People

HCI Staff

There are currently the following academic staff that form the HCI Research group within the School of Engineering and Computer Science. The group is co-led by Craig Anslow and Simon McCallum. Also see our list of Alumni.

Affiliated Staff:

Within the Faculty of Engineering we work closely on some projects with the Software and Programming Group, Computer Graphics Group, and Computational Media Innovation Center (CMIC).

Students

The group consists of the following students ranging from PhD students, Masters thesis students and students completing final year or honours projects. Also see our list of Alumni.

Student	Topic	Degree	Supervisor
Tristan Bunn	Visual Analytics for Learning Management Systems	PhD	Craig Anslow, Karsten Lundqvist
Kieran Carnegie	VR Human Perception and Changes	PhD	Simon McCallum
Hiroshika Hinduramage	An AR Mobile Application for Training Children with ASD with Social Skills	PhD	Stuart Marshall, Nadia Pantidi
Hunter Mulder	Computer Games for single sensory modality	PhD (Design)	Simon McCallum
Russell Pine	Casual Mobile games for Mental Health	PhD (Education)	Simon McCallum
Ben Powley	Exploring Immersive and Non-Immersive Techniques for Geographic Data Visualization	PhD	Craig Anslow, Mairead de Roiste
Hansi Udapola	XR for Mental Health	PhD	Simon McCallum, Nadia Pantidi
Nisal Udawatta	XR simulator to guide cardiac surgeries	PhD	Craig Anslow, Brian Robinson, Stuart Marshall
Faisal Zaman	Mixed Reality Collaboration based Immersive Analytics System	PhD	Craig Anslow, Taehyun Rhee
Kristian Hansen	VR for Visualizing Volcanoes	MSc	Simon Barker, Craig Anslow, Colin Wilson
Connor Simmonds	Exploring VR 360 Degree Motion Simulators	BE(Hons)	Craig Anslow
Callum Stewart	Redevelopment of a Next Stop Display System	BE(Hons)	Craig Anslow

VUW Collaborators

Being an interdisciplinary subject we also work with a number of other VUW academics in different schools:

• Jocelyn Cranefield - School of Information Management, Victoria Business School
• Mairead de Roiste - School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences
• Andreas Drechsler - School of Information Management, Victoria Business School
• Terry Fleming - School of Health, Faculty of Health
• Dana Fridman - School of Design, Faculty of Architecture and Design
• Gina Grimshaw - School of Psychology, Faculty of Science
• Markus Luczak-Roesch - School of Information Management, Victoria Business School
• Byron Mallett - School of Design, Faculty of Architecture and Design
• Brian Robinson - School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Health Practice, Faculty of Health
• Louise Starkey - School of Education, Faculty of Education