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.

VUW Collaborators

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

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

• Pedro Antunes - School of Information Management, Victoria Business School
• 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

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
Kieran Carnegie	VR Human Perception and Changes	PhD	Simon McCallum
Russel Pine	Casual Mobile games for Mental Health	PhD (Education)	Simon McCallum
Hunter Mulder	Computer Games for single sensory modality	PhD (Design)	Simon McCallum
Tristan Bunn	Visual Analytics for Learning Management Systems	PhD	Craig Anslow, Karsten Lundqvist
Benjamin Powley	Visualizing Air Quality Data	MSc	Craig Anslow, David Pearce
Jiaheng Wang	Distraction Therapy for Chronic Pain: The Effects of Immersion on Pain Relief	MSc	Craig Anslow, Simon McCallum, Brian Robinson
Brandon Scott-Hill	aWall: Progress Tracking for Collaborative Agile Meetings	BE(Hons)	Craig Anslow
Hamish Clark	Visualizing Public Transport Reliability	BE(Hons)	Craig Anslow
Jacob Beal	Visualizing Micro Mobility Services	BE(Hons)	Craig Anslow and Ramesh Rayudu
Sean Hone	Visualizing Environmental Data	BE(Hons)	Craig Anslow
Chris Parry	Voice Interaction with Intent Understanding in MR	BE(Hons)	Taehyun Rhee, Junhong Zhao, Craig Anslow
Cameron Hopkinson	Sparky - Mobile games for Mental Health	BE(Hons)	Simon McCallum
Nicholas Snellgrove	AR Sandbox	BE(Hons)	Simon McCallum
Tres Kani	Gamification of Electrical Use	BE(Hons)	Simon McCallum
Hrshikesh Arora	Gamification of Electrical Use	BE(Hons)	Simon McCallum