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Redesigning HCI teaching for the next generation of researchers
Human-computer interaction is one of the most genuinely interdisciplinary fields in computing. It asks students to move between user experience theory, design practice, empirical research, and reflective communication — often within a single project. This semester I completed a major redesign of COMP3900/6390, ANU’s undergraduate and postgraduate introductory HCI course, with a clear goal: to scaffold all the core skills of HCI research so that every student who finishes the course has actually done HCI, not just read about it.
read moreSMCClablive #1 concert
The first of our smcclablive concerts was held at the Peter Karmel Building Big Band Room on 7 November 2025. Works were presented from researchers and students in the ANU SMCClab with guests Charlie Roberts from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA) and Ben Swift from the ANU School of Cybernetics.
read moreDream Tent: a sonic reconstruction of a 19th-century mind therapy device
Recently, Martyn Jolly and I debuted our Dream Tent at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery as part of the RGB+: Film and Re-enactment Events. This was a curated evening of abstract colour film screening and live re-enactment within the Light Source exhibition.
read moreCreative Computing on the BBC micro:bit with Bare-Metal ARM Assembly
In September 2022, I gave a talk at the University of Oslo’s Robotics and Intelligent Systems lab about my experience teaching COMP2300: Computer Organisation and Program Execution at ANU. The core idea: teach second-year computing by writing creative ARM assembly programs and running them directly on real hardware. No operating system, no runtime, no guard rails. The course content is archived at twenty-three-hundred.
read moreClear Skies on a Hill Recording Released
Today we’re releasing Clear Skies on a Hill, a live recording by Yichen Wang and me from a September 2024 performance in Canberra.
read moreRecording Hyphae with Intelligent Musical Instruments
In late 2024, Dr Alec Hunter and I spent several days together at the ANU School of Music recording improvisations for a new album, Hyphae, the latest project from our ongoing collaboration, Andromeda is Coming.
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