Hello there ....
I am Shariff Faleel, a post-doctoral fellow at the OVI Lab. I design and study immersive technologies like AR and VR to improve how people interact with information while they go about their everyday life. I completed my PhD under Prof. Pourang Irani. Currently I focus on translating academic innovation to real-world use, particularly around realizing smart-glases as the next iteration of mobile computing. My overall goal is to develop technology that can meaningfully augment the human experience.
Recent Publications
- 2025 June 23
ThumbSwype: Thumb-to-Finger Gesture Based Text-Entry for Head Mounted Displays
MobileHCI '25 - 2025 May 26
What's the Thumb Doing? Improving Precision for Thumb-to-Finger Interactions on Hand Proximate User Interfaces
GI '25 - 2025 March 27
Hand Proximate User Interfaces: Design Space For Single-Handed, Always Available and Comfortable Interface for Head Mounted Displays
PhD Thesis10.14288/1.0448261 - 2024 September 22
Comparison of unencumbered interaction technique for head-mounted displays
ISS '2410.1145/3698146
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.