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Dr Dhaval Vyas

Snr Lecturer Computer Science

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
d.vyas@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 58302

Overview

Dr. Dhaval Vyas is a Senior Lecturer in the Human-Centred Computing discipline - a former ARC DECRA Fellow (2018-2022) and. He is a part of the Compassion Lab research group. His research spans the areas of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). In particular, he focuses on designing IT tools to support health and wellbeing of under-resourced communities. He has worked in academia and industry for over 15 years. He received a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from University of Twente, the Netherlands; a master’s degree in Computer Science from Lancaster University, UK; and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Gujarat University, India.

Research Interests

  • Compassion Lab: Designing for Under-served Communities
    The Compassion Lab focuses on developing technologies for under-served communities in order to bring about social change, and improvement to their health and wellbeing. It has a strong user-centric focus that aims to study issues at the grass-root level using ethnography and involve people in the design and development of technological solutions. Target Domains and Communities: - Low SES Communities - Refugees and Asylum Seekers - Women in Crisis Situations - Rural Communities in Developing Countries - Older Adults
  • Disabilities, Health and Wellbeing Tech
    How can technologies provide the right kind of support to individuals going through various disabilities and health conditions? Using Virtual Reality (VR), storytelling and other forms of pervasive technologies are developed to provide adequate support. We work on the following topics: - Independent living for people with paraplegia - Mental health support for low SES community members - Enhancing social interactions in older adults
  • Fostering DIY and ‘Making’ in Undeserved Communities
    The Do-It-Yourself (DIY) and makerspace movements have shown the potential for high-tech innovation, democratizing production and creativity, and revamping of economies and broken educational systems. However, within HCI, the focus has mainly been on more affluent and technology-savvy population. HCI lacks the narrative on how DIY and making practices are associated with economically disadvantaged members of the community. In particular, the role of innovation hubs such as makerspaces and community-based social enterprises in uplifting the economically disadvantaged needs to be thoroughly investigated. In collaboration with makerspaces that involve economically struggling members of the community and job seekers, this project aims to investigate DIY and making practices of LSE members and develop a counter-narrative on makerspaces and its inclusiveness.
  • Quantified Self & Activity Tracking for Healthy Living
    Within the research topics of Quantified Self (QS) and Activity Tracking, I have been focusing on supporting engaging social experiences for users; rather than on behavior change. A set of Android-based applications is developed in workplace settings to support activity tracking and fitness promotion. The aim is to enable employees to interweave activity tracking in their everyday routines and enable engaging social interactions in workplaces.

Research Impacts

A project management application developed in my ARC DECRA project has been in use at the Sunnybank Men’s Shed, since July 2020. The application allows members to coordinate various activities around the shed.

My ARC DECRA project has generated a great interest in e-waste recycling and social entrepreneurship through various media articles:

My research supported by the UQ Cyber Seed funding has led to enhancements in the design of the AI suit that our industry partner – Ariel Care Pty Ltd is building. Building functionalities around moisture detection and hoisting capabilities on smart beds were specific contributions of my research. This project and the role of UQ has been well discussed on the ABC News: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-25/are-high-tech-homes-the-future-for-assisted-living/101695802

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Twente

Publications

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Grants

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Supervision

  • Developing inclusive and culturally sensitive design guidelines for AI-enabled smart homes for people with disabilities in developing countries, based on local needs, preferences, and values

    Doctor Philosophy

  • Leap-frogging marginalised, under-educated women into STEM skills through human centred design in makerspaces

    Doctor Philosophy

  • Making for Others: Connecting Men's Sheds and Society Through "Making"

    (2023) Master Philosophy

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Available Projects

  • Fostering “Making” Practices in People from Low Socio-Economic Backgrounds - PhD scholarship

    This project aims to foster making and DIY (do-it-yourself) practices in low socioeconomic status (SES) communities. Working closely with an e-waste recycling makerspace based in Brisbane, this project will study the existing practices of makers from low SES and involve them in co-designing a technology that will help them in their future making activities.

    Outcomes of this project will include:

    1. An alternative narrative on makerspaces, backed by empirical data, on the role DIY and making practices play within low SES communities.
    2. An innovative co-design method that will involve ‘making workshops’ to bootstrap development of ideas for empowerment and creativity.
    3. Self-made, DIY technology prototypes that support low SES members in their specific needs.
    4. A theory of ‘Creative Collaboration’ for engaging people from low SES backgrounds in DIY and making practices.

