People
Our cross disciplinary team is composed of both staff and students, and are all focused on enhancing the user experience of IT through interaction design.
Meet the Interaction Design Group
(Hover over the face to see the name)
Absentees: Peter Benda, Hilary Davis, Monica Cardenas-Claros, Peter Francis, Florian 'Floyd' Mueller, Weiss Zhao
Staff/Faculty
| Name | Research Interests |
| Peter Benda | new technology in complex and sensitive settings, organism-environment reciprocity, complex dynamical approaches to understanding human behaviour/cognition/computer systems design, qualitative research methods |
| Dr Hilary Davis | domestic technologies, health informatics research, new technology in complex and sensitive settings |
| Dr Martin Gibbs | sociable technology, affective computing, research methods |
| Prof. Steve Howard | use centred innovation, supporting non-instrumental use, material systems |
| Dr Jon Pearce | engagement, online learning, emotion and interaction |
| Dr Sonja Pedell | scenario-based design, context representations and domestic technologies |
| Dr Christine Satchell | mobile devices, cultural theory, youth |
| Dr Wally Smith | disaster management, personal task management, mis/representation |
| Dr Frank Vetere | user experience, inaccessible domains, emotion and interaction |
PhD Students
| Name | Research Interests |
| Shawn Nevelle Ashkanasy | social computing, tangible interaction, experimental qualitative research methods |
| Monica Cardenas-Claros | second language listening, cognitive styles in CALL, second language assessment and HCI |
| Peter Francis | user-centred design, assistive technologies and participatory design environments. |
| Mitchell Owen Harrop | game studies, game rules, online communities, engagement and play |
| Konstantinos Kazakos | mobile interaction design, health applications and low income communities |
| Daryl Ku | learning technologies |
| Florian 'Floyd' Mueller | exertion Interfaces – interfaces that are deliberately physically demanding, i.e. they make you sweat when using them, to enable what I call “Sports over a Distance” |
| Imalka Nilma Perera | emotive interface agents, emotions, flow and affective computing |
| Bernd Ploderer | persuasive technology, social software and ubiquitous computing |
| Greg Wadley | online communities, VoIP in virtual worlds, MMORPGs, second life |
| Weiss Zhao | blended learning - learning by integrating virtual and physical resources |
Master Research Students
| Name | Research Interests |
| Kate Goodwin | technological affordances of hybrid spaces for informal interaction, learning technologies, pervasive/ubiquitous computing |
Visitors
| Name | Research Interests | Length of Stay |
| René Vutborg | distance-separated user experiences | Aug 2009 - Jan 2010 |
Graduated PhD Students
| Name | PhD Title | Current Positions |
| Dr Connor Graham (2009) | The Case for Mobile Trajectory: A Practical 'Theory' for Mobile Work | Independent Researcher |
| Dr Tuck Wah Leong (2009) | Serendipity as a User-Experience | Research Fellow, University of Aarhus |
| Dr Sofia Pardo (2009) | Child-Base Evaluation of Educational Effectiveness: Broadening the Child/Designer Dyad | Research Officer, Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Australia |
| Dr Sonja Pedell (2008) | A Scenario-Based Technique for Representing Dynamic Use Context in Mobile System Design | Research Fellow, University of Melbourne |
| Dr Stephen Smith (2007) | Vicarious Experience in B-C Ecommerce | Research Fellow, Monash University |
| Dr Jeni Paay (2006) | Understanding Hybrid Digital/Built Environments | Assistant Professor, Aalborg University |
| Dr Jon Pearce (2005) | An Investigation of Interactivity and Flow: Student Behaviour during Online Instruction | Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne |
| Dr Frank Vetere (2002) | Redundant Multimedia at the Human-Computer Interface | Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne |
Research Collaborators
Jim Alty (Middlesex University), Keith Cheverst (Lancaster University), Paul Dourish, Frank Feltham (RMIT), Jesper Kjeldskov (Aalborg University), Andrew Monk, Mark Rouncefield (Lancaster University), Mikael Skov (Aalborg University), Stephan Wensveen (TU/Eindhoven), Peter Wright
Corporate Associates
John Murphy,
Dr John Fabre (Dell),
Cecile Paris (CSIRO),
Scott Davey (Datalink),
Brenton Lovett (Wizard)