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Dr Jarrod Knibbe

Senior Lecturer - HCI

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
j.knibbe@uq.edu.au

Overview

I am a researcher in Interaction Design, building new interactive devices and seeking to understand the experience of using those devices. I am a future technologist and pursue technology-first human-computer interaction - building and exploring novel tech that may later provide solutions to human-centered problems. I have a special interest in Haptics for Extended Reality and Smart Clothing for Muscle Control. My research typically involves device design and engineering, studies of human perception, and user experience explorations of new technologies.

I have published over 40 peer-reviewed articles across top venues in Human-Computer Interaction, including CHI, UIST, CSCW, and ISMAR. I serve frequently as an associate editor for CHI, UIST, VR, and ISS.

Research Interests

  • Haptics for Virtual Reality
    One of the great challenges of virtual reality is that you can't actually touch stuff - you can't feel it's texture, weight, heat, etc. There are two broad camps trying to address this: the Accuracy camp and the Naturalness camp. The accuracy camp wants you to experience material properties as accurately as possible, so they build specialist controllers. The naturalness camp wants you to be unencumbered by controllers, so they use illusions. I have no allegiance to either camp and work across them both. I am currently building controllers to let you grasp objects of complex shapes and sizes, and building illusions that play with your sense of where you are in the room so you can use physical props in your VR experiences.
  • Smart Clothing
    We are increasingly able to integrate an amazing range of sensors and actuators into fabric, creating Smart Clothing. However, we are not seeing these clothes in stores or in our wardrobes. I believe this is for two key reasons: (1) no killer app - we are not yet doing anything really convincing with these clothes, and (2) tailoring is hard - we are not yet able to make smart clothing work regardless of your body shape or size. Once we have solved problem (2), I believe solutions to problem (1) will follow.

Research Impacts

My research has inspired new features in smartphones from Google (the Pixel's battery share) and Samsung (PowerShare), and has been featured in various news outlets (including Wired, the Economist, Hackaday, Fast Company, and the Guardian).

I also work extensively with companies and organisations to explore ways for digital transformation to solve their challenges. I facilitate design thinking workshops to help identify new opportunities, build new partnerships, and reveal next steps for new projects. I have run workshops for numerous multinationals and government organisations, leading to substantial new work packages and meaningful change. I have run professional courses on scientific leadership.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy of Computer-Human Interaction, University of Bristol
  • Masters (Research) of Computer Science, University of Bristol

Publications

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Publications

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Conference Publication

  • Stacked Retargeting: Combining Redirected Walking and Hand Redirection to Expand Haptic Retargeting's Coverage

    Clarence, Aldrich, Knibbe, Jarrod, Cordeil, Maxime and Wybrow, Michael (2024). Stacked Retargeting: Combining Redirected Walking and Hand Redirection to Expand Haptic Retargeting's Coverage. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3613904.3642228

  • Exploring Shared Bodily Control: Designing Augmented Human Systems for Intra- and Inter-Corporeality

    Patibanda, Rakesh, Overdevest, Nathalie, Saini, Aryan, Li, Zhuying, Andres, Josh, Knibbe, Jarrod, van den Hoven, Elise and Mueller, Florian 'Floyd' (2024). Exploring Shared Bodily Control: Designing Augmented Human Systems for Intra- and Inter-Corporeality. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3652920.3653037

  • An Empirical Evaluation of Educational Data Mining Techniques in a Dynamic VR Application

    Khorasani, Sara, Nawaz, Sadia, Syiem, Brandon Victor, Wei, Jing, Pardos, Zachary A., Knibbe, Jarrod and Velloso, Eduardo (2023). An Empirical Evaluation of Educational Data Mining Techniques in a Dynamic VR Application. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3638380.3638387

  • Towards a Bedder Future: A Study of Using Virtual Reality while Lying Down

    van Gemert, Thomas, Hornbæk, Kasper, Knibbe, Jarrod and Bergström, Joanna (2023). Towards a Bedder Future: A Study of Using Virtual Reality while Lying Down. CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Hamburg, Germany, 23-28 April 2023. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3544548.3580963

  • Investigating the effect of direction on the limits of haptic retargeting

    Clarence, Aldrich, Knibbe, Jarrod, Cordeil, Maxime and Wybrow, Michael (2022). Investigating the effect of direction on the limits of haptic retargeting. 21st IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Singapore, Singapore, 17-22 October 2022. Washington, DC, United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ismar55827.2022.00078

  • MTGLS: Multi-Task Gaze Estimation with Limited Supervision

    Ghosh, Shreya, Hayat, Munawar, Dhall, Abhinav and Knibbe, Jarrod (2022). MTGLS: Multi-Task Gaze Estimation with Limited Supervision. 22nd IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Waikoloa, HI United States, 4-8 January 2022. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/WACV51458.2022.00123

