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Supporting Boundary Management in Young People’s AI Companion Interactions
We invite applications for a PhD position within an interdisciplinary research team examining how young people engage with AI companion chatbots (e.g., Character.AI, Replika) and how they manage risks and boundaries in these interactions.AI companions have grown in popularity since the COVID-19 pandemic and are increasingly used by young people seeking connection. This trend raises important concerns, including exposure to harassment, misinformation, and self-harm, as well as the potential impact on human relationships when reliance on AI companions becomes significant.This …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science
- School
- School of Computer Science
Wearable futures: designing next-generation devices for Parkinson's disease
More than 10M people worldwide suffer from Parkinson’s disease (PD). As a neurodegenerative disease it is difficult to manage with adult-onset and slow progression with both both motor (walking problems, slowed movements, tremors, etc) and non-motor (anxiety, depression, cognitive decline, etc) symptoms. Current treatments focus on symptoms and clinical assessments based on intermittent, subjective evaluations with a 20 minute visit to a neurologist every six months. This cannot capture the daily fluctuation of symptoms effectively. Non-motor symptoms remain under-assessed and …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
- School
- School of Design
- Research centre(s)
- QUT Design Lab
Design Lab
Understanding and designing for digital self-care
The aim of this project is to better understand self-care practices with digital technologies amongst young adults and to explore opportunities for digital technology design.Self-care is a process of purposeful engagement in practices that promote holistic health and well-being of the self. Holistic health implies overall health and this encompasses more than just physical health but also includes mental, emotional and even spiritual health of a person. For some people, cooking can be a form of self-care to eat healthily …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science
- School
- School of Computer Science
Co-designing ambient assistive technologies
Vision-based technologies offer new possibilities to assist individuals with cognitive disabilities to live independently. Ambient assistive technologies, such as smart mirrors and social robots, enable new ways to interact at home with AI technologies that can see.How can we engage people of all abilities in co-designing ambient assistive technologies?Participation in design is often defined on a spectrum where stakeholders can be categorised as simple informants (surveyed at the start of a project), evaluators (involved in trial iterations of a design), …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science
- School
- School of Computer Science
Improving access to information and support for burn survivor communities
This PhD project will explore the information and support needs of people with lived experience of burn injuries, their families and communities. The project will focus on people with burn injuries once they leave hospital or when the majority of their burns have healed. The likely outcome of the project will be resources and strategies that help burn survivors, their families and communities access information and support which they have expressed is a high priority.
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Health
- School
- School of Public Health and Social Work
- Research centre(s)
- Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation
Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation
Enabling effective novice-expert interactions: co-designing immersive systems for complex remote data analysis
This student research topic focuses on exploring and developing immersive systems that facilitate interactions between novice and expert users in the context of complex remote data analysis. The goal is to design and prototype innovative solutions that enhance the collaboration, learning, and training aspects of data analysis tasks.The research will involve investigating various immersive technologies and their potential application in bridging the gap between novice and expert users, enabling effective knowledge transfer and skill acquisition.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science
- School
- School of Computer Science
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