Leadership Team
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Prof Evonne Miller
QUT Design Lab - Centre Director
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Anne-Maree Jaggs
Centre Coordinator
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Dr Jeremy Kerr
Program Leader - Design for Health
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Dr Levi Swann
Program Leader - Emerging Technologies
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Dr Abbe Winter
Centre Project and Administration Officer
Chief Investigators
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Prof Thea Blackler
Areas of interest: Human Computer interaction, Industrial Design, Intuitive Interaction, Inter-generational interaction, and Active play.
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Assoc Prof Lindy Osborne Burton
Areas of interest: Passive ventilation, Hybrid ventilation, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), Inclusive architecture (belonging), Biophilic architecture (connection to nature), Salutogenic architecture (health & well-being), Eudaimonic architecture (joy & contentment), mental health, neuro-distinction, and gender equity.
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Prof Marianella Chamorro-Koc
Academic Lead Research Training – School of Design
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Assoc Prof Debra Cushing
Areas of interest: Landscape Architecture, Salutogenic Environments, Intergenerational Design
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Assoc Prof Jared Donovan
Areas of interest: Design Robotics, HRI, Participatory Design, Tangible and Embodied Interaction
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Dr Muge Fialho Leandro Alves Teixeira
Areas of interest: Transdisciplinary Design Research, Phenomenology of Perception, Multimodal Spaces and Pancomputational Design Strategies
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Prof Marcus Foth
Areas of interest: Urban Informatics, More-than-Human Futures, Media Architecture, Interaction Design, and Participatory Design
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Mr Brett Fyfield
Areas of interest: Human-Computer Interaction, Extended Reality, Generative AI in Visual Communications
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Assoc Prof Rafael Gomez
Areas of interest: Qualitative Design Research, Design Emotion, Experience Design, Wearable Tech, Emerging Technology, and Future Mobility
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Prof Greg Hearn
Areas of interest: Advanced Manufacturing Workforce, Workforce adoption of cobotics, Innovation policy, management and practice, Creative economy.
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Dr Nick Kelly
Areas of interest: Interaction Design, Cognition of Creativity, Design Philosophy
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Dr Jeremy Kerr
Program Leader - Design for Health
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Dr Marissa Lindquist
Areas of interest: Neuroarchitecture, Intergenerational Living and Learning Environments, Health and Environments Interaction, Design and Emotion, Regional Communities, Fashion and Space, Experimental Fabrication with Reuse Materials
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Assoc Prof Sean Maher
Areas of Interest: Genealogies of Modern Architecture, Life Narratives, Spatial Urbanism, Augmented and Virtual Realities.
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Prof Evonne Miller
QUT Design Lab - Centre Director
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Assoc Prof Janice Rieger
Areas of interest: Inclusion and Access, Co-designing for Diversity and Inclusion, Spatial Justice
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Assoc Prof Markus Rittenbruch
Areas of interest: Interaction Design of Emerging Technologies, AR/VR/MR and Participatory Data Visualisation, Collaborative Robotics and Intention Visualisation
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Prof Lisa Scharoun
Areas of Interest: : Cross-cultural Design, Digital Design for Health, Healthy Ageing, Design for CALD (Cultural & Linguistically Diverse Communities), Transdisiplinary Design Research, Design Leadership
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Dr Levi Swann
Program Leader - Emerging Technologies
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Dr Natalie Wright
Areas of interest: healthcare design, child/youth participation in design, learning environments for neurodiversity, participatory design methods, inclusive design, design and technology education, design thinking, design-led educational innovation, secondary STEM education, design expertise
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Dr Kate Young
Areas of interest: Health Service and Facility Design, Arts-based Research Methods, Creative Consumer Experience Communication
Affiliate Investigators
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Mr Dean Brough
Areas of interest: Skin cancer prevention, enhancing shade and liveability in tropical and sub-tropical climates.