  • Modeling Pointing for 3D Target Selection in VR

    Dalsgaard, Tor-Salve, Knibbe, Jarrod and Bergstrom, Joanna (2021). Modeling Pointing for 3D Target Selection in VR. 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), Osaka, Japan, 8-10 December 2021. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3489849.3489853

  • Adhering, Steering, and Queering: Treatment of Gender in Natural Language Generation

    Strengers, Yolande, Qu, Lizhen, Xu, Qiongkai and Knibbe, Jarrod (2020). Adhering, Steering, and Queering: Treatment of Gender in Natural Language Generation. CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, HI United States, 25 - 30 April 2020. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3313831.3376315

  • Resized Grasping in VR : Estimating Thresholds for Object Discrimination

    Bergström, Joanna, Mottelson, Aske and Knibbe, Jarrod (2019). Resized Grasping in VR : Estimating Thresholds for Object Discrimination. UIST '19: The 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, New Orleans, LA United States, 20 - 23 October 2019. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3332165.3347939

  • Magnetips : Combining Fingertip Tracking and Haptic Feedback for Around-Device Interaction

    McIntosh, Jess, Strohmeier, Paul, Knibbe, Jarrod, Boring, Sebastian and Hornbæk, Kasper (2019). Magnetips : Combining Fingertip Tracking and Haptic Feedback for Around-Device Interaction. CHI '19: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 4 - 9 May 2019. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3290605.3300638

  • I really did that: Sense of agency with touchpad, keyboard, and on-skin interaction

    Bergstrom-Lehtovirta, Joanna, Coyle, David, Knibbe, Jarrod and Hornbæk, Kasper (2018). I really did that: Sense of agency with touchpad, keyboard, and on-skin interaction. CHI '18: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal, QC Canada, 21 - 26 April 2018. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3173574.3173952

  • The dream is collapsing: The experience of exiting VR

    Knibbe, Jarrod, Schjerlund, Jonas, Petræus, Mathias and Hornbæk, Kasper (2018). The dream is collapsing: The experience of exiting VR. CHI '18: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal, QC Canada, 21 - 26 April 2018. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3173574.3174057

  • Veritaps: Truth estimation from mobile interaction

    Mottelson, Aske, Knibbe, Jarrod and Hornbæk, Kasper (2018). Veritaps: Truth estimation from mobile interaction. CHI '18: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal, QC Canada, 21 - 26 April 2018. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3173574.3174135

  • Designing eTextiles for the body: Shape, volume & motion

    Freire, Rachel, Strohmeier, Paul, Honnet, Cedric, Knibbe, Jarrod and Brueckner, Sophia (2018). Designing eTextiles for the body: Shape, volume & motion. TEI '18: Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Stockholm, Sweden, 18 - 21 March 2018. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3173225.3173331

  • zPatch: Hybrid resistive/capacitive etextile input

    Strohmeier, Paul, Knibbe, Jarrod, Boring, Sebastian and Hornbæk, Kasper (2018). zPatch: Hybrid resistive/capacitive etextile input. TEI '18: Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Stockholm, Sweden, 18 - 21 March 2018. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3173225.3173242

  • Wanding through space: Interactive calibration for electric muscle stimulation

    Pohl, Henning, Hornbæk, Kasper and Knibbe, Jarrod (2018). Wanding through space: Interactive calibration for electric muscle stimulation. AH '18: Proceedings of the 9th Augmented Human International Conference, Seoul, Korea, 7 - 9 February 2018. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3174910.3174948

  • Invisiboard: Maximizing display and input space with a full screen text entry method for smartwatches

    Mottelson, Aske, Larsen, Christoffer, Lyderik, Mikkel, Strohmeier, Paul and Knibbe, Jarrod (2016). Invisiboard: Maximizing display and input space with a full screen text entry method for smartwatches. MobileHCI '16: 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Florence, Italy, 6 - 9 September 2016. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2935334.2935360

  • Mobile energy sharing futures

    Worgan, Paul, Knibbe, Jarrod, Fraser, Mike and Plasencia, Diego Martinez (2016). Mobile energy sharing futures. MobileHCI '16: 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Florence, Italy, 6 - 9 September 2016. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2957265.2962655

  • PowerShake: Power Transfer interactions for mobile devices

    Worgan, Paul, Knibbe, Jarrod, Fraser, Mike and Plasencia, Diego Martinez (2016). PowerShake: Power Transfer interactions for mobile devices. CHI'16: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, San Jose, CA United States, 7 - 12 May 2016. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2858036.2858569

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