https://www.yasassri.me/ Augmented reality researcher, university lecturer and software builder — upcoming talks and events, and interactive lessons from the Yoobees teaching platform. en-nz Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +1200 https://www.yasassri.me/assets/images/icons/favicon.png https://www.yasassri.me/ https://www.yasassri.me/news.html#upcoming yasassri-event-nzgdc-2026 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +1300 Event I'm speaking at NZGDC 2026 (30 Sep – 3 Oct, Auckland) on "Designing Shared Worlds Across Distance: Lessons from Multiplayer AR Game Research" — real-time connections across distance, bridging places and people, and designing for presence, engagement and trust in multiplayer AR. 1 October 2026, 3:00–3:30 PM, NZ International Convention Centre, Auckland. https://www.yasassri.me/news.html#upcoming yasassri-event-code-with-wie-2026 Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Event Workshop 01 of CODE with WIE 2026, hosted by IEEE Women in Engineering Sri Lanka — exploring the technologies shaping the future and how innovation is transforming tomorrow's world, drawn from research in immersive technologies, software product engineering and game design. Online via Google Meet. https://www.yasassri.me/news.html yasassri-event-tohoku-visit-2025 Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +1300 Collaboration Prof. Rob Lindeman and I (HIT Lab NZ, University of Canterbury) visited the Interactive Content Design Lab at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication (RIEC), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. We presented our research on location-based augmented reality and immersive interaction, and explored a joint research project bridging New Zealand and Japan. https://www.yasassri.me/news.html yasassri-event-falling-walls-2024 Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +1200 Talk One of nineteen researchers and innovators chosen from across Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific to pitch a breakthrough idea in three minutes at Falling Walls Lab Aotearoa New Zealand 2024, organised by Royal Society Te Apārangi. Pitch: "Breaking the Wall of Loneliness through Play" — how location-based augmented reality games can bring people together and ease loneliness through shared experiences. https://www.yasassri.me/news.html yasassri-event-nzgdc-2023-panel Panel New Zealand Game Developers Conference, 2023. A panel of New Zealand augmented reality developers for the first-ever AR Game Dev Rant at NZGDC — a candid, fast-paced conversation about what it really takes to design and ship location-based AR experiences, alongside Evie, Melanie and Devi. (Exact date not published on-site; year only.) https://www.yasassri.me/app/lessons/database-concepts.html https://www.yasassri.me/app/lessons/database-concepts.html Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +1200 Lesson Table design, backup & restore, and a plain-English look at SQL injection — one database, one table, built up step by step. https://www.yasassri.me/app/lessons/er-diagrams.html https://www.yasassri.me/app/lessons/er-diagrams.html Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +1200 Lesson Entities, attributes and relationships in Chen's notation — and learning to read cardinality at a glance. https://www.yasassri.me/app/lessons/sql-programming.html https://www.yasassri.me/app/lessons/sql-programming.html Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +1200 Lesson CREATE, INSERT, SELECT — one interactive slide at a time, the language databases actually speak. https://www.yasassri.me/app/lessons/er-activities.html https://www.yasassri.me/app/lessons/er-activities.html Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +1200 Lesson Model five real systems — a library, a university, a hospital, an online store and a hotel — and check your diagram against a worked answer. https://www.yasassri.me/app/lessons/er-advanced.html https://www.yasassri.me/app/lessons/er-advanced.html Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +1200 Lesson Weak entities, identifying relationships, multivalued and derived attributes — with two exercises to test yourself. https://www.yasassri.me/app/lessons/er-attributes.html https://www.yasassri.me/app/lessons/er-attributes.html Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +1200 Lesson Composite and derived attributes, and participation constraints, read through two guided activities. https://www.yasassri.me/app/lessons/apa-referencing.html https://www.yasassri.me/app/lessons/apa-referencing.html Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +1200 Lesson A 14-slide interactive crash course on APA 7 citations, from the first in-text citation to the last reference entry, with a practice quiz. https://www.yasassri.me/app/lessons/jira-certifications.html https://www.yasassri.me/app/lessons/jira-certifications.html Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +1200 Lesson Three hand-picked, genuinely free Jira and Agile credentials worth putting on LinkedIn. https://www.yasassri.me/app/lessons/sql-certifications.html https://www.yasassri.me/app/lessons/sql-certifications.html Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +1200 Lesson Nine genuinely free SQL credentials, from vendor badges to project-based certificates. https://www.yasassri.me/app/lessons/vibe-to-production.html https://www.yasassri.me/app/lessons/vibe-to-production.html Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +1200 Lesson How to go from an idea to a live website in one sitting, using Google Stitch, Claude Code and GitHub Pages.