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Dr Sue Cake
Areas of interest: Writing for Expanded Screens, Narrative Comedy as Creative Resistance, Disruptive Screen Narratives, Life Narratives, Screenwriting
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Dr Daniel Cook
Areas of interest: More-than-Human Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Design, Digital Fabrication, Pollination Service Delivery, and Systems Design.
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Icaro Ibanez-Arricivita
Areas of interest: Aesthetics, Design, Sociology, Social Body, Disability, Co-Design, Fashion, and Transdisciplinary Design.
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Dr Chris Koch
Areas of interest: Cognition of creativity, aesthetics and styling, Industry 4.0 and advanced manufacture, sustainable design, design philosophy
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Dr Shane Pike
Areas of Interest: Augmented and virtual reality in performance design, digital dramaturgy and applied theatre, gender and performance, ethnodramatic and narrative design as a healthcare intervention, Asian-Australian narratives and performance perspectives.
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Ms Tessa Rixon
Areas of Interest: Scenography, Digital Scenographies and Extended Reality Design, Intermedial Theatre design, Australian scenographic identities and histories, Ecoscenography and climate crisis theatre design
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Prof Jonathan Roberts
Areas of interest: Field robotics, medical robotics, performance robotics and design robotics
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Assoc Prof Jen Seevinck
Areas of interest: Data Visualisation, New Media / Interactive Art, More-than-Human Futures, Advocacy, Citizen Science, Participatory and Co-design, Interaction design, Immersive Environments (e.g. AR, VR), UX Evaluations, and Creative Health.
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Dr Madeline Taylor
Areas of interest: Design Collaboration, Design Communities of Practice, Digital Gift Economies, Community Wellbeing, and Sustainability.
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Dr T.J. Thomson
Areas of interest: Visual communication, visual media, digital media, artificial intelligence, and machine learning
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Dr Jane Turner
Areas of interest: Narrative Design and Narrative Methodologies, More-than-Human, and Game Design
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Dr Nicole Vickery
Areas of interest: Human-Computer Interaction, Children-centred Design, and Playful Design
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
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Dr Alan Burden
Areas of interest: Design robotics, digital fabrication, user experience (UX), interaction design (IxD), human-robot interaction (HRI), research-through-design (RtD)
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Dr Shoufeng Cao
Areas of interest: Supply Chain Information System, Blockchain, Digital Innovation, Risk and Resilience, Design Science, Human-machine reconcile
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Stine S. Johansen
Areas of interest: Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Human-Robot Interaction, Theories and Methods of Design, Tangible and Embodied Design, Sound
Current Research Students
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Amara Bains
Areas of interest: Community participation in artificial intelligence design; AI for social good; ICT for development (ICT4D); AI for development (AI4D); Anthro-complexity; Decolonisation, Ethics, Bias in artificial intelligence, Inclusive AI
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Tess Brading
Areas of Interest: Participatory design, co-design, creative health, immersive technologies, VR, XR, paediatric health, pain management, design for health.
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Michael Bromage
Areas of interest: Innovation and design, creative industries, institutionalism, intermediation, commoning, policy and governance, social ecology and innovation ecosystems, collaborative city-making and collaboration processes, collaborative technology, systems design and implementation, stories that change cities, and digital media.
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Isabel Byram
Areas of interest: Fashion and wearable products, Design for health and well-being, Sustainability, Process, trans/inter/multi-disciplinary design, Industry 4.0
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Diego Camelo
Areas of interest: Open innovation, green manufacturing, digital information
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Sabine Carter
Areas of Interest: Visual communication, design thinking, participatory action research, co-design, creative facilitation, community collaboration, craftivism and DIY culture, low- and slow tech, eco feminism, art activism, ethics and sustainability, circular economy, ecological identity
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Justine Coneybeer
Areas of Interest: Fashion, sustainability, social enterprise, waste, ethics, activism
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Mathilde Desselle
Areas of Interest: Design for health, advanced manufacturing, open innovation
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James Dwyer
Areas of Interest: the application of social cue derived communication mechanisms to appearance-constrained and functional robots and explores methods of virtual prototyping for improved Human-Robot Collaboration.
