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VISOR (Virtual and Interactive Simulations of Reality) Research Group

Publications

Edited Journals

  • Kavakli, M., International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, Special Issue: Human-Machine Interaction, 2013, Print ISSN 1729-8806, Online ISSN 1729-88142013 Impact Factor: 0.497

Book Chapters B1

  •  Kavakli, M., Ranjbartabar, H., Maddah, A., Ranjbartabar, K., 2015, Tools for eMental-Health Towards the Design of Mobile Stress Management Systems, In: Daniela Villani, Pietro Cipresso, Andrea Gaggioli, Giuseppe Riva, (Eds.) Integrating Technology in Positive Psychology Practice, IGI Global, 10,000 words (accepted on 5.2.2015)
  •  Kavakli, M., Boyali, M., 2012: De-SIGN: Gesture Recognition In Conceptual Design, Sensor Analysis & Synthesis, Advances in Robotics and Virtual Reality, Editors: Tauseef Gulrez and Aboul El Hassanien, Intelligent Systems Reference Library Series (Springer-Verlag), Vol 26, 201-225, ISBN-10: 3642233627 ISBN-13: 978-3642233623 (Sponsor: ARC DP0988088)
  • Boyali, A., Kavakli, M., Twamley, J., 2012: Real Time Six Degree of Freedom Pose Estimation using Infrared Light Sources and Wiimote IR Camera with 3D TV Demonstration, P.Senac, M.Ott, A. Seneviratne (Eds.): Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, Volume 73, pp 137-148 (2 citations) (Sponsor: ARC DP0988088)
  • Malbos, E., Rapee, R., Kavakli, M., 2011: Isolating the effect of Virtual Reality Based Exposure Therapy for agoraphobia : a comparative trial, In: Wiederhold, Brenda K.; Riva, Giuseppe and Bouchard, Stephane. Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine 2011 - Advanced Technologies in Behavioral, Social and Neurosciences, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 167, p.45-50, ISBN 978-1-60750-765-9 (print), ISBN 978-1-60750-766-6 (online) (This book series was also published on Medline online) (3 citations)
  •  Ibrahim, G., Kavakli, M., 2011: Data Mining in the Investigation of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, in: Koyuncugil, A.S., Ozgulbas, N. (Eds), Surveillance Technologies and Early Warning Systems: Data Mining Applications for Risk Detection, pp. 228-241. ISBN13: 9781616928650 ISBN10: 1616928654 EISBN13: 9781616928674
  • Gulrez, T., Kavakli, M., Tognetti, A., 2008: Robotics and Virtual Reality: A Marriage of two diverse streams of science. in: Hassanien, Aboul-Ella; Abraham, Ajith; Kacprzyk, Janusz (Eds.) Computational Intelligence in Multimedia Processing: Recent Advances, Series "Studies in Computational Intelligence" Springer Verlag, Germany, Vol. 96, 99-118, ISBN: 978-3-540-76826-5, Impact factor: 1.04 (ISI Thomson) (3 citations)
  •  Kavakli, M, Szilas, N., Porte, J., Kartiko, I., 2007: RiskMan: A Multi-Agent System for Risk Management, In: Lin, H., Architectural Design of Multi-Agent Systems -- Technologies and Techniques, Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group Reference imprints, pp.356-376 (4 citations) (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852) (Sponsor: ARC LX0560117)
  • Kavakli, M and Gero, JS, 2003: Strategic Knowledge Differences between an expert and a novice designer, in U Lindemann et al (eds), Human Behaviour in Design, Springer, (http://people.arch.usyd.edu.au/~john/publications/2003/03oKavakliGerooHBiD.pdf ) pp 42-51. ISBN: 3-540-40632-8 (46 citations)http://www.springer.com/east/home/generic/search/results?SGWID=5-40109-22-3064223-0
  • Kavakli, Manolya, and J. S. Gero. "Difference between expert and novice designers: an experimental study." Human behaviour in design (2003): 42-51. (20 citations)

