News
2024
- Simon McCallum gives a guest lecture in the Gibbons Lecture Series at the University of Auckland on eSport game design: designing for engagement from 1800-200 on 2 May, March 2024
- Jacob Young, Jennifer Ferreira, and Nadia Pantidi have an accepted paper at CHI 2024 on “I Shot the Interviewer!”: The Effects of In-VR Interviews on Participant Feedback Presence and Rapport, March 2024
- Simon McCallum on Game jams as work integrated learning, March 2024
- Nadia Pantidi on Shaping the future of design and academia, March 2024
- Benjamin Powley defended and completed his PhD on Immersive visualization for ecosystem services analysis and trade-offs supervised by Craig Anslow, Stuart Marshall, and Mairead de Roiste, February 2024
- Craig Anslow co-organized the ACM SIGSOFT Australasian Software Engineering Summer School (ASESS) 2024 at ACSW, January 2024
- Martin Kropp and Craig Anslow were interviewed for the InfoQ Podcast on the The State of Software Engineering from an Academic Perspective, January 2024
2023
- Craig Anslow and others were awarded the Most Influential Paper "Qualitas Corpus: A Curated Collection of Java Code for Empirical Studies" for the 30th Edition of the Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), December 2023
- Craig Anslow awarded with others a VUW Cross Disciplinary Fund (CDF). "Fostering pro-environmental attitudes and intentions through awe-some experiences in Virtual Reality" ($49,628.00K NZD), September 2023
- Faisal Zaman got x1 paper accepted for IEEE ISMAR and x1 paper accepted for ACM VRST, August 2023
- Nishadi Ariyasinghe starts as a new PhD student, August 2023
- Simon McCallum on AI in Government, June 2023
- Simon McCallum on EU approves world's first set of AI rules, June 2023
- Craig Anslow attended the NZ Health Tech week conference, June 2023
- Simon McCallum appeared on TV3 News on Academics concerned about ChatGPT advancing at warp speed, April 2023
- Nadia Pantidi is General Co-Chair and Jennifer Ferreira is Technical Program Chair for OzCHI 2023 which takes place in December in Wellington, April 2023
- Simon McCallum appeared on TV1 News on Kiwi academic: Oral exams an alternative in AI era, March 2023
- Simon McCallum on Students’ Use of Artificial Intelligence Leaves University in Puzzling Plagiarism Pickle, March 2023
- Simon McCallum, Nadia Pantidi, Craig Anslow, Hansi Udapola, and Nisal Udawatta had interactive demos at the Digital Health Expo, March 2023
- Kevin Shedlock appeared on OneNews on The world's first integrated Māori keyboard could soon be hitting our shelves, March 2023
- Simon McCallum on AI that can (almost) pass a medical licensing exam – Expert Reaction, February 2023
- Craig Anslow co-organized the International XR Workshop, February 2023
- New PhD students who have joined us in 2023: Nishadi Ariyasinghe
2022
- Simon McCallum appeared on NewsHub on Cheating university students being blackmailed by companies paid to write their assignments, December 2022
- Simon McCallum and others will be Armageddon Expo NZ, December 2022
- Craig Anslow helps with Secrets of a marine biologist revealed, November 2022
- Craig Anslow install of the Eight360 Nova device, November 2022
- Craig Anslow Engage with Engineering—Immersive technology with Eight360, November 2022
- Simon McCallum appears on TV3 AM Show Gaming researcher says parents should encourage kids to play video games instead of watching TikTok, YouTube, October 2022
- Wellington to host the ACM Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS), September 2022
- Craig Anslow attended the NZ Health Tech week conference, June 2022
- We are organizing the ACM International Conference on Interactice Surfaces and Spaces to take place in November in Wellington
- Bridging the digital divide on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, May 2022
- We are organizing the AVI Conference Workshop on Enhancing Cross-Reality Applications and User Experiences, March 2022
- We co-organized the IEEE VR Workshop on XR for Healthcare and Wellbeing, March 2022
- Successful Kiwi healthcare innovators are heading overseas where big customers and investment money is plentiful, March 2022
- Hansi Udapola, Nisal Udawatta and Tristan Bunn all passed their PhD proposals, February 2022
- We acquired a new set of StretchSense Gloves for interaction in VR projects, February 2022
- Jennifer Ferreira awarded SHEADI grant for $99,536.70, February 2022
- Nadia Pantidi became a Senior Lecturer in the School of Design Innovation, January 2022
2021
- Craig Anslow and Simon McCallum helped organize the Unreal Engine Showcase Event, December 2021
- We had our summer social event at Southern Cross Tavern, December 2021
- Craig Anslow awarded SHEADI equipment grant $100K NZD, December 2021