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Stephen Fischer
Areas of interest: Sustainable Design; Landscape Architecture; Health & Wellbeing.
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Anthony Franze
Areas of interest: Augmented, mixed and virtual reality technologies, advanced manufacturing, human-computer Interaction, transdisciplinary design, research through design, and participatory and collaborative design.
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Kavita Gonsalves
Areas of interest: Citymaking and civic engagement, Placemaking: Activism, Urban Play, Storytelling, Digital Placemaking Participatory Design
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Martina Hale
Areas of Interest: Designing Environments for people living with dementia; inclusive public places; Design for All
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Naputsamohn (Ib) Junpiban
Areas of interest: Cross-cultural approaches and co-design methods, Cross-cultural design for health and wellbeing, Realities technology, Design thinking, Youth mental health, Practice-based research methods
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Wanjiru (E) Karanja
Areas of Interest: Intergenerational learning and living environments, universal design, age-friendly cities, housing, urban resilience
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Tobias Kramer
Areas of interest: Thermal comfort, climate design, computational building simulation, machine learning
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Amari Low
Areas of interest: Locative media, virtual placemaking, interactive narrative, co-creative community engagement
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Valeria Macalupu
Areas of interest: Design robotics, human-robot interaction, wearable design.
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Vikki McLeod
Areas of Interest: Energy Transitions, energy and environmental markets, Integration of Distributed Energy Resources, Demand Flexibility trading, Non-Traditional Energy Business Models, Creating Investment Environments for Technology and Business Model Innovation.
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Jenna Mikus
Areas of interest: Design for Health & Well-being; Eudaemonia; Phygital (Physical + Digital) Experience Design; “Smart” Environments; Innovation & Design Thinking; Architectural Science; Sustainable Development & Urban Growth; More-than-Human Urban Theory; Self-Determination Theory; Co-design; Inclusive Design; Design or All
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Mehrnoosh Mirzaei
Areas of interest: Design for the real world, interaction design, experience design, child-centered design
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Leighann Ness Wilson
Areas of interest: Design Thinking, Design-led pedagogies, Primary Education, STEAM, Technologies Curriculum
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Ksenia Nikolaeva
Areas of interest: Urban planning, elevated walkways, site analysis, land use data, including land use mapping, visual impact assessment, conceptual planning, master planning, author's supervision.
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Jun (Stefan) Quan Choo
Area of interest: Embodied music interaction, wearables, music, wellbeing, mobilities
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Ana Ricchiardi
Areas of interest: Urban Morphology, transitional morphologies, urban and social sciences, mapping, informality, architecture for development, Global South
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Ahmed Mohamed Nasr Sakr
Areas of interest: Vernacular Architecture, Sustainability, Robotic Additive Manufacturing, Parametric design, and Space Architecture.