Refereed International Journal Articles C1

  • Kelaiah, I., Kavakli, M., Cheng, K., 2014: Associations between Simulator Sickness and Visual Complexity of a Virtual Scene, Frontiers in Psychological and Behavioral Science (FPBS), Apr. 2014, Vol. 3 Iss. 2, pp 27-35, ISSN:2309-012X(Print)   ISSN:2309-0138(Online) http://www.academicpub.org/fpbs/paperInfo.aspx?paperid=1396 (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)
  •  Maddah, A., Kavakli, M., 2014: System Architecture & Feature Design for Engineering a Web-based Travel Advisor System, International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing, Vol. 2, No. 2, April 2014, pp.115-121
  • Anvari, F., Tran, H.M.T., Kavakli, M., 2013: Using Cognitive Load Measurement and Spatial Ability Test to Identify Talented Students in Three-Dimensional Computer Graphics Programming, International Journal of Information and Education Technology (IJIET 2013) Vol.3(1): 94-99 ISSN: 2010-3689 (2 citations)
  • Maddah, A., Kavakli, M., 2013: FanOnTour: A Novel Approach to Travel Advisor Systems,   International Journal of Information and Education Technology (IJIET 2013) Vol.3(1): 100-104 ISSN: 2010-3689 (2 citations)
  • Malbos, E., Rapee, R., Kavakli, M, 2013: Creation of Interactive Virtual Environments for Exposure Therapy through Game-Level Editors: Comparison and Tests on Presence and Anxiety, the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 1–39 [ERA B] http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10447318.2013.796438 (1 citation)
  • Nasser, K., Kavakli, M., 2012: Impacts of Culture on Gesture Based Interfaces: A case study on Anglo-Celtics and Latin Americans, the International Journal On Advances in Life Sciences, v 4 n 3&4 2012, 1-10 issn: 1942-2660 (1 citation) (Sponsor: ARC DP0988088)
  •  Malbos E, Rapee R.M., Kavakli M (2012). A Controlled Study of Agoraphobia and the Independent Effect of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy. Australia and New Zealand Journal Of psychiatry 2012 Jul 11. [Epub ahead of print]. (7 citations)
  • Malbos E, Rapee R.M., Kavakli M (2012). A Behavioral Presence Test in Threatening Virtual Environments. Presence: teleoperators and virtual envrionments. 21 (3), 268-280. [ERA B]  (2 citations)
  • Kavakli, M., Li, M., Rudra, T., 2012:  TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A VIRTUAL COUNSELOR TO TACKLE STUDENTS’ EXAM STRESS, Transactions of the SDPS: Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science, Special Issue on Pervasive Healthcare, Vol 16, No1, pp 5-26. (3 citations)
  • Malbos, E., Rapee, R., Kavakli, M., 2011: Isolating the effect of Virtual Reality Based Exposure Therapy for agoraphobia : a comparative trial, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 167, p.45-50, ISSN 0926-9630 (print), ISSN 1879-8365 (online) (5 citations)
  • Kartiko, I., Kavakli, M., Cheng, K., 2010: Learning Science in a Virtual Reality Application: The Impacts of Animated-Virtual Actors’ Visual Complexity, Computers & Education, 55 (2010), pp. 881-891 ISSN: 0360-1315 [ERA A] Impact factor: 2.190. (18 citations) (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)
  • Kavakli, M., 2008: Gesture Recognition in Virtual Reality, Special Issue on: "Immersive Virtual, Mixed, or Augmented Reality Art", The International Journal of Arts and Technology  (IJART), ISSN (Online): 1754-8861 - ISSN (Print): 1754-8853, Vol 1, No 2, 215-229 (9 citations) (Sponsor: ARC DP0988088)
  • Richards, D., Szilas, N., Kavakli, M., Dras, M., 2008: Impacts of Visualisation, Interaction and Immersion on Learning with An Agent-Based Training Simulation, Special issue on "Agent Based Systems for Human Learning" of the Journal International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications (ITTSA), Vol 4, No 1, March, pp. 43-60 ISSN 1751-1461    (Print) ISSN 1751-147X (CD-ROM) http://siwn.org.uk/press/sai.htm (4 citations) (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852) (Sponsor: ARC LX0560117)
  • Tychsen, A., Hitchens, M., Brolund, T., McIlwain, D., Kavakli, M., 2008: GROUP PLAY – Determining Factors on the Gaming Experience in Multi-Player Role Playing Games, ACM Journal of Computers in Entertainment, Volume 5, Issue 4, March, 2008, 1-29, ISSN:1544-3574 [ERA B] (8 citations) Impact Factor: 1.17 (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)
  • Szilas, N., Barles, J., Kavakli, M., 2007: An Implementation of Real-Time 3D Interactive Drama, ACM Journal of Computers in Entertainment, Vol 5, Issue 1, Special Issue: Interactive Entertainment, Jan/Mar, 1-20, Volume 5, Issue 1 (January 2007) Article No. 5, ISSN:1544-3574 (20 citations) [ERA B]  Impact Factor: 1.17 (Sponsor: ARC LX0560117)
  • Tychsen, A., Hitchens, M., Brolund, T., Kavakli, M., 2006: Live Action Role-Playing Games: Control, Communication, Storytelling, and MMORPG Similarities, Games and Culture, A Journal of Interactive Media, Volume1 number 3, July 2006, ISSN 1555-4120 J556, 252-275 (34 citations) [ERA A] (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)
  • Kavakli, M., Akca, B., Jason Thorne, 2004: The Role of Computer Games in the Education of History, Journal of Institute of Social Science, Mugla University (Muğla Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi), Spring 2004, No: 13, 66-78, ISSN:1302-7824 

