ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Dr Andrew Peterson from the HFESA is chatting with James Walsh and Andrew Cunningham about Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
Assoc. Professor James Walsh is an Associate Professor and Enterprise Fellow at Adelaide University, where he is Deputy Director of the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments and co-directs the Wearable Computer Lab. He is interested in how people relate to the technology around them, from projected augmented reality and physical interfaces for computing, to more recently the deceptive design patterns that shape what we do online.
Over the past five years he has secured more than $6M in research funding with partners across defence, federal government and industry. His software and tools have been used in Defence exercises, his work for Federal Treasury has informed national policy on the Consumer Data Right and Digital ID, and he has advised the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. He has supervised ten doctoral candidates to completion, is general chair of OzCHI 2026 in Adelaide. James is passionate about technology improving the lives of people globally.
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Assoc. Professor Andrew Cunningham is an Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction at Adelaide University, where he co-directs the Wearable Computer Lab and sits on the leadership team of the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments. He came to research the long way around, starting out in the commercial game development industry before completing a PhD in information visualisation, and that background still shapes how he works. His interest is in what happens when people have to make sense of complicated information under real conditions, whether that is a command centre, a forestry mill, a vineyard, or a hospital.
Over the past six years he has led more than $8M of research with partners across defence, primary industries, mining and health, building immersive and augmented reality tools that get tested by the people who would actually use them rather than only in the lab. He has supervised ten doctoral candidates to completion, co-chairs OzCHI 2026 in Adelaide, and his team's work has picked up best paper recognition at ACM CHI and IEEE VR.
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