Digital Culture Lab
PEOPLE
- Associate Professor
- School of Product Design
- Associate ProfessorSchool of Product Design
My research, Transformational Computing, integrates cutting-edge technology and health, with a strong emphasis on creating impactful solutions to improve health outcomes. It spans diverse areas including neurorehabilitation, mental health, health-focused assistive technologies, and learning and training technology. My focus is on reshaping the design, development, and deployment of technology to enhance human health and functional capacity.
Neurorehabilitation:
Early contributions included pioneering the use of Extended Reality (XR) applications to support recovery for individuals with acquired brain injuries. This work continues to inform my development of innovative rehabilitation technologies for conditions such as stroke recovery and multiple sclerosis.
Mental Health:
I have developed augmented intelligence systems to support online community moderators and virtual AI companions designed to assist individuals navigating complex life circumstances. These initiatives reflect a commitment to leveraging technology to enhance mental well-being and resilience.
Health Training and Simulation:
My projects include creating immersive virtual environments for emergency responders and healthcare professionals, enhancing their preparedness and decision-making skills through validated simulation systems.
Food Psychology and Behaviour:
Recent collaborations have focused on understanding cravings and eating behaviours using immersive virtual reality, with applications in behavioural psychology, obesity prevention and smoking cessation.
Through these interdisciplinary endeavours, I aim to advance user-centred solutions that are both innovative and evidence-based, fostering collaboration between researchers, health professionals, technologists, educators, domain experts and end-users.
My research, Transformational Computing, integrates cutting-edge technology and health, with a strong emphasis on creating impactful solutions to improve health outcomes. It spans diverse areas including neurorehabilitation, mental health, health-focused assistive technologies, and learning and training technology. My focus is on reshaping the design, development, and deployment of technology to enhance human health and functional capacity.
Neurorehabilitation:
Early contributions included pioneering the use of Extended Reality (XR) applications to support recovery for individuals with acquired brain injuries. This work continues to inform my development of innovative rehabilitation technologies for conditions such as stroke recovery and multiple sclerosis.
Mental Health:
I have developed augmented intelligence systems to support online community moderators and virtual AI companions designed to assist individuals navigating complex life circumstances. These initiatives reflect a commitment to leveraging technology to enhance mental well-being and resilience.
Health Training and Simulation:
My projects include creating immersive virtual environments for emergency responders and healthcare professionals, enhancing their preparedness and decision-making skills through validated simulation systems.
Food Psychology and Behaviour:
Recent collaborations have focused on understanding cravings and eating behaviours using immersive virtual reality, with applications in behavioural psychology, obesity prevention and smoking cessation.
Through these interdisciplinary endeavours, I aim to advance user-centred solutions that are both innovative and evidence-based, fostering collaboration between researchers, health professionals, technologists, educators, domain experts and end-users.
- Faculty of Engineering
- Registered to supervise Master's/Doctoral students
- 3 Good Health and Well Being
- 4 Quality Education
- 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
- Collaborative research projects
- Consulting & advisory services
- Industry partnerships & innovation
- Media enquiries
Fields of Research- Human-centred computing
- Cognitive and computational psychology not elsewhere classified
- Serious games
- Virtual and mixed reality
- Applications in health
- Interaction and experience design
- Artificial intelligence
- Head
- Lecturer
- School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
- LecturerSchool of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
My research uses computational methods to examine the emergence of online culture in social media and video games, and their effects on mental health and wellbeing in users. I also do research on how chatbots can be used to support mental health, and my previous work examined how culture influences music preferences.My research uses computational methods to examine the emergence of online culture in social media and video games, and their effects on mental health and wellbeing in users. I also do research on how chatbots can be used to support mental health, and my previous work examined how culture influences music preferences.- Faculty of Science
- Registered to supervise Master's/Doctoral students