This research group is a community-engaged team that designs, develops, and evaluates playful and engaging technologies.
They work closely with industry members, government, and colleagues in disciplines such as psychology, pharmacy, medicine, environmental conservation, defence, and education to explore opportunities for ICT to make a positive social impact.
Designing, developing, and evaluating the impact and effectiveness of serious games, virtual and augmented reality experiences, and mobile apps provides significant benefit to the community, while also allowing our research to contribute to the academic body of knowledge regarding design and development principles and best practice in ICT.
Our research seeks to solve problems such as stroke rehabilitation, smoking cessation, drug and alcohol addiction, energy conservation, and early childhood learning, through the development a range of technologies that provide significant benefit to the community. Providing insights of good design and development practice, the team has supported various multidisciplinary teams to build and evaluate projects in many areas of social need.
Our partners include:
- Carers Tasmania
- CogLab
- Dementia Australia
- Department of Defence
- Department of Education
- Menzies Research
- Royal Hobart Hospital
- Salvation Army
- SES
UTASPlay
A multidisciplinary collective of University of Tasmania staff and students who play and build games. This collective is helping to build the Tasmanian Games Industry by encouraging and supporting playful capability development, entrepreneurship, and commercialisation.
UTASPlay hosts games jams, weekly games development streams, collaborative work sessions, professional development workshops and mentoring for games students and staff to support their goals towards publishing commercial entertainment and serious games.
Our partners include:
- Nintendo
- Microsoft
- Screen Tasmania
- Sony
- State Growth
- Tas Game Makers
- Unity Technologies
Research leads
Research team
Partner with us
Our collective is multidisciplinary and collaborative. If you’d like to partner with us, please get in touch with Kristy.deSalas@utas.edu.au.