Publications

Kitson, A., Desnoyers-Stewart, J., Miller, N., Adhikari, A., Stepanova, E. R. & Riecke, B. E. Can We Trust What’s Real? Using Fiction to Explore the Potential Dissociative Effects of Immersive Virtual Reality in Ethics of MR’20 Workshop at ACM CHI 2020 (Exploring Potentially Abusive Ethical, Social and Political Implications of Mixed Reality Research in HCI) (Honolulu, HI, USA).

2020

Desnoyers-Stewart, J., Stepanova, E. R., Riecke, B. E. & Pennefather, P. Body RemiXer: Extending Bodies to Stimulate Social Connection Through an Immersive Installation. Leonardo 53, 394–400.

2020

Kitson, A., Stepanova, E. R., Aguilar, I., Wainwright, N. & Riecke, B. E. Designing Mind(set) and Setting for Profound Emotional Experiences in Virtual Reality in In Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems (ACM DIS’20) Conference (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

2020

Pennefather, P., Rizzotti, P., Desnoyers-Stewart, J., Stepanova, K, Riecke, B., Danenkov, L., Ryzhov, V., Saroyan, J.-a., Beltran, W. & Chak, R. A Fun Palace: A Mixed Reality Event Through the Looking Glass of Cybernetics. Cybernetics and Human Knowing 27, 61–80.

2020

Prpa, M., Stepanova, E. R., Schiphorst, T., Riecke, B. E. & Pasquier, P. Inhaling and Exhaling: How Technologies Can Perceptually Extend our Breath Awareness in Proceedings of the 2020 Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI ’20 (ACM Press, Honolulu, USA), 1–10.

2020

Stepanova, E. R., Desnoyers-Stewart, J., Pasquier, P. & Riecke, B. E. JeL: Breathing Together to Connect with Others and Nature in In Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems (ACM DIS’20) Conference (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

2020

Afsar, Ö. K., Luft, Y., Cotton, K., Stepanova, E. R., Nunes-Pacheco, C., Kleinberger, R., Abdesslem, F. B., Ishii, H. & Höök, K. Corsetto: A Kinesthetic Garment for Designing, Composing for, and Experiencing an Intersubjective Haptic Voice in Proceedings of the 2023 Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI ’23 (ACM Press, Hamburg, Germany), 1–10.

2023

Miller, N., Desnoyers-Stewart, J., Stepanova, E. R., Kitson, A., Bizzochhi, J. & Riecke, B. E. Sipping the Virtual Elixir: An autoethnographic close reading of Ayahuasca Kosmik Journey a self-transcendent virtual experience. Virtual Creativity.

2023

Desnoyers-Stewart, J., Stepanova, E. R., Pasquier, P. & Riecke, B. E. JeL: Connecting Through Breath in Virtual Reality in ACM CHI 2019 Late Breaking Work (equal contribution from the first and second author), 1–6.

2019

Liu, P., Stepanova, E. R., Kitson, A., Schiphorst, T. & Riecke, B. E. Virtual Transcendent Dream: Empowering People through Embodied Flying in Virtual Reality in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–18.

Kitson, A., Buie, E., Stepanova, E. R., Riecke, B. E., Gaggioli, A. & Chirico, A. Transformative Experience Design: Using Interactive Technologies and Narrative to Support Transformative Experiences in ACM CHI 2019 Special Interest Group, 1−4

2019

2022

Kitson, A., Stepanova, E. R., Aguilar, I., Wainwright, N. & Riecke, B. E. Transcending the Lab: Using Storytelling and Theatre Practices to Support Self-Transcendent Experiences in Virtual Reality in 24th Annual CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy Social Networking Conference (CyPsy24) (conference talk) (Norfolk, VA, USA).

2019

Stepanova, E. R., Desnoyers-Stewart, J., Höök, K. & Riecke, B. E. Strategies for Fostering a Genuine Feeling of Connection in Technologically Mediated Systems in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–26.

Stepanova, E. R., Quesnel, D. & Riecke, B. E. Space-a Virtual Frontier: How to Design and Evaluate a Virtual Reality Experience of the Overview Effect. Frontiers in Digital Humanities 6, 1–22.

2019

2022

Stepanova, E. R., Quesnel, D. & Riecke, B. E. Understanding AWE: How a virtual journey can lead to increased connectedness. Frontiers in Digital Humanities.

2019

CBC News Vancouver at 6. CBC British Columbia. TV News Interview.

2023

On the Coast with Gloria Macarenko. CBC Radio. Radio Interview.

