SMARTlab Alumni
Since 1992, when SMARTlab first opened it's doors, more than 60 artists, scientists, technologists and educators have engaged in transdisciplinary research to complete their PhDs in Inclusive Design + Creative Technology Innovation.
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Dr. Anita McKeown
Cultivating permaCultural resilience: Towards a Creative Placemaking critical praxis
Dr. Anna Birch
Staging and Citing Gendered Meanings: A practice-based study of representational strategies in live and mediated performance
Dr. Anna Kelly
An Analysis of the Implementation of
National Access Policy to Integrate and
Mainstream Equality of Access in Irish
Universities - through the Lens of Inclusive
Design
Dr. Axel Vogelsang
HYPER-IMAGE NETWORK?
An investigation into the role of text and image in the design of hypertext networks with specific consideration of the World Wide Web
Dr. Bo Zhang
The Design, Building, Testing and Evaluation of a Bespoke Virtual Cloud Campus Platform for Irish-Chinese Collaboration Incorporating Cross-cultural Collaborative Games
Dr. Camille Baker
MINDtouch - Ephemeral Transference: ‘Liveness’ in Networked Performance with Mobile Devices
Dr. Elysa Kelly
Exploring the Impact of Adventure-Based Learning, Combined with 3D Printing, and 3D Modelling, on Self-Guided Learning of STEM Subjects
Dr. Frank Gleeson
Improving knowledge worker productivity at the task level in complex manufacturing environment
Dr. Gayil Nalls
WORLD SENSORIUM:
Theory and Practice of the World Social Olfactory Sculpture
Dr. Hongsuk Yoon
HongSuk joined SMARTlab @ The IDRC, UCD (Dublin) from October 2017. The
research fits the SMARTlab thematic of Assistive Technologies, and links to the work
underway in the major initiatives such as XR Accessibility Forum and VR Inclusion
Working Group (IEEE).
The current title of the project is “Applying Inclusive Design Practice to Novel
Interfaces for Extreme Users with Locked-in Syndrome by using VR Head-mounted
Display (HMD)”.
The research is to investigate the possibility of using HMD as a new type of assistive
tools by combining the existing Assistive Technologies (AT) and the features. The
project is to utilizes affordable interface design with the suitable hardware and
software to join in VR space, and to focus on testing the effectiveness of affordances
of proposed interface design in the context of Social VR (Metaverse). Within this
broad range of the Metaverse, the research particularly exploits the effect of body
representation (virtual embodiment) to achieve personal and social change. Utilizing
the new medium with their minimal motion would provide the extreme users with a
meaningful way of joining in Metaverse.
The research outcome will be presented to design strategies that can support VR
designers and developers interested in XR accessibility. Finally, the study delivers
directly to the real world need of individuals without a means to communicate,
enabling a genuine social impact to all if we design for the people who have a unique
and extreme need. The funders and supporting institutions for this project are SMARTlab CLG, Irish Manufacturing Research, Regional Enterprise Development Fund, An Saol CLG, SMARTlab Oxford (SpecialEffect), Braincontrol AAC (Liquidweb)
He holds MSc in Human-Computer Interaction from SKKU, Seoul, South Korea and BA in Philosophy and Sociology from CAU. His study before undertaking the SMARTlab PhD was the area of Computer-Mediated Communication by exploring mobile and wearable health media (e.g., Smart Watch) to improve users’ accessibility with preventive measures. His works are published to academic journals and presented to international HCI conferences supported by Samsung and Brain Korea 21+ scholarship.
Dr. James Aniyamuzaala
Towards an Equitable Public Funding System for Assistive Technology: A Case Study of the Coverage of H.E.A. T for University College Dublin, Ireland.
