Biography
Gareth is an interdisciplinary Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. Within the Graphics and Vision discipline, he researches the intersection of artistic practice, human-computer interaction (HCI), and extended-reality (XR) technology. His academic interests have grown from a life-long passion for technology-mediated creativity, as applied in multiple disciplines and co-creative media contexts. Haptics, audio, and visual stimuli, all subsets of human psychophysical experiences in virtual realities, are the focus of much of his research in exploring human experiences of digitally mediated creative practice and the tools applied in conceptualizing and realizing artistic works. Gareth enjoys working as a creative technologist within Computer Science as multidisciplinary research contributes unique perspectives, and analysis of this type produces more exciting and innovative outputs.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Buck, L. and Young, G.W. and McDonnell, R., Avatar Customization, Personality, and the Perception of Work Group Inclusion in Immersive Virtual Reality, 2023, pp27-32
Multimodality: Exploring Sensibility and Sense-Making Beyond the Metaverse in, Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023, pp307â"322 , [Young, Gareth W. and Dawkins, Oliver]
Volumetric video as a novel medium for creative storytelling in, Immersive Video Technologies, Elsevier, 2023, pp591â"607 , [Young, Gareth W. and Oâ Dwyer, Néill and Smolic, Aljosa]
Young, G. W., O'Dwyer, N., Vargas, M. F., Donnell, R. M., & Smolic, A., Feel the Music Audience Experiences of Audio Tactile Feedback in a Novel Virtual Reality Volumetric Music Video., Arts, 156, 2023, p1-22
Realtime-3D Interactive Content Creation for Multi-platform Distribution: A 3D Interactive Content Creation User Study in, Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023, pp215â"229 , [Young, Gareth W. and Dinan, Grace and Smolic, Aljosa]
Hodson, Elise and Vainio, Teija and Sayún, Michel Nader and Tomitsch, Martin and Jones, Ana and Jalonen, Meri and BörÌtecene, Ahmet and Hasan, Md Tanvir and Paraschivoiu, Irina and Wolff, Annika and Yavo-Ayalon, Sharon and Yli-Kauhaluoma, Sari and Young, Gareth W., Evaluating Social Impact of Smart City Technologies and Services: Methods, Challenges, Future Directions, Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 7, (3), 2023, p33
Young, Gareth W. and Oâ Dwyer, Néill C. and Smolic, Aljosa, A Case Study on Student Experiences of Social VR in a Remote STEM Classroom, Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, 2023
" Wang, X., Young, G. W., Iqbal, M. Z., & Guckin, C. M., The potential of extended reality in Rural Education's future"perspectives from rural educators., Education and Information Technologies, 2023, p1-25
Wang, X., Young, G. W., Plechatá, A., Mc Guckin, C., & Makransky, G., Utilizing virtual reality to assist social competence education and social support for children from under-represented backgrounds., Computers & Education, 201, 2023, p1 - 18
Gareth William Young, Tomasz Zawadzki, Slawomir Nikiel, Gareth W. Young, Prototyping VR Training Tools for Healthcare With Off-the-Shelf CGI, Advances in Medical Technologies and Clinical Practice, 2022, p160--186
Young, G.W., O'Dwyer, N., Smolic, A., A Virtual Reality Volumetric Music Video: Featuring New Pagans, Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conferences, 2022, p677-678
O'Dwyer, N.; Young, G. W.; Smolic, A., XR Ulysses: addressing the disappointment of cancelled site-specific re-enactments of Joycean literary cultural heritage on Bloomsday, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 2022
Gareth William Young, Gareth W. Young, Néill O'Dwyer, Aljosa Smolic, A virtual reality volumetric music video, Proceedings of the 13th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference, 2022
