Greg Wadley

BSc (Computer Science, Qld) , MSc (Cognitive Science, Melb)

Academic Associate, Department of Information Systems, The University of Melbourne

Contact details

email: greg.wadley at unimelb dot edu dot au
office: room 3.66, 111 Barry St, Carlton, Australia (map)
phone: (613) 8344 1586

Current affairs

• writing up my PhD thesis: due in August
• travelling to ECSCW 2009 in Vienna in September
• speaking at workshop Analytical strategies and methodologies for the study of virtual worlds, Sep 28th, Roskilde University, Denmark
• coordinating our third year industrial projects in second semester
• working with the HORYZONS project (Online Recovery for Youth Onset Schizophrenia)

Research

I am interested in how people interact through technology. I am in the Interaction Design Group at the University of Melbourne. For my PhD I am mediated communication within online virtual worlds. Previously I have supervised several Honours students, completed an MSc in cognitive science, and collaborated in some early research on online teaching. In 2008 I was a visiting researcher at PARC, California. I recently joined HORYZONS, a joint project between the Information Systems and Psychology departments funded by the Telematics Trust, which aims to develop an ICT-based psychosocial intervention for relapse prevention after first episodes of psychosis.

Sample publications

• (forthcoming) Greg Wadley and Nicolas Ducheneaut
  The 'out-of-avatar experience': object-focused collaboration in Second Life
  in ECSCW 2009, Vienna
• (forthcoming) Greg Wadley and Martin R. Gibbs
  Speaking in Character: Voice Communication in Virtual Worlds
  in William Sims Bainbridge (ed) 'Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual', Springer: London
• Nicolas Ducheneaut, Ming-Hui "Don" Wen, Nicholas Yee, Greg Wadley
  Body and Mind: A Study of Avatar Personalization in Three Virtual Worlds
  in CHI 2009, Boston (pdf)
• Greg Wadley (2008)
  Talking and Building: two studies of collaboration in Second Life (pdf)
  in workshop on Virtual Worlds, Collaboration, and Workplace Productivity, at CSCW, San Diego
• Greg Wadley, Martin Gibbs, Peter Benda (2007)
  Speaking in Character: using voice-over-IP to communicate within MMORPGs
  in Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, Melbourne (pdf)
• Greg Wadley and Jason Sobell (2007)
  Using a simple MMORPG to teach Multi-user, Client-server Database Development
  in Microsoft Academic Days Conference on Game Development in Computer Science Education, USA, 2007 (pdf)
• Greg Wadley, Martin Gibbs, Kevin Hew (2005)
  Factors Influencing Users' Decisions to Adopt Voice Communication in Online Console Games
  in International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication
• CJ Ruggles, Greg Wadley, Martin Gibbs (2005)
  Online Community Building Techniques used by Video Game Developers
  in International Conference on Entertainment Computing, Japan, 2005 (pdf)
• Martin Gibbs, Kevin Hew and Greg Wadley (2004)
  Social Translucence of the Xbox Live Voice Channel
  in Proceedings of The International Conference on Entertainment Computing 2004 (pdf)
• Greg Wadley, Martin Gibbs, Kevin Hew and Connor Graham (2003)
  Computer Supported Cooperative Play, 'Third Places' and Online Videogames
  in Proceedings of OZCHI 2003 (pdf)
• (Education faculty) collaboration in research on online teaching (1997)
• (Cognitive Science) some work for my MSc (1993)

Teaching

I am scheduled to coordinate 615-373 Industrial Project in semester two 2009.

My teaching at DIS has included:

• 615-347 Application Environments
• 615-330 Advanced Database Concepts
• 615-280 Computer Networks and Multimedia in Science and Technology
• 615-245 Systems Analysis and Design
• 615-230 Database Concepts
• 615-145 Concepts in Software Development 1
• 615-140 Technologies for Information Systems

In 2006 I received a departmental award for contribution to teaching.

University service

I have been a member of the DIS Education and Marketing committees and Human Ethics Advisory Group.

Recent conferences

• reviewing for OzChi 2009
• vice-chair of posters and exhibits for Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference
• reviewing for British HCI 2009
• presentation at Australian Virtual Worlds Workshop, Dec 2008
• tutorial and workshop at CSCW, San Diego, Nov 2008
• publicity chair for Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, Dec 2007
• presentation at International Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies, Nov 2007
• presentation at Microsoft Academic Days Conference on Game Development in Computer Science Education, USA, Feb 2007

Other interests

• music
• member of Carlton Gardens Primary School Council

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