Research Areas

Collaboration in software development

People

Projects

• Industry: Impacts of AI Collaboration on software development process (Jennifer Ferreira, Craig Watterson, Karsten Lundqvist, Stuart Marshall)
• PhD Thesis: Addressing Impostor Phenomenon in Collaboration Between UX Designers and Developers (Senfa Sun, Jennifer Ferreira, Gillian McCarthy, Dana Fridman)
• PhD Thesis: A Grounded Theory of Integrated Module System Design: Insights from Language Designers (Edwin Singh, Jennifer Ferreira, Alex Potanin, Alwen Tiu)

Game-based learning

People

• Hewa Algiriyage Chathura Priyankara - PhD Student

Projects

• PhD Thesis: Teaching Java Programming for Software Engineering and Computer Science Students: An Intelligent Tutoring Approach (Hewa Algiriyage Chathura Priyankara, Karsten Lundqvist, Craig Watterson)
• The Design of Games for Engineering Education
• Game-based learning to enhance technical communication
• Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Digital Game-Based Learning to Enhance Medical Diagnostic Skills
• Generative Artificial Intelligence Learning tool to support Reflective Learning in Introductory programming courses

Fintech

People

Projects

Digital health & wellbeing

People

Projects

• Digital Mental Health sub-group (Simon McCallum, Russell Pine, Terry Fleming)

Past 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

• 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