School of Communication and Arts

Dr Kellie Vella

Research Fellow
School of Communication and Arts
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Researcher biography

Dr Kellie Vella is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies, working on the Australian Research Data Commons' Australian Internet Observatory. Her research centres on human-computer interactions within social and interdisciplinary contexts. She draws upon motivational psychology and participatory research to better understand how to design, apply, and evaluate new technologies for learning and wellbeing.

Publications

Conference Papers (5)

Conference Papers

Webber, Sarah, Oliver, Jessica, Smith, Wally, Hoy, Julia, Vella, Kellie, Brereton, Margot, Bender, Helena, Davies, Alasdair and Judith, Kate (2021). Digital technologies in nature. International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction, Bloomington, IN, United States, 8-11 November 2021. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3493842.3493885
Vella, Kellie, Klarkowski, Madison, Johnson, Daniel, Hides, Leanne and Wyeth, Peta (2016). The social context of video game play: challenges and strategies. 11th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2016, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 4-8 June 2016. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2901790.2901823
Vella, Kellie, Johnson, Daniel and Hides, Leanne (2015). Indicators of wellbeing in recreational video game players. 27th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2015, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 7 December - 10 December 2015. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2838739.2838818
Vella, Kellie, Johnson, Daniel and Hides, Leanne (2015). Playing alone, playing with others: differences in player experience and indicators of wellbeing. Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, London, United Kingdom, 3-7 October 2015. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2793107.2793118
Vella, Kellie, Johnson, Daniel and Hides, Leanne (2013). Positively playful: When videogames lead to player wellbeing. Gamification '13: First International Conference on Gameful Design, Research, and Applications, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2-4 October 2013. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2583008.2583024