  • Connecting Making and Health in Communal Makerspaces - PhD Scholarship

    This PhD project will be part of an Australian Research Council grant. The project aims to understand connections between making and health, and explores ways through designing technologies to support and foster making. It aims to study communal maker organizations such as men’s shed, women’s craft groups, and library-based maker organizations.

    Outcomes of this project will include:

    1. An empirical understanding of creative collaborative practices at communal makerspaces, using participatory and ethnographic approaches.
    2. A theory that establishes relationship between health and making.
    3. A user-centric technology that enables and fosters making in communal settings.

  • Designing for Under-served Communities (Multiple opportunities)

    I am looking for PhD, Master's and Bachelor's students to work on a wide range of projects.

    The Compassion Lab focuses on developing technologies for under-served communities in order to bring about social change, and improvement to their health and wellbeing. It has a strong user-centric focus that aims to study issues at the grass-root level using ethnography and involve people in the design and development of technological solutions.

    Target Domains and Communities (including but not limited to):

    • Low SES Communities
    • Refugees and Asylum Seekers
    • Women in Crisis Situations
    • Rural Communities in Developing Countries
    • Older Adults

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Publications

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • The pragmatics of sustainable unmaking: informing technology design through e-waste folk strategies

    Khan, Awais Hameed, Sabie, Samar and Vyas, Dhaval (2023). The pragmatics of sustainable unmaking: informing technology design through e-waste folk strategies. ACM Designing Interactive Systems, Philadelphia, PA USA, 10-14 July 2023. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3563657.3596056

  • Democratizing making: scaffolding participation using e-waste to engage under-resourced communities in technology design

    Vyas, Dhaval, Khan, Awais Hameed and Cooper, Anabelle (2023). Democratizing making: scaffolding participation using e-waste to engage under-resourced communities in technology design. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23), Hamburg, Germany, 23 - 28 April 2023. New York, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3544548.3580759

  • Onboarding, learning transfer and job performance in hybrid work environments

    Kromah, Momo, Ayoko, Oluremi, Tann, Ken and Vyas, Dhaval (2022). Onboarding, learning transfer and job performance in hybrid work environments. 35th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, Gold Coast, QLD Australia, 5-7 December 2022.

  • Shedding ageist perceptions of making: creativity in older adult maker communities

    Anderson, India and Vyas, Dhaval (2022). Shedding ageist perceptions of making: creativity in older adult maker communities. C&C '22: Creativity and Cognition, Venice, Italy, 20-23 June 2022. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3527927.3532800

  • Making in/with Nature: Lessons from an Eco-village for Sustainable Making

    Tao, Hongyi and Vyas, Dhaval (2022). Making in/with Nature: Lessons from an Eco-village for Sustainable Making. 9th Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR 2021), Hong Kong, China, 5–9 December 2021. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-4472-7_1

  • DIY homes: placemaking in rural eco-homes

    Tao, Hongyi and Vyas, Dhaval (2021). DIY homes: placemaking in rural eco-homes. 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Bari, Italy, 30 August-3 September 2021. Bari, Italy: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-85613-7_25

  • Multisensory augmented reality

    Karunanayaka, Kasun, Nijholt, Anton, Halloluwa, Thilina, Ranasinghe, Nimesha, Wickramasinghe, Manjusri and Vyas, Dhaval (2021). Multisensory augmented reality. Multisensory Augmented Reality, Virtual, 30 Aug 2021. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-85607-6_77

  • A gendered perspective on making from an autoethnography in makerspaces

    Hedditch, Sonali and Vyas, Dhaval (2021). A gendered perspective on making from an autoethnography in makerspaces. DIS '21: Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Online, 28 June - 2 July 2021. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3461778.3462015

  • Critical moments: supporting homeless journeys through design

    Chandra, Rashmi and Vyas, Dhaval (2021). Critical moments: supporting homeless journeys through design. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , Yokohama, Japan, May 2021. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3411763.3451790

  • Framework for user-centered access to electric charging facilities via energy-trading blockchain

    Patel, Ankit R., Trivedi, Gargi, Vyas, Dhaval R., Mihaita, Adriana-Simona and Padmanaban, Sanjeevikumar (2021). Framework for user-centered access to electric charging facilities via energy-trading blockchain. 24th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communication (WPMC) - Paving the Way for Digital and Wireless Transformation, Okayama, Japan, 14-16 December 2021. Rundle Mall, SA, Australia: Causal Productions. doi: 10.1109/WPMC52694.2021.9700475

