News
2024
- Kunal Gupta (University of Auckland) gave a seminar on Biosensing in XR: Harnessing Physiological Data for Immersive and Empathic Experiences, October 2024
- Nisal Udawatta, Naomi Parte, Lorna Massov, Nadia Pantidi, and Craig Anslow demoed their VR digital health projects at the Medtech-iQ Wellington Hospital TIKI Tour, October 2024
- New PhD student Mindula Rowel started, October 2024
- Simon McCallum co-organized the NZ Games Develpers Conference, October 2024
- PhD student Muhammad Saad Khan wins big at HealthTech Week 2024, September 2024
- Awarded Te Titoki Mataora (TTM) Research Accelerator Programme (RAP) Stage 2 grant. "Using virtual reality for women antenatally and in labour to reduce anxiety and labour pain intensity" Lorna Massov, Brian Robinson, Edgar Rodriguez, Craig Anslow, Fanni Fazakas, and Mark Billinghurst ($79,838.60 NZD), August 2024
- Versatilist Interview with Lorna Massov and Brian Robinson on "'Giving birth on a beach': Women's experiences of using virtual reality in labour.", July 2024
- Nisal Udawatta, Nishadi Ariyasinghe, and Muhammad Saad Khan attended and presented at the Te Tītoki Mataora Forum which was part of the NZ HealthTech Week Conference in Auckland. Muhammad Saad Khan also received a CMDT Early Career Research Award for the People's Choice Research Poster, June 2024.
- Lorna Massov - Kiwi researchers find VR headsets help women in labour manage their pain, June 2024
- Chris Maymon gave a seminar on Evoking and measuring emotions using Virtual Reality (VR), May 2024
- Lauren Hayes gave a seminar on What is a Screen Reader Anyway?, May 2024
- Kat Greenbrook gave a seminar on Understand Data Through Story, May 2024
- Nisal Udawatta demos at the NZ Careers Expo in Palmerston North, May 2024
- Ben Powley graduated with a PhD, May 2024
- Simon McCallum gives a guest lecture in the Gibbons Lecture Series at the University of Auckland on eSport game design: designing for engagement from 1800-200 on 2 May, March 2024
- Faisal Zaman defended and completed his PhD on Mixed Reality Multi-user Asymmetric Telecollaboration supervised by Taehyun Rhee and Craig Anslow, March 2024
- Jacob Young, Jennifer Ferreira, and Nadia Pantidi have an accepted paper at CHI 2024 on “I Shot the Interviewer!”: The Effects of In-VR Interviews on Participant Feedback Presence and Rapport, March 2024
- Simon McCallum on Game jams as work integrated learning, March 2024
- Nadia Pantidi on Shaping the future of design and academia, March 2024
- Benjamin Powley defended and completed his PhD on Immersive visualization for ecosystem services analysis and trade-offs supervised by Craig Anslow, Stuart Marshall, and Mairead de Roiste, February 2024
- Martin Kropp and Craig Anslow were interviewed for the InfoQ Podcast on the The State of Software Engineering from an Academic Perspective, January 2024
- We farewell Jacob Young who is going to be a postdoctoral fellow in the HCI group @ University of Otago, January 2024
2023
- Craig Anslow and others were awarded the Most Influential Paper "Qualitas Corpus: A Curated Collection of Java Code for Empirical Studies" for the 30th Edition of the Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), December 2023
- Craig Anslow awarded with others a VUW Cross Disciplinary Fund (CDF). "Fostering pro-environmental attitudes and intentions through awe-some experiences in Virtual Reality" ($49,628.00K NZD), September 2023
- Faisal Zaman got x1 paper accepted for IEEE ISMAR and x1 paper accepted for ACM VRST, August 2023
- Nishadi Ariyasinghe starts as a new PhD student, August 2023
- Simon McCallum on AI in Government, June 2023
- Simon McCallum on EU approves world's first set of AI rules, June 2023
- Craig Anslow attended the NZ Health Tech week conference, June 2023
- Simon McCallum appeared on TV3 News on Academics concerned about ChatGPT advancing at warp speed, April 2023
