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Christian Frisson

PhD
Pronouns: he/him/his

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Contact information

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christian.frisson@ucalgary.ca

Preferred method of communication

christian.frisson@ucalgary.ca

Background

Educational Background

PhD (Engineering: Human-Computer Interaction, Multimedia), University of Mons, numediart Institute, Belgium, 2015

MSc (Art, Science, Technology), Grenoble INP (Institut National Polytechnique), France, 2006

MEng (Acoustics, Metrology), ENSIM (Ecole d’Ingénieurs Le Mans Université), France, 2005

Biography

Christian Frisson is an assistant professor at the University of Calgary with the Interactions Lab (2025-present) and associate researcher at the Input Devices and Music Interaction Lab (IDMIL) (2021-present). Christian has industry experience as Senior R&D Engineer at Ansys, Fluids Business Unit (2023-2025), Researcher/Developer at the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), Metalab (2021-2023). Christian was postdoctoral researcher: 1) at McGill University with the IDMIL (2019-2020), 2) at the University of Calgary with the Interactions Lab (2017-2018) and 3) at Inria in France with the Mjolnir team (2016-2017). Christian obtained his PhD at the University of Mons, numediart Institute, in Belgium (2015); and his Master in Science in “Art, Science, Technology” from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble with the Association for the Creation and Research on Expression Tools (ACROE), in France (2006), and his Master in Engineering in Acoustics and Metrology from Ecole d'Ingénieurs - Le Mans Université (ENSIM), in France (2005).

Research

Areas of Research

Haptics, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, Immersive Arts

Participation in university strategic initiatives

Publications