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Information Systems, Green IS, IS Security, Emergency Management, eGovernment...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Rajan Shankaran (Senior Member, IEEE) earned his M.B.A. (MIS) degree in information systems from the Maastricht School of Management, followed by the M.Sc. (Hons.) and Ph.D. degrees in network communications and security from the University of Western Sydney. Currently, he serves as the Course Director at the School of Computing,...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Mark Wiggins is Professor of Organisational Psychology at Macquarie University. He gained is PhD in Psychology from the University of Otago, New Zealand in 2001. He is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society, and a Registered Psychologist in Australia with an endorsed area of practice in Organisational Psychology. ...View full profile in our Researcher's database

My research crosses mechanistic, functional and evolutionary questions in the study of animal behaviour. A central theme of my research concerns how animals process information. Dealing with information is crucial for many important behaviours in an animal's life, including choosing a mate, avoiding predators, and finding food. The range of...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Associate Professor Kenneth Sheedy is the founding director of the Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies (from 2000). He is also a member of the teaching staff of the Department of History and Archaeology, and a member of CACHE (Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage). He received his doctorate in Classical...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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Dr James Hazelton joined Macquarie University in 2001. Prior to his academic career, James was with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where he worked in audit and consulting in Sydney, London, and New York. James specialises in sustainability accounting. He led a team engaged by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology to analyse the benefits...View full profile in our Researcher's database

My research focuses on the transformative effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on the workforce and higher education. I am particularly interested in how AI-driven automation reshapes job markets, alters skill requirements, and spurs changes in educational curricula to prepare future generations for an evolving technological landscape. I have received several...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Cinzia's art practice and research focus on mediated relationships and intimate interactions to form a coherent body of work that make full use of the versatility of screens. This research strand started with the practice-based PhD Intimations: Videoperformance and Relationality completed in 2014 at the University of Westminster in London. The recent networked body of work, By Invitation Only (2015-2018), examines the potential of food to investigate remote intimacy. These networked and videoperformances have been exhibited in Europe, China, the USA, Russia and Japan. As a Visiting Research Fellow in the Computing Department at Macquarie University and as part of VISOR, I am focusing on developing an immersive artwork, on immersive cinema and on virtual co-presence. Since 2013 she has been a research fellow at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (University of Dundee), contributing to the AHRC funded research projects Rewind Italia and EVWA. As an active member of the research cluster Critical Practice based at Chelsea College of Art and Design (UAL), I am involved in practice-based research, strategies for shared knowledge production, expanded performative events, participatory art practices, alternative collaborative methodologies and publications.

Cat Kutay graduated from UNSW in 2006 with a PhD in group based learning support using rule-based agents. She has been working in developing eLearning systems, including python web services, mobile apps with games and Unity games. She is working with the encultured agents system FAtiMA developed at GAIPS in Portugal to create agents suitable for enacting Aboriginal culture in games. The games are simulations with some interaction based on community stories and are designed for embedding Aboriginal content into the curriculum.

John is the Technical Specialist at the Simulation Hub, Macquarie University and has been a member of the VR lab from 2006 onward. John is the Simhub manager, technician and assistant researcher. John has been involved at different levels, usually as a developer and programmer, in many projects at the Macquarie University VR lab including: Risk Management Mod, Heart rate and skin conductivity analysis in VR, Simulator sickness rollercoasters, Positional sound combined with haptic feedback, Speech recognition and synthesis, Emotion recognition, Gait recognition, Gesture recognition and positional tracking with PPT optical system and wiimote IR, Integration of Kinect depth sensors into VR environments, Kinect for predicting knee injuries in netball players, Development of pedagogical tool VWorlds in Unity3D engine, Creation of virtual landscapes using survey data, VR development for Vizard engine, VR development for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, 360 degree video in VR, Emergent AI behaviour using extended boids algorithms, and more.

Meredith is a research assistant and computer programmer with over 10 years of experience working at Macquarie University on Virtual Reality, Game Engine technology, and Web-based projects. The recent projects she has worked on include a lifeguard awareness and safety simulation project with the YMCA, an empathic virtual medical specialist project with The Children's Hospital at Westmead, and a project developing responsive and adaptive artificial agents for team training with the Department of Psychology.

Cognitive Load in Strategic Decision Making

Hasan J. Alyamani is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computing and a member of VR lab, Macquarie University. Hasan recieved his Bsc (Computer Science) from Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia in 2006 and Ms (Computer Science) from The University of Waikato, New Zealand in 2012. His research interests lie in HCI, cognitive abilities and human behavior.

Hessam Jahani Fariman is the PhD candidate and researcher in department of Computing and VR lab, Macquarie University. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran in 2011 and M.Sc. in Control and Automation Engineering from University of Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, in 2014. His areas of interest include Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Biomedical Engineering and Rehabilitation.

Motor Cognition and Agents using Cognitive Robotics in User Navigation

Majed Abdullah Alrowaily is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computing and a member of VR lab, Macquarie University. Majed received his bachelor degree in Education,Major Computer from Aljouf University, Saudi Arabia in 2006 and MSc (Computer Science) from The University of Waikato, New Zealand in 2012. His research interests lie in HCI, smart meters, social networks and energy behaviour.