschau Architektur 2015; Shanghai Art, Science & Technology Exhibition 2012; SAST Award 2012; Beijing Design Week 2011; Beijing Triennale 2011; EAC ‘Les Halles’ 2011; Swiss Art Awards 2008 & 2010; City of Helsinki 2007; City of Rome 2006; EPFL 2005. She has been a visiting Professor at the Industrial Design Department of Zürich University of the Arts (ZHdK), at the Art & Design Academy of Tsinghua University in Beijing, at the International Summer School of the Bauhaus Denkmal in Bernau, as well as a guest at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and a lecturer at the School of Engineering and Architecture at EPFL in cooperation with the City of Venice.

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Professor Beatrix Emo

Beatrix Emo is a practising architect, and director of Spatialist Arch.

She holds a PhD from the Bartlett School of Architecture, in which she explored how individuals experience urban spaces.

Her interests lie in urban design, space syntax and spatial cognition, conducting experiments in real and virtual environments.

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INVITED SPEAKERS