Refereed International Conferences E1

  • Kavakli, M., Chen, Y.L., 2014: Gender Differences in Gesture-based Interaction, CENTRIC 2014, The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services, October 12 - 16, 2014 - Nice, France, 1-7 [ERA C] [CENTRIC Best Paper Award] (Sponsor: ARC DP0988088)
  • Liu, J., Kavakli, M., 2013: Towards Accommodating Gender Differences in Speech-Gesture Based Multimodal Interfaces Design, [ERA C] (Sponsor: ARC DP0988088)
  • Liu, J., Kavakli, M., 2013: The Correlation of Speech and Hand Gestures for Multimodal Web Interaction, WORLDCOMP'13 - The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, Proceedings of EEE2014, 21-25 July, LasVegas, USA, 1-6 [ERA C] (Sponsor: ARC DP0988088)
  • Maddah, A., Kavakli, M., 2013: System Architecture and Feature Design for Engineering a Web-based Trip Advisor System: Fan-on-Tour, 14th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2013) July 1 - 3, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A., pp.683-688, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6598539&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D6598539
  • Gulrez, T., Kavakli, M., Tognetti, A., 2013: Decoding 2D Kinematics of Human Arm for Body Machine Interfaces , ICIEA 2013: The 8th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, 19 – 21 June 2013, Melbourne, 1-4 [ERA A] (Sponsor: ARC DP0988088)
  • Anvari, F., Tran, H.M.T., Kavakli, M., 2013: Using Cognitive Load Measurement and Spatial Ability Test to Identify Talented Students in Three-Dimensional Computer Graphics Programming, International Conference on Information and Education Technology, ICIET 2013, Bruxelles, Belgium, January 12-13, 2013, 1-7 [ERA C] [ICIET Best Paper Award]
  • Maddah, A., Kavakli, M., 2013: FanOnTour: A Novel Approach to Travel Advisor Systems, International Conference on Information and Education Technology, International Conference on Information and Education Technology, ICIET 2013, Bruxelles, Belgium, January 12-13, 2013, 1-5 [ERA C]
  • Kavakli, M., 2012: Ontologies for Object Manipulation in Collaborative Virtual Reality, KEOD 2012: 4th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, Barcelona, Spain, 4-7th Oct 2012, 1-7 [ERA C] (Sponsor: ARC DP0988088)
  •  Kavakli, M., 2012: INTERACTING WITH VIRTUAL HUMANS AND DETECTION OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS: What makes an avatar more real than real?, IADIS Game and Entertainment Technologies 2012 (GET 2012) Conference, 17-20 July 2012, Lisbon, Portugal, 1-8
  • Kavakli, M., Li, M., Rudra, T., 2012: E Towards the Design of a Virtual Sociologist on Aborigines Substance Abuse: A coping-theory perspective, IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Cybernetics, IEEE CYBERNETICSCOM 2012, Bali, 12-14  July 2012, 1-5
  • Boyali, A., Kavakli, M., 2012: A Robust Gesture Recognition Algorithm based on Sparse Representation, Random Projections and Compressed Sensing, ICIEA 2012: The 7th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, 18 – 20 July 2012, Singapore, 1-7 [ERA A] (5 citations) (Sponsor: ARC DP0988088)
  • Nasser Alvarez, K., Kavakli, M., 2012: Influence of Culture in Multimodal Interfaces, MMEDIA 2012: The Fourth International Conferences on Advances in Multimedia, Chamonix/ Mont Blanc, France, April 29-May 4th 2012, 1-6, [ERA C]  [MMEDIA Best Paper Award] (1 citation) (Sponsor: ARC DP0988088)
  • Boyali, A., Kavakli, M., 2012: Robust Gesture Recognition for wearable garments, MMEDIA 2012: The Fourth International Conferences on Advances in Multimedia, Chamonix/ Mont Blanc, France, April 29-May 4th 2012, 1-6 [ERA C] (Sponsor: ARC DP0988088)
  • Li, M., Rudra, T., Kavakli, M., 2012: E-counsellor - An Avatar for Student Exam Stress Management, ICIME 2012, The 3rd International Conference on Information Management and Evaluation, Atilim University, Performance Management and Applications Research Centre, Ankara, Turkey, 16-17 April 2012,  p.185-193
  • Rudra, T., Li, M., Kavakli, M., 2012: ESCAP: Towards the Design of AI Architecture for a Virtual Counselor to Tackle Students’ Exam Stress, HICCS 2012, Hawaii, 5-7 January, 1-10 [ERA A] (2 citations)
  • Liu, J., Kavakli, M., 2011: "Temporal Relation between Speech and Co-verbal Iconic Gestures in Multimodal Interface Design", GESPIN2011 Gesture and Speech in Interaction conference Bielefeld, 5-7 September, 1-8 [ERA B] (4 citations) (Sponsor: ARC DP0988088)