- We had new summer scholar students working on projects with NZTA, Auckland Council, BCSNZ, Beyond: Julian Hanrahan, Sushil Sharma, Sanjeeta Singh, Zoe Kaufman, Francis Nguyen-Ly, Oliver Badrick, November 2021
- Simon McCallum on Gamers know the power of ‘flow’ — what if learners could harness it too?, August 2021
- Simon McCallum from Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington at New Zealand Game Developers Conference, August 2021
- Craig Anslow organized the Wellington XR Meetup in Wellington, July 2021
- Kristian Hansen Quake swarm reveals supervolcano's hidden magma reservoir, June 2021
- Jennifer Ferreira and Kevin Shedlock spoke at the Digital Money Lab Wellington event, June 2021
- Kevin Shedlock on Indigenous knowledge systems and the construction of virtual reality, February 2021
- Craig Anslow organized the International XR Workshop in Auckland, February 2021
- Simon McCallum on Game On: New Zealand's next billion-dollar industry, January 2021
- New PhD and Masters students have joined us in 2021: Hansi Udapola, Nisal Udawatta, Kristian Hansen
2020
- Jiaheng Wang submitted his masters thesis and received Distinction, December 2020
- Simon McCallum received a VUW Teaching Excellence Award, December 2020
- Craig Anslow received a VUW Early Career Research Excellence Award, December 2020
- We attended the XR Summit in Auckland, November 2020
- A new reality for curing cancer Victorious, 2020
- We organized the IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2020) hosted in Adelaide, Australia, September 2020
- Jonathan Carr receives runner up place in the Stats NZ Census commuter data visualisation competition see the developed Commute-NZ app, August 2020
- We organized IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2020) hosted in Dunedin, New Zealand, August 2020
- Covid 19 coronavirus: Why contact tracing tech isn't so straightforward - news article on NZ Herald featuring Simon and Jennifer, May 2020
- We organized the International Workshop on XR Technologies (XR Workshop 2020) hosted in Wellington, New Zealand, February 2020
- Childbirth goes digital: The Kiwi midwife trialling virtual reality for pain management by Lorna Massov, January 2020
- New PhD students have joined us in 2020: Hiroshika Hinduramage, Ben Powley, Faisal Zaman, Chaitra Mahendra
2019
- Games++ event alumni Pippin Barr and Rilla Khaled presenting, November 2019
- Hosted ACM SIGCHI NZ working group meeting, November 2019
- ENGR 489 student Hamish Clark wins best project for Visualizing Public Transport Reliability, November 2019
- Sebastian Baltes from Adelaide visited, November 2019
- Simon McCallum Taking teaching into the virtual world, October, 2019
- We will organize IEEE VISSOFT 2020 in Adelaide, Australia, October 2019
- New PhD student Tristan Bunn joins the group, October 2019
- We will organize IEEE VL/HCC 2020 in Dunedin (10-14 August), New Zealand, October 2019
- Craig Anslow was the Program Chair for IEEE VISSOFT 2019, September 2019
- Nadia Pantidi visiting researcher on sabbatical, July 2019
- New lecturer Jennifer Ferreira joins HCI group, July 2019
- Artur Lugmayr from Curtin University visited, July 2019
- Ben Powley submitted masters thesis, July 2019
- Jack Purvis submitted masters thesis, June 2019
- Paper on Information Security in Agile Software Development Projects: A Critical Success Factor Perspective at European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2019 Nominated for Best Paper Award, June 2019
- Simon McCallum awarded URF grant on games for mental health, June 2019
- Craig Anslow awarded Royal Society Catalyst Leaders Grant with Joaquim Jorge, Mark Billinghurst, and Rob Lindeman, May 2019
- Paper on Agile Practices in Practice: A Theory of Agile Adoption and Process Evolution at XP Conference, May 2019
- Nathan Newton - Graduation Speech, May 2019
- Rainer Koschke from Bremen visited, April 2019
- Karan Singh from Toronto visited, April 2019
- Hamish Clark and Amy Wilson win best poster award on Public Transport Reliability at the Summer Gold Poster Competition as part of the summer scholarship programme 2018/2019, March 2019
- Aaron Quigley from St Andrews visited, February 2019
- Jack Purvis presents paper on CJing Practice: Combining Live Coding and VJing at International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC), January 2019
2018
- New lecturer Simon McCallum joins HCI group, June 2018
- Welcome to Ben Powley new masters student, July 2018
- HCI Research Group 2018 Winter outing to Red Rocks and Beachhouse Cafe, July 2018
- Graduation - Divya Patel and Hannah Craighead, where Divya received the best Honours student in Science and Engineering, and Hannah gave the student graduation speech May 2018
- Welcome to Jack Purvis new masters student, April 2018
2017
- New lecturer Craig Anslow joins HCI group, March 2017
2016
- We say goodby to Roman Klapaukh who has been working as a teaching fellow for the past two years, June 2016