My research focuses on interactive systems that improve how people learn, decide, act and perform. The common thread across my work is human interaction with technology, particularly where systems are used for learning, assessment, training, decision-making, behaviour change and performance. This brings together my work in human-computer interaction, visualisation, education, games, immersive systems and applied training environments.

My current research program is organised around four connected areas.

• The first area is trustworthy learning, assessment and academic integrity. This work examines how interactive systems can support rigorous, authentic and secure learning environments. It includes work on computing education, programming pedagogy, digitally enabled teaching, assessment design, secure assessment and academic integrity. A major concern in this area is how universities can use technology to support students without weakening standards or creating assessment processes that are easy to bypass.
• The second area is games, motivation and ethical interaction design. This work looks at how games and interactive systems shape user behaviour, motivation and experience. It includes research on player motivation, game design, dark patterns and ethical interaction. A key issue in this area is the boundary between good engagement design and systems that manipulate, pressure or mislead users. This connects directly to broader concerns about digital systems, consumer protection and responsible design.
• The third area is immersive and embodied systems for training and performance. This includes work in augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality, haptics, tangible interaction and spatial interfaces. The focus is on how embodied and immersive technologies can improve learning, training and task performance, particularly where physical action, spatial understanding or real-time feedback matter. This area includes applied work in training systems and examples such as the virtual defib machine.
• The fourth area is visualisation and interface design for complex decision-making. This work examines how visualisation, visual analytics and interface design can help people understand complex information, make better judgements and take appropriate action. It connects with my earlier work in applied human-computer interaction, operational systems, defence-related decision environments, training and performance support.

Across these areas, my research brings together secure assessment, programming pedagogy, dark patterns, player motivation, AR/VR, haptics, visual analytics and applied interactive systems.  They are connected by a single research concern: "how interactive systems can be designed to improve human learning, behaviour, judgement and performance in real settings".

The aim of my research is to build work that is  credible, practically useful and connected to real problems in education, industry, government and society.