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MAVR Immersive Showcase 2021 #1230

Eric's day job is at the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies where he teaches courses and conducts research on issues related to technology in tourism and education. Eric also leads a team of interactive media designers for TEDxKyoto. His passion project, ARientation is an award winning, free-to-use, privacy-by-design augmented learning platform to rapid prototype augmented learning environments, also aiming to spread awareness of increasing aggressive data collection models using immersive technology. Eric's other projects have included augmented tourism rallies, AR community art exhibitions, mixed reality escape rooms, and other experiments in immersive technology.

Josh Brunotte is an associate professor at Aichi Prefectural University in central Japan. He primarily studies the intersection of technology and psychology, including the use of virtual reality for anxiety reduction purposes. He is currently pursuing a PhD at Nagoya University researching best intervention methods for reducing public speaking anxiety.

I specialize in VR and education. I developed Virtual Presentation Space, which allows you to record or live cast your presentation in VR (https://eyesout.github.io/VPS/) My Facebook group "教師のためのVR活用術" (https://www.facebook.com/groups/vrsensei) is the largest in Japan for teachers who are interested in VR. Please follow me on Twitter (EN: @kojirovr, JP: @yanosen_jp)

Mehrasa Alizadeh is an assistant professor at the Cybermedia Center, Osaka University. She conducts collaborative research on the use of multimodal learning analytics to support learners in face-to-face and remote learning settings. She is interested in immersive learning and virtual reality for language education. alizadeh.mehrasa@lab.ime.cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp