Ali Arya

Publications

Books

Ali Arya, Anyone Can Code: Algorithmic Thinking, 2023

Ali Arya, Anyone Can Code: The Art and Science of Logical Creativity. Chapman and Hall/CRC. 2020

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Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

2024:

Omar Bani-Taha, Ali Arya, and D. R. Fraser Taylor, “Co-design of educational social games with newcomer children: a case study of Arabic-speaking migrant tweens,” Behaviour & Information Technology, 2024. PDF

2023:

Gerry Chan, Ali Arya, Rita Orji, Zhao Zhao, Anthony Whitehead, "Increasing Motivation in Social Exercise Games: Personalizing Gamification Elements to Player Type," Journal of Behaviour and Information Technology, 2023 PDF

Nuket Nowlan, Ali Arya, Sam Qorbani, and Maryam Abdinejad, “Higher-order thinking skills assessment in 3D virtual learning environments using motifs and expert data,” Computers & Education: X Reality. 2023. PDF

Dan Hawes and Ali Arya, “Technology Solutions to Reduce Anxiety and Increase Cognitive Availability in Students,” IEEE Transaction on Learning Technologies. 2023. PDF

2021:

Amirsam Khataei, Mike Hine, Ali Arya, “The Design, Development and Validation of a Persuasive Content Generator,” Journal of International Technology and Information Management, 2021. PDF

2020:

Zhao Zhao, Ali Arya, Rita Orji, Gerry Chan, "Effects of a Personalized Fitness Recommender System Using Gamification and Continuous Player Modeling: System Design and Long-Term Validation Study," JMIR Serious Games, 2020. PDF

Anthony Scavarelli, Ali Arya and Rob Teather, "VIRTUAL REALITY AND AUGMENTED REALITY IN SOCIAL LEARNING SPACES: A LITERATURE REVIEW," Journal of Virtual Reality, 2020. PDF

2019:

Gerry Chan, Ali Arya, Rita Orji, and Zhao Zhao, "MOTIVATIONAL STRATEGIES AND APPROACHES FOR SINGLE AND MULTI-PLAYER EXERGAMES: A SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE," PeerJ Computer Science Journal, 2019. PDF

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Andres.A. Navarro-Newball, Isidro.Moreno, Ali Arya, Edmond C.Prakash, Efetobore.Mike-Ifeta, Juan D.Mejia, "An Interactive Modelling Architecture for Education and Entertainment at Museums", DYNA Journal of Engineering and Industry, 2016.

Seyed Ali Etemad, Ali Arya, "EXPERT-DRIVEN PERCEPTUAL FEATURES FOR MODELING STYLE AND AFFECT IN HUMAN MOTION", IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 2016. PDF

Seyed Ali Etemad, Ali Arya, Avi Parush, Steve DiPaola, "Perceptual Validity in Animation of Human Motion: An Inclusive Paradigm", Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 2016. PDF

Amirsam Khataei and Ali Arya, "Personalized Presentation Builder for Persuasive Communication," ACM SIGDOC Communication Design Quarterly, 2015. PDF

Seyed Ali Etemad, Ali Arya, "Correlation Optimized Time Warping For Motion", The Visual Computer, 2015. PDF

Seyed Ali Etemad, Ali Arya, Avi Parush, "Additivity in Perception of Affect from Limb Motion," Neuroscience Letters, Vol. 558, pp. 132-136, 2014. PDF

Seyed Ali Etemad and Ali Arya, "Classification and Translation of Style and Affect in Human Motion using RBF Neural Networks", Neurocomputing, 2014. PDF

Seyed Ali Etemad and Ali Arya, "Extracting Movement, Posture, and Temporal Style Features from Human Motion", Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 2014. PDF

Ali Arya, Jeff Chastine, Allan Fowler, Jon Preston, "An International Study on Learning and Process Choices in the Global Game Jam," International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2013. PDF

Nuket Savaskan Nowlan, Ali Arya, Eleanor Riesen, Michelle Morley, "Effect of Perceived Ease of Use on Virtual Team Performance," Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal, Volume 4, Issue 4, 2012.

Ali Arya, Shawn Graham, Peggy Hartwick, Nuket Nowlan, "Collaborating through Space and Time in Educational Virtual Environments: 3 Case Studies," Journal of Interactive Technologies and Pedagogy,  2012. PDF

Seyed Ali Etemad and Ali Arya, "Segmentation and Classification of Human Actions and Actor Characteristics with 3D Motion Data", International Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Applications, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 65-81, 2012.

