Dr Nell Baghaei
Dr

Nell Baghaei

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Background

Dr Nilufar (Nell) Baghaei is a Senior Lecturer within the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Queensland and the Co-Director of the Mixed Reality Lab. Her research interests are Virtual Reality, Game-based Learning, AI in Education and Persuasive Technology (Google Scholar h-index: 26, citations: 2061+). She is an Associate Editor of Int Journal Human-Computer Studies, Virtual Reality Springer and Games for Health, and is on the Editorial Board/Programme Committee of several other journals and international conferences. She was one of the Programme Chairs for the International Conference on Persuasive Technology 2024. Dr Baghaei is supervising a number of HDR students on Games and VR related topics and sits on various UQ committees. Before joining UQ, she directed the Games and Extended Reality Lab at Massey University, New Zealand, and held multiple leadership positions in the ITP sector. Prior to that, she was a researcher at CSIRO.

Availability

Dr Nell Baghaei is:
Available for supervision
Media expert

Research interests

  • Virtual Reality

  • Game-based Learning

  • AI in Education

  • Persuasive Technology

Research impacts

  • Best Paper award - Honorable Mention for "Breaking the Isolation: Exploring the Impact of Passthrough in Shared Spaces on Player Performance and Experience in VR Exergames" IEEE VR (A*-ranked conference) 2024

  • Yinshu Zhao (my PhD student) won an Honorable Mention for best DC presentation at IEEE ISMAR 2023 (A*-ranked conference) for her project on Impact of Avatars on Shoppers’ Perception and Behaviour in Immersive Virtual Stores.

  • Suki Zhang (my thesis student) won the Most Innovative Use of XR award at 2023 Innovation Showcase for her thesis project on Juiciness in VR Exergames.

  • Nominated for Best Paper award "Augmented Reality Applications in the Classroom: Teachers’ Experience", Al Omair, H., Mendoza, A., Boden, M., Baghaei, N., International Conference on Computers in Education (2022)

  • Featured in Psychology today for VR and Mental Health project (published in JMIR 2021): New Research Finds Virtual Reality Can Help Treat Anxiety: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urban-survival/202109/new-research-finds-virtual-reality-can-help-treat-anxiety https://www.massey.ac.nz/about/news/new-research-finds-virtual-reality-could-help-treat-anxiety/

  • Nominated for Best Paper award "Persuasive Virtual Reality: Promoting Earth Buildings in New Zealand", Don Samarasinghe, Nilufar Baghaei and Lehan Stemmet, International Conference on Persuasive Technology (2020)

  • Edu-games guru, Dr Baghaei talks to Careers with STEM about some of her research projects, challenges faced along the way and gives some advice to young women who want to learn about and pursue a career in ST (2018)

  • Runner-up Award for leading a research project entitled “Feasibility of Diabetic Mario Mobile Game to Improve Diabetes Self-management”, funded by Health Research Council, in collaboration with the University of Auckland - Unitec (2017)

Search Professor Nell Baghaei’s works on UQ eSpace

125 works between 2004 and 2025
All (125) Journal Article (41) Book Chapter (2) Conference Publication (79) Book (2) Edited Outputs (1)

61 - 80 of 125 works

2020

Conference Publication

Time to get personal: Individualised virtual reality for mental health

Baghaei, Nilufar, Stemmet, Lehan, Hlasnik, Andrej, Emanov, Konstantin, Hach, Sylvia, Naslund, John A., Billinghurst, Mark, Khaliq, Imran and Liang, Hai-Ning (2020). Time to get personal: Individualised virtual reality for mental health. 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, HI, United States, 25-30 April 2020. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3334480.3382932

Time to get personal: Individualised virtual reality for mental health

2020

Journal Article

Editorial: designing technologies for youth mental health

Baghaei, Nilufar, Naslund, John A., Hach, Sylvia and Liang, Hai-Ning (2020). Editorial: designing technologies for youth mental health. Frontiers in Public Health, 8 45. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.00045

Editorial: designing technologies for youth mental health

2020

Conference Publication

Persuasive virtual reality: promoting earth buildings in New Zealand

Samarasinghe, Don Amila Sajeevan, Baghaei, Nilufar and Stemmet, Lehan (2020). Persuasive virtual reality: promoting earth buildings in New Zealand. 15th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2020, Aalborg, Denmark, 20-23 April 2020. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-45712-9_16

