Overview
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)
Works
Search Professor Nell Baghaei’s works on UQ eSpace
2011
Conference Publication
Promoting and supporting healthy living by design
Baxter, Gordon, Dow, Lisa, Kimani, Stephen and Baghaei, Nilufar (2011). Promoting and supporting healthy living by design. 13th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 5-9 September 2011. Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-23768-3_140
2011
Conference Publication
PETAC: from visualisation to personalisation of tag clouds
Christie, Timothy, Lueg, Christopher and Baghaei, Nilufar (2011). PETAC: from visualisation to personalisation of tag clouds. CHINZ '11: 12th Annual Conference of the New Zealand Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, Hamilton, New Zealand, 4-5 July 2011. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2000756.2000766
2011
Conference Publication
The effects of domain and collaboration feedback on learning in a collaborative intelligent tutoring system
Holland, Jay, Baghaei, Nilufar, Mathews, Moffat and Mitrovic, Antonija (2011). The effects of domain and collaboration feedback on learning in a collaborative intelligent tutoring system. 15th International Conference Artificial Intelligence in Education, Auckland, New Zealand, June 28 - July 2011. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-21869-9_72
2010
Conference Publication
Tag clouds as social signallers
Christie, Timothy, Lueg, Christopher and Baghaei, Nilufar (2010). Tag clouds as social signallers. Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction, Brisbane, Australia, November 22-26. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1952222.1952302
2010
Journal Article
Preface
Floreano, Dario, Zufferey, Jean-Christophe, Srinivasan, Mandyam V. and Ellington, Charlie (2010). Preface. Flying Insects and Robots, 13213 LNCS, v-vi. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-89393-6
2010
Conference Publication
Improving health information access through social networking
Freyne, Jill, Berkovsky, Shlomo, Kimani, Stephen, Baghaei, Nilufar and Brindal, Emily (2010). Improving health information access through social networking. 2010 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), Perth, WA Australia, 12-15 October 2010. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/CBMS.2010.6042666
2010
Conference Publication
Physical activity motivating games: virtual rewards for real activity
Berkovsky, Shlomo, Coombe, Mac, Freyne, Jill, Bhandari, Dipak and Baghaei, Nilufar (2010). Physical activity motivating games: virtual rewards for real activity. SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Atlanta, GA, United States, 10-15 April 2010. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1753326.1753362
2010
Conference Publication
Gender and role differences in family-based healthy living networks
Kimani, Stephen, Baghaei, Nilufar, Freyne, Jill, Berkovsky, Shlomo, Bhandari, Dipak and Smith, Greg (2010). Gender and role differences in family-based healthy living networks. CHI '10: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Atlanta, GA USA, 10-15 April 2010. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/1753846.1754129
2010
Conference Publication
Activity awareness in family-based healthy living online social networks
Kimani, Stephen, Berkovsky, Shlomo, Smith, Greg, Freyne, Jill, Baghaei, Nilufar and Bhandari, Dipak (2010). Activity awareness in family-based healthy living online social networks. IUI '10: 15th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Hong Kong, China, 7 - 10 February, 2010. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/1719970.1720025
2009
Conference Publication
Physical activity motivating games: you can play, mate!
Berkovsky, Shlomo, Freyne, Jill, Coombe, Mac, Bhandari, Dipak and Baghaei, Nilufar (2009). Physical activity motivating games: you can play, mate!. OZCHI '09: Proceedings of the 21st conference of the computer-human interaction special interest group of Australia on Computer-human interaction: design, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 23-27 November 2007. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/1738826.1738872
2009
Conference Publication
SOFA: an online social network for engaging and motivating families to adopt a healthy lifestyle
Baghaei, Nilufar, Freyne, Jill, Kimani, Stephen, Smith, Greg, Berkovsky, Shlomo, Bhandari, Dipak, Colineau, Nathalie and Paris, Cecile (2009). SOFA: an online social network for engaging and motivating families to adopt a healthy lifestyle. OZCHI '09: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 23-27 November 2009. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/1738826.1738871
2008
Book Chapter
Quality of service support in mobile multimedia networks
Baghaei, Nilufar and Hunt, Ray (2008). Quality of service support in mobile multimedia networks. Wireless Quality of Service: Techniques, Standards, and Applications. (pp. 1-25) Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press.
