Welcome Everyone!! I am Dr. Hasan Ferdous. I am a Researcher at the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health , the University of Melbourne, Australia. Previously, I served as a Lecturer at Deakin University, Australia and as a Research Fellow at the Microsoft Centre for SocialNUI and Interaction Design Lab (IDL), the University of Melbourne, Australia. My research interest is focused on digital health, user centric design approaches, and social & collaborative use of technologies. My expertise includes qualitative research design, user experience evaluation, prototype design and development, statistical analysis, etc.
I have completed PhD research from the University of Melbourne focusing on social and collaborative use of technologies, particularly in the family mealtime context. I am also interested in touch, eye-gaze and other NUI interactions in the public or private social settings. I completed my Master of IT (Research) degree from Monash University, Australia and BSc (Engg.) from the Dept. of CSE, BUET, Bangladesh.
Notable Events
Our paper "Cohabitant: The Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Application for Interfaith Learning and Empathy Building." got accepted in CHI 2024 conference.— 19th January, 2024
Our paper "Be our guest: Intercultural Heritage Exchange through Augmented Reality." got accepted in CHI 2023 conference. — 14th January, 2023
Joined the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health, The University of Melbourne to lead HCI research in Two exciting projects. — 11th August, 2022
Two papers accepted and presented in Wi-IAT 2020 Conference — 1st December, 2020
Joining Deakin University as a Lecturer in Extended Reality.— 1st July, 2019
CHI 2019 Honorable Mention!!. Our paper "Santa's Lil Helper" receive the award for CHI 2019 Honourable Mention (Top 5% of the accepted full paper)! Hurrah...— 15th March, 2019
Two full papers in for CHI 2019 - "Augmented Body" and "Santa's Lil Helper!" See you all in Glasgow...— 11th December, 2018
Just presented our work in OzCHI 2018 "Social Media Question Asking (SMQA): Whom Do We Tag and Why?"— 5th December, 2018
“Our Workshop Proposal has been accepted for CHI 2018 Conference. Fingers crossed for visiting Montreal.”— 24th November, 2017
“Yeee, Received the MNSI Best Paper Award for Interdisciplinary research at the Doctoral Colloquium, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne.”— 19th July, 2017
Submitted my PhD thesis. All these hard work for the last few years... now fingers crossed :) :)
— 30th May, 2017
Workshop proposal accepted for Interact 2017. Eating Your Own Data: Design At The Intersection Of Quantified Self And Digital Food Rohit Ashok Khot, Josh Andres, Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Jaz Hee-Jeong Choi, and Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller
— 6th March, 2017
What a wonderful morning! Just received letter that our paper ‘Table Manners’: Children’s Use of Mobile Technologies in Family-friendly Restaurants is accepted as a CHI 2017 Case Study paper.
Wow... Now we have three papers this CHI (ToCHI journal, full paper, case study paper) :) :) :)— 11th Ferbruary, 2017
Absolutely delighted to have our paper "Celebratory Technology to Orchestrate the Sharing of Devices and Stories during Family Mealtimes" accepted for CHI 2017.
Wow... Now I will present two papers in this CHI :) :) Denver, here I come ...— 12th December, 2016
“Received the Google PhD Travel Scholarship to present my paper in UbiComp 2016 at heidelberg, Germany.”— 17th October, 2016
“Just received notification that our journal paper "Commensality and the Social Use of Technology during Family Mealtime" got accepted in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), one of the very topmost venues for HCI publications.”— 30th August, 2016
“Received the Google Australia Best Paper Award at the Doctoral Colloquium, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne.”— 13th July, 2016
“Our long paper titled "TableTalk: Integrating Personal Devices and Content for Commensal Experiences at the Family Dinner Table" got accepted in UbiComp 2016. Germany, here I come :) ”— 5th June, 2016
“Resumed studies after my around the world in 127 days tour :) :) ”— 19th January - 24th May, 2016
“Presented Paper in CHI 2016 Workshop” — 7th May, 2016
“Visiting Research Student @ Microsoft Research, Cambridge. ”— 11 - 15 April, 2016
“Study Away at the Open Lab Newcastle University, UK. ”— 21st January - 27th April, 2016
Recent Projects
Santa's Lil Helper
An augmented reality adventure that transforms the Christmas experience in a playful way to engage the citizens with the city of Melbourne.
Body Canvas
We worked in collaboration with the Melbourne Science Gallery to investigate the use of "On Body Projections" in public settings.
Chorus
Chorus transforms personal devices into a communal shared display on the table to enrich mealtime interactions and experience.
Augmented Studio
The Augmented Studio platform uses projection mapping to turn a human body into an interactive canvas in real-time.