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The book explores state-of-the-art innovations, and future applications, of technologies which assist and augment human perception and cognition.

The award is for Jorge’s research project ‘Integrated qualification test framework to measure crowd worker quality and assign or recommend heterogeneous tasks’

Senuri’s thesis explores designing online group platforms that account for positive and negative implications of socio-psychological influences such as social conformity, to promote healthy societal interactions.

Members of the HCI group, along with international colleagues, are organising a workshop for 2021 Ubicomp on quantifying human emotions.

A new grant will support research involving the use of smartphones to monitor and predict mental health conditions.

Students can apply now to take part in our team challenge running 28 June – 23 July 2021: put your problem-solving skills and creativity skills to the test.

A new project will develop smarthome technology to help heart failure patients manage their chronic condition.

We are proud to announce the acceptance of a series of papers from our researchers and their collaborators.

The 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI 2020) will take place over three days between 2-4 December 2020.

Our HCI researchers have been successful in this year’s round of ARC Discovery Projects (ARC DP), gaining one ARC DP grant, and also two Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) grants, for a total of three new funded projects.

We are pleased to announce that HCI researchers Difeng Yu, Qiushi Zhou, Joshua Newn, Tilman Dingler, Eduardo Velloso, and Jorge Goncalves have received a Best Paper award nomination at the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2020).

We are delighted to announce that the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) group at The University of Melbourne will be hosting the 2021 National Conference for the Digital Games Research Association of Australia (DiGRAA).

Video game ‘amoralists’ argue killing in gaming isn’t harmful since no living being is actually hurt. But when it comes to hurting virtual animals, we disagree.

The new version of Biometric Mirror is a spongy technology temple that invites audiences to posture for an algorithm that measures emotional stability, kindness levels and so-called beauty.

The UK’s misguided attempt to use algorithms to estimate school scores is a warning and reminder of the need to keep humans and accountability in automated decision-making.

Play is a core part of a healthy childhood, through which children develop social, communication, cognitive and physical skills.

Sara received the award the basis of academic excellence, strength of research proposal, and ambassadorial potential. Her research focuses on learning analytics in VR.

We congratulate Tilman Dingler and his research team, on receiving a grant from Adobe to pursue his project: ‘Reading on Ubiquitous Devices’.

Did you know that board games are a form of technology? Engineering lecturer Dr Melissa Rogerson examines our love of all things board games and their fascinating 5,000-year history.

Melissa Rogerson talks with host of Quantum Sauce, Adam Booth, about her research on boardgames and on hybrid digital games.

The book explores the intersections between digital media and domestic life.

In response to the cancellation of CHI2020, CHI Down Under 2020 was developed as a local, virtual event

Facial recognition technology is one tool in the fight against COVID-19; but University of Melbourne experts ask if surveillance tech going to stick around?

Greg received the award for the co-authored paper entitled ‘On Being Iterated: The Affective Demands of User Participation’.

Sarah’s paper, ‘Orangutan-Centred Design: Enhancing Co-design with Animals’, describes the ‘Kinecting with Orangutans’ project for Melbourne Zoo.

Now seems like the perfect time to review some films and television shows that have interrogated surveillance and social credit societies.

What if you could transform the standard smart speaker that sits passively in your home into a productive work instrument?

COVID-19 has generated an information overload for many of us; University of Melbourne experts say we need relevant and concise updates without false hope.

At a time of self-isolation board games offer interaction, variety and challenges, and don't have to be about winning, says a University of Melbourne expert

More than 200 researchers have joined forces to develop a survey to understand the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our psychological wellbeing.

Are you paying attention? Dr Eduardo Velloso may well be able to tell – and to help.

Digital technologies help us work, play, socialise and relax; University of Melbourne researchers are now finding they may also help us regulate our emotions.

People in aged care homes were already isolated before the COVID-19 crisis but University of Melbourne research finds new technology can help better connect them

MetaObjects visited our lab to deliver a motion-capture masterclass as part of the AsiaTOPA festival.

A new device is helping student physios at the University of Melbourne to improve their complex fine motor skills.

Our researchers have been successful in submitting a range of papers and panels to DiGRA 2020, to be held in Tampere, Finland.

The program features events that celebrate cross-cultural collaborations between a range of practitioners from the Australian and Asian cultural industries.

The 2020 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020), is taking place between 25–30 April in Oahu, Hawai’i, USA.

Biometric Mirror has rounded out a busy year of local and international appearances, with two final presentations for 2019.

Presenters and attendees of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI’19) met on Perth’s sandy shores between 3–5 December 2019.

Far from fading away in the digital age, board games are enjoying a boom time because they are social, challenging and tangible. And designers are using technology to create new ways to play.