  • Seeking a new normal: refugee discourse on social media forums

    Anderson, India, Hebbani, Aparna and Vyas, Dhaval (2020). Seeking a new normal: refugee discourse on social media forums. 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Sydney, NSW, Australia , December 2020. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3441000.3441072

  • Life improvements: DIY in low socio-economic status communities

    Vyas, Dhaval (2020). Life improvements: DIY in low socio-economic status communities. CSCW '20 Companion: Conference Companion Publication of the 2020 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Minneapolis, MN United States, October 2020. New York, NY United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3406865.3418325

  • Magic Machines for Refugees

    Almohamed, Asam, Zhang, Jinglan and Vyas, Dhaval (2020). Magic Machines for Refugees. 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, Guayaquil, Equador, 14-17 June 2020 . New York, NY United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3378393.3402256

  • Dhana Labha: A financial management application to underbanked communities in Rural Sri Lanka

    Halloluwa, Thilina and Vyas, Dhaval (2019). Dhana Labha: A financial management application to underbanked communities in Rural Sri Lanka. INTERACT 2019: Human-Computer Interaction, Paphos, Cyprus, 2–6 September, 2019. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-29384-0_45

  • Extended reality for refugees: pragmatic ideas through ethnographic research with refugees in Australia

    Almohamed, Asam, Dey, Arindam, Zhang, Jinglan and Vyas, Dhaval (2019). Extended reality for refugees: pragmatic ideas through ethnographic research with refugees in Australia. IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Beijing, China, 14-18 October 2019. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. doi: 10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct.2019.00046

  • Designing for refugees: insights from design workshop

    Almohamed, Asam, Vyas, Dhaval and Zhang, Jinglan (2018). Designing for refugees: insights from design workshop. 30th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, OzCHI 2018, Melbourne, Victoria, 4 -7 December 2018. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3292147.3292196

  • Value for money: Co-designing with underbanked women from rural Sri Lanka

    Halloluwa, Thilina, Bandara, Pradeepa, Usoof, Hakim and Vyas, Dhaval (2018). Value for money: Co-designing with underbanked women from rural Sri Lanka. 30th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, OzCHI 2018, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 4-7 December 2018. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3292147.3292157

  • Welcome from the technical program chairs

    Vyas, Dhaval, Morrison, Ann, Soro, Alessandro, Waycott, Jenny and Ploderer, Bernd (2017). Welcome from the technical program chairs. 29th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI 2017), Brisbane, QLD Australia, 28th November-1st December, 2017. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery.

  • Designing for financial literacy: co-design with children in rural Sri Lanka

    Halloluwa, Thilina, Vyas, Dhaval, Usoof, Hakim, Bandara, Pradeepa, Brereton, Margot and Hewagamage, Priyantha (2017). Designing for financial literacy: co-design with children in rural Sri Lanka. 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), Mumbai, India, 25-29 September 2017. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-67744-6_21

  • Diversity and coherence in a hackerspace for people from a low socioeconomic community

    Taylor, Jennyfer Lawrence, Vyas, Dhaval and Sharp, Tony (2017). Diversity and coherence in a hackerspace for people from a low socioeconomic community. 29th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2017, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 28 November -1 December 2017. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3152771.3152797

  • Everyday creative uses of smartphone images in biomedical engineering laboratories

    Vyas, Dhaval, Vyas, Hinal and Woodruff, Maria A. (2017). Everyday creative uses of smartphone images in biomedical engineering laboratories. 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), Mumbai, India, 25-29 September 2017. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-67744-6_22

  • Exploring the making activities of women in crisis situations

    Capel, Tara and Vyas, Dhaval (2017). Exploring the making activities of women in crisis situations. DIS '17: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2017, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, June 2017. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3064857.3079153

  • Rebuilding social capital: Engaging newly arrived refugees in participatory design

    Almohamed, Asam, Vyas, Dhaval and Zhang, Jinglan (2017). Rebuilding social capital: Engaging newly arrived refugees in participatory design. 29th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2017, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 28 November - 1 December 2017. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3152771.3152778

