Prospective Students

I am looking for Honours, Masters and PhD students with a background in HCI to work on research into social, mobile or wearable technologies to support healthy living.

Before you contact me, please do your homework:

1. Learn about my research by reading through the proposed research topics and some of my recent publications
2. Familiarise yourself with the PhD scholarships available, eligibility criteria, and the application process at QUT
3. Prepare the following documents: (i) a brief research proposal, (ii) a CV and (iii) a transcript of your academic results

Currently Enrolled Students

• Dominic Afuro Egbe (PhD) “Co-designing relational technologies with people with dementia and informal caregivers to support and express their personhood”, co-supervised with Margot Brereton
• Chimi Om (PhD) “Digital technology for children’s nature engagement”, co-supervised with Margot Brereton
• Lori Ouyang (PhD) “Designing conversational agents for music education with young children”, co-supervised with Peta Wyeth
• Shannon Rodgers (PhD) “HCI in the garden: designing technologies to connect older adults through nature observations”, co-supervised with Margot Brereton, and Kellie Vella
• Dang Khoa Tran (PhD) “Tangible, Embedded and Embodied interactions (TEIs) for Intergenerational Active Play”, co-supervised with Thea Blackler, Nicole Vickery
• Razan U’wais (MPhil)  “Digital technologies for physical activity for young children”, co-supervised with Nicole Vickery and Stewart Trost
• Yuehao Wang (PhD) “Framing and Enabling Children’s Active Play using Novel Technology”, co-supervised with Thea Blackler, Nicole Vickery and Peta Wyeth

Graduated Students

• Tara Capel (PhD, 2023, co-supervisor) “Designing for making and storytelling for women”
• Anna Kalma (PhD, 2022, principal supervisor) “Crafting and Connecting: Co-Designing Technologies with Older Adult Crafters to Promote Family Connections”
• Filip Bircanin (PhD, 2022, co-supervisor) “Co-Designing with Adults with Moderate to Severe Intellectual Disabilities to Enable Active Communication Technology Use”
• Andrew Azaabanye Bayor (PhD, 2022, co-supervisor) “Leveraging Social Media to Co-Design Support for Developing Life Skills Among Young Adults with Intellectual Disability“
• Chimi Om (MPhil, 2022, co-supervisor) “Designing interactive technologies to enhance nature engagement for children in urban Bhutan“
• Cara Wilson (PhD, 2021, co-supervisor) “Co-Design Beyond Words with Minimally-Verbal Children on the Autism Spectrum”
• Diego Munoz (PhD, 2021, principal supervisor) “Relation-rentred inquiry: designing for position exchange in families“
• Lori Ouyang (MPhil, 2021, principal supervisor) “Designing interactive technology for music education with young children”
• Jeremy Opie (PhD, 2020, co-supervisor) “Development of interfaces for orthopaedic surgeons to control minimally invasive surgical robots during knee arthroscopy“
• Alexander Kan (PhD, 2019, co-supervisor) “Supporting the User Experience of Running with Mixed Reality Stories”
• Deepti Aggarwal (PhD, 2018, co-supervisor) “Supporting bodily communication in video consultations of physiotherapy”
• Sean Shum (IT Honours, 2019, principal supervisor) “MyFootCare: improving the user experience of a mobile health app to support foot care”
• Shannon Rodgers (IT Honours, 2018, principal supervisor) “SleepBeta: engaging teenagers in sleep and lifestyle tracking”
• Aidan D’Souza (Engineering Honours, 2018, principal supervisor) “Augmenting Co-Located Social Play with Biofeedback: An Interactional Approach”
• Yaman Mazyed Alsahfi (Master of Information Technology, 2017, principal supervisor) “Promoting Physical Activity in Children: A Thematic Analysis of Parents’ Online Discussions”
• Maria Georges (Engineering Honours, 2017, principal supervisor) “Fostering awareness of emotions through biosignals presented in wearable technology”
• John Nguyen (Engineering Honours, 2017, principal supervisor) “Designing wearable technology with students to understand emotions”
• Torren Lamont (Engineering Honours, 2016, principal supervisor) “Towards wearable technology and stress detection for students with autism”
• Rommel Lapuz (Engineering Honours, 2016, principal supervisor) “Exploring stress detection for students with autism”
• Tristan Beven (Master of Information Systems, 2016, principal supervisor) “HandLog: Investigating Deformation through Finger Flexion as a Continuous Input”
• Gerardo Luis Dimaguila (Master of Information Technology, 2015, principal supervisor) “Kinect-based stroke rehabilitation in the home environment”
• Wanyu Liu (Master of Information Systems, 2015, principal supervisor) “Sleeping with technology: challenges and opportunities for sleep tracking”
• Hayley Maree Rickett (Master of Information Technology, 2015, principal supervisor) “Wearable interventions for hand rehabilitation after stroke”, now Senior IT Consultant at IBM
• Lyndsey Fisk (Master of Information Systems, 2014, principal supervisor) “The impact of explicit and implicit interactions in video mediated collaboration”
• Bernard de la Coeur (Master of Information Systems, 2014, principal supervisor) “’Sorry, I was miles away’: Use of spatialised audio to support Microcoordination”
• Lars Lichon, Umachanger Brinthaparan, Nirojan Srikandarajah, and Stephan Rasmussen (team of visiting MSc students from Aalborg University, DK, 2013) “Smoking cessation support via mobile phone applications”
• Mark Whooley (Master of Information Systems, 2013, principal supervisor) “Integrating personal self-tracking data”, now UX Designer at Nintex