Meisam Taheri

• Taheri, Seyyed Meisam & Tan, Tiow Wee (2024). Developing a Serious Game for Acute Pain Detection by utilizing Virtual Reality and Brain-Computer Interfaces . Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems. ISSN 2367-3370.
• Taheri, Meisam; Lorentzen, Nefise Özkal & Tan, Kevin (2023). Creative teaching method through international collaboration and open discussion classroom. ICERI Proceedings. ISSN 2340-1095. p. 711–717. doi: 10.21125/iceri.2023.0256. Show summary

  This research aimed to do some research around the importance of international collaboration and creativity with the partners from the TV, Film and Drama School located in Inland Norway University. The author of this article has been working with Baturu and the China Women Film Festival for many years and established a network of collaboration. The goal of this collaboration is to give students from the TV School an opportunity to develop their films about human rights, where students from Norway and China who are from two different part of the world come together and work on same film that concerns the same matter. These students have made more than 50 films that have been shown both at the Norwegian Embassy in Beijing and the TV School in Lillehammer coordinated; Equality, democratization and solidarity are essential elements in an academic environment. China Meets Lillehammer aims to bring Inland Norway university and China together to collaborate and contribute toward a peace work. While our students learn how to collaborate with international students, Chinese students get an important platform to express their needs about equality, LGBTQ, and minority rights. This project gives our students the opportunity to think both locally and internationally. The following research questions have been studied and discussed in this research: • The importance of creative work and evaluation methods used in this study. • The effectiveness of a new form of examination in which students must collaborate with the China Women Film Festival. • An external examiner from a different field of study criticizes their films and gives feedback. • A student would oversee and write a report/article after seeing a Role Play. • Goal oriented approach that student films from "Lillehammer meets China" from 2018 to 2023 will be collected to be shown both at Lillehammer and the Baturu Film Festival in autumn 2023. In this article we deep dive in this topic that how important is to collaborate in an international level and how students can learn from this. Students’ reflection on their own and other student’s work, and their experience with creative process and how these methods help them to be more creative has been discussed in this article. The result of qualitative research also with be discussed in this study that students describe their overall view of the course and the method.

• Taheri, Meisam; Tan, Kevin & Aske, Adam Emile (2023). A behavior analysis tool using pitch presentation training virtual reality simulation by employing brain computer interface technology . ICERI Proceedings. ISSN 2340-1095. p. 711–717. doi: 10.21125/iceri.2023.0257. Show summary

  Giving presentations can be challenging for many students due to a variety of reasons. Identifying and overcoming the obstacles and problems associated with presenting can help individuals to become more confident and better presenters. Becoming a skilled and good presenter takes practice and effort. Some common mental obstacles that make presenting difficult for some people include fear of public speaking, lack of confidence, and difficulty in organizing thoughts. In this research we designed a tool that enables educators and students to train and practice their presentation in an immersive Virtual reality (VR) setup. This simulation allows the presenter to interact with the panel sitting in front of them, get feedback and rehearse the presentation any number of times. The simulation incorporates questions posed by a virtual panel, with their complexity tailored to the user's chosen difficulty levels. The conductor of the simulation can activate responses that offer real-time feedback to the presenter. To assess the tool's effectiveness, we acknowledge the importance of capturing biometric responses to gauge the presenter's anxiety and stress levels during the experiment. To tackle this challenge, we've employed a brain-computer interface (BCI) to monitor stress levels for each presenter in every session. By analysing the results from multiple training sessions, we can showcase how the tool effectively assists presenters in overcoming mental obstacles and enhancing their presentation skills.

• Taheri, Seyyed meisam & Kalnikaite, Diana (2022). A study of how Virtual Reality and Brain Computer Interface can manipulate the brain. In Nishi, Hiroaki & Li, Yonghui (Ed.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management (ICSIM). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISSN 9781450395519. p. 6–10. doi: 10.1145/3520084.3520086. Show summary

