Presentations Archives - Hyperlab

Back by popular demand: Mobile Storytelling with Location-Based XR Workshop

briangreenspan — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:02:05 +0000

November 26, 2025, 1:30-3:30, Experiential Learning Hub (ELH)

Extended reality (XR) media offer new ways to tell stories that build on the audience’s local environment and embodied sense of place. In this workshop, we will build XR experiences using the StoryTrek platform, which allows users to easily blend digital media with real-world locations to create immersive and interactive sites of experiential learning. You will learn to design and build multimedia, site-specific stories, games and exhibits for mobile devices, with a focus on spatial and environmental storytelling.

Immersive Learning Insights: Harnessing XR for Educational Excellence

briangreenspan — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 21:34:56 +0000

Join Teaching and Learning Services on August 10 for an interdisciplinary panel of Innovation Fellows from TLS’s Immersive Technologies Community of Practice in discussion about the challenges and rewards associated with using extended reality (XR) for educational purposes. Panelists will share firsthand accounts of their experiences as XR educators and answer attendee questions on the opportunities this new media affords for learning.

Extended Reality (XR) refers to the diverse set of technologies used to create immersive learning experiences and spaces by blending virtual and real elements. These experiences range from fully immersive computer-generated environments to real-world spaces that integrate digital content. XR research demonstrates that these technologies are effective in supporting skill development, empathy, and learning across a range of disciplines. The TLS eXperiential Learning Hub launches at �Ӱ�ԭ�� this fall to support immersive learning and extended reality (XR) across campus.

Panelists:

Ali Arya (Information Technology)
Jim Davies (Cognitive Science)
Brian Greenspan (English Language and Literature)

Come explore how instructors are using XR in their classroom!

This session will be held online, in Zoom. Registration is limited.

Strange Cognitions

briangreenspan — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:52:51 +0000

“Strange Cognitions: SF and the Metanovum,” Brian’s Plenary Lecture for the Université de Montréal’s Science Fiction Colloquium, argued for a new understanding of SF’s relation to actually existing AIs. Throughout his talk, he compared fictional representations of artificial intelligence with actually existing AIs like “Rachel,” which (who?) was built by �Ӱ�ԭ��’s own Kate Dudzik and Dr. Robert West.

Together, Greenspan, Dudzik and West are exploring the areas of research that connect Cognitive Scientists and Digital Humanities. “Kate has really been driving this collaboration,” Brian notes. “She pointed out that in order to build an AI that people will use and trust, you first have to understand why we fear and resist intelligent machines so intensely. And science fiction provides a cultural record of our historical, intellectual, and affective responses to the promise of non-human consciousness.”

Kate and Rob workshopped their approach to building AIs with the Python ACT-R framework at DHSITE 2017.

poster-Talk 2017 4. Greenspan

DHSI@Congress

CCMS Editor — Wed, 06 May 2015 04:11:44 +0000

The workshops at DHSI@Congress this year look amazing! And of course, our own Brian Greenspan will be delivering the closing plenary: http://dhsi.org/events.php#DHSI@Congress

The Hyperlab at the Society for Utopian Studies 2014

CCMS Editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 23:03:41 +0000

Hyperlab members played an active role in organizing the in Montreal last week. Sarah, Jenna, Adrien and Brian presented our work on a number of panels devoted to the Video Games and Animation, Immaterial Labour, and the Digital Humanities.

We also gave a sneak preview of our upcoming abducted reality game, Golden Days, Silver Nights, at the first-ever utopian poster and demo session.

SSHRC Regional Event

CCMS Editor — Tue, 13 May 2014 03:43:10 +0000

Here’s some footage from our SSHRC Regional Event: http://ow.ly/Mzyhc.