POSTED: 09 Dec, 2025

Many of our team were in Sydney last week for OzCHI: Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction.

Our Deputy Director, Prof Glenda Caldwell, delivered a thought-provoking Provocation Talk titled: Beyond the Lab: Preparing HCI for Real-World Human-Robot Collaboration.

The group had several papers accepted for Late Breaking Work:

• Removing the Drapes: Reflexive Insights on Research into Real-World Surgical Human-Robot Collaboration, by Jasper Vermeulen, Stine Johansen, Alan Burden, James Dwyer from QUT (Queensland University of Technology) and Aalborg University 
  • Read the paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3764687.3769938
• Exploring Human-Robot Collaboration in Surgery: Initial Insights from Mako Product Specialists by Jasper Vermeulen, Glenda Caldwell, Müge Belek Fialho Teixeira, Alan Burden, Matthias Guertler from QUT Engineering, Architecture and Built Environment & University of Technology Sydney
  • Read the paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3764687.3769935
• Towards Richer Insights in Human-Centred Observation Studies: Combining Thematic Analysis and Computer Vision by Yuan Liu, Glenda Caldwell, Markus Rittenbruch, Müge Belek Fialho Teixeira, Alan Burden, Matthias Guertler
  • Read the paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3764687.3769930