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: Janette Agg, Yuongmi Choi, Peter Francis, Connor Graham, Steve Goschnick, Susan Keller, Sofia Pardo, Sonja Pedell, Jan Skjetne, Wally Smith
and Liz Sonenberg
Staff/Faculty
| Name | Research Interests |
| Sandrine Balbo | HCI and related disciplines, tool centred usability engineering, stretching task modelling into new domains |
| 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 |
| Hilary Davis | domestic technologies, health informatics research, new technology in complex and sensitive settings |
| Martin Gibbs | sociable technology, affective computing, research methods |
| Steve Howard | use centred innovation, supporting non-instrumental use, material systems |
| Jon Pearce | engagement, online learning, emotion and interaction |
| Wally Smith | disaster management, personal task management, mis/representation |
| Christine Satchell | mobile devices, cultural theory, youth |
| Liz Sonenberg | intelligent user interfaces |
| Frank Vetere | user experience, inaccessible domains, emotion and interaction |
PhD Research Students
| Name | Research Interests |
| Janette Agg | web design, design rationale,communities of practice, virtual teamwork, e-learning and distance education, identity in cyberspace |
| Asmidah Alwi | user experience, engagement and interaction design within the learning context |
| Shawn Nevelle Ashkanasy | social computing, tangibble interaction, experimental qualitative reaeach methods |
| Monica Cardenas-Claros | second language listening, cognitive styles in CALL, second language assessment and HCI |
| Youngmi Choi | |
| Peter Francis | user-centred design, assistive technologies and participatory design environments. |
| Connor Graham | abstractions and design, mobile methods, new technology in complex and sensitive settings |
| Steve Goschnick | personal interface agents, intelligent interfaces for the individual, mash-ups (including Web service orchestration), software games and software agent architectures which involve any of the previously listed interests. |
| Susan Keller | |
| Daryl Ku | how computing technologies can support learning from a learner's perspective |
| Tuck Leong | user-experience, shuffle listening, serendipity, randomness, defamiliarization |
| 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” |
| Sofia Pardo | HCI in general and child computer interaction: designing technologies for and with kids |
| Sonja Pedell | |
| Imalka Nilma Perera | emotive interface agents, emotions, flow and affective computing |
| Bernd Ploderer | persuasive technology, social software and ubiquitous computing |
| Jan Skjetne | |
| Greg Wadley | online communities, VoIP in virtual worlds, MMORPGs, second life |
| Ivo Widjaja | adaptive interface, ubiquitous computing, interactive display |
| Weiss Zhao | blended learning - learning by integrating virtual and physical resources |
Honours Students
| Name | Research Interests |
| Lina Lee | |
| Matthew Daniel | technology support for smoking cessation, temporal aspects of usability and web 2.0 |
| Jeremy Smith | web 2.0, phatic communication, social networking and mobile computing. |
Visitors
| Name | Length of Stay | Research Interests |
| Arno van Vulpen | Sep 2007 - 29 Feb 2008 | task modelling and user modelling |
Graduate PhD Students
| Name | PhD Title and Current Positions |
| Dr. Stephen Smith (PhD 2007) | "Vicarious Experience in B-C eCommerce". Currently: Research Fellow, Monash University |
| Dr. Jeni Paay (PhD 2006) | "Understanding hybrid digital/built environments". Currently: Assistant Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark |
| Dr. Jon Pearce (PhD 2005) | "An investigation of interactivity and flow: student behaviour during online instruction". Currently: Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne |
| Dr. Frank Vetere (PhD 2002) | "Redundant Multimedia at the Human-Computer Interface". Currently: Lecturer, University of Melbourne |
Research Collaborators
Jim Alty (Middlesex University), Keith Cheverst (Lancaster University), Frank Feltham (RMIT), Jesper Kjeldskov (Aalborg University), Mikael Skov (Aalborg University), Mark Rouncefield (Lancaster University), Stephan Wensveen (TU/Eindhoven)
Corporate Associates
John Murphy, Dr. John Fabre (Dell), Cecile Paris (CSIRO), Scott Davey (Datalink), Brenton Lovett (Wizard), NH&MRC