Persuasive virtual reality: promoting earth buildings in New Zealand

2020

Conference Publication

SwarMotion: a 3D point cloud video recording tool for classification purposes

Monteiro, Diego, Wang, Jialin, Liang, Hai-Ning, Baghaei, Nilufar and Abel, Andrew (2020). SwarMotion: a 3D point cloud video recording tool for classification purposes. 13th International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE 2019), Xi'an, China,, 24-26 April 2019. Singapore, Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-32-9244-4_27

SwarMotion: a 3D point cloud video recording tool for classification purposes

2019

Conference Publication

Feature enhancement and denoising of a forensic shoeprint dataset for tracking wear-and-tear effects

Francis, Xavier, Sharifzadeh, Hamid, Newton, Angus, Baghaei, Nilufar and Varastehpour, Soheil (2019). Feature enhancement and denoising of a forensic shoeprint dataset for tracking wear-and-tear effects. Ajman, United Arab Emirates, 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), 10-12 December 2019. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ISSPIT47144.2019.9001841

Feature enhancement and denoising of a forensic shoeprint dataset for tracking wear-and-tear effects

2019

Conference Publication

An Adaptive Method for Vein Recognition Enhancement Using Deep Learning

Varastehpour, Soheil, Sharifzadeh, Hamid, Ardekani, Iman, Francis, Xavier and Baghaei, Nilufar (2019). An Adaptive Method for Vein Recognition Enhancement Using Deep Learning. IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Ajman, United Arab Emirates, 10-12 December 2019. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ISSPIT47144.2019.9001834

An Adaptive Method for Vein Recognition Enhancement Using Deep Learning

2019

Conference Publication

Increasing self-compassion in young people through virtual reality

Baghaei, Nilufar, Hach, Sylvia, Khaliq, Imran, Stemmet, Lehan, Krishnan, Jamuna, Naslund, John, Liang, Hai-Ning and Sharifzadeh, Hamid (2019). Increasing self-compassion in young people through virtual reality. 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), Beijing, China, 10-18 October 2019. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct.2019.00042

Increasing self-compassion in young people through virtual reality

2019

Journal Article

MoodJumper: an exploration of game interface preferences in users with/out mood disorder

Baghaei, Nilufar, Hach, Sylvia, Liang, Hai-Ning and Brucker, Marvin (2019). MoodJumper: an exploration of game interface preferences in users with/out mood disorder. Frontiers in Public Health, 7 220. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00220

MoodJumper: an exploration of game interface preferences in users with/out mood disorder

2019

Conference Publication

Learning wear patterns on footwear outsoles using convolutional neural networks

Francis, Xavier, Sharifzadeh, Hamid, Newton, Angus, Baghaei, Nilufar and Varastehpour, Soheil (2019). Learning wear patterns on footwear outsoles using convolutional neural networks. 18th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications/13th IEEE International Conference On Big Data Science And Engineering (TrustCom/BigDataSE), Rotorua, New Zealand, 5-8 August. LOS ALAMITOS: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. doi: 10.1109/TrustCom/BigDataSE.2019.00067

Learning wear patterns on footwear outsoles using convolutional neural networks

2019

Journal Article

Engaging children with educational content via Gamification

Nand, Kalpana, Baghaei, Nilufar, Casey, John, Barmada, Bashar, Mehdipour, Farhad and Liang, Hai-Ning (2019). Engaging children with educational content via Gamification. Smart Learning Environments, 6 (1) 6, 1-15. doi: 10.1186/s40561-019-0085-2

Engaging children with educational content via Gamification

2019

Conference Publication

Virtual reality models for promoting learners engagement in construction studies

Samarasinghe, Don Amila Sajeevan, Latif, Suhaimi Abd and Baghaei, Nilufar (2019). Virtual reality models for promoting learners engagement in construction studies. 2019 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 8-11 April 2019. Piscataway, NJ USA: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/EDUCON.2019.8725120

Virtual reality models for promoting learners engagement in construction studies

2018

Conference Publication

Correlating gamers' brainwaves to their subjective feelings in virtual reality games under different viewing perspectives

Monteiro, Diego, Liang, Hai-Ning and Baghaei, Nilufar (2018). Correlating gamers' brainwaves to their subjective feelings in virtual reality games under different viewing perspectives. 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), Crystal City, VA, United States, 16 - 18 December 2020. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/1234567890

Correlating gamers' brainwaves to their subjective feelings in virtual reality games under different viewing perspectives

2018

Conference Publication

Designing a virtual reality flight simulator

Halim, Ilona, Casey, John and Baghaei, Nilufar (2018). Designing a virtual reality flight simulator. Unknown, Unknown, Unknown. Taoyuan City, Taiwan: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education.

