If you are interested in research in HCI and interaction design you should read some of the papers on my home page, and review the work of my colleagues in the Interaction Design Group. Then contact the person whose interests most closely match your own with a clear sense of what you are interested in.
Currently I am seeking students who are interested in working on the application of ubiquitous computing to a variety of problems of real social need (wellness and illness, sustainability, community maintenance, etc).
If your track record is VERY good you may be eligible for a scholarship. Enrolment and scholarship info is available from the Melbourne School of Graduate Research and Scholarships
Sofia Pardo Participatory design and children: prospects and hurdles (with Dr. Frank Vetere)
Connor Graham Mobile trajectories in sensitive and complex domains (with Dr. Frank Vetere)
Tuck Leong Understanding serendipitous experiences when interacting with personal digital content (with Dr. Frank Vetere)
Susan Keller Design Materials and Design Breakdowns: the role of material affordances (with Prof. Ross Smith and Dr. Jennie Carroll)
Greg Wadley How does communicating by voice change our experience of online worlds? (with Dr. Martin Gibbs)
Bernd Ploderer The Persuasive Potential of Social Network Sites: The Role of Tie Strength (with Prof. Peter Thomas)
Youngmi Choi Repurposing: understanding the secondary and tertiary purposes of domestic objects (with Assoc. Prof. Bharat Dave Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning)
Jan Havard Skjetne, Bridging SE and HCI: the role of the boundary object (with Dr. Frank Vetere)
Janette Agg, Supporting communication across multidisciplinary design teams (with Sensis)
Tanya Linden, Multimedia Design Pattern Language (with Dr. Jacob Cybulski)
Dr. Stephen Smith (PhD 2007) Vicarious Experience in B-C eCommerce (currently Lecturer at Monash University). 2007 ACPHIS Best Doctoral Thesis in IS, 2nd place
Dr. Jeni Paay (PhD 2006) Understanding hybrid digital/built environments (Assistant Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark)
Dr. Jon Pearce (PhD 2005) An investigation of interactivity and flow: student behaviour during online instruction (currently colleague and Senior Lecturer in DIS, The University of Melbourne)
Dr. Frank Vetere (PhD 2002) Redundancy and Multimedia (currently colleague and Senior Lecturer in DIS, The University of Melbourne)
Dr. John Fabre (PhD 2000) Temporal Aspects of Usability (currently Manager, Usability Strategy, Experience Design Group, Dell Singapore)
Dr. Anil Khushalani (PhD 1997) Opportunism in Design (currently Senior Consultant with Energetics)
Karen Gunn (MIT) Assessment of the MUSIC performance measurement method for WWW site usability (now a manager at Telstra)
Helen Kieboom (MIT) Cost Benefit Analysis and Usability Engineering (now CEO, UCDesign)
Kathy Henschke (MIT) Education and CSCW (now Senior Lecturer at RMIT University)
Tim Sutherland (MIT) Designer behaviour in different programming paradigms
Russell Horner (MIT) Protool: A tool for Verbal Protocol Analysis
Luke Mo (MIT) Prototyper: Extending Hypercard
Pravin Rodriguez (MIT) Exploring Computer Based Support for Usability Evaluation
Kon Mouzakis (MIT) Supporting Up-stream User Interface Design (now Senior Lecturer at Swinburne University)
Janus Zhuang (MIT) The auto-generation of Logical Dialogue Outlines in SSADM
Matt Daniels (BIS Hons 1) Temporal aspects of use (with Peter Benda)
Martin Cholewka (BIS Hons 1) Multimedia and learning at the interface (with Connor Graham)
Shirlena Po (BIS Hons 1) Usability Evaluation of Mobile Devices (with Dr. Frank Vetere)
Aaron Mullane (BIS Hons 1) Task Modelling, Web design and Exploratory use (with Dr. Sandrine Balbo)
Sharon Herszfeld (BIS Hons 1) Appropriation of Mobile Devices in Nomadic Organisations (with Dr. Jennie Carroll)
Rosa Heung (BIS Hons 2a) Appropriation of Mobile Devices by Established Social Groups (with Dr. Jennie Carroll)
Subagio Tiono (BIS Hons) Mental models of internet security (with Dr. Tobias Ruighaver)
Michael Ng (BIS Hons 2a) Electronic Shopping Malls (with Dr. Tobias Ruighaver)
James Thompson (BAppSci Hons 2a) Extending Task Action Grammar with Design Rationale
Nikki Kaiyan (BAppSci Hons 1) Virtual Environments: An Interactive Paradigm
Simon Inwood (BAppSci Hons 2a) User Interface Evaluation Tools
Dominique Gloaguen (BAppSci Hons 1) Integrating Human Factors into SSADM (now Chief Designer at @Road - Part of Trimble)
Christophe Renouf (BAppSci Hons) A tool for usability evaluation
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