Greg Wadley

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Service to Research

  • assessor for the Australian Research Council.
  • Workshops Co-Chair for OzCHI 2018, Melbourne
  • co-organizing The 4th Symposium on Computing and Mental Health at CHI 2019, Glasgow
  • co-organized the Forum on Video Games for Mental Health at CHI Play 2018, with associated Special Issue in JMIR
  • co-organized the Workshop on Mood and Emotional State Sensing In-the-Wild at UbiComp 2018
  • co-organized The 3rd Symposium on Computing and Mental Health at CHI 2018 and accompanying JMIR Special Issue
  • co-organized the workshop Manipulating Reality? Designing and Deploying Virtual Reality in Sensitive Settings at DIS 2018
  • co-presented seminar on phone-based support for perinatal mental health
  • organized workshop on supporting Indigenous communities at OzCHI 2017
  • Associate Chair for Designing Interactive Systems 2016.
  • co-organized a workshop on Developing Skills for Social and Emotional Wellbeing at CHI 2015, Seoul
  • Experience Chair for OzCHI 2015, Melbourne
  • Paper Chair for OzChi 2014, Sydney.
  • co-organized the workshop on Smart Health and Social Therapy at OzChi 2013 and 2014.
  • publicity chair for the Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (Melbourne 2007)
  • vice-chair of posters and exhibits for the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Educationconference held in Second Life in 2008
  • co-organizer of the Australian Virtual Worlds Workshop (Melbourne, 2008
  • co-organized a series of research seminars in Second Life (2008/9)

University and Community work

  • co-organizing our school outreach teaching programs
  • co-organizing our 0.2 Academics program
  • teaching I.T. skills at Worawa Aboriginal College, Healesville
  • teaching in the Victorian Indigenous Engineering Winter School, 2018
  • teaching in 'Hands On Engineering and I.T.' program for year 10 students.
  • teaching in Youth Without Borders Spark Engineering Camp
  • mentored Catalyst social entrepreneurship project tackling housing, mental health and public transport
  • co-organized the More Talk Less Action discussions on experimental music at Westspace gallery in 2013 and 2014.

Engagement

    media

  • article in The Conversation on "Why comparing technology to drugs isn’t simply a question of addiction"
  • spoke with Computer Weekly UK, The Australian Financial Review, The Age, ABC News, Medical Republic and 3CR Breakfast about virtual reality for mental health
  • spoke with The New Daily about social media addiction, and with JJJ Hack and 2SER about videogames and mental health
  • stories in Pursuit about research on taxi driver health and youth mental health
  • article on practical uses for VR for the Australian Academy of Science's Nova website

    presentations

  • seminar on Digital Emotion Regulation at the University of Melbourne
  • seminar on #ThisMyMob project to co-design technology with Indigenous Australians, at the University of Melbourne
  • presented at the Austin Hospital's 3D Med Symposium 2017
  • presented This is your Brain on Virtual Reality during Science Week
  • presented at Monash University sensilab forum, April 2017
  • presented on The Virtual And Reality – Perception, Participation, Potential, at Experimenta Social, April 2017
  • presented at Can Digital Technology Really Improve the Health and Wellbeing of the Population?, April 2017
  • presented at Virtual Reality in Neuro-Rehabilitation: What Does The Future Look Like? at the Melbourne Brain Centre, April 2017

Reviewing

journals:

  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Interacting with Computers
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • IMWUT
  • Internet Interventions
  • International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
  • Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application
  • International Journal of Arts and Technology
  • International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning
  • Convergence
  • The Information Society
  • Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
  • Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting
  • Digital Creativity
  • Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association
  • Design Issues
  • Journal of Transformative Technologies
  • Information Processing and Management

conferences:

  • CHI
  • Designing Interactive Systems
  • OzChi
  • British HCI
  • Symposium on Computing and Mental Health
  • Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment
  • Communities and Technologies
  • Digital Arts and Culture
  • iConference
  • CHI Play
  • DIGRA
  • Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
  • International Conference on Information Systems
  • European Conference on Information Systems

Awards

  • Honourable Mention award, CHI 2017
  • Honourable Mention award, OzCHI 2017
  • Best Reviewer Award, OzCHI 2017
  • Excellent Review, CHI 2016
  • School of Computing award for excellence in Indigenous engagement, 2017
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