Designing a virtual reality flight simulator

2018

Journal Article

A refinement of an iterative orthogonal projection method

Jamil, Noreen, Mirza, Farhaan, Naeem, M. Asif and Baghaei, Nilufar (2018). A refinement of an iterative orthogonal projection method. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 341, 31-41. doi: 10.1016/j.cam.2018.02.025

A refinement of an iterative orthogonal projection method

2018

Journal Article

Train-for-life (T4L): an interactive learning platform for logistics, safety and security professionals

Barmada, Bashar and Baghaei, Nilufar (2018). Train-for-life (T4L): an interactive learning platform for logistics, safety and security professionals. Smart Learning Environments, 5 (1) 21, 1-15. doi: 10.1186/s40561-018-0072-z

Train-for-life (T4L): an interactive learning platform for logistics, safety and security professionals

2018

Conference Publication

Evaluating engagement of virtual reality games based on first and third person perspective using EEG and subjective metrics

Monteiro, Diego, Liang, Hai-Ning, Abel, Andrew, Bahaei, Nilufar and De Cassia Monteiro, Rita (2018). Evaluating engagement of virtual reality games based on first and third person perspective using EEG and subjective metrics. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR), Taichung, Taiwan, 10-12 December 2018. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/AIVR.2018.00015

Evaluating engagement of virtual reality games based on first and third person perspective using EEG and subjective metrics

2018

Conference Publication

MoodRush: Designing a language-free mobile app for mood self-assessment

Hach, Sylvia, Baghaei, Nilufar, Jauny, Ray, Hayward, Christian and Sarrafzadeh, Abdolhossein (2018). MoodRush: Designing a language-free mobile app for mood self-assessment. 7th International Conference, MobiHealth, Vienna, Austria, 14-15 November 2017. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.

MoodRush: Designing a language-free mobile app for mood self-assessment

2018

Conference Publication

Improving students' performace through gamification: a user study

Nehring, Natalia, Baghaei, Nilufar and Dacey, Simon (2018). Improving students' performace through gamification: a user study. 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, Funchal, Portugal, 15-17 March 2018. Setubal, Portugal: SciTePress. doi: 10.5220/0006687402130218

Improving students' performace through gamification: a user study

2017

Conference Publication

Designing a novel educational game for teaching C# programming

Hinds, Matthew, Baghaei, Nilufar, Ragon, Pedrito, Lambert, Jonathon, Rajakaruna, Tharindu, Houghton, Travers, Dacey, Simon and Casey, John (2017). Designing a novel educational game for teaching C# programming. 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, Porto, Portugal, April 21-23. SciTePress. doi: 10.5220/0006242000810086

Designing a novel educational game for teaching C# programming

2017

Conference Publication

Runjumpcode: An educational game for educating programming

Hinds, Matthew, Baghaei, Nilufar, Ragon, Pedrito, Lambert, Jonathon, Rajakaruna, Tharindu, Houghton, Travers and Dacey, Simon (2017). Runjumpcode: An educational game for educating programming. 13th International Conference Mobile Learning, Budapest, Hungary, 10-12 April 2017. Lisbon, Portugal: IADIS.

Runjumpcode: An educational game for educating programming

Availability

Dr Nell Baghaei is:
Available for supervision

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Available projects

  • Virtual Reality & Games projects

    • Virtual Reality and Mental Health - The goal of this project is to enhance self-compassion in people with depression using individualised virtual reality. Example (built in Unity): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po3GpcDLUpQ
    • Virtual Reality and Education - The goal is to enhance people's education (in Construction, Australian history, maths or other fields) using virtual reality. A sample project (built using Unity): https://youtu.be/axpDf1d4X5k
    • Games for Health - The goal of this project is to create mobile games (or build further on top of existing ones) to support people with different health conditions. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4zk6M3Ec5U
    • Virtual Reality and shopping habits - The idea of this project is to use virtual reality to examine and experiment with people's shopping habits. Example (built in Unreal engine): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K32qXuUrE8Y

Supervision history

Current supervision

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