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Dr Nicole Vickery
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Design,
Visual Communication
Biography
Dr Nicole Vickery is a Lecturer of Visual Communication within the School of Design. She is an experienced teacher and lecturer focusing on graphic design and transdisciplinary teaching across a range of units. Her research explores how to design playful experiences to prove people’s health and wellbeing.Dr Vickery received her PhD from QUT in 2019, exploring how videogames can be designed to facilitate player’s cognitive flow. She went on to work as a post-doctoral research fellow on DP200100723 on Enabling Children’s Active Play using Novel Technology. This project developed her interests in designing tangible and embodied experiences for young children, which culminated in a Faculty Funded Early Career Researcher grant that explored how to design tangible playful experiences to encourage young children to engage in nature play.
Currently, Dr Vickery is a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP240102717) Designing Distanced Intergenerational Interaction with Tangible Technology, which utilises her expertise in working with young children and designing playful digital technology. She is also a part of a successful 2024 Alastair Swayn Design Strategy Grant, Making Memories Visible: Design for Meaningful Engagement in Residential Aged Care.
Dr Vickery’s core research interests include: Playful design; interaction design for children; playful tangible technologies; cultural studies of play and games.
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Design,
Visual Communication
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
Publications
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A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/nicole.vickery
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Co-designing Persuasive and Discursive Board Games for Empathy: An Intersection for Encouraging Empathy for Students with Neurodivergence
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Jane Turner - Designing Tangible Embedded Embodied Interaction Experiences to Support Intergenerational Connection Across Distance Through Nature Play
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Thea Blackler, Dr Hayley Wang - Designing Tangible Embedded Embodied Interaction Experiences to Support Intergenerational Connection Across Distance Through Nature Play
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Thea Blackler, Dr Hayley Wang, Dr Dan Cook - From Virtual Sites to Real Opportunities: Using VR to Inspire Young Women into Construction Careers
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Selen Turkay, Dr David Conroy - Good Times for Emotional Closeness: Tangibles Designed for Distanced Intergenerational Interaction Within Daily Routines
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Thea Blackler, Associate Professor Bernd Ploderer, Dr Hayley Wang - The applications of tangible embodied and embedded interaction (TEI) in facilitating intergenerational active play
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Thea Blackler, Associate Professor Bernd Ploderer, Dr Dan Cook - Using design to enhance the traditional festival culture sustainability for the younger generation in China
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Thea Blackler, Associate Professor Jeremy Kerr
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.