Seminar Series: Technology Trends 2005
Manolya Kavlaki
Dr. Kavakli has been working on user interface design for 14
years. Her research interests are in the intersection of a range of
disciplines, such as cognitive science, design science, and computer
science. Dr Kavakli gained her BSc (1987), MSc (1990) and PhD (1995)
degrees from Istanbul Technical University, developing interactive
systems and methodologies for design computing. She worked as an
Associate Professor in Design Science at Istanbul Technical
University until 1999.
In 1996, Dr. Kavakli was awarded a NATO Science Fellowship with
her postdoctoral research project on the transformation of sketch
into a 3D geometric model. In the Design Research Centre, University
of Derby, UK, she explored the nature of conceptual design process
with experimental analysis. In 1998, she received a Postdoctoral
Fellowship from the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition,
University of Sydney, Australia, and worked on cognitive modeling of
sketch recognition until 2000. In 2000, Dr Kavakli established a
Virtual Design Studio between Australia and Turkey sponsored by the
Turkish State Planning Organization to explore behavioural models of
collaborative tasks in the University of Sydney.
She worked as the course coordinator of the first Computer
Science (Games Technology) degree in Australia until 2003 and taught
Computer Games Design, User Interface Design, Online Multimedia and
Online Publishing in the School of Information Technology, Charles
Sturt University. She has been working as a Senior Lecturer in
Computer Graphics and teaching Computer Graphics, Computer Games
Design and Implementation, and Introduction to Systems Design at the
Department of Computing, Macquarie University since 2003.
Dr Kavakli established a Virtual Reality Lab for fostering
graphics research at the Department of Computing, Macquarie
University in 2003. She received a number of internal grants for the
development of a Virtual Hand system, a VR-based Face Recognition
system, and a VR Engine. She supervised 2 Honours theses on "Crime
Prevention Through Environmental Design in Virtual Reality" and
"Modelling Risk and Strategies in Computer Games" in 2004, as well
as 3 postdoctoral fellows on the impacts of visualization, gameplay,
and virtual reality between 2003-2005. At present, Dr Kavakli has
been supervising 5 PhD and 5 Honours students in these areas.
She currently holds an ARC Discovery Grant to develop a training
simulation using VR technology, an ARC Linkage grant to develop a
cognitive model for speech recognition in computer games, an ARC
Linkage International Grant to develop an interactive drama engine
in VR. Dr Kavakli brought over 35 researchers together as a
multidisciplinary and international research team and established
the Interactive Systems and Virtual Reality Research Group at
Macquarie University in 2005.
Seminar:
Virtual Reality Systems: Potential research
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