  The brain computer interface (BCI) is one of the technologies that has a lot of potential for helping people with physiological and physical difficulties. This technology could be used to treat disabled individuals or assist them with daily duties that they are unable to perform owing to their ailments. By fooling the brain to redirect the senses and discomfort, this could also help chronic pain patients forget about their pain. When a person is immersed in a virtual environment, this technology and Virtual Reality (VR) can both be used to teach patients or influence the brain. The users are immersed in a reality that does not exist, but the brain accepts it and allows them to experience things that are not yet possible for a human to do. By combining these two technologies to develop an application and conduct study into how these two technologies, for example, can assist patients suffering from pain in any region of their body. These strategies can aid recovery while also making the process less tedious than traditional ways. An interactive simulation that patients can engage with or a brain-controlled robot that can help patients will be effective and useful. This application also can be used to create a computer and mechanical interface which a user can control a machine or device with, or even a mouse pointer by only thinking about it. A paralyzed person might not be able to move his/her arm, but the signal from the brain is constantly sending to the arm from brain, allows them to control a mechanical arm instead. We can enable people with disabilities do things that are impossible for them to do by taking those signals and allowing a mechanical arm to do what an actual arm would do. The possibilities and application for these technologies are vast, brain to brain communication is nothing new to discuss, but it will be possible to create such a device that two people from two side of the planet can feel each other's feeling and communicate via their brain. In this research, we studied how we can utilize this system to manipulate the brain to help patients recover faster. Our focus in this study is development of BCI and VR applications that can be useful to help chronic patients and disable people. Furthermore, we studied how we could develop a gamified interactive environment for patients to aid in their recovery as they are enjoying their time interacting with these tools in a virtual world.

• Tan, Tiow Wee; Mobbs, Sophie Anne; Vibeto, Håvard Andreas & Taheri, Seyyed meisam (2022). Understanding the advantages of Hybrid setting over Virtual setting in Serious Games Application . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ISSN 0302-9743. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-22124-8.
• Taheri, Seyyed meisam (2017). Virtual Reality Driving Simulation for Measuring Driver Behavior and Characteristics. Journal of Transportation Technologies. ISSN 2160-0473. doi: 10.4236/jtts.2017.72009.
• Taheri, Seyyed meisam (2017). Development of a driving simulator with analyzing driver’s characteristics based on a virtual reality head mounted display. Journal of Transportation Technologies. ISSN 2160-0473. doi: 10.4236/jtts.2017.73023.

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• Taheri, Seyyed Meisam; Aske, Adam Emile & Tan, Tiow Wee (2024). Developing a Serious Game for Acute Pain Detection by utilizing Virtual Reality and Brain-Computer Interfaces .
• Taheri, Seyyed Meisam; Tan, Tiow Wee & aske, Adam Emile (2023). A BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS TOOL USING PITCH PRESENTATION TRAINING VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATION BY EMPLOYING BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE TECHNOLOGY. Show summary

  Giving presentations can be challenging for many students due to a variety of reasons. Identifying and overcoming the obstacles and problems associated with presenting can help individuals to become more confident and better presenters. Becoming a skilled and good presenter takes practice and effort. Some common mental obstacles that make presenting difficult for some people include fear of public speaking, lack of confidence, and difficulty in organizing thoughts. In this research we designed a tool that enables educators and students to train and practice their presentation in an immersive Virtual reality (VR) setup. This simulation allows the presenter to interact with the panel sitting in front of them, get feedback and rehearse the presentation any number of times. The simulation incorporates questions posed by a virtual panel, with their complexity tailored to the user's chosen difficulty levels. The conductor of the simulation can activate responses that offer real-time feedback to the presenter. To assess the tool's effectiveness, we acknowledge the importance of capturing biometric responses to gauge the presenter's anxiety and stress levels during the experiment. To tackle this challenge, we've employed a brain-computer interface (BCI) to monitor stress levels for each presenter in every session. By analysing the results from multiple training sessions, we can showcase how the tool effectively assists presenters in overcoming mental obstacles and enhancing their presentation skills.

• Taheri, Seyyed Meisam; Lorentzen, Nefise Özkal & Tan, Tiow Wee (2023). CREATIVE TEACHING METHOD THROUGH INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION AND OPEN DISCUSSION CLASSROOM. Show summary

  This research aimed to do some research around the importance of international collaboration and creativity with the partners from the TV, Film and Drama School located in Inland Norway University. The author of this article has been working with Baturu and the China Women Film Festival for many years and established a network of collaboration. The goal of this collaboration is to give students from the TV School an opportunity to develop their films about human rights, where students from Norway and China who are from two different part of the world come together and work on same film that concerns the same matter. These students have made more than 50 films that have been shown both at the Norwegian Embassy in Beijing and the TV School in Lillehammer coordinated; Equality, democratization and solidarity are essential elements in an academic environment. China Meets Lillehammer aims to bring Inland Norway university and China together to collaborate and contribute toward a peace work. While our students learn how to collaborate with international students, Chinese students get an important platform to express their needs about equality, LGBTQ, and minority rights. This project gives our students the opportunity to think both locally and internationally. The following research questions have been studied and discussed in this research: • The importance of creative work and evaluation methods used in this study. • The effectiveness of a new form of examination in which students must collaborate with the China Women Film Festival. • An external examiner from a different field of study criticizes their films and gives feedback. • A student would oversee and write a report/article after seeing a Role Play. • Goal oriented approach that student films from "Lillehammer meets China" from 2018 to 2023 will be collected to be shown both at Lillehammer and the Baturu Film Festival in autumn 2023. In this article we deep dive in this topic that how important is to collaborate in an international level and how students can learn from this. Students’ reflection on their own and other student’s work, and their experience with creative process and how these methods help them to be more creative has been discussed in this article. The result of qualitative research also with be discussed in this study that students describe their overall view of the course and the method.

