Professors & Researchers
Matjaž Kljun
Co-director of HICUP LAB, Associate Professor
Research area: Human-Computer Interaction, Personal Information Management, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Ubiquitous Computing
Klen Čopič Pucihar
Co-director of HICUP LAB, Associate Professor
Research area: Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality, Human-Computer Interaction, Computational Interactions
Marko Tkalčič
Full Professor
Research area: Psychology-driven Personalization, Recommender Systems, User Modeling
Domen Šoberl
Assistant Professor
Research area: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Maheshya Weerasinghe
Assistant Professor
Research area: Augmented,Virtual and Mixed Reality, Externalising Memory, Cognition and Learning, Human Computer Interaction
Cuauhtli Campos
Researcher and Teaching Asistant
Research area: Human-Computer Interaction, Game Thinking, Interaction Design
PhD Students
Jordan Aiko Deja
Research area: Human-computer Interaction, Computational Interaction, Music Learning
Jar Žiga Marušič
Research area: Cognitive Science, Computational Social Science
Karolina Trajkovska
Research area: Human-Computer Interaction, Augmented Reality, Education
Michelle Fernando
Research area: Human-Computer Interaction, AR/VR, Human Motion Analysis
Nadun Liyanage
Research area: Human-Computer Interaction, AR/VR in Automobile
Nilukshan Krishnaram
Research area: Human-Computer Interaction, Extended Reality, User Experience Design
Kosar Seyyedhosseinzadeh
Research area: Recommender Systems, User modeling
Visiting PhD Students
Dario Di Dario
University of Salerno, Italy
Research area: Metaverse Engineering, Virtual Reality, and Software Engineering
Yuki Shimizu
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan
Interactive Media Design Lab
Research area: Autonomous Vehicle, Perception, Human-Computer Interaction
Master Student(s)
Una Vuletić
Research area: Data Science, Machine Learning, UX
Past Visiting Professors, Researchers and Students
Shlomo Berkovsky
Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Australia
May 2025
Isidro Butaslac
Interactive Media Design (IMD) Lab,
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan.
May 2025
Gianmarco Cherchi
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliary, Italy
February 2025
Davide Spano
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Cagliary, Italy
2024/25
Jönköping University, Sweden
Research area: Personalization, User Modelling
2023 and 2024 (2 weeks)
Stellenbosch University (South Africa)
Cognition and Technology Research Group
June 2023 (1 week)
(Internship high school student)
Research area: Human-drone interaction, Thermodynamics, Portable cooling systems
2023 (2 weeks)
(Internship 2 months)
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Interactive Media Design Lab
Research area: Augmented Reality Displays, Perception, Human-Computer Interaction
December 2022 to January 2023
Google Scholar
(Visiting PhD student 3 weeks)
University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Computational Interaction (COIN) group
Research area: Human-computer interaction, Physiological Sensing
June to July 2023
LinkedIn profile
(Internship 2 months)
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Interactive Media Design Lab
Research area: Augmented Reality, Human-Computer Interaction
February to March 2023
Hirokazu Kato
Nara Institute of Science and Technology NAIST (Japan)
Interactive media design lab
2023 March
2019 (1 week)
Masayuki Kanbara
Nara institute of science and technology NAIST (Japan)
Interactive media design lab
2023 March
Taishi Sawabe
Nara institute of science and technology NAIST (Japan)
Interactive media design lab
2023 March
Lee Juliette Yamin
(Erasmus Exchange 3 months)
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Research area: Human-Drone Interaction, Deep Learning, Science
March to June 2022
Zachary McKendrick
(1 week)
University of Calgary, Canada
Research area: Computational Media Design, Drama, Performance, Extended Reality
August 2022
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Research area: Psychophysiological measurements
September & November 2021.
Verena Biener
(Internship 2 months)
University of Coburg, Germany
Research area: Human-Computer Interaction, Virtual Reality
September to November 2021
Clement Delteil
(Internship student 6 months)
University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, France
Research area: Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
September 2021 – February 2022
Varunyu Fuvattanasilp (Internship 3 months)
Nara institute of science and technology, Japan
Interactive Media Design lab
Research area: Remote expert assistance using augmented realty, transcribing micro instructions
2019 (3 months)
Nicko Reginio Caluya (Internship 3 months)
Nara institute of science and technology, Japan
Interactive Media Design lab
Research area: AR attention guidance systems for imersive live experiences
2019 (3 months)
Adalberto Simeone
KU LEUVEN (Belgium)
2018 (1 week)
Jason Alexander
Lancaster University (UK)
2018 (1 week)
Kaveh Bazargan
Shahid Beheshti (National) University of Iran
2018 (2 weeks)
Jessica Cauchard
Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)
2018 (1 week) and 2022 (1 week)
Matthew Turk
University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
2018 (1 week)
Mathew Turk @HICUP LAB & DIST (includes video of him and Bill Gates in early days)
Jens Grubert
University of Coburg (Germany)
2018 (3 weeks)
Aaron Quigley
University of St Andrews (UK)
2017 (3 weeks)
Paul Coulton
Lancaster University (UK)
2016 (1 week)
Adrian Gardinar
Lancaster University (UK)
2016 (1 week)
Wolfgang Huerst
Utrecht University (UK)
2016 (2 weeks)
Mark Lochrie
University of Central Lanceshire (UK)
2016 (1 week)
Alumni
Nuwan T Attygalle
Research area: Human-computer Interaction
Elham Motamedi
Research area: Complex Networks, Machine learning, Recommender systems
Marina Pauldauf
Research area: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, Distributed Systems, Data Science
Vida Groznik
Assistant Professor, 2018-2023
Research area: Artificial Intelligence, Medical Informatics
Julie Ducasse
Posdoctoral researcher, 2018-2020
Research area: Human-Computer Interaction, Tangible Interfaces, Assistive Technologies, Ambient Systems