Young, G.W., Smolic, A., Extended reality: Music in immersive XR environments: The possibilities (and approaches) for (AI) music in immersive XR environments, Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem, 2022, p68-82
Gareth W. Young, Neill O'Dwyer, Matthew Moynihan, Aljosa Smolic, Audience Experiences of a Volumetric Virtual Reality Music Video, 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), 2022
Gareth William Young, Néill O'Dwyer, Gareth W. Young, Aljosa Smolic, Extended Reality Ulysses Demo, ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, 2022
Wang, X., Young, G.W., Mc Guckin, C., Smolic, A., A Systematic Review of Virtual Reality Interventions for Children with Social Skills Deficits, TALE 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Education, Proceedings, 2021, p436-443
Néill O"dwyer, Emin Zerman, Gareth W. Young, Aljosa Smolic, Siobhán Dunne, Helen Shenton, Volumetric Video in Augmented Reality Applications for Museological Narratives, Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 14, (2), 2021, p1--20
O'Dwyer, N., Young, G.W., Smolic, A., Moynihan, M., O'Hanrahan, P., Mixed Reality Ulysses, Proceedings - SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 Art Gallery, SA 2021, 2021
Gareth W. Young, Rob Kitchin, Jeneen Naji, Building City Dashboards for Different Types of Users, Journal of Urban Technology, 2021, p1--21
David L. Smyth Gareth W. Young, Jan Ondrej Rogerio Silva Alan Cummins Susheel Nath Amar Zia Arslaan Pisut Wisessing ; Smolic, Aljosa, Semantic Crowd Re-targeting: Implementation for Real-time Applications and User Evaluations, IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), , 2021
O'Dwyer, Néill; Zerman, Emin; Young, Gareth W; Smolic, Aljosa; Dunne, Siobhán; Shenton, Helen , Volumetric Video in Augmented Reality Applications for Museological Narratives: A user study for the Long Room in the Library of Trinity College Dublin, Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, Forthcoming., 2021, p20 pages
Gareth W. Young, Exploring virtual reality for quality immersive empathy building experiences, Behaviour & Information Technology, 2021, p1 - 18
Rob Kitchin, Gareth W. Young, Oliver Dawkins, Planning and 3D Spatial Media: Progress, Prospects, and the Knowledge and Experiences of Local Government Planners in Ireland, Planning Theory & Practice, 2021, p1--19
Rae, Alasdair and Wong, Cecilia, Applied Data Analysis for Urban Planning and Management, SAGE Publications Ltd, 2021
Young, G.W., Stehle, S., Walsh, B.Y., Tiri, E., Exploring virtual reality in the higher education classroom: Using vr to build knowledge and understanding, Journal of Universal Computer Science, 26, (8), 2020, p904-928
Young, G.W., Murphy, D., Weeter, J., A qualitative analysis of haptic feedback in music focused exercises, arXiv, 2020
Zerman, Emin; O'Dwyer, Néill; Young, Gareth W; Smolic, Aljosa, A Case Study on the Use of Volumetric Video in Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage, Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI '20), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Tallinn, Estonia, 2020, ISBN: 978-1-4503-7579-5., Estonia, 2020
Gareth William Young, The Design of Tangible Digital Musical Instruments, 2020, -
Néill O'Dwyer, Gareth W.Young, Nicholas Johnson, Emin Zerman, Aljosa Smolic, Mixed Reality and Volumetric Video in Cultural Heritage: Expert Opinions on Augmented and Virtual Reality, Human-Computer Interaction International, Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-24 July, Springer, 2020, pp195 - 214
Gareth William Young, A Case Study on Video Color Transfer: Exploring User Motivations, Expectations, and Satisfaction, 2020, -
Young, G.W., Mannion, S., Wentworth, S., Evoking places from spaces: The application of multimodal narrative techniques in the creation of U - Modified, arXiv, 2020
Young, G.W., Murphy, D., Digital musical instrument analysis: The Haptic Bowl, arXiv, 2020
