Our lab is part of the computer-human interaction (CHI) discipline within the Science Faculty of the Queensland University of Technology. The Design Participation Lab has 8 academic staff working across the areas of interaction design/co-design, environmental monitoring and engagement, health, augmented sociality, intellectual disability, and indigenous participation. Our backgrounds include computer science, engineering, math, psychology, and education. We are truly a multidisciplinary group. Our Ph.D. students also come from backgrounds as wide-ranging as engineering, computer science, psychology, anthropology, and ecology. They hail from five continents, with Australians in the minority.
We collaborate with academics from the fields of computer and data science, such as Prof. Andrew Bradley, Prof. Paul Roe, Prof. David Lovell, as well as games researchers, such as Prof. Daniel Johnson and Dr Selen Turkay.
Alumnis include Dr Aloha Ambe, Dr Diego Muñoz Sáez, Dr Cara Wilson, Dr Jennyfer Lawrence Taylor, Dr Tshering Dema, Dr Steve Snow, Dr Fiona Redhead, Dr Ellya Zulaikha, Dr Ravihansa Rajapakse, and Dr Haziq Muhammad Lim Abdullah.
Project Leaders
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Professor Margot Brereton
Margot Brereton is a national and international leader in the collaborative design of new humanitarian technologies and their interfaces. -
Professor Peta Wyeth
Professor Wyeth (Head of School, Computer Science) is at the forefront of research into emerging technology for games and other interactive experiences. -
Dr Bernd Ploderer
Senior Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction for Healthy Living. -
Dr Alessandro Soro
Alessandro Soro focuses his research on technologies to support socialisation, communication, and creativity. -
Associate Professor Laurianne Sitbon
Laurianne Sitbon is associate professor in the school of Computer Science and a Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council (ARC) -
Professor Paul Roe
Paul Roe is a professor in the Science and Engineering Faculty at QUT and co-leads The Australian Acoustic Observatory (A2O). -
Dr Kellie Vella
Kellie Vella researches human-computer interactions with a focus on social, wellbeing, and sustainable contexts.
Postdoctoral Researchers
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Dr Tara Capel
Dr Tara Capel is an early career academic in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. She is currently investigating the design of intelligent systems in which humans and machines draw upon their different and unique abilities in order to interactively learn together. -
Dr Tshering Dema
Tshering is an early career researcher in Sustainable HCI and environmental conservation design studies. She has carried out community-based co-design research exploring how new forms of technology can connect people to and through nature. -
Saminda Balasuriya
Saminda Balasuriya's current research focuses on co-designing technology and technology-based curriculum with people with intellectual disability and their support networks. -
Dr Aloha Ambe
Aloha Ambe has a passion for designing technology with underrepresented user groups. -
Dr Kellie Vella
Kellie Vella researches human-computer interactions with a focus on social, wellbeing, and sustainable contexts.
Higher Degree Researchers
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Chimi Om
Chimi is a PhD candidate exploring the potential of emerging technology designs and new research methods to support, educate and promote preschool children’s skills towards understanding and acting towards environmental sustainability. -
Yasamin Asadi
Yasamin's research is focused around reducing social isolation among older adults, and how to incorporate their hobbies into the interaction. -
Jessie Oliver
Jessie Oliver is passionate about avian ecology and public engagement. Jessie has worked with the University of Queensland's Environmental Decisions Group, among many other organization. -
Andrew Bayor
Called Andy by everyone, his research focuses on leveraging accessible technologies to support the life skills development of people with intellectual disability. -
Anna Kalma
Anna Kalma is completing her PhD exploring how to design technologies to assist older adult makers in experiencing positive ageing within their local communities.