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New paper presents work by Naseem Ahmadpour (نسیم احمدپور) Anna Janssen and Melanie Keep and reports on the experiences of patients in chemotherapy using VR apps picked from a set of 10 pre-selected apps games.jmir.org/2022/1/e29579 Sydney Design Lab Chris O’Brien Lifehouse

Happy International Women's Day! Today, we celebrated exceptional women in our school and organized a pop-up engagement to speculate how we might #breakthebias

Join us for a rare public lecture by the founder of the Key Centre of Design Computing & Cognition which later became the Design Lab. In this talk, Prof John Gero will explore what happens in your brain when you design. Fri 8 Apr 6-7pm @Sydney_Arch RSVP: events.humanitix.com/public-lecture…

Check out this fantastic short film made by lab member Lian Loke (with Dagmar Reinhardt) exploring a feminist approach to investigating how robots can collaborate with humans in personal grooming and bodily care rituals. isea2022.isea-international.org/event/screenin… Sydney Design Lab ISEA2022 Barcelona

How great is this pictorial by Yidan Cao Dr Karen Anne Cochrane and Lian Loke! "Computationally augmenting traditional embroidery practices: an autobiographical design process with first-person patient experience for amblyopia follow up treatment activity" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…

[New Paper] Design Considerations for Immersive Virtual Reality Applications for Older Adults: A Scoping Review Tram Tran Naseem Ahmadpour (نسیم احمدپور) Baki Kocaballi @Rafael_A_Calvo Shlomo Berkovsky Australian Institute of Health Innovation Affective Interactions Lab MDPI mdpi.com/2414-4088/6/7/…

New article in interactions "Making Space for Faith, Religion, and Spirituality (FRS) in Prosocial HCI" by Khushnood Naqshbandi Kristina Mah Naseem Ahmadpour (نسیم احمدپور) advocating for people who value FRS in prosocial system design and HCI research bit.ly/3wmjSTY

Thoroughly enjoyed this collaboration that sparked spacious discussions and openness to our different views on faith, religion and spirituality with Khushnood Naqshbandi and Naseem Ahmadpour (نسیم احمدپور). Very pleased to be contribute to this conversation in HCI.

New paper in IJHCI by Khushnood Naqshbandi Naseem Ahmadpour (نسیم احمدپور) and Yun-Hee Jeon explores identity and meaning-making of digital volunteer in science-based programs and platforms bit.ly/3pU81c9

New week Ajit G. Pillai will present a paper at NordiCHI "Exploring the experience of ethical tensions and the role of community in UX practice" examining distress caused by ethical tensions at work, and the role of communities as sites of care dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…

A recent Australian survey looked at the experiences of people who had signed up to StepUp for Dementia Research to investigate motivations and meaning behind volunteering online for science-based research. To read more: stepupfordementiaresearch.org.au/motivation/ Yun-Hee Jeon

My paper makes a quick appearance during the ethics panel NordiCHI #NordiCHI22

Wonder how UX practitioners can be supported in handling ethical tensions that arise in design work❓Ajit G. Pillai & team's paper from NordiCHI 2022 talks about different ethical tensions designers experience & the community’s role in mediating them. Link to paper below⬇️

It’s lab bonding day at Affective Interactions Lab and we are making a collage!

Congratulations to our very own Ajit G. Pillai for winning the 3min thesis competition at @Sydney_Arch ! Ajit is researching the experience of ethical tensions at workplace, and ways of mediating difficult conversations around ethical design through community building.

Design Lab’s very own Naseem Ahmadpour (نسیم احمدپور) is SUPRA’s “Supervisor of the Year” for 2022! 🏆This award recognises her invaluable contribution to HDR supervision over the years at University of Sydney and is nominated & judged by research postgraduates. Amazing win! Congratulations! 👏