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I am currently a Research Associate in the School of Computer Science at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. I successfully completed my PhD in May 2017.

My areas of research are:

• HCI design and evaluation guidelines for multimodal systems to support educational applications
• Computer-mediated interpersonal affective communication
• Cognitive aspects of human-computer interaction
• Visual Analytics

I am currently working on:

• Visual Analytics for Multimodal Affective Educational Software.
• Design Practices for Multimodal Affective Mathematical Learning.
• Affect-aware Education Software: The Teacher’s Console.
• Evaluating Software for Affective Education: A Museum Explorer Case Study.
• Evaluating Software for Affective Education: The 3D Immersive Educational Environment Case Study.

• Reza GhasemAghaei, Ali Arya, and Robert Biddle, Experience with MADE: A Framework for Multi-modal Affect for Design and Evaluation, Innovation in Technologies for Educational Computing, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (submitted).

• Reza GhasemAghaei, Ali Arya, and Robert Biddle, Affective Walkthroughs: Evaluating Minecraft Hour of Code, , published at Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction International (HCII’17), Vancouver, Canada, 2017 (accepted).

• Reza GhasemAghaei, Robert Biddle, and Ali Arya. A Dashboard for Affective E-learning: Data Visualization for Monitoring Online Learner Emotions,  AACE, EdMedia2016, World Conference on Educational Media and Technology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: June 28-30, 2016 (pdf).

• Reza GhasemAghaei, Robert Biddle, and Ali Arya. Evaluating Software for Affective Education: A Case Study of Affective Heuristics, AACE, EdMedia2016, World Conference on Educational Media and Technology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: June 28-30, 2016.
  

• Reza GhasemAghaei, Ali Arya, and Robert Biddle. Evaluating Software for Affective Education: A Case Study of the Affective Walkthrough, accepted, to be published at Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 2016 (Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction International (HCII’16), Toronto, Canada).

• Reza GhasemAghaei, Ali Arya, and Robert Biddle. MADE-Dashboard: Visual Analytics for Multimodal Affective Educational Software, Data Day 3.0, 2016.

• Reza GhasemAghaei, Ali Arya, and Robert Biddle. MADE Ratio: Affective Multimodal Software for Mathematical Concepts, accepted, to be published at Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 2016 (Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction International (HCII’16), Toronto, Canada).
  

• Reza GhasemAghaei, Robert Biddle, and Ali Arya. The MADE Framework: Multimodal Software for Affective Education, AACE, EdMedia2015, World Conference on Educational Media and Technology.

• R GhasemAghaei, AM Rahman, MA Rahman, W Gueaieb. Ant Colony-based Many-to-one Sensory Data Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE/ACS International AICCSA 2008.

Recent Courses:

• Human-Computer Interaction for User Interface Design (A)
• Software Usability (A+)