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Here is a little article that I co-wrote with Marius Hoggenmüller 🏳️‍🌈 about autonomous vehicles and why we need to design them more like robots than cars. Published by 360info.global (a new media platform led by the founder of The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand). 360info.org/car-or-robot-u… #future #cities

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! 👏

Congratulations to Joel for another successful Community Engagement Summit!🙌Here is a sneak peek of community engagement practitioners from all over Australia, discussing emerging engagement techniques to engage & build consensus among diverse community groups AND having fun!

“We are designing interactive devices for a couple of years, but making them from materials that will last for centuries”. Solutions? Check out Phil Gough's 🏆winning entry🏆 at SEMCAN ViralBytes that explains the use of myco-materials to create sustainable interactive devices!

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy" Here is (some) of us from the Design Lab, University of Sydney at #ozchi2022, in front of the EPIC Shine Dome, Canberra! - with Yiyuan Wang Tram Tran Ajit G. Pillai 😇

Stepping out from OzCHI Conference to remotely join the University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor’s Award ceremony. So happy to see our interdisciplinary innovation program Inventing the Future being recognised with an award for outstanding teaching. Go team! 👏🏻

“Maybe centering everything we design around humans is not necessarily a good thing in the long term.” Keen to know more? Join the conversation on “Designing for Personas That Don’t Have a Voice” with Martin Tomitsch and Isabella Bain now happening at #ozchi2022!

The Moss takes Center Stage! This insightful presentation by Gabrielle, Phil Gough and Callum Parker from the Sydney Design Lab explores the possibility of using moss-based interactive displays as a step towards sustainable HCI 🙌

Really enjoyed working on and co-presenting this industry case study paper with Isabella Bain - connecting my academic work on #LifeCentredDesign with Bella’s experience as a lead designer of #FrogID. Bridging the academic/practice divide. #ozchi22

Really exciting that our workshop, ‘Towards an Inclusive and Accessible Metaverse’, has been accepted to #CHI2023! Soojeong Yoo Joel Fredericks Youngho Lee Arindam Dey Youngjun Cho Mark Billinghurst More information available soon! #inclusivity #accessibility #metaverse #XR #HCI Sydney Design Lab

“​​Combining Worker Factors for Heterogeneous Crowd Task Assignment” was accepted by @webconf2023! We show that crowd worker performance depends not only on their cognitive skills but ALSO on their mood, personality, alertness, comprehension & social contexts. w/Danula Hettiachchi

When engineers and designers come together for a workshop - sticky notes on top of whiteboards filled with mathematical equations! 😅 Great planning session for our Australian Research Council research on AVs and urban robots with Sydney Design Lab and Australian Centre for Robotics today.

Some of the Aussies in #CHI2023 from #SydCHI SIGCHI Melbourne SydCHI Floyd Mueller Anusha Withana Dr Jenny Waycott Phil Gough Callum Parker Thuong Hoang Naseem Ahmadpour (نسیم احمدپور) MargotBrereton BT @scrankskunk plus Wally Smith, Bruce Thomas, and others

So glad to have shared the day with some awesome #bioHCI researchers at the Living Bits and Radical Aminos workshop for #CHI2023 co-organised by Jack Forman & @ppataran

Congratulations to Phil Gough and team on their #CHI2023 paper! 👏👏

Way to go!! 👏👏Our PhD student Ajit Pillai received an SV award for being Incredibly Credible at #CHI2023. Congrats Ajit G. Pillai and hope you had a blast! 🥳🎉

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It's been a privilege to work with Danula Hettiachchi (RMIT) and Jorge Goncalves (UniMelb) on this paper! If you missed the presentation at Austin earlier today, here is our 3-min video: tinyurl.com/ym8z33f8, & link to our paper: tinyurl.com/4f6ajf4m. #TheWebConf2023 Sydney Design Lab

I had a fabulous time attending the #IESANZ Conference 2023 today as part of the team representing Sydney Architecture, Design and Planning w/ Wenye, Cleo and Linda. It was a great opportunity to showcase the amazing work of Sydney Design Lab students. Here are my favourite student projects! Well done! 👏🫶