Oliver Dawkins, Gareth W. Young, Engaging Place with Mixed Realities: Sharing Multisensory Experiences of Place Through Community-Generated Digital Content and Multimodal Interaction, 2020, p199--218
Grogan, M., Zerman, E., Young, G.W., Smolic, A., A CASE STUDY on VIDEO COLOR TRANSFER: EXPLORING USER MOTIVATIONS, EXPECTATIONS, and SATISFACTION, arXiv, 2020
Dawkins, O., Young, G.W., Workshop-Ground Truthing and Virtual Field Trips, Proceedings of 6th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network, iLRN 2020, 2020, p418-420
Young, G.W., Crowley, K., The design of tangible digital musical instruments, arXiv, 2020
Gareth W. Young, Rob Kitchin, Creating design guidelines for building city dashboards from a user's perspectives, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2020, p102429
Young, G.W., Murphy, D., HCI models for digital musical instruments: Methodologies for rigorous testing of digital musical instruments, arXiv, 2020
Porter, Libby and Fields, Desiree and Landau-Ward, Ani and Rogers, Dallas and Sadowski, Jathan and Maalsen, Sophia and Kitchin, Rob and Dawkins, Oliver and Young, Gareth and Bates, Lisa K, Planning, Land and Housing in the Digital Data Revolution/The Politics of Digital Transformations of Housing/Digital Innovations, PropTech and Housing â" the View from Melbourne/Digital Housing and Renters: Disrupting the Australian Rental Bond System and Tenant Advocacy/Prospects for an Intelligent Planning System/What are the Prospects for a Politically Intelligent Planning System?, Planning Theory & Practice, 20, (4), 2019, p575â"603
Gareth W. Young, Prospects for an Intelligent Planning System, Planning Theory and Practice, 20, (4), 2019, p575 - 603
Young, G.W., Mannion, S., Wentworth, S., Evoking places from spaces: The application of multimodal narrative techniques in the creation of "U - Modified", Proceedings of the 15th Sound and Music Computing Conference: Sonic Crossings, SMC 2018, 2018, p103-107
A Functional Analysis of Haptic Feedback in Digital Musical Instrument Interactions in, editor(s)S. Papetti, C. Saitis , Musical Haptics, Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems, Springer, 2018, pp93 - 122, [G. W. Young, D. Murphy, and J. Weeter]
Gareth W. Young, Haptics in Music: The Effects of Vibrotactile Stimulus in Low Frequency Auditory Difference Detection Tasks, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 10, (1), 2017, p135 - 139
Young, Gareth and Murphy, Dave and Weeter, Jeffrey, A Qualitative Analysis Of Haptic Feedback In Music Focused Exercises, 2017
Gareth W. Young, Dave Murphy, Jeffrey Weeter, Haptics in Music: The Effects of Vibrotactile Stimulus in Low Frequency Auditory Difference Detection Tasks., IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2017, p1--1
Gareth William Young, Future Cities and Multimodalities., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2017
Gareth W. Young, Human-Computer Interaction Methodologies Applied in the Evaluation of Haptic Digital Musical Instruments, UCC, 2016
Gareth Young, Aidan Kehoe, David Murphy, Usability Testing of Video Game Controllers: A Case Study, Games User Research, 2016, p145--188
Usability Testing of Video Game Controllers: A Case Study in, editor(s)M. A. Garcia-Ruiz , Games User Research: A Case Study Approach, A K Peters/CRC Press, 2016, pp145 - 188, [G. W. Young, A. Kehoe, and D. Murphy]
External trade policy in, The European Union: Economics and Politics, Seventh Edition, Prentice Hall, 2004, pp450 - 470, [A.Matthews, M. Brulhart]
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Gareth W. Young and Rob Kitchin, Creating design guidelines for building city dashboards from a user{\textquotesingle, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 140, p102429
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
SCIEurope Consortium, Prototype Tracer, Report for EC Esprit/OMI project P25257, 1998
Recognition
Memberships
ACM SIGCHI member