Hasti Seifi, Steve DiPaola, and Ali Arya, "Expressive Animated Character Sequences Using Knowledge-Based Painterly Rendering,"Intenational Journal of Computer Game Technology, 2011.

Nuket Nowlan, Eleanor Riesen, Michelle Morley, Ali Arya, and Nicholas Sauriol, "A Framework for an Immersive Learning Environment with Telemetrics and Simulation," Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal, 2011. PDF

Ali Arya, Steve DiPaola and Avi Parush, "Perceptually Valid Facial Expressions for Character-based Applications," Intenational Journal of Computer Game Technology , 2009. PDF

Ali Arya and Steve DiPaola, "Face Modeling and Animation Language for MPEG-4 XMT Framework," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, October 2007. PDF

Ali Arya and Steve DiPaola, "Multi-Space Behavioural Model for Face-based Affective Social Agents," EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, Special Issue on Facial Image Processing, 2007. PDF

Ali Arya, Lisa Jefferies, James T. Enns, and Steve DiPaola, "Facial Actions as Visual Cues for Personality," Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., selected from the presentations at  19th Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents , Geneva, Switzerland, 2006. PDF

Ali Arya and Babak Hamidzadeh, "Face Animation: A Case Study for Multimedia Modeling and Specification Languages," in Multimedia Systems and Content-based Image Retrieval , S. Deb editor. 2003. PDF

Ali Arya and Babak Hamidzadeh, "Personalized Face Animation in ShowFace System," Int. Journal of Image and Graphics,, Special Issue on Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments, World Scientific Publishing, 2003. PDF

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Peer-reviewed Conference Papers

2024:

Anthony Scavarelli, Ali Arya, Rob Teather, Wakelin, R., Gauen, S., McCann, J. “Exploring the Inclusive Design and Use of Social Multi-Platform Virtual Reality for a Post-Secondary Gender Diversity Workshop,” 2024 10th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN), Glasgow, Scotland, 2024

Anthony Scavarelli, Ali Arya, Rob Teather, “Circles: A Framework for Creating Inclusive Virtual Reality Learning Activities in Social Learning Spaces,” 2022 10th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN), Glasgow, Scotland, 2024

Ali Arya, “Through the Waves: An Auto-ethnographic perspective on HCI Design and Research,” International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII), 2024.

2023:

Anthony Scavarelli, Rob Teather, Ali Arya, "Exploring Selection and Visual Search Usability Across Desktop, Tablet, and Head-Mounted Display WebXR Platforms," Int. Conf. on VR, 2023

Allan Yong, Ali Arya, and Monique Mantch. "Indigenous Technology Empowerment Model: A Community-based Design Framework." In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), pp. 1-9. IEEE, 2023.

2022:

Hossain Samar Qorbani, Maryam Abdinejad, Ali Arya, Chris Joslin, "Improving Accessibility of Elevation Control in an Immersive Virtual Environment," IEEE AIVR Conference, 2022. PDF

Eric Chan, Gerry Chan, Assem Kroma, Ali Arya. "Holistic Multimodal Interaction and Design," International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII), 2022. PDF

Dan Hawes and Ali Arya, "VR-Based Context Priming to Increase Student Engagement and Academic Performance," 8th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN). IEEE, 2022. PDF

Dan Hawes and Ali Arya. "Comparing Student-Based Context Priming in Immersive and Desktop Virtual Reality Environments to Increase Academic Performance." 2022 8th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN). IEEE, 2022. PDF

Ludivine Blais, Hossain Samar Qorbani, Ali Arya, Jim Davies, "A Memory Palace for Brain Anatomy and Function Represented in Virtual Reality," 19th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA), 2022. PDF

2021:

Dan Hawes and Ali Arya, "VR-based Student Priming to Reduce Anxiety and Increase Cognitive Bandwidth," IEEE VR, 2021. PDF

Hossain Samar Qorbani, Ali Arya, Nuket Nowlan, Maryam Abdinejad, "Simulation and Assessment of Safety Procedure in an Immersive Virtual Reality Laboratory," IEEE VR (Poster Session), 2021.

Hossain Samar Qorbani, Ali Arya, Nuket Nowlan and Maryam Abdinejad, “ScienceVR: A Virtual Reality Framework for STEM Education, Simulation and Assessment," International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR), special session Emerging technologies of visualization and education in VR/MR. 2021. PDF

Gerry Chan, Ali Arya, Rita Orji, Zhao Zhao. “Personalizing Gameful Elements in Social Exergames: An Exploratory Study,” International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG), Short Papers, 2021.