  •  Kavakli, M., Rudra, T., Li, M., 2011: An Embodied Conversational Agent for Counselling Aborigines - Mr. Warnanggal. Proceedings of ICSOFT 2011, 6th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, Seville, Spain, July 18-21, pp371-376 [ERA B] http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary. (5 citations)
  • Boyali, A., Kavakli, M., 2011: 3D and 6 DOF User Input Platform for Computer Vision Applications and Virtual Reality, INISTA 2011, International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications, Istanbul, Turkey, June 15-18, 2011, 1-8 [ERA C] (4 citations) (Sponsor: ARC DP0988088)
  •  Wittmann, M., Kavakli, M., Bower, M., 2011: Using the SCORE software package to analyse novice computer graphics programming, ITiCSE11, 16th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education 27-29 June 2011, Darmstadt, Germany (http://www.iticse2011.tu-darmstadt.de), 1-10 [ERA A] (1 citation)
  • Malbos, E., Rapee, R., Kavakli, M., 2011: The Use of Game Level Editors to Create Virtual Environments for the Treatment of Anxiety: Effects on Presence and Anxiety Levels, Laval Virtual 2011, Proceedings of Virtual Reality International Conference (VRIC 2011), 6-8 April 2011, Laval, France. http://www.laval-virtual.org/2011/papers_2011/68.pdf, 1-10
  • Boyali, A., Kavakli, M., Twamley, J., 2010: Real Time Six Degree of Freedom Pose Estimation using Infrared Light Sources and Wiimote IR Camera with 3D TV Demonstration, MobiQuitous2010: 7th International ICST Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems, December 6th to 9th 2010, Sydney, Australia, 1-10 [ERA A] (2 citations) (Sponsor: ARC DP09880
  • Liu, J., Kavakli, M., 2010: A Survey of Speech-Hand Gesture Recognition for the Development of Multimodal Interfaces in Computer Games, 6th IEEE International Workshop on Networking Issues in Multimedia Entertainment
  • (NIME'10) ICME 2010 - Satellite Workshop, July 19-23, 2010, Singapore, 1-6 [ERA B] (12 citations) (Sponsor: ARC DP0988088)
  • Liu, J., Kavakli, M., 2010: Hand Gesture Recognition Based on Segmented Singular Value Decomposition, KES2010: 14th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, 8-10 September 2010 Cardiff, Wales, UK, 1-10, http://kes2010.kesinternational.org [ERA B] (6 citations) (Sponsor: ARC DP0988088)
  • Kartiko, I., Kavakli, M., & Cheng, K., 2009: The impacts of animated - virtual actors’ visual complexity and simulator sickness in virtual reality applications, In: B. Werner (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2009 6th International Conference Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization, IEEE Computer Society. 11-14 August,  p. 147-152, ISBN 978-0-7695-3789-4. [ERA C] (4 citations) (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)
  • Kartiko, I., Kavakli, M., 2008: Virtual Reality Police Training How much visual information is too much for knowledge transfer?, 2nd International Conference on Cybercrime Forensics Education & Training, CFET 2008, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, United Kingdom, 1-2 September 2008, 1-13 [ERA C] (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)
  •  Dalgliesh, E., Kavakli, M., 2008: Robots are All About Looks, Eurobot 2008, Heidelberg, Germany, 21-25 May 2008, 1-8 [ERA C]
  • Rudra, T, Patel, C., Tien, D., Kavakli, M, 2008: Decision Support System in Making Staff Redundancy Decisions, ICITA 2008: Fifth international conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA2008) Cairns, Australia, June 23-26, 2, ISBN 9780980326727, 1-6 [ERA C]
  • Bigoin, N., Porte. J., Kartiko, I., Kavakli, M., 2007: Effects of Depth Cues on Simulator Sickness, ICST IMMERSCOM 2007, October 10-12, 2007, Verona, Italy, ACM SIGMM Technically sponsored by Create-Net and EURASIP, 1-4 [ERA C] (7 citations) (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)
  • Kavakli, M., Taylor, M., Trapeznikov, A., 2007: Designing in virtual reality (DesIRe): A gesture based interface, DIMEA 2007: Second International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts, 5th - 7th September 2007, Perth, Western Australia, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 274, pp 131 – 136 ISBN:978-1-59593-708-7  (15 citations) [ERA B]
