Publications

Selected research outputs.

Peer-reviewed articles, conference proceedings, a doctoral thesis and selected conference outputs. For the most complete and current record, use ORCID or Google Scholar.

2026

Journal article

iDaVIE v1.0: A virtual reality tool for interactive analysis of astronomical data cubes

Alexander Sivitilli, Lucia Marchetti, Angus Comrie, P. Cilliers Pretorius, Thijs J. M. van der Hulst, Fabio Vitello, D. J. Pisano, Ugo Becciani, A. Russell Taylor, Paolo Serra, Mayhew Steyn and Michaela van Zyl

Astronomy and Computing, 56, 101109

2025

Conference abstract

Supporting Machine Learning-Based Asteroid Family Classification with Immersive Visualisation

Alexander Sivitilli, Andrew Marshall-Lee and Apostolos Christou

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025, EPSC-DPS2025-1601

2023

Peer-reviewed conference proceeding

Investigating how students engage with a digital planetarium

Alexander Sivitilli and Saalih Allie

2023 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings

Doctoral thesis

Characterizing the digital planetarium as a teaching and learning space

Alexander Sivitilli

University of Cape Town

2021

Journal article

Exploring and interrogating astrophysical data in virtual reality

Thomas H. Jarrett, Angus Comrie, Lucia Marchetti, Alexander Sivitilli, Sally Macfarlane, Fabio Vitello, Ugo Becciani, A. Russell Taylor, Jan M. van der Hulst, Paolo Serra, Neil Katz and Michelle E. Cluver

Astronomy and Computing, 37, 100502

Conference proceeding

iDaVIE-v: Immersive Data Visualisation Interactive Explorer for Volumetric Rendering

Lucia Marchetti, Thomas H. Jarrett, Angus Comrie, Alexander K. Sivitilli, Fabio Vitello, Ugo Becciani and A. R. Taylor

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXX, ASP Conference Series 532, 85-88

2020

Conference proceeding

Virtual Reality and Immersive Collaborative Environments: the New Frontier for Big Data Visualisation

Alexander K. Sivitilli, Angus Comrie, Lucia Marchetti and Thomas H. Jarrett

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXIX, ASP Conference Series 527, 221