Dr. James Rwampigi Aniyamuzaala
Aniyamuzaala James Rwampigi is a user of Hearing and Ear Assistive technology (HEAT) solutions and a researcher on topics related to Assistive technology, accessibility, Convention on Rights of Persons with disabilities and Diversity inclusion. James is a Humanitarian Action professional and a PhD Inclusive Design and Creative Technology Innovation Candidate at University College Dublin in Ireland. James’ PhD research is investigating how the Public funding and support system provide equitable public funding and support for Learners in need of Educational HEAT solutions. James is also one of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Ad hoc Advisory Group of Experts on Assistive Technology 2019-2022. He was an advisor on Inclusion and youth with disabilities for the UN Habitat Youth Advisory Board 2015-2018. James was one of the members of the UNFPA Expert and Technical Advisory group for the development of the global Report on Youth with disabilities, ending Gender based Violence and Realising Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.
Dr. Jane De Gay
Haunted Houses": Influence and the Creative Process in Virginia Woolf's Novels
Dr. Julie De Moines
XR in Health and Wellbeing: Establishing a New, Inclusivley Designed Participatory Practice using Augmented Reality Helpers to Support Teens and Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder to Address Life Challenges
Dr. Jutta Treviranus
THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF INCLUSIVE DESIGN:
A Design Framework for a Digitally Transformed and
Complexly Connected Society
Dr. Lynne Heller
AVATAR DAUGHTERS
Envisioning a Spectrum between the
Material/Virtual through Feminist Theory
Dr. Matt Glowatz
Matt is a University College Dublin (UCD) SMARTlab PhD candidate measuring the impact of augmented reality (AR) applications on learners’ engagement, motivation, and performance focusing on undergraduate students in third-level business education.
Matt is working full-time at UCD’s College of Business with electronic learning (eLearning), Technology Innovation and Social Media Strategy related themes being his main research interests. He is the College of Business’ academic coordinator for international students and subject area coordinator for overseas MIS modules offered in Singapore, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka.
Matt has been included in the UCD College of Business Dean’s List of Outstanding Teachers in both 2019 and 2020, received twice the Excellence in Teaching Awards in the Higher Diploma of Business Studies (IT) programme, and won the Educational Contribution Award at the Irish Internet Association's Net Visionary Awards 2006 recognizing his significant contribution to the Irish Internet Industry through education.
In July 2015, Matt has been appointed co-chair of the Bled e-Conference special interest group focusing on Education in the Digital Economy. In June 2017, he was awarded with the Bled eConference Fellow Award 2017 in appreciation of outstanding contributions to the Bled eConference.
The European Commission awarded Matt two research scholarships advising both the University of Nizwa (Oman) and Mahidol University (Thailand) on eLearning-related matters.
Dr. Muireann O'Sullivan
The Perspicacious in Virtual Spaces: Exploring the propensity of Virtual Escape Rooms, Kinaesthetic Learning Tools, and Popular Fiction in a novel toolkit to assist in the development of literary engagement skills and self-perception for 2e Primary Students in Ireland
Dr. Phil Ryan
Phil is a PhD in Inclusive Design & Creative Technology Innovation candidate based in SMARTlab, University College Dublin. He works on sociologically informed technological solutions to problems of population movement. He researches inclusive design, bureaucracy, user experience, privacy, and migration. He holds a BA in Communications Studies from Dublin City University, Adv Dip in Immigration and Asylum Law from King’s Inns Dublin, and MSc in Comparative Social Change awarded jointly by UCD and Trinity College Dublin.
Professionally Phil directs a consultancy business providing information and assistance in all matters related to Irish immigration.
Dr. Sam Van Damme
Intercultural Communication in Chinese Education: An Immersive Study of the Experiences and Views of Western Students Spending a Semester Abroad
Dr. Sapna Ramnani
Gaining Independence in Documentary Production through Assistive Technology: On-camera Interview Techniques Developed by, with and for People with Complex Disability
Dr. Tara O'Neil
Phenomenal 'Ba'
Developing creative potential through
virtual time travel in experiential worlds
Dr. Ylva Hansdotter
The Affordances of Immersive Virtual Reality for Stimulating Prosocial Behaviour: A Mixed-Methods Pro-Environmental Intervention Study
Dr. Zi Siang See
Creating High Dynamic Range Spherical Panorama Images for High Fidelity 360 Degree Virtual Reality