  • Kavakli, M., 2007: Virtual Reality and Interactive Training for Airport Security, 1st International Conference on Cybercrime Forensics Education & Training, CFET 2007, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, United Kingdom, 6-7 September 2007, 1-10, ISSBN 1899253-041(Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)
  • Kavakli, M., Kartiko, I., Porte, J., Bigoin, N., 2007: Effects of digital content on motion sickness in immersive virtual environments, 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION SYSTEMS, JULY 23-24, 2007, ATHENS, GREECE, 1-12 (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)
  • Rudra, T., Kavakli, M., Tien, D., 2007: Emotion Detection from Male Speech in Computer Games, Taiwan, IEEE TENCON 2007, Taipei International Convention Center, 30 Oct-2 Nov, 1-4 [ERA C] (1 citation) (Sponsor: ARC LP0216837)
  • Kavakli, M., Kartiko, I., 2007: Avatar Construction for Believable Agents, 3IA'2007 CONFERENCE, THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, Athens (GREECE), May 30 - 31, 2007, 1-6 (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)
  • Gulrez, T., Kavakli, M., 2007: Sensor Relevance Establishment Problem, ICSNC 2007 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, London, United Kingdom, April 15-17, 2007, pp. 650-655 ISBN: 1-4244-1076-2 (1 citation) (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)
  • Gulrez, T., Kavakli, M., 2007: Precision Position Tracking in Virtual Reality Environments Using Sensor Networks, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE2007), Vigo (Spain), June 4-7, 2007 1-6  (6 citations) (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852) 
  • Kavakli, M., Richards, D., Dras, M., and Porte, J., 2007: An Immersive Virtual Reality Training Simulation for Risk Management, SimTecT 2007: Simulation Conference: Simulation - Improving Capability and Competitiveness, 4 June – Thursday 7 June 2007, Brisbane Convention Centre, 1-6 [ERA C] (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)
  • Richards, D., Szilas, N., Kavakli, M., Dras, M., 2007: Impacts of Visualisation, Interaction and Immersion on Learning with An Agent-Based Training Simulation, Agent Based Systems for Human Learning (ABSHL) Workshop, 2007, 1-18 [ERA A+] (4 citations) (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)
  •  Rudra, T., Kavakli, M., Tien, D., 2007: Emotion Detection from Female Speech in Computer Games, 4th International Conference on IT and Application, ICITA 2007, January 15-18 2007, Harbin, China, IEEE NSW Section, 712-716 [ERA C] (Sponsor: ARC LP0216837)
  •   Fellmann. T., Kavakli, M., 2007: A Command Line Interface versus a Graphical User Interface in Coding VR systems, Springer, 2nd International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (IASTED-HCI 2007), Chamonix, France - March 14 – 16, 2007, 1-7 (1 citation) (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)
  •  Gao, Y.F., Kavakli, M., 2006: VS: Facial Sculpting in the Virtual World, the International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation CIMCA'2006, 28 November – 1 December 2006, Sydney, Australia , 1-4 (3 citations) [ERA C]
  • Jayarathna, D., Kavakli, M., Palliyaguruge, M., 2006: An Integrated Game Based on Gesture Recognition: Rock-Paper-Scissors in Tic-Tac-Toe, 1st International Conference on Digital Interactive Media Entertainment & Arts (DIME 2006), 25-27 October 2006, Bangkok, Thailand , 1-6
  • Fassbender, E., Richards, D., Kavakli, M., 2006: Game engineering approach to the effect of music on learning in virtual-immersive environments, the Joint International Conference on CyberGames and Interactive Entertainment 2006 (CGIE2006), 4-6 December 2006 in Perth, Western Australia (7 citations) [ERA C] (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)
  • Richards, D., Barles, J., Szilas, N., Kavakli, M., Dras, M., 2006: Human and Software Agents Learning Together, Agent Based Systems for Human Learning (ABSHL) Workshop May 9, 2006 to be held at the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006) 8-12 May 2006, Hakodate, Japan, 14-21. [ERA A+] (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852) (Sponsor: ARC LX0560117)