• Taheri, Seyyed Meisam (2023). Actuate pain detection using BCI .
• Taheri, Seyyed Meisam (2023). A Behavior Analysis Tool Using Pitch Presentation Training Virtual Reality Simulation (Serious Game) (By Employing Brain Computer Interface Technology).
• Taheri, Seyyed Meisam (2023). Detecting acute pain using Machine learning and Brain Computer interface.
• Gunnerud, Bård R.; Taheri, Seyyed Meisam; Vamanchery Mana, Sanu; Vibeto, Håvard Andreas; Tan, Tiow Wee & Kennedy, Dorthe (2022). The Pitch Simulator . Show summary

  A VR simulator where students have to pitch a videogame infront of a panel of 4 charaters that react and give feedback on the pitch. The goal is to train students to better handle pitchin sessions infront of a crowd.

• Taheri, Seyyed meisam; Tornberg, Jimi & Tan, Tiow Wee (2022). A study of Cyberbullying in online multiplayer games.
• Taheri, Seyyed meisam (2022). Guest lectures online in CSCI 5020 to the graduate students in Computer Science, Ontario Tech University.
• Taheri, Meisam & Kalnikaite, Diana (2022). A study of how Virtual Reality and Brain Computer Interface can manipulate the brain.
• Taheri, Seyyed meisam (2021). HOW PANDEMIC AND REMOTE LEARNING AFFECT STUDENTS' STUDY AND LIFE AT UNIVERSITY. Show summary

  Our life has drastically changed ever since the pandemic started. Most businesses and schools adopt remote study and work ever since. Most companies were affected by this, as were schools. School is an arena for students to socialize, create a network and of course get educated with the courses they are taking. In this study, we conducted a survey to find out how students' lives and studies have been affected by the pandemic (Covid-19) in 2021 study-year at Inland Norway University (INN). Not many studies have been done yet concerning the effects of pandemic on students' mental health and the learning outcome, therefore, we conducted this research to study and learn more about this matter. Some of our students contacted professors and university personnel to express their feelings of isolation and loneliness. Most of the students at INN were receptive to discussing their depression and difficulties. Faculty members were present to speak with them as well. Surprisingly, the first-year student dropout rate at game school was not high, and the number of applicants for the Game technology course rose over the previous academic year. The reason for this will be another topic to be studied in future research. The survey and the courses were both conducted online due to known circumstances. Fifty-four students(N=54) contributed to this research by filling out an online survey which we evaluated and analysed them in this study. Students were successful in their studies despite not physically attending school for most of the year 2021, according to an unexpected outcome. The findings also revealed that some students had lost interest and were considering dropping out because they did not see the value in attending courses online. Unfortunately, several students were unable to cope with the stress of being secluded and were unable to complete the academic year. We focused on how students handled their studies and adapted to changes throughout the pandemic in our research. What was it that kept them going? What impact did the epidemic have on their lives, mental health, and studies?

• Taheri, Meisam & Javeid, Deniz (2021). A STUDY OF HOW VIDEO GAMES ASSIST WITH LEARNING. Show summary

  As of writing this paper, a global pandemic is affecting everyone. This includes the schools and universities who were forced to make countermeasures, such as online lectures. Therefore, the need for using online tools to keep students engaged and motivated, as well as keeping their learning experience at a high level has significantly increased. In this study, authors studied different literatures on how games and virtual classrooms can assist students with their learning. The following research questions have been discussed and addressed in this paper. Can games in education, hone one’s own skill in the related curriculum? Can immersive Virtual Reality (VR) games and applications be effective in learning? How can games be used to teach complicated subjects such as mathematics? How relevant are video games to education? Can any type of game be educational, and students can learn from? How effective is a focused video game for learning?

• Taheri, Seyyed meisam (2015). Evaluating the effectiveness of problem solving techniques and tools in programming .

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