News
Aug 2022
Excited to start the community engagement phase of our tool on Clinical Virtual Reality Training: Managing Chronic Diabetic Wounds in Regional Clinics. In collaboration with the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), the University of South Australia, the University of Adelaide, and the South Australian Aboriginal Chronic Disease Consortium, we have developed a virtual reality (VR) education program for rural health practitioners focused on improving the diagnosis of diabetes-related foot complications (DRFCs) within the Indigenous community.
Aug 2022
Welcome to Connor! Our new PhD student all the way from Scotland. He discussed his PhD plans today at our weekly CAIN meeting and demoed his impressive VR programs that he has been working on during his internship with our industry collaborator My Therapy Australia.
Jul 2022
Great work, Stefan! Another important paper published Using Virtual Reality to Improve Classroom Behavior in People With Down Syndrome: Within-Subjects Experimental Design. The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility and benefits of virtual reality exposure for people with Down syndrome in learning settings.
Mar 2022
INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY 2022. I feel honoured to be featured beside amazing female academics on the UniSA LED screen in Adelaide City.
Mar 2022
Extending our postural stability paper by examining whether taking short breaks reduces VR sickness and cognitive aftereffects. I presented this research at the IEEEVR Health & Safety in VR/AR workshop hosted in Christchurch, New Zealand.
This research is published as an IEEE conference paper titled Getting the Most out of Virtual Reality: Evaluating Short Breaks to Reduce Cybersickness and Cognitive Aftereffects.
Jul 2021
What a month for papers! Our paper titled Rest Intervals during Virtual Reality Gaming Augments Standing Postural Sway Disturbance is also published. We investigated whether taking breaks during VR gaming reduced the effects of VR sickness on postural sway during standing balance assessments.
Jul 2021
Congratulations Stefan! Our Vocational training in virtual environments for people with neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review is now published. We conducted a systematic review to assess whether training in virtual environments can be used to improve real-world vocational skills in people with neurodevelopmental disorders.
Apr 2021
What an amazing team of people that I work with at the Behaviour-Brain-Body Research Centre at UniSA !!! Also, a shout out to Stefan Michalski for receiving nominations for the UniSA Research Excellence Award and the UniSA Justice & Society Champion Award.
Apr 2021
So proud of Stefan presenting at the Australian Experimental Psychology Conference 2021. Flashbacks from my own PhD.
Mar 2021
I co-led a Daily Moves workshop with Dr Raymond Matthews. The Daily Moves is a free supportive physical activity program for adults +65 years old. Dr Matthews discussed the benefits of napping and I presented the work from my Road Safety Teams' Glenelg project. After our presentations, Dr Saredakis, Mr Michalski and I showed the participants a few Google Map experiences in VR. They were blown away!!
Who says VR is only for young people?!
Mar 2021
Super excited to see our Glenelg VR research promoted in the Infrastructure Magazine. This research is in collaboration with the City of Holdfast Bay council and funded by the Road Safety Innovation fund.
Feb 2021
I was hosted on the Startup Daily Series to discuss my work on VR exergaming.
VR exercise — exergaming increasing in popularity.
Feb 2021
What an amazing opportunity. I participated in the International XR Workshop 2021. I worked on at team to create an AR prototype and learnt from world leading experts.
Oct 2020
Our paper Beatsaber paper is now published. Exergaming With Beat Saber: An Investigation of Virtual Reality Aftereffects. Our study investigated the consequences of playing one of the most popular VR exergames for 10 and 50 min on aspects of vision, cognition, and self-reported VR sickness.
Oct 2020
Wow! Dr Jun Ahn and I were one of two teams to win the Augusta Zadow Awards 2020 to improve workplace health and safety for young people. The award was presented by His Excellency the Honourable Hieu Van Le AC, Governor of South Australia. Our project will be testing the effectiveness of VR-based training for forklift operation.
4 May 2020
Submitted our preprint today:
Exergaming with Beat Saber: An Investigation of Virtual Reality Aftereffects
30 April 2020
Had the wonderful opportunity to present (via Zoom) to the latest cohort of the
UniSA ECR Researcher Development Program on ECR Funding: How did I get started?
Despite the Covid-19 challenges, I'm so glad Professor Pat Buckley is still continuing with this fantastic program.
29 April 2020
Well done to my PhD student Stefan Michalski who passed his PhD proposal this week!
Life skills training: A virtual reality intervention for people living with an intellectual disability
1 April 2020 - Ongoing
Learning how to do plots in R with the CAIN lab. We are all upskilling during Covid-19. Thanks, CAIN! It has been a blast! #easierthanexcel
9-13 December 2019
Attended workshops at DH Downunder hosted by the University of Newcastle, Sydney. Thank you to Dr Andrew Burrell from the University of Technology Sydney for showing me how to Build a Simple VR Project and Dr Hafizur Rahaman from Curtin University for his workshop Photo to 3D to Augmented Reality.
So happy I finally got my Maya model of a tavern into VR!
26-27 November 2019
I attended A guided tour of Practical Data Science with R workshop given by statistician Professor Ernest Fokoué from the Rochester Institute of Technology. The workshop was amazing, brilliant and definitely the most 'edutained' I have ever been!
I hope Professor Fokoué comes back to Adelaide. I want to learn more exciting Data Science.
1 November 2019
Well done, Stefan! My student got onto Channel 10 News for his PhD research.