2020:

Md Riyadh, Ali Arya, Gerry Chan, M. Imran, "Enhancing Social Ties Through Manual Player Matchmaking in Online Multiplayer Games," In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII), 2020.

Gerry Chan, Ali Arya, Rita Orji, Zhao Zhao, Milica Stojmenovic, Anthony Whitehead, "Player Matching for Social Exergame Retention: A Group Personality Composition Approach," ACM CHI Play, 2020.

Zhao Zhao, Ali Arya, Rita Orji, Gerry Chan, "Physical Activity Recommendation for Exergame Player Modeling using Machine Learning Approach," IEEE SeGAH, 2020. PDF

Allan Fowler, Johanna Pirker, and Ali Arya, "Jamming across borders: An exploratory study," ICGJ 2020. PDF

Dan Hawes, Rob Teather, Ali Arya, and Max Krichenbauer, "Assessing the Value of 3D Software Experience with Camera Layout in Virtual Reality," IEEE AIVR 2020. PDF

Darren O'Neill, Mahmut Erdemli, Stephen Field, and Ali Arya, "IMPROVING THE VISUAL PERCEPTION AND SPATIAL AWARENESS OF DOWNHILL WINTER ATHLETES WITH AUGMENTED REALITY," HCII 2020. PDF

2019:

Ali Arya, Lisa Meyer, and Shannon Noonan, "EMOTIONAL LEARNER: INVESTIGATING THE NEED FOR AN EMOTIONALLY SUPPORTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT," ICERI 2019. PDF

Omar Bani-Taha, Malek El-Kouzi, Ali Arya, Fraser Taylor, "EDUCATIONAL COMPUTER GAMES FOR SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT OF NEWCOMER CHILDREN," ICERI 2019. PDF

Anthony Scavarelli, Ali Arya and Rob Teather, "TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK ON ACCESSIBLE AND SOCIAL VR IN EDUCATION," IEEE VR (Poster Session), 2019. PDF

Anthony Scavarelli, Ali Arya and Rob Teather, "CIRCLES: EXPLORING MULTI-PLATFORM ACCESSIBLE, SOCIALLY SCALABLE VR IN THE CLASSROOM," IEEE GEM Conference 2019. PDF

Eric Spero, Milica Stojmenovic, Ali Arya, and Robert Biddle, "Learning with Trees: A Non-Linear E-Textbook Format for Deep Learning," HCII, Orlando, USA, 2019. PDF

Ali Arya, Susan Gold, Matthew Farber, Kevin Miklasz, "GGJ-Next: The Global Game Jam for Youth," International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons, and Game Creation Events (ICGJ), San Francisco, USA, March 16-17, 2019. PDF

Eric Spero, M. Stojmenovi?, Ali Arya, Robert Biddle, "CREATING A NON-LINEAR TEXTBOOK FORMAT TO FACILITATE DEEP LEARNING," International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED), 2019.

Ali Arya, Susan Gold, Matthew Farber, Kevin Miklasz, "EDUCATING THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEARNERS THROUGH A GLOBAL GAME JAM," International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED), 2019

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Nuket Nowlan, Peggy Hartwick, Ali Arya, "Skill Assessment in Virtual Learning Environments," IEEE CIVEMSA, 2018. PDF

Bethany Dunfield, Anthony Whitehead, Ali Arya, "Event-based Model of Narrative Structure for Games," IEEE GEM, 2018. PDF

Gerry Chan and Ali Arya, "Keeping Players Engaged: A Personality Matchmaking Approach," ACM CHI, Poster Session, 2018

Amirsam Khataei, Ali Arya, Mike Hine, "User Trust Graph: A Model to Measure Trustworthiness," Persuasive Technologies Conference, Personalization workshop, 2018

Reza GhasemAghaei, Ali Arya, and Robert Biddle, "Affective Walkthroughs and Heuristics: Evaluating Minecraft Hour of Code," published at Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction International (HCII-17), Vancouver, Canada, 2017

Zhao Zhao, Ali Arya, Anthony Whitehead, Ali Etemad, Gerry Chan, "KEEPING USERS ENGAGED THROUGH FEATURE UPDATES: A LONG-TERM STUDY OF USING WEARABLE-BASED EXERGAMES," ACM CHI 2017. PDF

Zhao Zhao, Ali Etemad, Anthony Whitehead, Ali Arya, "KEEPING USERS ENGAGED: A LONG-TERM STUDY OF WEARABLE-BASED GAMIFIED EXERCISE APPLICATIONS," ACM CHIPlay Posters 2016

Arya, Ali, and Ryan Bottriell. "A Distributed Framework for Location-oriented Motion-based Interactive Public Installations and Games." Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces. ACM, 2016.

