Fariba Mostajeran

Fariba Mostajeran Research Associate E-Mail: mostajeran"AT"informatik.uni-hamburg.de Phone: +49 40 42883-2553 Office hours: By arrangement (please send me an e-mail) Vogt-Kölln-Str. 30, Room: F-130 D-22527 Hamburg, Germany

Short Bio

Fariba Mostajeran received her B.Sc. in Computer Engineering-Software from the University of Isfahan (Iran) and her M.Sc. in Digital Media from the University of Bremen (Germany). In her Master’s study, she was part of the sPortal master project, which developed a Natural User Interface turning a popular video game into an exergame. Her Master’s Thesis was aimed at improving the Human­-Computer Interaction in intervention rooms by granting the physicians the ability to control some software assistance functions themselves by means of a Brain-Computer Interface.

She has been working as research assistant at the University of Hamburg since 2015. Her current research focuses on validating and improving the use of mixed reality, in particular, virtual and augmented reality in psycho-and physiotherapy. In addition, she is interested in detecting the users’ affective states using biosensors for providing various forms of biofeedback and making the virtual environment adaptive to the user’s physiological reactions.

Research Interests

• Medical Mixed Reality
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Brain-Computer Interfaces
• Assistive Technologies
• Affective Computing
• Biofeedback

Scholarships

• EXIST-Gründerstipendium (EXIST Founder Scholarship), 2014-2015
• Deutschlandstipendium (German Scholarship), 2012-2013

Invited Talks

• "MR Pharmacy: Psycho-and Physiotherapy in Mixed Reality Environments", Hamburg Animation Conference, 2018
• "MR Pharmacy: Adaptive User Interfaces and Biofeedback for Therapy in Mixed Reality Environments", VR Meetup, Hamburg, 2018

Reviewing for Conferences

• IEEE VR 2018 Conference Papers

Services to Academic Administration

• Member of the appointment committee to fill the W3 professorship in Software Ergonomics and Usability with a focus on Security-Critical Systems, 2017-2018

Supervised Theses

• Development and Evaluation of a VR-Game for Improvement of Depressive Mood (B.Sc. Thesis), 2017-2018

Teaching

Winter 2017/2018

• User Interface Software and Technology

Publications