2007
Conference Publication
Performance of evolving IEEE 802.11 security architectures
Gin, Andrew, Baghaei, Nilufar and Hunt, Ray (2007). Performance of evolving IEEE 802.11 security architectures. 5th New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, April 10-13.
2007
Journal Article
Supporting collaborative learning and problem-solving in a constraint-based CSCL environment for UML class diagrams
Baghaei, Nilufar, Mitrovic, Antonija and Irwin, Warwick (2007). Supporting collaborative learning and problem-solving in a constraint-based CSCL environment for UML class diagrams. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2 (2-3), 159-190. doi: 10.1007/s11412-007-9018-0
2007
Conference Publication
From modelling domain knowledge to metacognitive skills: extending a constraint-based tutoring system to support collaboration
Baghaei, Nilufar and Mitrovic, Antonija (2007). From modelling domain knowledge to metacognitive skills: extending a constraint-based tutoring system to support collaboration. 11th International Conference, UM 2007, Corfu, Greece, 25-29 July 2007. Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-73078-1_25
2006
Conference Publication
A constraint-based collaborative environment for learning UML class diagrams
Baghaei, Nilufar and Mitrovic, Antonija (2006). A constraint-based collaborative environment for learning UML class diagrams. 8th International Conference Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Jhongli, Taiwan, June 26-30. Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/11774303_18
2006
Journal Article
Problem-solving support in a constraint-based intelligent system for unified modelling language
Baghaei, Nilufar, Mitrovic, Antonija and Irwin, Warwick (2006). Problem-solving support in a constraint-based intelligent system for unified modelling language. Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, 4 (2), 113-137.
2006
Conference Publication
A collaborative constraint-based adaptive system for learning object-oriented analysis and design using UML
Baghaei, Nilufar (2006). A collaborative constraint-based adaptive system for learning object-oriented analysis and design using UML. 4th International Conference, AH 2006, Dublin, Ireland, 21-23 June 2006. Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/11768012_58
2005
Conference Publication
A constraint-based tutor for learning Object-Oriented analysis and design using UML
Baghaei, Nilufar, Mitrovic, Antonija and Irwin, Warwick (2005). A constraint-based tutor for learning Object-Oriented analysis and design using UML. 13th International Conference on Computers in Education, Singapore, November 28 - December 2.
2005
Conference Publication
COLLECT-UML: Supporting individual and collaborative learning of UML class diagrams in a constraint-based intelligent tutoring system
Baghaei, Nilufar and Mitrovic, Antonija (2005). COLLECT-UML: Supporting individual and collaborative learning of UML class diagrams in a constraint-based intelligent tutoring system. 9th International Conference of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Melbourne, Australia, September 14-16. Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/11554028_64
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Nell Baghaei is:
- Available for supervision
Before you email them, read our advice on how to contact a supervisor.
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
-
Doctor Philosophy
Enhancing Auditory Immersion in Interactive Virtual Reality Environments
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Eve Klein
-
Doctor Philosophy
Engaging Senior Citizens with Cyber Safety through Educational Games
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Marie Boden, Dr Hassan Khosravi, Associate Professor Jason Lodge
-
Doctor Philosophy
Digital Phenotyping Framework for Predicting Anxiety and Depression Symptoms using Game Analytics
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Ben Matthews, Professor Julie Henry
-
Doctor Philosophy
Effects of Virtual Perturbations and Visual Illusions on Gait and Balance
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Taylor Dick, Dr Antonio Padilha Lanari Bo
-
Doctor Philosophy
Introducing Intelligent Avatars in a Virtual Simulated Store
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Marie Boden
-
Doctor Philosophy
The Use of Ethnochemistry Based Augmented Reality to Integrate Multiple Representations in Chemistry Classes and Its Influence on Indonesian Students' Mental Models
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jack Wang, Professor Gwendolyn Lawrie
-
Doctor Philosophy
Assessing prospective memory function in the actual and virtual world.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Julie Henry, Dr Sarah Coundouris
-
Doctor Philosophy
Augmented Reality applications in the classroom
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Marie Boden
-
Doctor Philosophy
Capturing digital biomarkers of mental health in the virtual world.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Sarah Grainger, Dr Sarah Coundouris, Professor Julie Henry
Media
Enquiries
Contact Dr Nell Baghaei directly for media enquiries about their areas of expertise.
Need help?
For help with finding experts, story ideas and media enquiries, contact our Media team: