HDR successes at mid-year round of Candidature Assessments
We would like to congratulate four of our core UTS Games Studio members for recently achieving very important milestones in their research studies: 3 successful candidature assessments and 1 successful candidature upgrade to Ph.D.
For the past couple of years, they have been working very hard on cutting-edge research topics that range from "Serious Games for Hospitalized Elderly Patients", through the "Creation, elicitation, and measurement of emotional states in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality systems", "Autonomous Monitoring System for Geriatric Persons" to "Detection and Prevention of Accidents in Virtual Reality by Integrating a Brain-Computer Interface."
Today, we are very pleased to announce that these one-of-a-kind projects have taken a step closer to completion.
Here are our successful HDR Candidates:
PhD Candidate, Ms. Fernanda Tavares
Project: Serious Games for Hospitalized Elderly Patients
CA1 confirmed on 14 July 2020
Ph.D. Candidate, Ms. Fiza Mughal
Project: Autonomous Monitoring System for Geriatric Persons
Candidature upgraded to Ph.D. on the 17th of July 2020
PhD Candidate, Mr. Andres Pinilla Palacios
CA1 confirmed on the 3rd of Aug 2020
PhD Candidate, Mr. Carlos Tirado Cortes
Project: Detection and Prevention of Accidents in Virtual Reality by Integrating a Brain-Computer Interface.
CA3 confirmed on the 7th of Aug 2020
The UTS Games Studio team would like to congratulate these candidates on their successes and wish them a very fruitful year ahead.