Sepehr VAEZ AFSHAR

Digital Heritage

Serious Game

Digital Fabrication

Sepehr VAEZ AFSHAR

Digital Heritage

Serious Game

Digital Fabrication

About Me
As an architect with a computer science background, Sepehr continued his master's studies in landscape architecture at ITU, combining his interests in gamification with the Virtual landscape. Currently, he is studying Historic Preservation at Texas Tech University, focused on the intersection of digital fabrication, cultural heritage, and data science. Additionally, he is the Co-Founder of OyuNest Inc., a company dealing with the Virtual landscape and game design process.
  • Affiliation: RA at Texas Tech
  • Company: OyuNest Inc.
  • Position: Co-Founder
  • Address: TX, USA
Recent Posts
Title
2022 - Present
M.Sc. - Architecture (Historic Preservation)
Huckabee College of Architecture, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA (Fully funded Position)
2019 - 2022
M.Sc. - Landscape Architecture (English Program)
Department of Landscape Architecture, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey Thesis supervised by Dr. Ikhwan Kim ‘Virtual Landscape in Serious Games: ‘A Framework for Enhancing the Player Interaction Focusing on The Learning Rate’ (Overall GPA: 3.88/4.00 - Graduated with Honors)
2015 - 2018
B.Sc. - Architectural Engineering
Department of Architectural Engineering, Azad University (IAU), Urmia, Iran Final Project: ‘ARTech Startup, an innovative Augmented Reality platform in the architecture field’ (Awarded) (Overall GPA WES: 3.91/4.00 - Graduated with Honors)

Publications

Eshaghi, S., Vaez Afshar, S., & Hadighi, M. (2022). A Framework Proposal for Developing Historical Video Games Based on Player Review Data Mining to Support Historic Preservation, ARCC 2023 International Conference, The Research-Design Interface. (Under Review)

Vaez Afshar, S., Aytaç, G., Eshaghi, S., & Vaez Afshar, S. (2022). Online Footprint - A serious game for reducing digital carbon emission, International Conference of the Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics: Designing Possibilities-Ubiquitous, SIGraDi 2022.

Aytaç, G., Aluçlu, G., Dalay, L. & Vaez Afshar, S. (2022). Around Water: A Research-Based Landscape Design Studio. Journal of Design Studio, Landscape Research, 35-50. DOI: 10.46474/jds.1074495

Vaez Afshar, S., Eshaghi, S. & Kim, I. (2022). Pattern Analysis of Virtual Landscape within Educational Games. Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture: HYBRID: Analog + Digital = The next normal, DLA 2022, 435-442. DOI: 10.14627/537724042

Varinlioğlu, G., Vaez Afshar, S., Eshaghi, S., Balaban, Ö., & Nagakura, T. (2022). GIS-Based Educational Game through Low-Cost Virtual Tour Experience. 27th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia: Post Carbon, CAADRIA 2022, 1, 69-78.

Vaez Afshar, S., Aytaç, G., & Eshaghi, S. (2021). SU: A Serious Game for Water Management - Based on Istanbul. XXV International Conference of the Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics, SIGraDi 2021, 523-532. DOI: 10.5151/sigradi2021-205

Vaez Afshar, S., Eshaghi, S., Varinlioğlu, G., & Balaban, Ö. (2021). Evaluation of Learning Rate in Serious Game: Based on Anatolian Cultural Heritage. 39th International Conference of Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe: Towards a new, configurable architecture, eCAADe 2021 (WOS), 2, 273-280. (Awarded)

Vaez Afshar, S., Eshaghi, S., & Örnek, M. A. (2021). A Game-Based Tool for Freshmen Design Students During the Pandemic Distance Learning. 4th International Symposium on Art and Design Education: Art and design during and after the Covid-19 Period, Başkent University.

Eshaghi, S., Vaez Afshar, S., & Varinlioğlu, G. (2021). THE SERICUM VIA: A Serious Game for Preserving Tangible and Intangible Heritage of Iran. 9th International Conference of the Arab Society for Computer-Aided Architectural Design, ASCAAD 2021, 306-316. (Awarded)

Work Experience
Nov 2021 - Present
OyuNest Digital Game and Design Technologies Inc.
Co-Founder
İTÜ ARI Teknokent Science Park, Istanbul, Turkey
Jul 2020 - Present
MyHBD
Web Content Writer
Hosting Barebone Data company, Freelancer, Netherlands
Mar 2020 – Nov 2022
Dr.Weeb
WordPress Developer
Website & Game Design Startup
Freelancer, Istanbul, Turkey
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
TÜBİTAK
Researcher
TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological
Research Council of Turkey) 1512 Capital Support Program, Istanbul, Turkey
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
BIM Conf
Webmaster
International Conference on BIM, Tehran, Iran
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Zoomit
Web Content Writer
The Most Popular Technology Online Magazine in IRAN, Tehran, Iran
Get in Touch
  • Address: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79410
  • Email: sepehr.afshar@ttu.edu
  • Freelance: Available
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