Hello there ....
I am Ahmed Shariff, in case you didn't know ;). A tech enthusiast, a believer in the power of technology. My primary interest is in augmenting human experiences. My current focus is on improving the interactions with immersive technologies.
Currently, I am a PhD Candidate at the University of British Columbia - Okanagan, under the supervision of Prof. Pourang Irani at the OVI Lab.
Recent Publications
- 2025 May 26
What's the Thumb Doing? Improving Precision for Thumb-to-Finger Interactions on Hand Proximate User Interfaces
GI '25 - 2024 September 22
Comparison of unencumbered interaction technique for head-mounted displays
ISS '2410.1145/3698146 - 2024 September 1
Validating Eyes-free Affordance of On-Finger Hand Proximate User Interfaces in In-situ Scenarios
ISMAR '2410.1109/ISMAR62088.2024.00145 - 2023 July 10
Evaluating design guidelines for hand proximate user interfaces
DIS '2310.1145/3563657.3596117
Recent Posts
- 2023 December 29
Writing a simple XR Hands subsystem
A quick summary of how to write and use a custom XR Hand provider for Unity - 2023 November 3
Software development for research projects
My current approach to writing software artifacts in research projects. - 2023 September 30
UBCO 3MT finalist presentation.
The video is finally up! - 2022 September 18
Profiling file loading times for org mode (part 2)
Trying to figure out why the load times with my config is much higher.