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

• AtomVis - visualziing air quality (Ben Powley)
• VISOR - Code Jockeying (Jack Purvis)
• MetVis - visualizing public transport reliability (Hamish Clark)
• ClimateVis - visualizing climate change (Sean Hone)
• MicroVis - visualizing micro mobility services (jacob, jacob) (Jacob Beal)
• CorpusVis - visualizing software metrics (Jack Slater)
• Collaborative Software Visualization in Co-located Environments (Craig Anslow )
• LiveJ - Visualizing Java Software Measurements (Craig Anslow )

Digital Health and Games

• Digital Mental Health sub-group (Simon McCallum and Russell Pine)
• VR Simulation for Radiation Therapy Education (Haydn Bannister)
• VR Games for Chronic Pain (Jiaheng Wang)
• VR Training Simulator for Cardiac Catheter Ablation Procedure (Nisal Udawatta)

AR/VR and Interaction

• VR Underwater Marine Science
• SpaceVR Outreach out of this world! (Ben Sanson)
• VR 360 Degree Motion Simulation
• Comparing SDAZ with Mouse, Touch, and 3D Gesture Input Devices (Jiaheng Wang)
• CardBoardVR - lightweight to get into VR

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