UNSW Creative Robotics Lab, Sydney
Dr Belinda J. Dunstan
Belinda is the Principal Lead for the UNSW Creative Robotics Lab, and a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture at the University of New South Wales, on Gadigal country. Belinda is the author and Director of the Minor in Social Robotics for the UNSW Bachelor of Design, teaching a critically engaged and materially focused approach to the design of social robots. Recently, she was the lead editor of Cultural Robotics: Social Robots and their Emergent Cultural Ecologies (Springer, 2023). Her current research interests are social robot morphology, critical futuring, technology ethics, and cultural robotics. Belinda has published with first quartile publishers such as SAGE Journal, Taylor & Francis and Springer and presented at T1 international robotics conferences such as SIGGRAPH, RO-MAN and ICRA.
Singapore Institute of Technology
Dr Jeffrey T. K. Valino Koh
Jeffrey earned his PhD in Integrative Sciences and Engineering from the National University Singapore, focusing on human-computer and human-robot interaction. His research has been published in venues such as UBICOMP, CSCW, IEEE Haptics Symposium, SIGGRAPH, SIGDOC, INTERACT, ISMAR, HRI and RO-MAN, and has patents in the US, Singapore and Japan for his research. Jeffrey is an Associate Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology and is a pioneering researcher in Cultural Robotics.