Vipin Verma

About

Dr. Verma is an Assistant Research Scientist at Decision Theater (DT) in the Knowledge Enterprise, Arizona State University. At DT, he has worked in inter-disciplinary collaborations with Department of Energy, Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Northern Arizona University and Hopi Tribe Department of Behavioral Health Services on several projects that involved front-end and back-end software development, mobile app development, and UX design and research. He completed his PhD in Human Systems Engineering from Arizona State University in which he designed and developed an educational video game and assessment in Unity that dynamically adapts difficulty based on several factors such as player emotions and their in-game interactions modeled using Dynamic Bayesian Networks (game demo-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH66jXw3v1g).

His research interests include Educational Games, Simulation, Gamification, Assessment, Psychometrics, and Affective Computing.

Dr. Verma has completed his B.Tech in Production & Industrial Engineering from IIT Roorkee, MS in Information Assurance from Stratford University, and worked for 5 years prior to earning his Ph.D. in Human Systems Engineering from Arizona State University.

Dr. Verma developed a mouse-tracking program (which runs on browser) inspired by the Freeman’s mousetracker, under the guidance of Dr. Becker. This program (freely available here-https://github.com/vipin8169/MouseTrackers) helps in tracking the pixel coordinates of the cursor when mouse is moved across the screen, as a function of time. This program’s output data can be analyzed to measure the implicit bias and cognitive load of the user.

Employment

• BlueSapling India Pvt Ltd Technical Lead
  2016 - 2016
• Nextag India Pvt. Ltd. Software Engineer
  2012 - 2016
• IBM India Private Limited Associate Systems Engineer
  2011 - 2012

Education

• Arizona State University Human Systems Engineering
  2016 - Present
• Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Production & Industrial Engineering
  2007 - 2011

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (14)

• Towards a Modular, Offline-First mHealth Template for Translational Reuse: From Sunrise to Farmer Mental Health Literacy
  2026 DOI: 10.1145/3786579.3804941
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• Characterizing User Needs for GenAI Incorporation in Educational Games
  Education Sciences 2026 DOI: 10.3390/educsci16020300
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• An In-Depth Evaluation of Educational Burst Games in Relation to Learner Proficiency
  Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 2024 DOI: 10.3390/mti8100088
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• An In-depth Evaluation of Educational Burst Games - in Relation to Learner Proficiency
  2024 DOI: 10.20944/preprints202407.2425.v1
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• When Refutation and Deep Reasoning Questions Lose Their Edge: The Case of Short, Narrated Videos
  Journal of Educational Computing Research 2022 DOI: 10.1177/07356331211070534
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• Domain Knowledge and Adaptive Serious Games: Exploring the Relationship of Learner Ability and Affect Adaptability
  Journal of Educational Computing Research 2022 DOI: 10.1177/07356331211031287
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• Validity of a Content Agnostic Game Based Stealth Assessment
  2021 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-92182-8_12
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• Predicting Real-Time Affective States by Modeling Facial Emotions Captured During Educational Video Game Play
  International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance 2020 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-63464-3_45
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• How to Prevent Players from Teaming Up in Free-for-all Games: The Importance of Initial Contact
  Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 2019 DOI: 10.1177/1071181319631513
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• Emerging Practices in Game-Based Assessment
  Springer, Cham 2019 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15569-8_16
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