Staff profile

Dr Alyx Macfadyen

Honorary Associate

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

VA, Bendigo

 

Qualifications

BAVA (UniSA), GDip IS, (UniSA), GDip IT (UniBall), Master of Computing (UniBall), PhD. Information Technology (UniBall)

Membership of professional Associations

Association of Computer Machinery ACM. Institute of Electric & Electronic Engineers IEEE. Member of the Board of Reviewers for ACM Computers in Entertainment.

Area of study

Visual Arts

Brief Profile

Dr. Alyx Macfadyen’s research relates to the evaluation of engagement and experience in interactive and transmedia narratives. Her research interests lie in narrative design and evaluation of virtual and 3D worlds and interactive media, narrative nodes for decision support systems and the development of scenarios for dynamic and branching narratives. Dr. Alyx Macfadyen undertook her PhD at the University of Ballarat where she developed a methodology to observe and measure fundamental elements of interactive scenarios and narratives that are represented using technology.

Research interests

Visual Communication

- Computational story-telling

- Hand-held devices

- Interactive narrative

- The representation of drama in interactive media

Teaching Units

  • PhD supervision
  • VPA3PSA - Professional Studies A.

Recent Publications

  • Stranieri, A., Kulkarni, S., Macfadyen, A,  Love, A., &  Vaughan, S. (2011).  Decision Support Based Needs Assessment for Cancer Patients. ACSW 2011 Australasian Workshop on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management Accepted.
  • Macfadyen, A. (2010). The Fundamental Elements of the Four-Factor Framework. Proceedings of the Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools ACUADS. Launceston, Tasmania.
  • Macfadyen, A., Stranieri, A. & Yearwood, J. (2009). Dramatic Level in Interactive Narratives. Games and Culture. Sage. Accepted.
  • Macfadyen, A., Stranieri, A. & Yearwood, J. (2008). In Brna, P. (ed.) Dramatic Level Analysis for Interactive Narrative. Proceedings of Narrative and Interactive Learning Environments NILE, Centre for Computer Games Research. Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • Macfadyen, A., Stranieri, A. & Yearwood, J. (2007). Dramatic Flow in Interactive 3D Narrative. In Proceedings of the Fourth Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment IE2007, RMIT University. Australia.
  • Macfadyen, A., & Stranieri, A. (2006) An Interaction Framework for Scenario-Based Three Dimensional Environments IE '06. In Proceedings of the 3rd Australasian conference on Interactive entertainment. Murdoch University. Australia. 109-115
  • Macfadyen, A., & Stranieri, A. (2005, November). Dialogue in Three Dimensions. In Y. Pisan (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Interactive Entertainment IE2005 (pp. 125 – 128). University of Technology, Sydney, Australia: Creativity and Cognition Studios Press.
  • Macfadyen, A., Stranieri, A., & Yearwood, J. (2005, September). Structured Reasoning to Support Deliberative Dialogue. In R. Khosla, R. J. Howlett, & L. C. Jain(Eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence: LNAI 3681 (Vol. 1, pp. 283 –289). Springer.

Research projects

  • Observing and evaluating granular elements of engagement, agency and drama in narrative First-Person Computer Games
  • Grampians Integrated Cancer Services (GICS). Development of narrative nodes and user interface for online screening.