Research

We do research in the areas of information visualization techniques and systems, natural user interfaces, games, serious games, digital health, digital money, user experience techniques, mobile education systems, usable security, and human aspects of software engineering. Summary of VUW HCI Research (PDF). Below links to various projects.

Visualization

• Environment:
  • Immersive Analytics for Ecosystem Services (Benjamin Powley)
  • Visualizing Air Quality (Ben Powley, Francis Ngyuen)
  • Visualizing environmental data (Sean Hone)
  • COVID19 Visualizations
• Transport:
  • Visualizing Bus Emissions (Craig Anslow)
  • Visualizing Road Traffic Volume Data (Jonathan Carr)
  • Visualizing public transport reliability (Hamish Clark)
  • Visualizing micro mobility services (Jacob Beal)
  • NextStopDisplay (Callum Stewart)
• Software:
  • Visualizing software metrics (Jack Slater)
  • Collaborative Software Visualization in Co-located Environments (Craig Anslow)
  • Visualizing software metrics with Large Displays (Craig Anslow)
  • Visualizing Java Software Measurements (Craig Anslow)
  • CityVR (Craig Anslow)
• Musical Performance:
  • Code Jockeying (Jack Purvis)

Digital Health and Games

• Digital Mental Health sub-group (Simon McCallum, Russell Pine, Terry Fleming)
• Visualizing SEPSIS (Riley Blair, Ben Murphy, Adam Sinclair)
• Understanding Wait Times in Emergency Departments (Yuri Sidorov)
• VR Simulation for Radiation Therapy Education (Haydn Bannister, Amy Wilson)
• VR Games for Chronic Pain (Jiaheng Wang)
• VR Training Simulator for Cardiac Catheter Ablation Procedure (Nisal Udawatta)
• Conversational Virtual Characters for Improving Social Experiences in Collaborative Games (Hansi Udapola)
• Alleviating Loneliness in Migrant Communities with VR (Nishadi Ariyasinghe)
• Improving Radiology Diagnostics Training with XR (Saad Khan)
• VR for Labour (Lona Massov)

AR/VR and Interaction

• VR 360 Degree Motion Simulation
• Mixed Reality Collaboration (Faisal Zaman)
• Viewpoint Selection in Mixed Reality Collaboration (Faisal Zaman)
• VR Underwater Marine Science
• SpaceVR Outreach out of this world! (Ben Sanson)
• CableCarVR (Ana Ease)
• Understanding SDAZ with Mouse, Touch, and 3D Gesture Input Devices (Jiaheng Wang)
• CardBoardVR - lightweight to get into VR
• VoiceInteractionAR (Chris Parry)
• VolcanoVR (Kristian Hansen)
• Promoting Reality Awareness in Virtual Reality through Proxemics (Kun Huang, Daniel Medeiros, Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos)

Human Aspects of Software Engineering

• Agile Software Engineering
• Collaborative Blocks Based Programming - (Ben Selwyn-Smith)
• Agile Digital Wall for Software Team Meetings (Simon Glew, Brandon Scott-Hill)
• Understanding Agile Software Development Practices