Ben Volmer

Research Interests

Cognitive neuroscience Computer Gaming and Animation Graphics, augmented reality and games Virtual and mixed reality

Dr Ben Volmer

Lecturer

School of Computer Science and Information Technology

College of Engineering and Information Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Dr Ben Volmer is a member of the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments (IVE) and the Wearable Computer Lab (WCL) at the University of South Australia. His research interests include augmented/mixed/virtual reality, game design and cognitive neuroscience.

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2022 Award CORE Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award (Commendation) CORE Australiasian Australia -

Language Competency
English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

Date Institution name Country Title
2017 - 2022 University of South Australia Australia Doctor of Philosophy
2016 - 2016 University of South Australia Australia Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours)
2013 - 2015 University of South Australia Australia Bachelor of Information Technology (Games and Entertainment Design)

Date Title Institution name Country
2011 Certificate 3 in Media (HFP) TAFE Australia

Year Citation
2025 Wimmer, M., Pepicelli, A., Volmer, B., ElSayed, N., Cunningham, A., Thomas, B. H., . . . Veas, E. E. (2025). Counting on AR: EEG responses to incongruent information with real-world context. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 185, 1-11.
DOI Scopus3 Europe PMC2
2023 Volmer, B., Baumeister, J., Von Itzstein, S., Schlesewsky, M., Bornkessel Schlesewsky, I., & Thomas, B. H. (2023). Event related brain responses reveal the impact of spatial augmented reality predictive cues on mental effort. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 29(12), 4990-5007.
DOI Scopus4 WoS3
2023 Volmer, B., Liu, J. S., Matthews, B., Bornkessel Schlesewsky, I., Feiner, S., & Thomas, B. H. (2023). Multi-level precues for guiding tasks within and between workspaces in spatial augmented reality. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 29(11), 4449-4459.
DOI Scopus2 WoS1 Europe PMC1
2018 Volmer, B., Baumeister, J., Von Itzstein, S., Bornkessel Schlesewsky, I., Schlesewsky, M., Billinghurst, M., & Thomas, B. H. (2018). A comparison of predictive spatial augmented reality cues for procedural tasks. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 24(11), 2846-2856.
DOI Scopus48 WoS39 Europe PMC8

Year Citation
2025 Cunningham, A., Wark, S., Volmer, B., Nowina-Krowicki, M., Mayer, W., Underwood, S., . . . Shekh, S. (2025). Examining the Effectiveness of Storyline Visualisation for Understanding Wargame Scenarios: A Pilot Study. In Proceedings of the 36th Australasian Conference on Human Computer Interaction Ozchi 2024 (pp. 647-653). ACM.
DOI
2022 Volmer, B., Baumeister, J., Matthews, R., Grosser, L., Von Ltzstein, S., Banks, S., & Thomas, B. H. (2022). A comparison of spatial augmented reality predictive cues and their effects on sleep deprived users. In 2022 IEEE Conference On Virtual Reality And 3D User Interfaces (Vr 2022) (pp. 589-598). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus6 WoS4
2019 Volmer, B., Verhulst, A., Inami, M., Drogemuller, A., Sugimoto, M., & Thomas, B. H. (2019). Towards robot arm training in virtual reality using partial least squares regression. In 26th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, VR 2019 - Proceedings (pp. 1209-1210). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus7 WoS4
2019 Drogemuller, A., Verhulst, A., Volmer, B., Thomas, B. H., Linami, M., & Sugimoto, M. (2019). Remapping a third arm in virtual reality. In R. Teather (Ed.), Proceedings 26th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces: VR 2019 (pp. 898-899). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus4 WoS2
2019 Drogemuller, A., Verhulst, A., Volmer, B., Thomas, B. H., Inami, M., & Sugimoto, M. (2019). Real time remapping of a third arm in virtual reality. In Y. Kakehi, & A. Hiyama (Eds.), International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (2019) (pp. 57-64). Switzerland: Eurographics Association.
DOI Scopus2 WoS1

Courses I teach

  • COMP 1045 Programming Concepts (2025)
  • COMP 3025 Game Design (2025)
  • INFS 2041 Agile Development and Governance (2025)
  • INFS 2043 Project Studio (2025)
  • COMP 1045 Programming Concepts (2024)
  • INFS 2043 Project Studio (2024)

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