Reza GhasemAghaei, Ali Arya, and Robert Biddle, "MADE RATIO: A ECTIVE MULTIMODAL SOFTWARE FOR MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS," HCII 2016

Ali Arya, Jesse Gerroir, Efetobore Mike-Ifeta, Andres Adolfo Navarro-Newball, Edmund Prakash, "MESEUM: PERSONALIZED EXPERIENCE WITH NARRATIVE VISUALIZATION FOR MUSEUM VISITORS," HCII-2016. PDF

Anthony Scavarelli and Ali Arya, "An Exploration of Shape in Crowd Computer Interactions," HCII 2015. PDF

Xiao Du and Ali Arya, "Design and Evaluation of a Learning Assistant System with Optical Head Mounted Display," HCII 2015. PDF

Amirsam Khataei and Ali Arya, "Personalized Presentation Builder for Persuasive Communication," presented in Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI), February 22-23, 2015.

Anthony Scavarelli and Ali Arya, "CINDR: A proposed framework for ethical systems in video games," Games Media Entertainment (GEM), 2014 IEEE , vol., no., pp.1,5, 22-24 Oct. 2014. PDF

Ali Arya and Luciara Nardon, "GOOGLE IT: CRITICAL THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING IN THE INTERNET AGE," Proceedings of EduLearn, Barcelona, Spain, July 7-9, 2014. PDF

Amirsam Khataei and Ali Arya, "Personalized Presentation Builder", Poster Session, ACM CHI, 2014

Seyed Ali Etemad and Ali Arya, "Mining Expert-driven Models for Affective Motion", ACM CHI (Workshop on Gesture-based Interaction Design: Communication and Cognition), 2014

Allan Fowler, Susan Gold, Miriam Eladhari, & Ali Arya, "Global Game Jam workshop", In Proceedings of DiGRA 2013: Defragging Game Studies, Atlanta, GA.

Allan Fowler, Foaad Khosmood & Ali Arya, "The evolution and significance of the Global Games Jam," FDG 2013 workshop on GGJ. PDF

Fowler, A., Khosmood, F., Arya, A., & Lai, G. (2013). "The Global Game Jam as a venue for teaching and learning", In M. Lopez & M. Verhaart (Eds.) Proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference of Computing and Information Technology, Education and Research in New Zealand (incorporating 26th Annual NACCQ), Hamilton, New Zealand.

Etemad, S. A., Arya, A., "A Customizable Time Warping Method for Motion Alignment", Proc. 7th IEEE Int. Conf. on Semantic Computing (ICSC'13), Irvine, USA, pp. 387-388, 2013.

Etemad, S. A., Arya, A., "Motion Style Translation with Radial Basis Function Networks", Proc. Int. Conf. on Multimedia and Human Computer Interaction (MHCI'13), Toronto, Canada, No. 36, 2013.

Etemad, S. A., Arya, A., "Perceptually Valid Motion for Avatars", Proc. Int. Conf. on Multimedia and Human Computer Interaction (MHCI'13), Toronto, Canada, No. 72, 2013.

Farzin Farhadi-Niaki, Seyed Ali Etemad, Ali Arya, "Design and Usability Analysis of Gesture-based Control for Common Desktop Tasks", 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (CHII-13), Las Vegas, USA, 2013.

Farzin Farhadi-Niaki, Ali Arya, Jesse Gerroir, Seyed Ali Etemad, Robert Laganiere, P. Payeur, Robert Biddle, "Usability Study of Static/Dynamic Gestures and Haptic Input as Interface to 3D Games", 6th International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI-13), Nice, France, 2013. PDF

Ali Arya, "Using 3D Virtual Environments for Education: Advantages and Potentials a New Educational Paradigm," OnlineEduca-2012, Berlin, Germany, November 28, 2012

Farzin Farhadi-Niaki, Reza GhasemAghaei, and Ali Arya, "Empirical Study of a Vision-based Depth-Sensitive Human-Computer Interaction System," Proceedings of APCHI, Matsue, Japan, August 28-31, 2012. (PDF)

Nuket Savaskan Nowlan, Ali Arya, Eleanor Riesen, Michelle Morley, "The Effect of Perceived Ease of Use on Virtual Team Performance," Ubiquitous Learning, Berkeley, USA, Novermber 11-13, 2011

Seyed Ali Etemad and Ali arya, "Perceptual Weights of Energy-related Features in Animation of Human Motion," CGI-2011, Ottawa, Canada.