  • Women in crisis situations: empowering and supporting women through ICTs

    Capel, Tara, Vyas, Dhaval and Brereton, Margot (2017). Women in crisis situations: empowering and supporting women through ICTs. 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), Mumbai, India, 25-29 September 2017. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-67684-5_5

  • Building connections: Technology design for living on a low income

    Snow, Stephen, Vyas, Dhaval, Lyle, Peter, Mallett, Miranda and Brereton, Margot (2016). Building connections: Technology design for living on a low income. 14th Participatory Design Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, 15 - 19 August 2016. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2948076.2948091

  • Designing for the marginalized: A step towards understanding the lives of refugees and asylum seekers

    Almohamed, Asam and Vyas, Dhaval (2016). Designing for the marginalized: A step towards understanding the lives of refugees and asylum seekers. 11th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2016, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 4-8 June 2016. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2908805.2909415

  • Gamifying mathematics for primary students in rural Sri Lanka

    Halloluwa, Thilina, Vyas, Dhaval, Usoof, Hakim, Hewagamage, K. P. and Sahama, Tony (2016). Gamifying mathematics for primary students in rural Sri Lanka. 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden, 23-27 October 2016. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2971485.2971522

  • Interaction design for tablet based edutainment systems for mathematical education of primary students

    Halloluwa, Thilina, Vyas, Dhaval, Sahama, Tony, Hewagamage, K. P. and Usoof, Hakim (2016). Interaction design for tablet based edutainment systems for mathematical education of primary students. 15th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, ICTer 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 24- 25 August 2015. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ICTER.2015.7377706

  • Social organization of household finance: understanding artful financial systems in the home

    Vyas, Dhaval, Snow, Stephen, Roe, Paul and Brereton, Margot (2016). Social organization of household finance: understanding artful financial systems in the home. 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2016, San Francisco, CA, United States, 27 February - 2 March 2016. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2818048.2819937

  • Using self-reported experiences to explore the issues of women in crisis situations

    Capel, Tara, Taylor, Jennyfer Lawrence and Vyas, Dhaval (2016). Using self-reported experiences to explore the issues of women in crisis situations. 28th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2016, Launceston, TAS Australia, 29 November - 2 December 2016. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3010915.3010962

  • Vulnerability of displacement: Challenges for integrating refugees and asylum seekers in host communities

    Almohamed, Asam and Vyas, Dhaval (2016). Vulnerability of displacement: Challenges for integrating refugees and asylum seekers in host communities. OzCHI '16: The 28th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Launceston, TAS Australia, November 2016. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3010915.3010948

  • Being thrifty on a $100K wage: Austerity in family finances

    Vyas, Dhaval, Snow, Stephen, Brereton, Margot, Dulleck, Uwe and Boyen, Xavier (2015). Being thrifty on a $100K wage: Austerity in family finances. 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 14-18, 2015. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2685553.2698998

  • Bringing the farmer perspective to agricultural robots

    Redhead, Fiona, Snow, Steve, Vyas, Dhaval, Bawden, Owen, Russell, Ray, Perez, Tristan and Brereton, Margot (2015). Bringing the farmer perspective to agricultural robots. 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015, Seoul, South Korea, 18-23 April 2015. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2702613.2732894

  • Exploring motivations of young adults to participate in physical activities

    Capel, Tara, Schnittert, Johanna Frederike, Snow, Stephen and Vyas, Dhaval (2015). Exploring motivations of young adults to participate in physical activities. 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015, Seoul, Korea, 18 -23 April, 2015. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2702613.2732800

  • Exploring physical activities in an employer-sponsored health program

    Vyas, Dhaval, Fitz-Walter, Zachary, Mealy, Erica, Soro, Alessandro, Zhang, Jinglan and Brereton, Margot (2015). Exploring physical activities in an employer-sponsored health program. CHI '15: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seoul, Korea, April 2015. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2702613.2732815

  • Fixing the alignment: an exploration of budgeting practices in the home

    Snow, Stephen and Vyas, Dhaval (2015). Fixing the alignment: an exploration of budgeting practices in the home. 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015, Seoul, South Korea, 18-23 April 2015. Seoul, South Korea: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2702613.2732808

  • Fostering collaboration in the management of family finances

    Snow, Stephen and Vyas, Dhaval (2015). Fostering collaboration in the management of family finances. 27th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2015, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 7-10 December 2015. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2838739.2838746

