Steffi Davey

Researcher

Steffi is a graduate of Sheffield Hallam University with a BSc in Interactive Media with Animation. During her studies, she completed a placement year working alongside psychologists conducting research focused on the perception of actions in virtual environments. After she graduated Steffi worked developing high fidelity, interactive tools to train students in the faculty of Health and Wellbeing. She later went on to work in industry as an e-learning developer before returning to research.

Steffi joined the CENTRIC Serious Games Team back in 2015, her work here revolves around creating innovative, engaging and fun learning tools using modern technologies such as Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Since working in CENTRIC Steffi has also completed a PGCert in Psychology expand her knowledge and interest in the psychology of learning and design.

Publications

Hancock, P., Van Hardeveld, G., Jakubcek, J., Akhgar, B., Davey, S., Amann, P (2024). Design of Cryptopol: A serious game for teaching cryptocurrency tracing techniques to Law Enforcement. . ACM Games: Research and Practice, Volume 2, Issue 4, Article 32, 14 pages..
Jones, A., Davey, S., Fenwick, J., Wallis, R., Whitfield, K., & Akhgar, B. (2024). Work-in-Progress—Enhancing Cyber Prevention Education: Utilising Virtual Reality Technology for Parents/Carers and Teachers. In: iLRN Proceedings. 10th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) Academic, 1(1), 210–216.
Wanner, L., Klusch, M., Mavropoulos, A., Jamin, E., Marín Puchades, V., Casamayor, G., Černocký, J., Davey, S., Domínguez, M., Egorova, E., Grivolla, J., Jaramillo Rojas, G. E., Karakostas, A., Ntioudis, D., Pecina, P., Sobko, O., Vrochidis, S., Wertmann, L. (2021). Towards a Versatile Intelligent Conversational Agent as Personal Assistant for Migrants. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. (pp. 316-327). Springer International Publishing.
Akhgar, B., Redhead, A., Davey, S., & Saunders, J. (2019). Introduction: Serious Games for Law Enforcement Agencies. In: Serious Games for Enhancing Law Enforcement Agencies. (pp. 1-11). Springer, Cham.
Davey, S., & Hancock, P. (2019). Virtual Reality Technologies. In: Serious Games for Enhancing Law Enforcement Agencies. (pp. 43-63). Springer, Cham.