Ali Arya, Peggy Hartwick, Shawn Graham, Nuket Nowlan, "Virtual Environment as a Learning Space: Two Case Studies," IETC-2011, Istanbul, Turkey.

Ali Arya, Nuket Nowlan, Nicholas Sauriol, "Data-driven Framework for an Online 3D Immersive Environment for Educational Applications," EduLearn-10 - Barcelona, Spain, July 5-7, 2010. PDF

Seyed Ali Etemad and Ali Arya, "Modeling and Transformation of 3D Human Motion," Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, Agadar, France, May, 2010. PDF

Mohammad Moallemi, Ali Arya, and Gabriel A. Wainer, "Simulation of Three Dimensional Elevator System Using Cell-DEVS Formalism", Proceedings of 2010 Spring Simulation Conference (SpringSim10), ANSS Symposium, Orlando, FL, 2010. PDF

Paul Slinger, Seyed Ali Etemad and Ali Arya, "Intelligent Toolkit for Procedural Animation of Human Behaviours," ACM FuturePlay-09 - Vancouver, Canada, May 12-13, 2009. PDF

Seyed Ali Etemad and Ali Arya, "Recognition and Synthesis of Human Motion for Procedural Animation," International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, ICMCS-09 , Ouarzazate, Morocco, April 2009. PDF

Veronica Zammitto, Steve DiPaola, and Ali Arya, "A Methodology for Incorporating Personality Modeling in Believable Game Characters," 4th Intl Conf on Games Research and Development (CyberGames), Beijing Normal University, China, 27-30 October 2008.

Ali Arya, Avi Parush, and Alicia McMullan, "Perceptually Valid Facial Expression Blending using Expression Units," ACM SIGGRAPH-07 , Poster Session, San Diego, CA, USA, August 5-9, 2007. PDF

Steve DiPaola and Ali Arya, "Emotional Remapping of Music to Facial Animation," ACM SIGGRAPH Video Game Symposium , Boston, MA, USA, July 29-30, 2006. PDF

Ali Arya, Steve DiPaola, Lisa Jefferies, and James T. Enns, "Socially communicative characters for interactive applications," 14th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG-2006) , University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic, January 30 - February 3, 2006. PDF

Steve DiPaola, John Chan and Ali Arya, "Simulating Face to Face Collaboration for Interactive Learning Systems," eLearn 2005, Vancouver, 2005. PDF

Steve DiPaola and Ali Arya, "Socially Expressive Communication Agents: A Face-centric Approach," European Conference on Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts, EVA-2005 , Florence, Italy, March 17-18, 2005. PDF

Steve DiPaola and Ali Arya, "Affective Communication Remapping in MusicFace System," European Conference on Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts, EVA-2004, London, England, July 26-31, 2004. PDF

Ali Arya and Steve DiPaola, "Face As A Multimedia Object," 5th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, Lisbon, Portugal, April 21-23, 2004. PDF

Ali Arya and Babak Hamidzadeh, "ShowFace: A Framework for Personalized Face Animation," IEEE/EURASIP First International Workshop on Interactive Rich Media Content Production, RichMedia-2003 , Lausanne, Switzerland, October 16-17, 2003. PDF

Ali Arya and Babak Hamidzadeh, "FIX: Feature-based Image Transformations for Face Animation," IEEE Int. Conf. on Information Technology: Research and Education, ITRE-2003 , Newark, NJ, USA, August 10-13, 2003. PDF

Ali Arya and Babak Hamidzadeh, "TalkingFace: Using Facial Feature Detection and Image Transformations for Visual Speech," IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, ICIP-2001 , Thessaloniki, Greece, 2001. PDF

Ali Arya and Babak Hamidzadeh, "A Personalized Talking/Moving Head Presentation Using Image-based Transformations," Int. Conf. on Augmented Virtual Environments and 3D Imaging , Mykonos, Greece, 2001. PDF

Ali Arya and Kambiz Badie, "A Connectionist Approach to Reorganization of Knowledge Structures in Fuzzy Systems," IEEE Intl. Conf. on Fuzzy Systems, Barcelona, Spain, 1997. PDF