  •  Kavakli, M., 2006: Training Simulations for Crime Risk Assessment, 7th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, (ITHET '06), Ultimo, Australia, 10-13 July 2006, University of Technology, 203-210, ISBN: 1-4244-0406-1 [ERA C] (4 citation) (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)Rudra, T., Tien, D., Kavakli, M., 2006: Emotion from Game Pidgin Language using SVM, 2006 IEEE ICOCI International Conference on Computing & Informatics, sponsored by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, June 6 - 8 2006, http://www.icoci06.uum.edu.my/ , 1-4 (1 citation) (Sponsor: ARC LP0216837)

  •  Szilas, N., Kavakli, M., 2006: PastMaster@Strorytelling: A Controlled Interface for Interactive Drama, IUI 2006: International Conference on Intelligent user Interfaces, CSIRO ICT Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 29 January to 1 February 2006, pp288-290, ISBN 1595932879  (15 citations) [ERA A] (Sponsor: ARC LX0560117)
  •   Rudra, T., Kavakli, M., 2006: Learning a Pidgin Language, 7th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, (ITHET '06), Ultimo, Australia, 10-13 July 2006, University of Technology, 310-315, ISBN: 1-4244-0406-1 [ERA C] (Sponsor: ARC LP0216837)
  •  Kavakli, M., Jayarathna, D., 2006: Virtual Hand: An Interface for Interactive Sketching in Virtual Reality, CIMCA'2005: the International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, sponsored by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering), 28-30 November, Vienna, Austria (acceptance rate: 174/600), Vol1, 613-619, ISBN-13: 9780769525044, ISBN-10: 0769525040  (7 citations) [ERA C]
  • Kavakli, M., Gao, Y.F., 2006: Patterns of Design Cognition in Back Propagation Neural Networks, CIMCA'2005: the International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, sponsored by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering), 28-30 November, Vienna, Austria (acceptance rate: 174/600), Vol2, 600-605, ISBN-13: 9780769525044, ISBN-10: 0769525040 [ERA C] (1 citation)
  • Fellmann, T., Kavakli, M., 2006: VaiR: System Architecture of a Generic Virtual Reality Engine, CIMCA'2005: the International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, sponsored  by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering), 28-30 November, Vienna, Austria (acceptance rate: 174/600), Vol2, 501-506, ISBN-13: 9780769525044, ISBN-10: 0769525040 (7 citations)  [ERA C] (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)
  •  Tychsen, A., Hitchens, M., Brolund, T., Kavakli, M., 2005: The Game Master , Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Interactive Entertainment (IE’2005), University of Technology, Sydney, December., 215-222, ISBN 0975153323 (53 citations) [ERA B] (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)
  •  Dras, M., Kavakli, Richards, D., M., Barles, J., Tychsen, A., 2005: An Overview of Training Simulation Research and Systems, AAMAS 2005, Proceedings of The Agent Based Systems for Human Learning (ABSHL) Workshop to be held in conjunction with the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems in Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 25-26, http://agents.cs.columbia.edu/abshl  (6 citations) [ERA A+] (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852) (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)
  •  Dras, M., Kavakli, M., Richards, D., 2005: Training for High Risk Situations, In Agent-based Systems for Human Learning, AAMAS Workshop,Proceedings of The Agent Based Systems for Human Learning (ABSHL) Workshop to be held in conjunction with the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems in Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 25-26, http://agents.cs.columbia.edu/abshl [ERA A+]  (2 citations)
  •  Rudra, T., Tien, D., Kavakli, M., 2005: Analysis of Conversational Game Pidgin Language, IEEE Tencon’05: IEEE International Region 10 Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 21-24 November 2005, CD ROM and IEEE Explore, 1-4, ISBN: 0-7803-9311-2 [ERA C] (2 citations) (Sponsor: ARC LP0216837)
  •  Kavakli, M., 2005: Speaking Hands of an Artist & Requirements for an Interface Design, INISTA 2005, Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Turkey Chapter, YILDIZ Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 15-18 June , 195-198, http://www.inista.org/, ISBN 9754614008
  • Kavakli, M., Gao, Y.F., 2005: Consistency of Risk Assessment in Physical and Virtual Environments, INISTA 2005, Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Turkey Chapter, YILDIZ Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 15-18 June, pp99-102, http://www.inista.org/   ISBN 9754614008 (Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)
  • Kavakli, M., Lloyd, M., 2005: SpaceEngine: A Seamless Simulation System for Virtual Presence in Space, INISTA 2005, Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Turkey Chapter, YILDIZ Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 15-18 June , 231-233, http://www.inista.org/ ISBN 9754614008
  • Kavakli, M., Lloyd, M., 2005: LightSpeed: Fusing the Virtual Space with Telepresence, INISTA 2005, Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Turkey Chapter, YILDIZ Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 231-234, June 15-18, ISBN 9754614008 
  • Kavakli, M., 2005: Games of Soldiers:  A Survey of Military Training & Computer Games, ISAGA 2005, 36th annual conference for the International Simulation and Gaming Association, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, 27 June to 1 July, 1-5(Sponsor: ARC DP0558852)
  • Kavakli, M., Kavakli, K., 2004: Networking of Cognitive Maps and Navigating Mazes in Virtual Environments, ICI-2004, International Conference on Informatics , Section: Computers and Advanced Technology in Education 1-4 September, Cesme, Turkey, September 16-19, CD-Proceedings, (1 citation)
  •   Kavakli, M., Kavakli, K., Gao, Y.F., 2004: Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design in Virtual Reality, Proceedings of the 9th Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Conference, organised by the International Security Management & Crime Prevention Institute, Brisbane, September 13-16 (8 citations) http://www.cpted-2004.com/prog_detail.html
  •   Kavakli, M., Akca, B., Kavakli, K., Jayarathna, D., 2004: Navigation in an Anzac war Strategy Game, Proceedings of New Zealand Game Developers Conference (Fuse2004), University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 28 June- 2 July, 13-20, ISBN 0476006244   http://www.nzgdc.org.nz/index.php?mod=schedule
  •   Kavakli, M., Akca, B., Thorne, J., 2004: The Role of Computer Games in the Education of History, In Pisan, Y., (Ed): Expertise in Design: Design Thinking Research Symposium, Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Interactive Entertainment (IE’2004), University of Technology, Sydney, 13 February, 41-48, ISBN 0975153308 (4 citations) [ERA B]
  •    Sherren, K., Kavakli, M., 2004: An Online Collaboration Model For the Distance Education of Cartography, Proceedings of GeoCart’2003 National Cartographic Conference, Taupo, New Zealand, 12-14 February 2003 (organized by Land Information New Zealand, the Spatial Analysis Facility, SGES, University of Auckland and the University of Waikato), 1-11p., http://www.cartography.org.nz/geocart2003/  (1 citation)
  •   Rudra, T., Kavakli, M., Bossomaier, T., 2003: A Game Pidgin Language for Speech Recognition in Computer Games, 3rd International Conference on Computational Semiotics for Games and New Media, University of Teesside, UK between 10th-12th September 2003, 90-98, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=04084871  (5 citations) (Sponsor: ARC LP0216837)

