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(s)
Dan Archer	Mobile apps to support sleep health and emotional wellbeing	PhD	Terry Fleming and Simon McCallum
Nishadi Ariyasinghe	XR for Digital Mental Health - Loneliness	PhD	Simon McCallum, Craig Anslow
Tristan Bunn	Visual Analytics for Learning Management Systems	PhD	Craig Anslow
Hiroshika Hinduramage	An AR Mobile Application for Training Children with ASD with Social Skills	PhD	Stuart Marshall, Nadia Pantidi
Saad Khan	Improving Radiation Therapy Diagnosis with Intelligent Interfaces	PhD	Craig Anslow, Brian Robinson, Joaquim Jorge
Hunter Mulder	Computer Games for single sensory modality	PhD	Simon McCallum
Mindula Rowel	XR-Based Memory Training for Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment	PhD	Simon McCallum and Craig Anslow
Hansi Udapola	Conversational Virtual Characters for Improving Social Experiences in Collaborative Games	PhD	Simon McCallum, NadiaPantidi
Nisal Udawatta	XR simulator to guide cardiac surgeries	PhD	Craig Anslow, Brian Robinson
Xiang Zhang	VR/AR Enhance Vocabulary Learning Effect of Children with Communication Difficulties	PhD	Craig Anslow, Stuart Marshall
Kieran Carnegie	AWE-some VR Experiences	Research Assistant	Gina Grimshaw, Craig Anslow, Chris Maymon

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
• Caz Hales - 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
• Christian.Schott - School of Management, Victoria Business School

Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation

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