POSTED: 26 Feb, 2025

Meet Our Team at #HRI2025 in Melbourne! Researchers from 4 of our 5 programs will be at the ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference next week!

Workshop Presentations
* Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interaction Workshop (VAM-HRI) (3 March)
* QUT (Queensland University of Technology) PhD researcher, Jasper Vermeulen & postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Alan Burden will lead the in-person session, featuring guest speaker Associate Professor Wafa Johal
* Workshop Organisers: Selen Turkay, Maciej Woźniak, Gregory LeMasurier, Glenda Caldwell, Jasper Vermeulen, Alan Burden
* PhD researcher Yuan Liu will present: “Augmented Reality for Human Decision Making & Human-Robot Collaboration: A Case Study in Manufacturing.”

* Cultural Robotics: Diversified Sustainable Practices (3 March)
Organised by: Belinda Dunstan, Jeffrey TKV Koh, Hooman Samani, Müge Belek Fialho Teixeira

Demonstrations
* QUT PhD researcher James Dwyer (4-5 March)
* “What Would Jim Henson Do? Roleplaying Human-Robot Collaborations Through Puppeteering”, co-developed with Stine Johansen & Markus Rittenbruch

Paper Presentations
* University of Technology Sydney Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Fouad Sukkar & A/Prof Teresa Vidal-Calleja (5 March, Trust & Safety session)
“Enabling Safe, Active, and Interactive Human-Robot Collaboration via Smooth Distance Fields.” by Usama Ali, Fouad (Fred) Sukkar, Adrian Müller, Lan Wu, Cédric Le Gentil, Dr Tobias Kaupp, Teresa Vidal Calleja

* Dr Stine Johansen & Prof Markus Rittenbruch (4 March, 1B: Sound, Voices, Smells session)
“Embodied Composition for Imagining Robotic Sound Space”, authored by Stine Johansen, Yanto Browning, Anthony Brumpton, Jasper Vermeulen, Wei Win Loy, Jared Donovan, Markus Rittenbruch

* Jasper Vermeulen & Dr Alan Burden (5 March, Late Breaking Report)
“Investigating Human Factors in Mako-Assisted Total Knee Arthroplasty Surgeries”, by Jasper Vermeulen; Alan Burden; Glenda Caldwell; Müge Belek Fialho Teixeira; Matthias Guertler

* Visiting PhD researcher from The Australian National University Amir Asadi (4 March, Late Breaking Paper)
“Redrawing Boundaries: Systemic Impacts of Rehabilitation Robots in Clinical Care Settings”, by Amirhossein Asadi, Damith Herath, Grant Shaw, Glenda Caldwell, Elizabeth Williams

* Prof Markus Rittenbruch & Dong An (Late Breaking Paper)
“The Design of Extended Reality-enabled Tangible Interaction to Enhance the Interaction with Collaborative Robots” by Dong An; Markus Rittenbruch; Leo Razayan

Lab Visit – Friday 7th March
* Intelligent Robotics Lab at Swinburne University of Technology
See our Swinburne team’s robots in action! Contact Prof Mats Isaksson to book.

Our Quality Assurance & Compliance researchers from Swinburne, Michelle Dunn and Chris McCarthy, will also be attending the conference!

Full program HERE.