  • More than just food: field visits to an emergency relief centre

    Vyas, Dhaval, Snow, Stephen and Mallett, Miranda (2015). More than just food: field visits to an emergency relief centre. OzChi'15: Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 7-10 December 2015. New York, NY, United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/2838739.2838787

  • Understanding the use of a bug tracking system in a global software development setup

    Vyas, Dhaval, Capel, Tara, Tank, Deven and Shepherd, David (2015). Understanding the use of a bug tracking system in a global software development setup. OzCHI '15: The Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction, Parkville, VIC Australia, December 2015. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2838739.2838790

  • Understanding welding practices on shipyards: an ethnographic study for designing any interactive robot welder

    Niculescu, Andreea I., D'Haro, Luis Fernando, Banchs, Rafael E., Yeo, Kheng Hui and Vyas, Dhaval (2015). Understanding welding practices on shipyards: an ethnographic study for designing any interactive robot welder. 2014 3rd International Conference on User Science and Engineering, i-USEr 2014, Shah Alam, Malaysia, 2-5 September 2014. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers . doi: 10.1109/IUSER.2014.7002667

  • Bug reproduction: a collaborative practice within software maintenance activities

    Vyas, Dhaval, Fritz, Thomas and Shepherd, David (2014). Bug reproduction: a collaborative practice within software maintenance activities. 1th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, Nice, France, 27-30 May 2014. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-06498-7_12

  • Non-formal techniques for early assessment of design ideas for services

    Van Der Veer, Gerrit C. and Vyas, Dhaval (2014). Non-formal techniques for early assessment of design ideas for services. 7th IFIP WG 13.7 Workshops on Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization, HCIV@ECCE 2011 and 8th Workshops on Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization, HCIV@INTERACT 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, September 5 2011. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-54894-9_10

  • Privacy in the new era of visible and sharable energy-use information

    Snow, Stephen, Radke, Kenneth, Vyas, Dhaval and Brereton, Margot (2014). Privacy in the new era of visible and sharable energy-use information. 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2 - 5, December, 2014. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2686612.2686664

  • Ethnography of software maintenance activities in an industrial engineering setup

    Vyas, Dhaval (2013). Ethnography of software maintenance activities in an industrial engineering setup. APCHI '13: 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction, Bangalore, India, September 2013. Washington, DC United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2525194.2525269

  • Geo-locked Photo Sharing on Mobile Devices

    Vyas, Dhaval, Keijl, Edwin, op den Akker, Rieks, Nijholt, Anton and Van Der Veer, Gerrit (2013). Geo-locked Photo Sharing on Mobile Devices. 31st Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI EA 2013, Paris, France, 27 April - 2 May 2013. Washington, DC United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2468356.2468607

  • Practices surrounding event photos

    Vyas, Dhaval, Nijholt, Anton and Van Der Veer, Gerrit (2013). Practices surrounding event photos. 14th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 2-6 September 2013. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-40498-6_4

  • Technique for evaluating photo sharing interfaces with the early prototypes - Group simulation

    Ojala, Jarno Aulis Olavi, Vyas, Dhaval and Lehtiniemi, Arto Juhani (2013). Technique for evaluating photo sharing interfaces with the early prototypes - Group simulation. SouthCHI: International Conference on Human Factors in Computing and Informatics 2013, Maribor, Slovenia, 1-3 July 2013. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-39062-3_3

  • Domestic artefacts: Sustainability in the context of Indian Middle Class

    Vyas, Dhaval (2012). Domestic artefacts: Sustainability in the context of Indian Middle Class. 4th Association for Computing Machinery's International Conference on Intercultural Collaboration, ICIC 2012, Bengaluru, India, 21-23 March 2012. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2160881.2160900

  • Modeling and analysis of quadrotor using sliding mode control

    Patel, Ankit R., Patel, Mahesh A. and Vyas, Dhaval R. (2012). Modeling and analysis of quadrotor using sliding mode control. 44th IEEE Southeastern Symposium on System Theory (SSST), Jacksonville, FL, United States, 11-13 March, 2012. Washington, DC, United States: IEEE.

