Minhua Eunice Ma
Associate Dean
University of Huddersfield
UK
Biography
Professor Minhua Ma is a Professor of Digital Media & Games and the Associate Dean International in the School of Art, Design and Architecture at University of Huddersfield. Professor Ma obtained her MSc in Computer Science from Newcastle University and PhD in Computer Science from University of Ulster and worked there as a Post-Doc Researcher on virtual reality games for stroke rehabilitation. She joined University of Derby as a Senior Lecturer in Computer Games Modelling and Animation in 2007 and was promoted to Reader in 2009. She was the Head of Academic Programmes at the Glasgow School of Art since 2010 and became a Professor of Computer Games Technology in 2013. Professor Ma is a world-leading academic developing the emerging field of serious games. She has published widely in the fields of serious games for education, medicine and healthcare, Virtual and Augmented Reality and Natural Language Processing, in over 100 peer-reviewed publications, including 6 books on serious games with Springer. Eunice has received grants from RCUK, EU, NHS, NESTA, UK government, charities and a variety of other sources for her research on Virtual Reality and serious games for stroke rehabilitation, cystic fibrosis and autism, and medical visualisation.
Research Interest
Digital games technology, serious games for education, medicine, and healthcare,3D visualisation, medical visualisation, Virtual reality, Augmented Reality, HCI, embodied virtual humans, haptic interface, natural interface, Natural Language Processing, Computational Semantics.