Brandon Victor Syiem

Designing, developing and evaluating mixed reality systems that enable distributed teams to collaborate effectively across physical and virtual spaces. This research investigates how MR can bridge the gap between remote and co-located collaboration.

Understanding and leveraging the affordances of extended reality for supporting scientific sense-making workflows. Focused on remote sensing and STEM data analysis tasks performed by domain experts in immersive environments.

Understanding the mechanisms behind attentional tunneling in AR and designing interfaces that mitigate its effects. This work disentangles the roles of virtual content and associated tasks in capturing user attention.

Designing and evaluating adaptive agents that monitor user behaviour in AR to proactively mitigate attentional issues and support sense-making. This research examines the interplay between user trust, preferences and agent effectiveness.

Investigating how interaction design, embodiment and interactivity in VR and AR learning environments influence learning outcomes. This research challenges assumptions about the primacy of active interaction for effective learning.

Designing AR experiences for zoo exhibits to support public engagement and conservation education. This work synthesises perspectives from zoo representatives, exhibit characteristics and prior AR literature into a practical design framework.

Proposing and evaluating a new dimension for AR that expands the augmented physical space into mirror reflections, enabling novel interaction paradigms that use both physical and reflected bodies.

Advocating for better statistical practice in HCI research by examining how ordinal data are analysed and championing the use of cumulative link mixed models as a more appropriate and powerful alternative.