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Chilling with Sydney Design Lab at OzCHI Conference

The third paper session of #ozchi2022 on “Design and the Design Process” will start in 6 minutes (16:00 AEST) at the Ian Wark Theatre, Shine Dome. You can find the session lineup and abstracts here: ozchi.org/2022/session_S…. Good luck to all presenters and authors!

We are about to kick-off Day 2 of #ozchi2022 at the Shine Dome, Canberra. The sessions today are dedicated to HCI at Work, Industry, Nature and The Home and Care-ful Design. The first session of the day begins at 09:30 AEST. See you there!

The first paper session of the day at #ozchi2022 on “HCI at Work” will start in 15 minutes (09:30 AEST) at the Ian Wark Theatre, Shine Dome. You can find the session lineup and abstracts here: ozchi.org/2022/session_S…. Good luck to all presenters and authors!

The next paper session at #ozchi2022 on “Nature and The Home”, will start in 13 minutes (13:30 AEST) at the Ian Wark Theatre, Shine Dome. You can find the session lineup and abstracts here: ozchi.org/2022/session_S….

“Maybe centering everything we design around humans is not necessarily a good thing in the long term.” Keen to know more? Join the conversation on “Designing for Personas That Don’t Have a Voice” with Martin Tomitsch and Isabella Bain now happening at #ozchi2022!

How can immersive virtual learning environments be used to learn geology? Cael and Mackenzie from QUT present TWO papers on their novel VR tool for visualising geological folds 👏. In-person participants of #ozchi2022 can reach out to Cael to test out their VR prototype! 🙌

Amazing presentation by Renan Guarese and team from RMIT on “Evaluating micro-guidance sonification methods in manual tasks for Blind and Visually Impaired people”👏👏 Here is a sneak peek of their talk from #ozchi2022!

Chuhan Qu from Georgia Tech is presenting a high-fi AR prototype that builds on Feng Shui principles to guide users in making informed decisions about furniture🪑arrangements at home. Catch up with the #ozchi2022 presentations via our live stream on YouTube (links in Slack).

The Moss takes Center Stage! This insightful presentation by Gabrielle, Phil Gough and Callum Parker from the Sydney Design Lab explores the possibility of using moss-based interactive displays as a step towards sustainable HCI 🙌

Final paper session for Day 2 on "Care-ful Design" is underway now! Here is the session lineup and abstracts: ozchi.org/2022/session_S… Good luck to all presenters and authors! Looking forward to the presentations :) #ozchi2022

Interesting #ozchi2022 paper by Berkan and Baki Kocaballi from UTS that explores the suitability of conversational agents for individual therapy for couple problems. Here are the main insights from their work:

The #ozchi2022 keynote for the day by m.c. schraefel on “Creativity as a Health & Social Justice Right: Challenges/Opportunities for HCI” will kick off in 5 minutes at the Ian Wark Theatre, Shine Dome. Looking forward to see you all there!

The final #ozchi2022 paper session on “Games and Play” has just started! We will kick off this session with a really cool talk on "Exploration in Open-World Video games" by Nicole Vickery from QUT. Any Witcher fans?

This talk on “Exploring the Affordances of Digital Toys for Young Children's Active Play” by Yuehao Wang from QUT delivers several takeaways for the design of new digital toys 🧸 for children’s active play. Awesome presentation! 👏👏

How can we design games for meaningful distanced play? Melissa, Masking 😷 6💉👠🎲♟ and team from Computing & Information Systems UniMelb introduce the SMeFT card deck - a creativity support tool to inspire & support the design of hybrid digital boardgames for distanced play supporting Story, Mechanism, Function & Tech!🎲

The final paper presentation for #ozchi2022 by Sara Muneeb from QUT on "Opportunities for Serious Game Technologies to Engage Children with Autism in a Pakistani Sociocultural and Institutional Context"👏👏

A very interesting #ozchi2022 keynote on “The Impact of HCI” by Aaron Quigley is now underway at the Ian Wark Theatre, Shine Dome!

We are wrapping up #ozchi2022! A big thank you to our amazing sponsors, organising committee, SVs, keynote speakers, authors, reviewers and everyone from the Shine Dome for making this event possible! 👏👏