- Nadia Pantidi is General Co-Chair and Jennifer Ferreira is Technical Program Chair for OzCHI 2023 which takes place in December in Wellington, April 2023
- Simon McCallum appeared on TV1 News on Kiwi academic: Oral exams an alternative in AI era, March 2023
- Simon McCallum on Students’ Use of Artificial Intelligence Leaves University in Puzzling Plagiarism Pickle, March 2023
- Simon McCallum, Nadia Pantidi, Craig Anslow, Hansi Udapola, and Nisal Udawatta had interactive demos at the Digital Health Expo, March 2023
- Kevin Shedlock appeared on OneNews on The world's first integrated Māori keyboard could soon be hitting our shelves, March 2023
- Simon McCallum on AI that can (almost) pass a medical licensing exam – Expert Reaction, February 2023
- Craig Anslow co-organized the International XR Workshop, February 2023
- New PhD students who have joined us in 2023: Nishadi Ariyasinghe
2022
- Simon McCallum appeared on NewsHub on Cheating university students being blackmailed by companies paid to write their assignments, December 2022
- Simon McCallum and others will be Armageddon Expo NZ, December 2022
- Craig Anslow helps with Secrets of a marine biologist revealed, November 2022
- Craig Anslow install of the Eight360 Nova device, November 2022
- Craig Anslow Engage with Engineering—Immersive technology with Eight360, November 2022
- Simon McCallum appears on TV3 AM Show Gaming researcher says parents should encourage kids to play video games instead of watching TikTok, YouTube, October 2022
- Wellington to host the ACM Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS), September 2022
- Craig Anslow attended the NZ Health Tech week conference, June 2022
- We are organizing the ACM International Conference on Interactice Surfaces and Spaces to take place in November in Wellington
- Bridging the digital divide on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, May 2022
- We are organizing the AVI Conference Workshop on Enhancing Cross-Reality Applications and User Experiences, March 2022
- We co-organized the IEEE VR Workshop on XR for Healthcare and Wellbeing, March 2022
- Successful Kiwi healthcare innovators are heading overseas where big customers and investment money is plentiful, March 2022
- Hansi Udapola, Nisal Udawatta and Tristan Bunn all passed their PhD proposals, February 2022
- We acquired a new set of StretchSense Gloves for interaction in VR projects, February 2022
- Jennifer Ferreira awarded SHEADI grant for $99,536.70, February 2022
- Nadia Pantidi became a Senior Lecturer in the School of Design Innovation, January 2022
2021
- Craig Anslow and Simon McCallum helped organize the Unreal Engine Showcase Event, December 2021
- We had our summer social event at Southern Cross Tavern, December 2021
- Craig Anslow awarded SHEADI equipment grant $100K NZD, December 2021
- We had new summer scholar students working on projects with NZTA, Auckland Council, BCSNZ, Beyond: Julian Hanrahan, Sushil Sharma, Sanjeeta Singh, Zoe Kaufman, Francis Nguyen-Ly, Oliver Badrick, November 2021
- Simon McCallum on Gamers know the power of ‘flow’ — what if learners could harness it too?, August 2021
- Simon McCallum from Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington at New Zealand Game Developers Conference, August 2021
- Craig Anslow organized the Wellington XR Meetup in Wellington, July 2021
- Kristian Hansen Quake swarm reveals supervolcano's hidden magma reservoir, NZ Herald, June 2021
- Jennifer Ferreira and Kevin Shedlock spoke at the Digital Money Lab Wellington event, June 2021
- Kevin Shedlock on Indigenous knowledge systems and the construction of virtual reality, February 2021
- Craig Anslow organized the International XR Workshop in Auckland, February 2021
- Simon McCallum on Game On: New Zealand's next billion-dollar industry, January 2021
- New PhD and Masters students have joined us in 2021: Hansi Udapola, Nisal Udawatta, Kristian Hansen