2023

McDonald, B. Canadian VR technology will aid isolation effects on a simulated long duration space flight. CBC Radio.

2021

Mornings with Simi. Global News CKNNW 980. Radio Interview.

2021

Miller, N., Desnoyers-Stewart, J., Stepanova, Ekaterina R., Adhikari, A., Kitson, A., Pennefather, P., Quesnel, D., Riecke, B. E. & Stahn, A. Awedyssey/SIRIUS [virtual reality installation] in VUnframed Festival (Vancouver, BC).

2021

Stepanova, K. Virtual Reality Can Combat Isolation With Awe and Empathy on Earth and in Space. The Conversation.

2021

Kamil Karamali. Global News 6 pm BC. TV News Feature.

2021

Desnoyers-Stewart, J., Stepanova, E. R., Pennefather, P. & Riecke, B. E. Body RemiXer [mixed reality installation] in Laval Virtual Recto VRSO (Laval, France, Apr. 2020).

2020

Frawley, R. We’re All Astronauts Now. Illumination.

2020

Quesnel, D., Stepanova, E. R., Aguilar, I., Pennefather, P. & Riecke, B. E. Creating AWE: Artistic and Scientific Practices in Research-Based Design for Exploring a Profound Immersive Installation in 2018 IEEE Games, Entertainment, Media Conference (GEM) (equal contribution from the first and second author), 200−207.

2018

Stepanova, E. R., Quesnel, D., Kitson, A., Prpa, M., Aguilar, I. & Riecke, B. E. A framework for studying Transformative Experiences through Virtual Reality in 23rd Annual CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference (symposium talk) (Gatineau, QC, Canada).

2018

Stepanova, E. R., Quesnel, D. & Riecke, B. E. Transformative Experiences become more accessible through Virtual Reality in IEEE VR Workshop on Virtual and Augmented Reality for Good (VAR4GOOD).

2018

Kitson, A., Hashemian, A. M., Stepanova, E. R., Kruijff, E. & Riecke, B. E. Comparing leaning-based motion cueing interfaces for virtual reality locomotion in 3D User Interfaces (3DUI), 2017 IEEE Symposium on, 73–82.

2017

Kitson, A., Hashemian, A. M., Stepanova, E. R., Kruijff, E. & Riecke, B. E. Lean into it: Exploring leaning- based motion cueing interfaces for virtual reality movement in 2017 IEEE Virtual Reality (VR), 215– 216.

2017

Stepanova, E. R., Quesnel, D., Kitson, A., Prpa, M. & Riecke, B. E. Virtual Reality as a Tool for Inducing and Understanding Transformative Experiences in Psychonomics Society 58th Annual Meeting (poster) (Vancouver, Canada).

2017

Stepanova, E. R., von der Heyde, M., Kitson, A., Schiphorst, T. & Riecke, B. E. Gathering and applying guidelines for mobile robot design for urban search and rescue application in International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 562–581.

2017

Thompson, J. J., McColeman, C. M., Stepanova, E. R. & Blair, M. R. Using video game telemetry data to research motor chunking, action latencies, and complex cognitive-motor skill learning. Topics in cognitive science 9, 467–484.

2017

Riecke, B. E., Stepanova, E. R. & Kitson, A. New response patterns in point-to-origin tasks depending on stimulus type and response mode in Psychonomics Society 57th Annual Meeting (conference talk) (Granada, Spain).

2016

Barnes, J. I., McColeman, C., Stepanova, E. R., Blair, M. R. & Walshe, C. RLAttn: An actor-critic model of eye movements during category learning in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 36 (2014).

2014

Desnoyers-Stewart, J., Stepanova, E. R. & Riecke, B. E. Body RemiXer [mixed reality installation] in Help My Grandma Day (Surrey, BC).

2019

Desnoyers-Stewart, J., Stepanova, E. R. & Riecke, B. E. Body RemiXer [mixed reality installation] in Fun Palace Carnival of Mixed Realities (Vancouver, BC).

2019

Stepanova, E. R., Desnoyers-Stewart, J. & Riecke, B. E. JeL [bio-responsive multi-user installation] in Fun Palace Carnival of Mixed Realities (Vancouver, BC).

2019

Caddy, B. A VR View From Space Could Change the World. OneZero.

2019

Quesnel, D., Stepanova, E. R., Aguilar, I., Pennefather, P. & Riecke, B. E. AWE: Awe-inspiring Wellness Environment [virtual reality installation] in TEDxSFU (Vancouver, BC, Nov).

2017