Christian Frisson

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 funded by his Mitacs Elevate fellowship with Haply including a collaboration with the National Research Council Canada (NRC) on optimizing open-source haptic systems (2019-2020), 2) at the University of Calgary with the Interactions Lab collaborating with the Canada Energy Regulator (CER) and VizworX on designing energy data visualizations (2017-2018) and 3) at Inria in France with the Mjolnir team collaborating on a European Horizon 2020 project including with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) on designing interaction for printed haptic surfaces (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

Robotics for Human-Computer Interaction

Human-Computer Interaction

Information Visualization

Immersive Arts

Participation in university strategic initiatives

Human dynamics in a changing world

Transdisciplinary Research

Digital Worlds

Publications

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