Dr Kellie Vella is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies, working on the Australian Research Data Commons' Australian Internet Observatory. Her research centres on human-computer interactions within social and interdisciplinary contexts. She draws upon motivational psychology and participatory research to better understand how to design, apply, and evaluate new technologies for learning and wellbeing.
Availability
Dr Kellie Vella is:
Available for supervision
Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy of Computer-Human Interaction, Queensland University of Technology
Playing alone, playing with others: differences in player experience and indicators of wellbeing
Vella, Kellie, Johnson, Daniel and Hides, Leanne (2015). Playing alone, playing with others: differences in player experience and indicators of wellbeing. Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, London, United Kingdom, 3-7 October 2015. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2793107.2793118
Positively playful: When videogames lead to player wellbeing
Vella, Kellie, Johnson, Daniel and Hides, Leanne (2013). Positively playful: When videogames lead to player wellbeing. Gamification '13: First International Conference on Gameful Design, Research, and Applications, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2-4 October 2013. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2583008.2583024