  • Practices surrounding children's photos in homes

    Vyas, Dhaval, van der Veer, Gerrit, Nijholt, Anton and Grassel, Guido (2012). Practices surrounding children's photos in homes. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Austin, TX, United States, 5-10 May 2012. New York, NY, United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/2212776.2223762

  • Producing while consuming: social interaction around photos shared within private group

    Vyas, Dhaval, Cui, Yanqing, Ojala, Jarno and Grassel, Guido (2012). Producing while consuming: social interaction around photos shared within private group. 9th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment (ACE 2012), Kathmandu, Nepal, 3-5 November 2012. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-34292-9_10

  • Smart material interfaces : a new form of physical interaction

    Vyas, Dhaval, Poelman, Wim, Nijholt, Anton and De Bruijn, Arnout (2012). Smart material interfaces : a new form of physical interaction. CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Austin, TX USA, 5-10 May 2012. New York, NY, USA: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/2212776.2223699

  • Smart material interfaces: A vision

    Minuto, Andrea, Vyas, Dhaval, Poelman, Wim and Nijholt, Anton (2012). Smart material interfaces: A vision. 4th International ICST Conference, INTETAIN 2011, Genova, Italy, 25-27 May 2011. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-30214-5_7

  • Variational Analysis and Sequential Quadratic Programming Approach for Robotics

    Patel, Ankit R., Patel, Mahesh A. and Vyas, Dhaval R. (2012). Variational Analysis and Sequential Quadratic Programming Approach for Robotics. 2nd International Conference on Computer, Communication, Control and Information Technology (C3IT), India, 25-26 February 2012. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.protcy.2012.05.102

  • Task modeling for collaborative authoring

    Veer, Gerrit V. D., Kulyk, Olga, Vyas, Dhaval, Kubbe, Onno and Ebert, Achim (2011). Task modeling for collaborative authoring. 29th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, ECCE 2011, , , August 24, 2011-August 26, 2011. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2074712.2074746

  • Exploring community building with an awareness display

    Vyas, Dhaval, Nijholt, Anton, Eliëns, Anton and Poelman, Wim (2011). Exploring community building with an awareness display. 4th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2011, Crete, Greece, 25-27 May 2011. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2141622.2141643

  • Feeling the life: A look into the visual culture of life scientists

    Vyas, Dhaval, Bhatt, Hinal, Moroni, Lorenzo and Nijholt, Anton (2011). Feeling the life: A look into the visual culture of life scientists. ECCE '11: European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, Rostock, Germany, August 2011. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2074712.2074737

  • Non-formal techniques for requirements elicitation, modeling, and early assessment for services

    Van Der Veer, Gerrit C. and Vyas, Dhaval (2011). Non-formal techniques for requirements elicitation, modeling, and early assessment for services. ECCE '11: European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, Rostock, Germany, August 2011. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2074712.2074782

  • Supporting cooperative design through "living" artefacts

    Vyas, Dhaval, Nijholt, Anton and Van Der Veer, Gerrit (2010). Supporting cooperative design through "living" artefacts. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1868914.1868975

  • Remarkable objects: Supporting collaboration in a creative environment

    Vyas, Dhaval, Nijholt, Anton, Heylen, Dirk, Kröner, Alexander and Van Der Veer, Gerrit (2010). Remarkable objects: Supporting collaboration in a creative environment. 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2010, , , September 26, 2010-September 29, 2010. NEW YORK: ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. doi: 10.1145/1864349.1864357

  • CAM: A collaborative object memory system

    Vyas, Dhaval, Nijholt, Anton and Kröner, Alexander (2010). CAM: A collaborative object memory system. 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Mobile HCI2010, , , September 7, 2010-September 10, 2010. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1851600.1851692

  • "Show me, how does it look now": Remote help-giving in collaborative design

    Vyas, Dhaval, Van Der Veer, Gerrit, Nijholt, Anton and Heylen, Dirk (2009). "Show me, how does it look now": Remote help-giving in collaborative design. European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, Helsinki Finland, Sep 30-Oct 02, 2009. ESPOO: TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE FINLAND.

