Active Lab Members:

Yasmine Abbas, DPLG, SMArchS, DDes. Director, Immersive Environment Lab (IEL). Explores e-motion, mobilities – physical, digital and mental, globalization and hybridity, spatial and urban experiences. Email: yxa54@psu.edu

Tomás Dorta, Ph. D. Professor, University of Montreal (UdeM), School of Design and Director of the Design Research Laboratory Hybridlab, Affiliate Professor at the Stuckeman School. Interested in hybrid environments (MR, AR), design cognition, ideation process, co-design, UX and interaction design. Email: tomas.dorta@umontreal.ca


José Pinto Duarte
Stuckeman Chair in Design Innovation; Director, Stuckeman Center for Design Computing (SCDC). Email: jxp400@psu.edu 

 

Keerthana Govindarazan, Ph.D. student at the Stuckeman School’s Department of Architecture at Penn State. Researching the overlapping of cognitive psychology, virtual reality and architectural design. Email: kmg6763@psu.edu

Andrew Hieronymi, Associate Professor of Art and Digital Arts & Media Design. His recent work focuses on the sensation of movement in digital games. He creates interactive installations emphasizing the physical relationship between player(s) and interface during the act of playing.  Email: ath13@psu.edu

Rodney Allen Trice, Professor of Practice in Graphic Design at Penn State,  Creative Director, Artist, Futurist. Email: rat99@psu.edu

Alumni Lab Members:

Loukas Kalisperis, Co-founder of IEL

Emeritus Professor of Architecture. He is currently involved in research for immersive environments, multimodal representation, cultural heritage visualization, and augmented representation and energy simulation.

Head shot of Tenured Penn State Associate Professor of Architecture Katsuhiko Muramoto

Katsuhiko Muramoto, Co-founder of IEL

Professor of Architecture. He is interested in history and theory of architectural representation, theory of new media and digital mediation, mobile augmented reality, cyber-enabled collaboration, and making and mediation of design-build architecture.

Eric Mainzer, Ph.D. candidate in Architecture at Penn State. Researching on how to better understand how immersive technology, can be used in the domain of design education for undergraduate students.

Sam Moradzadeh, BArch, MArch, MsArch student in Design Computing. Interested in Extended Reality, User Experience Research, Human-Computer Interaction, Design research.

Sebnem Yalinay Cinici, B.Arch., M.Arch., and Ph.D. in Architecture. exploring ontology, technology, and philosophy; architectural design; high-end design and production technologies and their integration into design education.

Negar Dehghan, BArch, MLA, MFA student in Graphic Design. Interested in User Experience Design, User Interface Design, Usability Testing, Extended Reality.