2020
- Jiaheng Wang submitted his masters thesis and received Distinction, December 2020
- Simon McCallum received a VUW Teaching Excellence Award, December 2020
- Craig Anslow received a VUW Early Career Research Excellence Award, December 2020
- We attended the XR Summit in Auckland, November 2020
- A new reality for curing cancer Victorious, 2020
- We organized the IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2020) hosted in Adelaide, Australia, September 2020
- Jonathan Carr receives runner up place in the Stats NZ Census commuter data visualisation competition see the developed Commute-NZ app, August 2020
- We organized IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2020) hosted in Dunedin, New Zealand, August 2020
- Covid 19 coronavirus: Why contact tracing tech isn't so straightforward - news article on NZ Herald featuring Simon and Jennifer, May 2020
- We organized the International Workshop on XR Technologies (XR Workshop 2020) hosted in Wellington, New Zealand, February 2020
- Childbirth goes digital: The Kiwi midwife trialling virtual reality for pain management by Lorna Massov, January 2020
- New PhD students have joined us in 2020: Hiroshika Hinduramage, Ben Powley, Faisal Zaman, Chaitra Mahendra
2019
- Games++ event alumni Pippin Barr and Rilla Khaled presenting, November 2019
- Hosted ACM SIGCHI NZ working group meeting, November 2019
- ENGR 489 student Hamish Clark wins best project for Visualizing Public Transport Reliability, November 2019
- Sebastian Baltes from Adelaide visited, November 2019
- Simon McCallum Taking teaching into the virtual world, October, 2019
- We will organize IEEE VISSOFT 2020 in Adelaide, Australia, October 2019
- New PhD student Tristan Bunn joins the group, October 2019
- We will organize IEEE VL/HCC 2020 in Dunedin (10-14 August), New Zealand, October 2019
- Craig Anslow was the Program Chair for IEEE VISSOFT 2019, September 2019
- Nadia Pantidi visiting researcher on sabbatical, July 2019
- New lecturer Jennifer Ferreira joins HCI group, July 2019
- Artur Lugmayr from Curtin University visited, July 2019
- Ben Powley submitted masters thesis, July 2019
- Jack Purvis submitted masters thesis, June 2019
- Paper on Information Security in Agile Software Development Projects: A Critical Success Factor Perspective at European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2019 Nominated for Best Paper Award, June 2019
- Simon McCallum awarded URF grant on games for mental health, June 2019
- Craig Anslow awarded Royal Society Catalyst Leaders Grant with Joaquim Jorge, Mark Billinghurst, and Rob Lindeman, May 2019
- Paper on Agile Practices in Practice: A Theory of Agile Adoption and Process Evolution at XP Conference, May 2019
- Nathan Newton - Graduation Speech, May 2019
- Rainer Koschke from Bremen visited, April 2019
- Karan Singh from Toronto visited, April 2019
- Hamish Clark and Amy Wilson win best poster award on Public Transport Reliability at the Summer Gold Poster Competition as part of the summer scholarship programme 2018/2019, March 2019
- Aaron Quigley from St Andrews visited, February 2019
- Jack Purvis presents paper on CJing Practice: Combining Live Coding and VJing at International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC), January 2019
2018
- New lecturer Simon McCallum joins HCI group, June 2018
- Welcome to Ben Powley new masters student, July 2018
- HCI Research Group 2018 Winter outing to Red Rocks and Beachhouse Cafe, July 2018
- Graduation - Divya Patel and Hannah Craighead, where Divya received the best Honours student in Science and Engineering, and Hannah gave the student graduation speech May 2018
- Welcome to Jack Purvis new masters student, April 2018
2017
- New lecturer Craig Anslow joins HCI group, March 2017
2016
- We say goodby to Roman Klapaukh who has been working as a teaching fellow for the past two years, June 2016