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Hira Sheikh
Areas of interest: More-than-Human and Multispecies Studies Smart Urban Governance Foresight Studies
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Tara Stringer
Areas of interest: Fashion, Modern slavery, Consumer behaviour, Ethics, Sustainability
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Gunawan (Gunte) Tanuwidjaja
Areas of interest: Inclusive design, human centred design, healthcare architecture, aging architecture, educational design
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Dannielle Tarlinton
Areas of Interest: Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Computer-Human Interaction, Human-Centred Design, Design for Children, User Engagement, User Experience
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Khoa Tran
Areas of Interest: Human-computer interaction (HCI), Child-computer interaction (CCI), tangible embodied and embedded interaction (TEI), intergenerational play, active play
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Abigail Tucker
Areas of interest: Experience design experiential retail fashion retail regional fashion communities fashion curating fashion merchandising sustainable fashion enterprise
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Yuehao (Hayley) Wang
Areas of Interest: Human-Computer Interaction, Human-centered design, Interaction Design, Tangible and Embodied Interaction
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Yuanyuan Wei
Areas of Interest: Wearable Device Design, Mixed Reality, Human-Computer Interaction
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Prithi Yadav
Areas of interest: Design research, urban issues, experience design, design for social change, pluriversal design, transdisciplinary design
Alumni
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Dr Fitri (Inka) Arlinkasari
Areas of interest: Children's environments, child-friendly cities, children's participatory actions
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Dr Gnanaharsha Beligatamulla
Areas of interest: Design Thinking Pedagogy, Contemporary Design Practice and Theory (Design Thinking, Co-design, Participatory Design, Human-Centred Design), Integrated and transdisciplinary design, User experience beyond digital products, Teaching-Learning-Assessment in Design, Creativity and Innovation for all
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Dr Alan Burden
Areas of interest: Design robotics, digital fabrication, user experience (UX), interaction design (IxD), human-robot interaction (HRI), research-through-design (RtD)
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Dr David Corbett
Areas of interest: urban governance, civic participation and capacity-building for the adaptation of urban systems to change
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Dr Rhodian Deetlefs
Areas of interest: industrial design, remedial creative practice
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Dr Matthew Hutchinson
Areas of interest: seniors living design
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Dr Waldemar Jenek
Areas of interest: Architecture with immersive technologies, augmented reality, virtual reality, augmented experiences, mixed reality, immersive environments, media architecture, design education, educational virtuality, smart cities, building information modelling (BIM)
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Dr Sarah Johnstone
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Dr Yu Kao
Areas of interest: Interaction design, Research through Design, Design method, Creative placemaking
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Dr Samantha Kies-Ryan
Areas of interest: Community-based ater management, Community-based climate change adaptation, Co-creative media, Visual creative methods, Community cultural mapping, Participatory action research, Reflective practice, Creative facilitation
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Dr Chen Kuangfan
Areas of interest: Digital intervention in public space, playable engagement, gamification, technologies (VR, AR, MR etc.) application in future urban design
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Dr Islam Mashaly
Areas of interest: Building information modelling daylight design building performance simulation design optimisation
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Dr Jock McQueenie
Areas of interest: Social/digital inclusion, creativity in corporate social investment and professional development for creative professionals, community, culture and commerce
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Dr Zoe Mellick
Areas of interest: Understanding opportunities to create sustainable value along the apparel and textile supply chain.
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Dr Francisca Rodriguez
Areas of interest: Dynamic daylight, Outdoor views, Post-Occupancy Evaluation methods, Subjective user assessments, Virtual Reality
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Dr Ghazaleh Sepahpour
Areas of interest: Design and psychology product-person interaction emotional experiences of everyday objects design for children
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Dr Boyuan Sheng
Areas of interest: Green infrastructure, water sensitive urban design, landscape planning, flood and drought management
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Paige Street
Areas of interest: Fashion, Global Responsibility, Digital Activism, Instagram, Political Consumerism, Feminism and Gendered Solidarity, Ethics and Sustainability
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Dr Anna Svensdotter
Areas of interest: Architecture, urban informatics, inclusiveness, interstitial urban space, spatial design.
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Dr Ayman Wagdy
Areas of interest: Daylight, glare, parametric design, building simulation, machine learning, advanced digital simulation and analysis, robotic control, VR and AR
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Dr Kamal Wasala
Areas of interest: Product design, fashion design, interactive digital design
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Dr Matthew Zenkteler
Areas of interest: Urban planning, future of work, place making
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Dr Ding (Joe) Zhou
Areas of interest: Design-led STEM education, Design-based pedagogy, Design for additive manufacturing/3D printing, Tangible interaction design
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Dr Parisa Ziaesaeidi
Areas of interest: Social sustainability, neighbourhood development, built environment