Rate My Professor Keith Nesbitt

Dr Keith Nesbitt serves as an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Information Technology at the University of Newcastle, Australia, within the School of Computer and Information Sciences, Faculty of Science and Information Technology. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sydney, a Master of Computing and a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Newcastle, a Graduate Certificate in the Practice of Tertiary Teaching from the University of Newcastle, and a Diploma in Technical Analysis from the Australian Technical Analysts Association. Before joining academia full-time, Nesbitt worked as a research scientist for BHP, evaluating the potential impact of emerging computing technologies on business domains. He teaches a range of subjects including computer languages (Java, C++, VB, Actionscript, Python), computer game design and production, software engineering process modeling, user interface design, and visualisation. Nesbitt is a member of the School of Design, Communication and Information Technology’s research committee.

Nesbitt's academic interests center on computer games, virtual environments, user-interface design, information visualisation, agent-based modelling, and creative processes. His applied research examines how these technologies can address real-world problems, particularly by engaging multiple senses for information sharing and reception. He has successfully secured 23 grants totaling $1,152,173, such as the 2022 Australian Coal Research Limited grant for improving coke microstructure classification using deep learning and lineal path calculations ($111,020), the 2020 grant for correlating multiscale structural features with coke quality ($89,680), the 2016 data mining approach for coal properties and coking performance ($330,000), and earlier projects including the Strategic Initiatives Research Fund for health informatics, the Teaching and Learning Project for a virtual pharmacy, and the PRC in Physical Activity and Nutrition Seed Grant for dysfunctional movement research. Nesbitt has supervised 13 PhD completions, covering topics like real-time cognitive measures, music composition through gameplay, cybersickness, and ambient displays. Key publications include "Cybersickness" (2024), "Classifying coke using CT scans and landmark multidimensional scaling" (2023), "Profiling subjective symptoms and autonomic changes associated with cybersickness" (2016), "Designing multi-sensory displays for mobile devices" (2016), "A Meta-analysis of Data Collection in Serious Games Research" (2015), and editorship of "IE2014: Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Interactive Entertainment". His contributions advance fields like serious games, multi-sensory interfaces, and physiological measures in gaming.