Ancret Szpak

  Ancret Szpak
 Position Lecturer
 Org Unit School of Psychology
 Email ancret.szpak@adelaide.edu.au
 Telephone +61 8 8313 6907
 Location Floor/Room Level Seven ,  Hughes ,   North Terrace
  • Biography/ Background

    I am a Lecturer in the School of Psychology and I am currently coordinating online courses in the Graduate Diploma of Psychology Advanced (GDPA). I also have several research projects funded by the government. My primary area of interest is the application of virtual reality to develop or enhance real-world skills. I have expertise in virtual and augmented reality in healthcare, sports training and cognitive abilities.

     

  • Research Funding

    Jul 2023 Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), Augmented Reality to Improve Telemedicine Delivery and Wound Research.

    Sep 2020 Indigenous Australian’s Health Programme (Dept. of Health), Improving telemedicine delivery for Aboriginal people with diabetes-related foot complications using Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR).

    Oct 2020 Augusta Zadow Awards (SafeWorkSA), Testing the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality-Based Training for Forklift Operation Safety Skills among Young People.

    Oct 2020 Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation, Helping children with intellectual disabilities develop real-world life skills in virtual reality.

    Jul 2020 Road Safety Innovation Fund (Dept. of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications), Testing user experience methods for older vulnerable road users.

  • Publications

    Michalski, S. C., Gallomarino, N. C., Szpak, A., May, K. W., Lee, G., Ellison, C. E., & Loetscher, T. (2023). Virtual Reality, 1(12). doi:10.1007/s10055-023-00759-2

    Szpak, A., Richards, A, Michalski, S. C., & Loetscher, T. (2022). In 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), (533-537). IEEE. doi:10.1109/VRW55335.2022.00119

    Michalski, S. C., Szpak, A., Ellison, C., Cornish, R. & Loetscher, T. (2022). Journal of Medical Internet Research: Serious Games, 10(2), e34373. doi: 10.2196/34373

    Clark, R.A., Szpak, A., Michalski, S. C., & Loetscher, T. (2021). . Sensors, 21(20). doi: 10.3390/s21206817

    Michalski, S.C., Ellison, C., Szpak, A., Loetscher, T. (2021). . Frontiers in Psychology, 12: 627301. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.627301

    Szpak, A., Michalski, S. C., & Loetscher, T. (2020). . Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(e19840), 6817. doi: 10.2196/19840

    Saredakis, D.*, Szpak, A.*, Birckhead, B., Keage, H. A. D., Rizzo, A. "Skip", & Loetscher, T. (2020). . Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.00096

    Michalski, S. C., Szpak, A., & Loetscher, T. (2019). Frontiers in Psychology,10(21590). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02159

    Szpak, A., Michalski, S. C., Saredakis, D., Chen, C. S., & Loetscher, T. (2019). . IEEE Access, 7, 130883–130892. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2940073

    Michalski, S. C.*, Szpak, A.*, Saredakis, D., Ross, T. J., Billinghurst, M., & Loetscher, T. (2019). PLoS ONE, 14(9:e0222351), 1–14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222351

    Saccone, E.J., Szpak, A., Churches, O. & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2018). Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80(1), 54–68. doi:10.3758/s13414-017-1413-7

    Szpak, A., Thomas, N. A., & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2016). Experimental Brain Research, 234(3), 807–813. doi:10.1007/s00221-015-4504-5

    Szpak, A., Loetscher, T, Bastian, J., Thomas, N. A., & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2015). Brain and Cognition, 99, 128–134. doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2015.08.005

    Szpak, A., Nicholls, M. E. R., Thomas, N. A., Laham, S., & Loetscher, T. (2015). Cognitive Neuroscience, 7(1–4), 45–54. doi:10.1080/17588928.2015.1048677

    Szpak, A., Loetscher, T., Churches, O., Thomas, N. A., Spence, C. J., & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2015). Neuropsychologia, 70, 462–467. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.10.008

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