Service to Research
- member of ACM SIGCHI and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia.
- Associate Chair in the Health Subcommittee for CHI 2020
- Assessor for the Australian Research Council.
- Workshops Co-Chair for OzCHI 2019, Perth
- Workshops Co-Chair for OzCHI 2018, Melbourne
- co-organizing The 4th Symposium on Computing and Mental Health at CHI 2019, Glasgow
- co-organized the Forum on Video Games for Mental Health at CHI Play 2018, with associated Special Issue in JMIR
- co-organized the Workshop on Mood and Emotional State Sensing In-the-Wild at UbiComp 2018
- co-organized The 3rd Symposium on Computing and Mental Health at CHI 2018 and accompanying JMIR Special Issue
- co-organized the workshop Manipulating Reality? Designing and Deploying Virtual Reality in Sensitive Settings at DIS 2018
- co-presented seminar on phone-based support for perinatal mental health
- organized workshop on supporting Indigenous communities at OzCHI 2017
- Associate Chair for Designing Interactive Systems 2016 and ECIS 2018
- co-organized a workshop on Developing Skills for Social and Emotional Wellbeing at CHI 2015, Seoul
- Experience Chair for OzCHI 2015, Melbourne
- Paper Chair for OzChi 2014, Sydney.
- co-organized the workshop on Smart Health and Social Therapy at OzChi 2013 and 2014.
- publicity chair for the Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (Melbourne 2007)
- vice-chair of posters and exhibits for the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference held in Second Life in 2008
- co-organizer of the Australian Virtual Worlds Workshop (Melbourne, 2008)
- co-organized a series of research seminars in Second Life (2008/9)
Community and University work
- co-organizing high-school outreach teaching programs
- mentoring "0.2 Academics" program
- teaching I.T. skills at Worawa Aboriginal College, Healesville
- teaching at Victorian Indigenous Engineering Winter School
- teaching at 'Hands On Engineering and I.T.' program for year 10 students
- teaching at Trinity Young Leaders program
- teaching at Youth Without Borders Spark Engineering Camp
- teaching at Raise the Bar program
- mentored Catalyst social entrepreneurship project tackling housing, mental health and public transport
- co-organized the More Talk Less Action discussions on experimental music at Westspace gallery in 2013 and 2014.
Media
- article in The Conversation on "Why comparing technology to drugs isn’t simply a question of addiction"
- spoke with Computer Weekly UK, The Australian Financial Review, The Age, ABC News, Medical Republic and 3CR Breakfast about virtual reality interventions for mental health
- spoke with The New Daily about social media addiction, and with JJJ Hack and 2SER about videogames and mental health
- stories in Pursuit about research on taxi driver health and youth mental health
- article on practical uses for VR for the Australian Academy of Science's Nova website
Awards
- Honourable Mention award, CHI 2017
- Honourable Mention award, OzCHI 2017
- Best Reviewer Award, OzCHI 2017
- Excellent Review, CHI 2016
- School of Computing award for excellence in Indigenous engagement, 2017
Presentations
- panel on Dark Patterns and Addiction at OzCHI 2019, with Jeni Paay, Yvonne Rogers, Patrick Olivier, Jesper Kjeldskov, Caitlin Bathgate.
- presentation on user-centred design of health interventions at Northern Health Research Week, 8th October 2019
- seminar on 'Prototyping on Country' at University of Melbourne, 2019
- seminar on 'Digital Emotion Regulation', 2018
- seminar on #ThisMyMob project to co-design technology with Indigenous Australians, 2018
- presented at the Austin Hospital's 3D Med Symposium 2017
- presented This is your Brain on Virtual Reality during Science Week 2017
- presented at Monash University sensilab forum, April 2017
- presented on The Virtual And Reality – Perception, Participation, Potential, at Experimenta Social, April 2017
- presented at Can Digital Technology Really Improve the Health and Wellbeing of the Population?, April 2017
- presented at Virtual Reality in Neuro-Rehabilitation: What Does The Future Look Like? at the Melbourne Brain Centre, April 2017
Reviewing
journals:
- Human Computer Interaction
- Interacting with Computers
- Journal of Medical Internet Research
- Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)
- Internet Interventions
- International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
- Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application
- International Journal of Arts and Technology
- International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning
- Convergence
- The Information Society
- Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
- Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting
- Digital Creativity
- Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association
- Design Issues
- Journal of Transformative Technologies
- Information Processing and Management
conferences:
- CHI
- Pervasive Health
- Designing Interactive Systems
- OzChi
- British HCI
- Symposium on Computing and Mental Health
- Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment
- Communities and Technologies
- Digital Arts and Culture
- iConference
- CHI Play
- DIGRA
- Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
- International Conference on Information Systems
- European Conference on Information Systems