Wally Smith
BSc Hons, PhD Psychology (University College London)
Professor
School of Computing and Information Systems
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
The University of Melbourne
wsmith@unimelb.edu.au | tel: +61 3 8344 1494
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Winner of the 2022 FEIT Excellence Award in Outstanding Graduate Researcher Supervision
Current students
Emma Baillie (Wally Smith, Nic Geard)
Wendy Cavenett (Jenny Waycott, Steven Baker, Wally Smith)
Gabriele Mirra (Alberto Pugnale (Melbourne School of Design), Wally Smith)
Piumi Perera (Sarah Webber, Wally Smith)
Nellie Seale (Wally Smith, Melissa Rogerson) (FEIT Ingenium scholarship)
Matt Sidji (Wally Smith, Melissa Rogerson) (FEIT Ingenium scholarship)
Past students
David Jian-Jia Cumming (Martin Gibbs & Wally Smith) - 2021,
‘Constructing authentic esports spectatorship: An ethnography’
Kathleen Keogh (Liz Sonenberg & Wally Smith) - 2020,
‘Improvised Coordination in Agent Organisations’
Fraser Allison (Martin Gibbs, Wally Smith, Marcus Carter) – 2020,
‘Voice Interaction: Game Design and Gameplay’
Sarah Webber (Wally Smith, Frank Vetere, Marcus Carter) - 2019,
‘Digital Technologies and Encounters with Zoo Animals’, [Winner of the John Melvin Prize, for Best PhD Thesis in the Melbourne School of Engineering 2019]
Dana McKay (Shanton Chang, Wally Smith) - 2019,
‘Down the Superhighway in a Single Tome: Understanding Information Browsing and How To Support it Online’
Melissa Rogerson (Martin Gibbs, Wally Smith) - 2019,
‘Between Cardboard and Computer: The hobbyist experience of modern boardgames’
Mohammed Alrokayan (Wally Smith, Sherah Kurnia) -2018,
‘Understanding How Cloud Computing Enables Business Model Innovation in Start-Up Companies’
Kagonya Awori (Frank Vetere, Wally Smith) - 2018,
Thesis: 'Designing video-mediated technologies to cultivate indigenous knowledge over distance'
Joji Mori (Martin Gibbs, Wally Smith) - 2015,
'Designing Digital Memorials: Commemorating the Black Saturday Bushfires'
John Downs (Frank Vetere & Wally Smith) – 2015,
'Audience Experience in Domestic Videogaming'
Ivo Widjaja (Wally Smith & Sandrine Balbo) – 2013,
'Digital Content and Its Discontents: Interpretive flexibility during the implementation and use of enterprise content management systems'
Piya Shedden (Wally Smith & Atif Ahmad) - 2013,
'Protecting information and knowledge assets in organisations: A business practice-based approach'