Service

University Roles

• chair of Human Research Ethics Committee LNR 2.A
• member of UM's Indigenous Engineering and I.T. unit
• leader of Digital Health theme in HCI group
• member of Contemplative Studies Centre Reference Group
• mentor for Academic Advising (undergraduate) program
• mentor for 0.2 Academics (postdoc teaching) program
• organizer of high-school outreach teaching programs

Service to Research

• Health Subcommittee co-chair for CHI 2022 and CHI 2023
• Associate Chair in the Health Subcommittee for CHI 2020 and CHI 2021
• Papers Chair for OzCHI 2022
• lead organiser, CHI 2022 workshop on The Future of Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction
• academic panel for ANAT Spectra 2021
• organiser, UbiComp 2021 workshop on Making Sense of Emotion Sensing
• organiser, 4th Symposium on Computing and Mental Health at CHI 2019, Glasgow, 3rd Symposium on Computing and Mental Health at CHI 2018, Montreal and accompanying JMIR Special Issue
• organiser, Forum on Video Games for Mental Health at CHI Play 2018, with associated JMIR Special Issue
• organiser, workshop on Mood and Emotional State Sensing In-the-Wild at UbiComp 2018
• organiser, workshop on Manipulating Reality? Designing and Deploying Virtual Reality in Sensitive Settings at DIS 2018
• Program Chair for OzCHI 2020
• Workshops co-chair for OzCHI 2019, Fremantle and OzCHI 2018, Melbourne
• co-organised a workshop on Indigenous HCI at OzCHI 2019
• Associate Chair for ECIS 2018
• co-organized workshop on supporting Indigenous communities at OzCHI 2017
• Associate Chair for Designing Interactive Systems 2016
• co-organized workshop on Developing Skills for Social and Emotional Wellbeing at CHI 2015, Seoul
• Experience Chair for OzCHI 2015, Melbourne
• Short Papers Chair for OzChi 2014, Sydney.
• co-organized the workshop on Smart Health and Social Therapy at OzChi 2013 and 2014.
• co-organizer of the Australian Virtual Worlds Workshop (Melbourne, 2008)
• co-organized a series of research seminars in Second Life (2008/9)
• vice-chair of posters and exhibits for the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference held in Second Life in 2008
• publicity chair for the Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (Melbourne 2007)
• Assessor for the Australian Research Council

Community Engagement

• teaching STEM 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 More Talk Less Action at Westspace gallery in 2013 and 2014.

Media

• spoke on 3CR about indie music in the 90s
• wrote a blurb for Edward Slingerland's book Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
• article on teaching students about digital emotion regulation in the Association for Psychological Science 'Observer'
• interview on Current Directions in Psychological Science podcast
• article in Pursuit on "Do Devices Help Us Regulate Our Emotions?"
• 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

Events

• panel discussion on Immersive mindfulness: Can real life compare with digital worlds?
• panelist in 'Technology and Digital Design for Reconnecting with Nature ' for Melbourne Design Week 2022
• seminar on phone-based support for perinatal mental health
• panellist in 'Can You Feel It? Music and Mood' at Melbourne Music Week 2021
• 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:

• Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM ToCHI)
• 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
• Addictive Behaviors Reports
• Clinical Psychological Science
• Frontiers in Digital Health

conferences:

• ACM CHI
• ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST)
• 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

Professional Membership

• member of ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI)
• member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia
• member of the Association for Psychological Science
• Honorary Associate Professor, UCLIC, University College London
• member of the National Tertiary Education Union

Awards

• Honourable Mention award, CHI 2021
• Best Paper award, CHI 2020
• School award for excellence in Indigenous engagement, 2017
• Honourable Mention award, CHI 2017
• Honourable Mention award, OzCHI 2017
• Best Reviewer Award, OzCHI 2017
• Excellent Review, CHI 2016