My lab is broadly concerned with human-computer interaction technologies, emphasizing multimodal sensory augmentation for communication in both co-present and distributed contexts. Our research tackles the full pipeline of sensory input, analysis, encoding, data distribution, and rendering, as well as interaction capabilities and quality of user experience. Applications of these efforts include distributed training of medical and music students, augmented environmental awareness for the blind community, treatment of lazy eye syndrome, low-latency uncompressed HD videoconferencing and a variety of multimodal immersive simulation experiences. Most of our research takes place within the Shared Reality Environment, a facility that includes two different configurations of multi-projector displays, camera and loudspeaker arrays, and a high-fidelity vibrotactile sensing and actuated floor.

BIO · Jeremy Cooperstock (Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1996) is a professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a member of the Centre for Intelligent Machines, and a founding member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology at McGill University. He directs the Shared Reality Lab, which focuses on computer mediation to facilitate high-fidelity human communication and the synthesis of perceptually engaging, multimodal, immersive environments. He led the development of the Intelligent Classroom, the world's first Internet streaming demonstrations of Dolby Digital 5.1, multiple simultaneous streams of uncompressed high-definition video, a high-fidelity orchestra rehearsal simulator, a simulation environment that renders graphic, audio, and vibrotactile effects in response to footsteps, and a mobile game treatment for amblyopia. Cooperstock's work on the Ultra-Videoconferencing system was recognized by an award for Most Innovative Use of New Technology from ACM/IEEE Supercomputing and a Distinction Award from the Audio Engineering Society. The research he supervised on the Autour project earned the Hochhausen Research Award from the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and an Impact Award from the Canadian Internet Registry Association, and his Real-Time Emergency Response project won the Gold Prize (brainstorm round) of the Mozilla Ignite Challenge. Cooperstock has worked with IBM at the Haifa Research Center, Israel, and the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Tokyo, Japan, and was a visiting professor at Bang & Olufsen, Denmark, where he conducted research on telepresence technologies as part of the World Opera Project. Cooperstock led the theme of Enabling Technologies for a Networks of Centres of Excellence on Graphics, Animation, and New Media (GRAND) and is currently an associate editor of the Frontiers Journal in Virtual Reality (Specialty section on haptics), IEEE World Haptics Conference, IEEE Haptics Symposium, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, and was guest editor of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction for a special issue on Multimodal Medical Alarms. (FULL CV AVAILABLE)