Workshop Organizers
Nayara Faria
Virginia Tech
Nayara Faria is a PhD student and graduate research assistant at the Cogent Lab at Virginia Tech. She earned her M.S. in Human Factors and Ergonomics from Virginia Tech, and her B.S in Industrial Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Her current research efforts focus on developing new assessment methods and techniques to evaluate cognitive capture in augmented reality head-up displays.
Étienne Peillard
IMT Atlantique
Étienne Peillard is an Associate Professor at IMT Atlantique and part of the Inuit team from the Lab-Sticc lab. In nov. 2020, he defended his PhD thesis, entitled "Toward a Characterization of Perceptual Biases in Mixed Reality: A Study of Factors Inducing Distance Misperception", conducted in cooperation between Centrale Nantes, the Inria Hybrid team as well as the AAU Crenau. Before this, he obtained an engineering degree at Centrale Nantes in 2017. His current research interests include human perception issues in Virtual and Augmented Reality, spatial perception in virtual and augmented environments, and more generally, the effect of perceptual biases in mixed environments.
Missie Smith
Facebook Reality Labs
Dr. Missie Smith is a UX Researcher at Facebook Reality Labs Research. She earned her Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, and both her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Mississippi State University. Dr. Smith’s research focuses on understanding the impact of mixed reality technology usage on people’s perception, behaviors, and experience in complex environments.