Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz

Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz graduated in Computer Systems engineering and obtained his MSc in Computer Science from the University of Colima, Mexico. He received his PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sussex, UK. Miguel took a virtual reality course at Salford University, UK, and a graphics techniques internship at the Madrid Polytechnic University, Spain. Miguel is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Algoma University, Canada. He has published scientific papers in major journals, book chapters and three books, and directed a video documentary on virtual reality. His research interests include educational virtual environments and usability of multimodal human-computer interfaces.

Publications

A User Study of Virtual Reality for Visualizing Digitized Canadian Cultural Objects
A User Study of Virtual Reality for Visualizing Digitized Canadian Cultural Objects
Miguel Angel Garcia-Ruiz, Pedro Cesar Santana-Mancilla, Laura Sanely Gaytan-Lugo. © 2019. 25 pages.
Algoma University holds an important collection of Canadian objects from the Anishinaabe culture dating from 1880. Some of those objects have been on display in the...
Cases on Usability Engineering: Design and Development of Digital Products
Cases on Usability Engineering: Design and Development of Digital Products
Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz. © 2013. 470 pages.
Information technologies play a significant role in modern information-driven societies, making a comprehensive understanding of digital media a fundamental requisite to success....
An Overview of Child Abuses in 3D Social Networks and Online Video Games
An Overview of Child Abuses in 3D Social Networks and Online Video Games
Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Miguel Vargas Martin, Patrik Olsson. © 2012. 16 pages.
It appears that child pornography distribution and child abuses on the Internet have permeated to massively multiplayer online role-playing video games (MMORPG) and 3D social...
Technology for Facilitating Humanity and Combating Social Deviations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Technology for Facilitating Humanity and Combating Social Deviations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Miguel Vargas Martin, Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Arthur Edwards. © 2011. 354 pages.
Technology has been used to perpetrate crimes against humans, animals, and the environment, which include racism, cyber-bulling, illegal pornography, torture, illegal trade of...
Crouching Tangents, Hidden Danger: Assessing Development of Dangerous Misconceptions within Serious Games for Healthcare Education
Crouching Tangents, Hidden Danger: Assessing Development of Dangerous Misconceptions within Serious Games for Healthcare Education
Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Jayshiro Tashiro, Bill Kapralos, Miguel Vargas Martin. © 2011. 38 pages.
In this chapter, the authors examine different types of serious games for healthcare education and pose some hard questions about what they know and do not know about their...
Desktop Virtual Reality Applications for Training Personnel of Small Businesses
Desktop Virtual Reality Applications for Training Personnel of Small Businesses
Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Arthur Edwards, Raul Aquino-Santos, Samir El-Seoud, Miguel Vargas Martin. © 2011. 20 pages.
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in most world economies suffer from a series of intense economic pressures from local, regional and international markets. Although these...
Crouching Tangents, Hidden Danger: Assessing Development of Dangerous Misconceptions within Serious Games for Healthcare Education
Crouching Tangents, Hidden Danger: Assessing Development of Dangerous Misconceptions within Serious Games for Healthcare Education
Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Jayshiro Tashiro, Bill Kapralos, Miguel Vargas Martin. © 2011. 38 pages.
In this chapter, the authors examine different types of serious games for healthcare education and pose some hard questions about what they know and do not know about their...
Towards Usable Collaborative Virtual Reality Environments for Promoting Listening Comprehension
Towards Usable Collaborative Virtual Reality Environments for Promoting Listening Comprehension
Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Arthur Edwards, Raul Aquino-Santos, Jay Shiro Tashiro, Bill Kapralos. © 2011. 26 pages.
This chapter investigates whether an educational virtual environment can be developed to practice listening comprehension skills that meets second language student needs...
Desktop Virtual Reality Applications for Training Personnel of Small Businesses
Desktop Virtual Reality Applications for Training Personnel of Small Businesses
Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Arthur Edwards, Raul Aquino-Santos, Samir El-Seoud, Miguel Vargas Martin. © 2010. 20 pages.
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in most world economies suffer from a series of intense economic pressures from local, regional and international markets. Although these...
Analyzing IEEE 802.11g and IEEE 802.16e Technologies for Single-Hop Inter-Vehicle Communication
Analyzing IEEE 802.11g and IEEE 802.16e Technologies for Single-Hop Inter-Vehicle Communication
Raúl Aquino-Santos, Víctor Rangel-Licea, Aldo L. Méndez-Pérez, Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Arthur Edwards-Block, Eduardo Flores-Flores. © 2010. 29 pages.
This chapter analyzes two prominent technologies, IEEE 802.11g (WiFi) and IEEE 802.16e (WiMAX), for single-hop inter-vehicular communication (SIVC). We begin our analysis by...
Wireless Collaborative Virtual Environments Applied to Language Education
Wireless Collaborative Virtual Environments Applied to Language Education
Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Samir A. El-Seoud. © 2009. 22 pages.
This chapter provides an overview of second language learning and an approach on how wireless collaborative virtual reality can contribute to resolving important pedagogical...