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
- 2026 June 12
Exploring One-Handed Thumb-to-Finger Text Composition Systems for Head Mounted Displays
Rishav Banerjee, Shariff AM Faleel, and Pourang IraniDIS '2610.1145/3800645.3812913 - 2025 June 23
ThumbSwype: Thumb-to-Finger Gesture Based Text-Entry for Head Mounted Displays
Rishav Banerjee, Shariff AM Faleel, Omang Baheti, Khalad Hasan, Pourang IraniMobileHCI '2510.1145/3743708🏆 Honourable mention - 2025 May 26
What's the Thumb Doing? Improving Precision for Thumb-to-Finger Interactions on Hand Proximate User Interfaces
Shariff AM Faleel, Rishav Banerjee, Omang Baheti, Khalad Hasan, and Pourang IraniGI '2510.1145/3769872.3769893 - 2025 March 27
Hand Proximate User Interfaces: Design Space For Single-Handed, Always Available and Comfortable Interface for Head Mounted Displays
Shariff AM FaleelPhD Thesis10.14288/1.0448261
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.