Welcome aboard to our new McCall MacBain scholars!
We are delighted to welcome to the lab two of this year’s McCall MacBain scholars cohort: Chloe Chisholm and Evans Kumi.
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Presentations at HCI Interational
Congratulations to Adnaan on his presentation on the results of GloveGuide, his team’s HCI Class project from 2025. Other presentations from our lab included Sabrina’s paper on an improved CPDLC interface for datalink communications with aircraft, and Hélène and Elodie’s best paper on resolution of in-flight abnormal situations. Jeremy also participated in the workshop on HCI Design in an AI-empowered world.
Congratulations, Corentin!
Bravo! Corentin successfully defended his PhD, and is back to France to start his post-doctoral fellowship at the École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC).
Best paper award at Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics
Our paper, “Towards a Speech-based Resolution of In-Flight Abnormal Situations” authored by Hélène Unrein, Elodie Bouzekri and Benoit Ouellette, is being awarded “best paper” of the Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics conference, as part of HCI International 2026.
Andrea participates in Academy on AI in Healthcare, Medicine, and Biology
Andrea received a fellowship to support her participation in the 23rd International Summer Academy on AI in Healthcare, Medicine, and Biology in Chalkida, Greece.
Henrique participates in Mila Venture Scientist bootcamp
Henrique was selected to participate in the Mila Venture Scientist Bootcamp to pursue his proposed internention of Motivational Interviewing as a means to tackle the enormous societal problem of compulsive consumption of social media.
D-SITE CREATE awarded
Delighted to announce that we’re part of the recently awarded NSERC CREATE grant in Disrupting Surgery with Interventional Technology and Engineering and looking to recruit qualified graduate and postdoctoral researchers with interest in tackling engineering challenges related to surgical technology, medical devices, and healthcare innovation. Partial funding is available to support eligible candidates in the program.
FRQ scholarships
Congratulations to Lucero and Andrea, both of whom were awwarded graduate scholarships from FRQNT to support their M.Sc. thesis activities.
CIRMMT Student Awards
Congratulations to Lucero Fuentes Ramos and Segun Samuel, recipients of the CIRMMT Student Award, to carry out and continue their respective interdisciplinary projects with peers in Design and Computation Arts (Lucero) and Information Studies (Segun).
Andrea participates in MIT Hardware x AI Hackathon
Congratulations to Andrea Gómez Jaime on representing McGill at the ingaugural MIT Hardware x AI Hackathon and the associated writeup in the Biomedical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering newsletter.
HAT Box paper accepted at CHI'26
Congratulations to Juliette and Cyan on the acceptance of their paper on “Understanding Haptic Authoring Tools through a Taxonomy and Descriptive Analysis” at CHI 2026. The Haptic Authoring Tool Box is available here.
Visit to Hydro Quebec
Members of the Shared Reality Lab spent the day visiting Hydro Québec’s network operations centre. Photo taken in their small training room–from left to right, with Hydro personnel indicated by their roles: Jeff Blum, Hélène Unrein, Laurence Desilets-Benoit (Ergonomic Engineer), Julie Delisle (IT and Software Development), Jeremy Cooperstock, Romane Dubus, Patrick Charpentier (Network Control Centre Manager), Turcotte Simon (Innovation Partnerships Advisor), and Corentin Conan.
Congratulations, Juliette!
Hurrah! Juliette successfully defended her PhD, with many lab members present to cheer her on.
Congratulations, Sabrina!
Our heartfelt congratulations to Sabrina, who recently tied the knot!
Dr. Hélène Unrein joins visit at Airport Innovation Living Lab
Our post-doc, Dr. Hélène Unrein (second from right), participated in a visit by the President of the Association Française d’Intelligence Artificielle to the site of the future Montreal University Airport, which is anticipated to open in the spring, and includes an academic research facility, the “Airport Innovation Living Lab.