  • Collaborative practices that support creativity in design

    Vyas, Dhaval, Heylen, Dirk, Nijholt, Anton and Van Der Veer, Gerrit (2009). Collaborative practices that support creativity in design. 11th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2009), Vienna Austria, Sep 07-11, 2009. GODALMING: SPRINGER-VERLAG LONDON LTD. doi: 10.1007/978-1-84882-854-4_9

  • Paper-based mixed reality sketch augmentation as a conceptual design support tool

    Dos Santos, G. J.D., Van Dijk, E. M.A.G. and Vyas, D. M. (2009). Paper-based mixed reality sketch augmentation as a conceptual design support tool. 23rd Annual Conference on Human Computer Interaction, HCI 2009, , , September 1, 2009-September 5, 2009. BCS Learning & Development. doi: 10.14236/ewic/hci2009.56

  • Space as a resource in creative design practices

    Vyas, Dhaval, Van Der Veer, Gerrit, Heylen, Dirk and Nijholt, Anton (2009). Space as a resource in creative design practices. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-03658-3_23

  • Artful surfaces in design practices

    Vyas, Dhaval (2009). Artful surfaces in design practices. 27th International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2009, , , April 4, 2009-April 9, 2009. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1520340.1520388

  • Experiential role of artefacts in cooperative design

    Vyas, Dhaval, Heylen, Dirk, Nijholt, Anton and van der Veer, Gerrit (2009). Experiential role of artefacts in cooperative design. Fourth international conference on Communities and technologies, University Park, PA, USA, 25-27 June 2009. New York, NY, USA: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/1556460.1556477

  • Physicality and cooperative design

    Vyas, Dhaval, Heylen, Dirk and Nijholt, Anton (2008). Physicality and cooperative design. 5th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction, MLMI 2008, , , September 8, 2008-September 10, 2008. BERLIN: SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-85853-9-30

  • Designing awareness support for distributed cooperative design teams

    Vyas, Dhaval, Heylen, Dirk, Nijholt, Anton and Van Der Veer, Gerrit C. (2008). Designing awareness support for distributed cooperative design teams. 15th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics the Ergonomics of Cool Interaction, ECCE 2008, , , September 16, 2008-September 19, 2008. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1473018.1473026

  • Exploring mediated interactions: A design exercise

    Vyas, Dhaval, Dix, Alan and Nijholt, Anton (2008). Exploring mediated interactions: A design exercise. 15th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics the Ergonomics of Cool Interaction, ECCE 2008, , , September 16, 2008-September 19, 2008. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1473018.1473041

  • Organizational probes: Exploring playful interactions in work environment

    Vyas, Dhaval, Eliëns, Anton, Van De Watering, Marek R. and Van Der Veer, Gerrit C. (2008). Organizational probes: Exploring playful interactions in work environment. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1473018.1473062

  • Structures of life: The role of molecular structures in scientists' work

    Vyas, Dhaval, Kulyk, Olga, Van Der Vet, Paul, Nijholt, Anton and Van Der Veer, Gerrit C. (2008). Structures of life: The role of molecular structures in scientists' work. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1473018.1473034

  • Aesthetics of Mundane Interactions

    Vyas, Dhaval (2008). Aesthetics of Mundane Interactions. Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing.

  • Being social @ work: Designing for playfully mediated social awareness in work environments

    Vyas, Dhaval, van de Watering, Marek R., Eliëns, Anton and van der Veer, Gerrit C. (2007). Being social @ work: Designing for playfully mediated social awareness in work environments. doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-73697-6_9

  • Engineering social awareness in work environments

    Vyas, Dhaval, Van De Watering, Marek R., Eliëns, Anton and Van Der Veer, Gerrit C. (2007). Engineering social awareness in work environments. 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2007, , , July 22, 2007-July 27, 2007. BERLIN: SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN.

  • Experiencing-in-the-world: Using pragmatist philosophy to design for aesthetic experience

    Vyas, Dhaval, Eliëns, Anton, Heylen, Dirk and Nijholt, Anton (2007). Experiencing-in-the-world: Using pragmatist philosophy to design for aesthetic experience. 2007 Conference on Designing for User eXperiences, DUX'07, , , November 5, 2007-November 7, 2007. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1389908.1389919

  • Panorama - Explorations in the aesthetics of social awareness

    Eliëns, Anton and Vyas, Dhaval (2007). Panorama - Explorations in the aesthetics of social awareness. 8th International Conference on Intelligent Games and Simulation, Bologna Italy, Nov 20-22, 2007. GHENT: EUROSIS.

  • Searching and archiving: exploring online search behaviors of researchers

    Vyas, Dhaval, de Groot, Spencer and van der Veer, Gerrit (2007). Searching and archiving: exploring online search behaviors of researchers. HCI International 2007, Beijing, China, July 2007.

