People
In the Diverse-ability Interaction Lab, we are diverse team (pun intended!) of Postdocs, PhDs, Master students and interns and visitors. We are always on the look out for talented individuals to join our team.
We are excited to share that Oussama has been awarded an ERC Consolidator grant. The grant will fund an interdisciplinary team for 5 years to research inclusive technologies for the early cognitive and social development of blind and sighted children. We are now recruiting for additional postdoctoral and PhD positions in the areas of fabrication, multisensory interaction, crossmodal cognition and design. Check the inclusiveXplay page for more details, or get in touch for a chat if this sounds interesting to you.
Dr Oussama Metatla
Lead | Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction
Dr Min Susan Li
Postdoc | Cross-sensory Correspondences in Early Development
Dr Zhuzhi Fan
Postdoc | Cross-sensory Shape Changing Interfaces
Dr Amy Hicks
Postdoc | Inclusive co-design with and for blind and sighted children
Dr Jialin Deng
Postdoc | Edible Interfaces for Inclusive Social Play
Katherine Jones
PhD | Joint attention in visually impaired and blind children and their sighted peers
Siyu Zhang
PhD | Accessible VR gestures for people with physical impairments
Brooke Morris
PhD | Inclusive social play technologies for autistic and non-autistic children
Yelu Gu
PhD | Olfactory displays in exergames for dementia rehabilitation
Mamoru Watanabe
PhD | Synesthesia in audio-visual art practice
Tegan Roberts-Morgan
PhD | Cross-sensory metaphors in interaction design
Grace Stangroome
PhD | Inclusive peer group work for disabled and non-disabled students
Jack Brunett
PhD | Accessible Game Controller Development Toolkit
Priscilla Lo
PhD | Cross-sensory Playful Interactions for Early Development
Current Master Students
Visitors & Alumni
Dr Elaine Czech
PhD Graduate (2024) | Designing for interdependence between people with and without dementia
Dr Dan Bennett
Graduate PhD (2022) | Multifractality in embodied HCI
Dr Luluah Albarrak
Graduate PhD (2022) | Nudge technologies for social navigation
Dr Hayati Havlucu
Postdoc (2022-2024) | Inclusive social play technologies for autistic and neurotypical children
Dr Joey Campbell
PhD Graduate (2022) | Immersive exergames for physiological wellness
Dr Feng Feng
Postdoc (2021-2022) | Crossmodal shape changing displays
Dr Clare Cullen
Postdoc (2017-2020) | Inclusive education technologies
Dr Helen Deeks
PhD Graduate (2020) | Interactive virtual reality for molecular simulation
Zoe Clarck
MSc (2023) | Social Play in Music Making Between Autistic and Neurotypical Children
Linda Lomencikova
MEng (2023) | Division of Accessibility Labour in Collaborative Writing
Dr Kyle Keane
Visitor (from MIT) | Language models for sensory metaphor
Mohamad Hijab
Visitor (from HBKU, Qatar) co-design multisensory collaborative play tool for autistic and non-autistic children
Dr Dena Al Thani
Visitor (from HBKU, Qatar) Inclusive design, accessibility and assistive technology
Leyla Benhamida
Visitor (from USTHB, Algiers) Human action recognition and semantic labeling for visually impaired people
Taimur Ahmed
PhD Student | Voice User Interfaces in School
Dr Sandra Bardot
Visitor (from Uni. of Manitoba) | Robots for inclusive social play
Previous Master Students
(2022)
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- Side Gao: Crossmodal Emotion Tags for Calendar Applications
(2018)
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- Scott Banyard: Therapeutic Virtual Reality and Multisensory Interaction
(2017)
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- Jiayun Wang: Audio-haptic displays of awareness in groupware systems
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- Harry Mumford-Turner: Chatbots, crossmodal display and habit formation
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- Zhuolin Yang: Crossmodal shape display
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- Joe Hutchinson: Overviewing code structure through non-visual displays
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- James Emeads: Interactive memory box for people with dementia
Summer Interns
(2022)
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- Yohan Duclos: Web plugin for crossmodal stimuli manipulation
(2021)
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- Grace Stangroome: Multisensory tools for people with dementia
(2019)
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- Dean Ho: Multisensory storytelling tools
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- Juan Quintero Ovalle: Multisensory storytelling tools
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- Baptiste Robert: accessible multisensory DIY toolkits
(2018)
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- Alex Turner: accessible multisensory DIY toolkits
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- Rachel Jeffries-Harris: multisensory memory box