Abstracts E3

  • Kavakli, M., 2015: Keynote Speech, “Human Information Processing and Ubiquitous Computing” at  ICCEI 2015 International Conference on Communication and Electronics Information for the International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology on 5-6th Jan 2015, Bali Island, Indonesia
  • Kavakli, M., 2014: Keynote Speech, “Interfaces for Tomorrow: Virtual Reality and Ubiqutous Interface Design for Gesture Recognition” ICIET 2014 (International Conference on Information and Education Technology) at  IACSIT Conferences (2014) for the International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology on 2-3 Jan 2014, Melbourne, Australia
  • Malbos, E., Rapee, R., Kavakli, M., 2011: Virtual Reality Based Exposure therapy of Anxiety disorders: A trial with Agoraphobia, 16th Annual CyberPsychology and CyberTherapy Conference, June 19th-22nd, 2011 in Gatineau, Canada, 1-5
  • Kavakli, M., 2008: Virtual Reality, Training Simulations and Motion Sickness, Keynote Speech, ICITA 2008: Fifth international conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA2008) Cairns, Australia, June 23-26, ISBN 9780980326727, 1
  • Kavakli, M., Jayarathna, D., 2005: Virtual Hand: An Interface for Interactive Sketching in Virtual Reality, CIMCA'2005: the International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, sponsored by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering), 28-30 November, Vienna, Austria (acceptance rate: 174/600), pp107 ISBN 1740882474 (5 citations)
  • Fellmann, T., Kavakli, M., 2005: VaiR: System Architecture of a Generic Virtual Reality Engine, CIMCA'2005: the International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, sponsored by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering), 28-30 November, Vienna, Austria (acceptance rate: 174/600), pp187 ISBN 1740882474