  • Affordance in interaction

    Vyas, Dhaval, Chisalita, Cristina M. and Van Der Veer, Gerrit C. (2006). Affordance in interaction. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1274892.1274907

  • Experience as meaning: Some underlying concepts and implications for design

    Vyas, Dhaval and Van Der Veer, Gerrit C. (2006). Experience as meaning: Some underlying concepts and implications for design. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1274892.1274906

  • Rich evaluations of entertainment experience: Bridging the interpretational gap

    Vyas, Dhaval and Van Der Veer, Gerrit C. (2006). Rich evaluations of entertainment experience: Bridging the interpretational gap. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1274892.1274921

  • Understanding the academic environments: Developing personas from field-studies

    Vyas, Dhaval, De Groot, Spencer and Van Der Veer, Gerrit C. (2006). Understanding the academic environments: Developing personas from field-studies. 13th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics: Trust and Control in Complex Socio-technical Systems, ECCE-13, , , September 20, 2006-September 22, 2006. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1274892.1274915

Edited Outputs

  • OzCHI '17: 29th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

    Alessandro Soro, Dhaval Vyas, Bernd Ploderer, Ann Morrison and Jenny Waycott eds. (2017). OzCHI '17: 29th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. OzCHI '17: 29th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Brisbane, Australia, November 2017. New York, NY, United States: ACM.

  • Proceedings of the 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction - OZCHI '17

    Alessandro Soro, Dhaval Vyas, Bernd Ploderer, Ann Morrison, Jenny Waycott and Margot Brereton eds. (2017). Proceedings of the 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction - OZCHI '17. 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 28 November - 1 December 2017. New York, NY United States: ACM Press.

Other Outputs

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Developing inclusive and culturally sensitive design guidelines for AI-enabled smart homes for people with disabilities in developing countries, based on local needs, preferences, and values

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Leap-frogging marginalised, under-educated women into STEM skills through human centred design in makerspaces

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • IoT and Smart Homes for People with Disabilities

    Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Designing technologies for newly-arrived humanitarian entrants: Fostering a sense of home during early-stage resettlement

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Designing mixed reality to foster making practices in low socioeconomic status communities

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Fostering Making Practices in People from Low Socio-Economic Backgrounds

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

Completed Supervision

Possible Research Projects

Note for students: The possible research projects listed on this page may not be comprehensive or up to date. Always feel free to contact the staff for more information, and also with your own research ideas.

  • Fostering “Making” Practices in People from Low Socio-Economic Backgrounds - PhD scholarship

    This project aims to foster making and DIY (do-it-yourself) practices in low socioeconomic status (SES) communities. Working closely with an e-waste recycling makerspace based in Brisbane, this project will study the existing practices of makers from low SES and involve them in co-designing a technology that will help them in their future making activities.

    Outcomes of this project will include:

    1. An alternative narrative on makerspaces, backed by empirical data, on the role DIY and making practices play within low SES communities.
    2. An innovative co-design method that will involve ‘making workshops’ to bootstrap development of ideas for empowerment and creativity.
    3. Self-made, DIY technology prototypes that support low SES members in their specific needs.
    4. A theory of ‘Creative Collaboration’ for engaging people from low SES backgrounds in DIY and making practices.

  • Connecting Making and Health in Communal Makerspaces - PhD Scholarship

    This PhD project will be part of an Australian Research Council grant. The project aims to understand connections between making and health, and explores ways through designing technologies to support and foster making. It aims to study communal maker organizations such as men’s shed, women’s craft groups, and library-based maker organizations.

    Outcomes of this project will include:

    1. An empirical understanding of creative collaborative practices at communal makerspaces, using participatory and ethnographic approaches.
    2. A theory that establishes relationship between health and making.
    3. A user-centric technology that enables and fosters making in communal settings.

  • Designing for Under-served Communities (Multiple opportunities)

    I am looking for PhD, Master's and Bachelor's students to work on a wide range of projects.

    The Compassion Lab focuses on developing technologies for under-served communities in order to bring about social change, and improvement to their health and wellbeing. It has a strong user-centric focus that aims to study issues at the grass-root level using ethnography and involve people in the design and development of technological solutions.

    Target Domains and Communities (including but not limited to):

    • Low SES Communities
    • Refugees and Asylum Seekers
    • Women in Crisis Situations
    • Rural Communities in Developing Countries
    • Older Adults

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Makerspace, Human Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, MobileHCI, CSCW

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