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 the HCI Staff. 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
Nishadi Ariyasinghe	XR for Digital Mental Health - Loneliness	PhD	Craig Anslow, Simon McCallum
Tristan Bunn	Visual Analytics for Learning Management Systems	PhD	Craig Anslow, Karsten Lundqvist
Kieran Carnegie	VR Human Perception and Changes	PhD	Simon McCallum, Gina Grimshaw
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	Simon McCallum
Ben Powley	Exploring Immersive and Non-Immersive Techniques for Geographic Data Visualization	PhD	Craig Anslow, Mairead de Roiste, Stuart Marshall
Hansi Udapola	Co-design and Mixed-method evaluation study to evaluate the role of facilitator in promoting social interactions in social virtual reality environments.	PhD	Simon McCallum, NadiaPantidi
Nisal Udawatta	XR simulator to guide cardiac surgeries	PhD	Craig Anslow, Brian Robinson
Faisal Zaman	Mixed Reality Collaboration based Immersive Analytics System	PhD	Taehyun Rhee, Craig Anslow

VUW Collaborators

HCI is an interdisciplinary subject and we also work with a number of other VUW academics in different faculties and schools (please contact us if you would like to collaborate):

Faculty of Science

• James Bell - School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science
• Mairead de Roiste - School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science
• Gina Grimshaw - School of Psychology, Faculty of Science
• Chris Maymon - School of Psychology, Faculty of Science
• James Renwick - School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science
• Alice Rogers - School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science

Faculty of Health

• Terry Fleming - School of Health, Faculty of Health
• Karen McBride-Henry - School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Health Practice, Faculty of Health
• Lorna Massov - School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Health Practice, Faculty of Health
• Tara Officer - School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Health Practice, Faculty of Health
• Brian Robinson - School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Health Practice, Faculty of Health

Business School

• Jocelyn Cranefield - School of Information Management, Victoria Business School
• Andreas Drechsler - School of Information Management, Victoria Business School
• Markus Luczak-Roesch - School of Information Management, Victoria Business School

Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation

• Dana Fridman - School of Design, Faculty of Architecture and Design
• Byron Mallett - School of Design, Faculty of Architecture and Design
• Gillian McCarthy - School of Design, Faculty of Architecture and Design
• Tuakana Metuarau - School of Design, Faculty of Architecture and Design
• Edgar Rodríguez Ramírez - School of Design, Faculty of Architecture and Design

Faculty of Education

• Louise Starkey - School of Education, Faculty of Education