Posters E3

  •  Kavakli, M., Lloyd, M., 2005: LightSpeed: Fusing the Virtual Space with Telepresence, INISTA 2005, Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Turkey Chapter, YILDIZ Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 15-18 June 1-2 [ERA C]
  • Bayazit, N., Kavakli, M., 1995: Bilgisayar Destekli Yapi Elemanlari Tasarimi Projesi (Computer Aided Building Elements Design Project), AR-GE'95 Bilim ve Teknoloji Günleri, TÜYAP Istanbul Sergi Sarayi, Tepebasi, Istanbul (in Turkish).
  • Bayazit, N., Kavakli, M., Corbaci, F. K., 1995: Otomatik ve Parametrik Tasarim Uygulamalari (Automatic and Parametric Design Applications), AR-GE'95 Bilim ve Teknoloji Günleri,TÜYAP Istanbul Sergi Sarayi, Tepebasi, Istanbul (in Turkish).

Abstracts

  •  Kavakli, M., Keynote Speech, “Human Information Processing and Ubiquitous Computing”, ICCEI 2015 Int. Conf. on Communication and Electronics Info. for Int. Assoc. of Comp. Science and IT, 5-6th Jan 2015, Bali Island, Indonesia (Sponsor: ARC DP0988088)
  • Keynote Speech, “Interfaces for Tomorrow: Virtual Reality and Ubiqutous Interface Design for Gesture Recognition”, ICIET 2014 International Conference on Information and Education Technology, 2-3 Jan 2014, Melbourne, Australia (Sponsor: ARC DP0988088)
  •  Kavakli, M., Keynote Speech, “Virtual Reality, Training Simulations and Motion Sickness,” 5th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, 23-26 June 2008

Other Conferences & Seminars

  •  Kartiko, I., Kavakli, M., Cheng, K., 2009: Does the visual complexity of animated-virtual actors in virtual reality applications affect learning?, 9th Australasian Conference of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, 30 Sep- 2 Oct 2009, Sydney, 1-10 [ERA C] (paper was presented, but withdrawn -not published)
  • Jain, S., Kavakli, M., 2009: Pro-MOTE: 3D whiteboard for scientific collaboration, ACM Mindtrek 2009, Tampere, Finland, 30 September – 2 October 2009, 1-8 (submitted on June 1st 2009) (accepted on July 23rd 2009) (paper was accepted but withdrawn -not presented) [ERA B]
  • Wittmann, M., Kavakli, M., 2008: Using a Virtual Environment to Examine Spatial Memory, IDMME Virtual Concept Conference, Beijing, 8-10 October 2008 (http://www.virtualconcept-idmme.estia.fr/index.php?page=22) 1-5

  Research Reports

  • Malbos, E., Rapee, R., Kavakli, M, 2011: Isolating the effect of virtual reality based exposure therapy for agoraphobia: a comparative trial.(OUTCOME TRIALS FOR ANXIETY DISORDERS)(Clinical report), Journal of Cybertherapy and Rehabilitation, June 2011. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. 2011;167:45-50. PMID: 21685640 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
  • Kavakli, M., 2010: QVED: Questionnaires for Virtual Environment Developers, VISOR (Virtual and Interactive Simulations of Reality) Research Group, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, 1-15, http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/~manolya/QVED and http://web.science.mq.edu.au/groups/visor/QVED
  • Malbos, E., 2010: QFA: Questionnaires for Anxiety, VISOR (Virtual and Interactive Simulations of Reality) Research Group, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, 1-13, http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/~manolya/QFA and http://web.science.mq.edu.au/groups/visor/QFA
  • Kavakli, M., Jayarathna, D., 2005: 3D Sketching in Virtual Reality, 1-15
  • Chong, S., Kavakli, M., 2005: Virtual Ball: An Application of Augmented Reality in Sports, 1-10
  • Kavakli, 2005: Virtual Hand: An Interface for Sketching in Virtual Reality, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 1-10
  • Kavakli, M, 2005: War Simulations for Military Training, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 1-25
  •  Kavakli, M, 2005: Contextual Model for A Simulated Battlefield: ‘Gallipoli 1914’, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia