Associate Professor Stephen Viller

Associate Professor

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
viller@eecs.uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 51190

Overview

Human-centred design of interactive systems

Stephen Viller is a researcher and educator in human-centred design methods, particularly applied to designing social, domestic and mobile computing technologies, and understanding how people's interactions in everyday settings inform the design of such technologies. He has over 20 years of experience in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Interaction Design, and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research, where he has focused on bridging disciplines and perspectives. He has concentrated on qualitative methods, particularly observational fieldwork, contextual interviews, diary studies and field trips, but also increasingly on more ‘designerly’ approaches such as cultural probes, low-fidelity prototypes, rapid prototyping and sketching.

Stephen is an Associate Professor and leader of the Human-Centred Computing discipline in the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and UQ's Theme Leader for the Digital Worlds and Disruptive Technologies theme in the QUEX Institute. From 2016-2019 he was the Director of Coursework Studies (Chair of T&L committee) and from 2011-2016 he was Program Director of the Bachelor of Multimedia Design and Master of Interaction Design. His publications span various interdisciplinary journals and conferences in HCI/CSCW and technology design. He has a BSc (Hons) Computation (UMIST), MSc Cognitive Science (Manchester) and PhD Computing (Lancaster).

Research Interests

  • Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
    I am interested in all aspects of the understanding of social interaction, methods of studying people in social settings, and informing the design of social technologies.
  • Interaction Design
    I am interested in people-centred methods for informing the design of interactive technologies. In particular, I explore how methods from other disciplines can be adopted and adapted to improve the software design process.
  • Emerging technologies
    Technology is only really interesting to me in terms of what it allows people to achieve. I am interested in various technologies in order to prototype and explore novel applications to solve problems in specific contexts. Current technologies I am working with include Internet of Things (IoT), Mixed and Augmented Reality (AR), Physical Computing, and mobile social software.
  • Application contexts
    Interaction design research takes place in everyday settings where we can understand current practice/activities and prototype and evaluate solutions. My research has involved a wide range of contexts, including dependable and safety-critical systems, office work, tourism, health, behaviour change, and education. In all these domains, my approach is to inform the design of technologies that not only meet the functional and usability needs/requirements of the people in the context, but that are also technologies that people would actually want to use.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy of Computer-Human Interaction, The University of Lancaster
  • Masters (Coursework) of Cognitive Science, The University of Manchester
  • Bachelor (Honours) of Computer Science

Publications

  • Worthy, Peter, Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen A. (2016). Trust me: doubts and concerns living with the internet of things. DIS 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Fuse, Brisbane, Australia, 4-8 June 2016. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2901790.2901890

  • Baharin, Hanif, Viller, Stephen and Rintel, Sean (2015). SonicAIR: supporting independent living with reciprocal ambient audio awareness. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 22 (4) 18, 18:1-18:23. doi: 10.1145/2754165

  • Boden, Marie, Dekker, Andrew, Viller, Stephen and Matthews, Ben (2013). Augmenting play and learning in the primary classroom. IDC 2013, New York, NY, United States, 24-27 June 2013. Danvers, MA, United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/2485760.2485767

  • Baharin, Hanif, Rintel, Sean and Viller, Stephen (2013). Rhythms of the domestic soundscape: Ethnomethodological soundwalks for phatic technology design. 14th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, 2 - 6 September 2013. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-40498-6_36

  • Morrison, Ann, Viller, Stephen and Mitchell, Peta (2011). Building sensitising terms to understand free-play in open-ended interactive art environments. CHI 2011: The 29th CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 7-12 May 2011. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi: 10.1145/1978942.1979285

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Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Featured Publications

  • Worthy, Peter, Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen A. (2016). Trust me: doubts and concerns living with the internet of things. DIS 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Fuse, Brisbane, Australia, 4-8 June 2016. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2901790.2901890

  • Baharin, Hanif, Viller, Stephen and Rintel, Sean (2015). SonicAIR: supporting independent living with reciprocal ambient audio awareness. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 22 (4) 18, 18:1-18:23. doi: 10.1145/2754165

  • Boden, Marie, Dekker, Andrew, Viller, Stephen and Matthews, Ben (2013). Augmenting play and learning in the primary classroom. IDC 2013, New York, NY, United States, 24-27 June 2013. Danvers, MA, United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/2485760.2485767

  • Baharin, Hanif, Rintel, Sean and Viller, Stephen (2013). Rhythms of the domestic soundscape: Ethnomethodological soundwalks for phatic technology design. 14th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, 2 - 6 September 2013. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-40498-6_36

  • Morrison, Ann, Viller, Stephen and Mitchell, Peta (2011). Building sensitising terms to understand free-play in open-ended interactive art environments. CHI 2011: The 29th CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 7-12 May 2011. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi: 10.1145/1978942.1979285

Book Chapter

  • Ko, Ryan, Gain, Alexandria, Bongiovanni, Ivano, Browne, Will, Jarkas, Omar, Uhlmann, Kora and Viller, Stephen (2024). AI for designing responsible and resilient food systems. Food AI: A game changer for Australia’s food and beverage sector. (pp. 69-78) edited by Janet R. McColl-Kennedy and Damian Hine. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland, Australia's Food and Beverage Accelerator (FaBA). doi: 10.14264/f5f35d0

  • Doherty, Skye and Viller, Stephen (2020). Prototyping interaction: designing technology for communication. Reimagining communication: experience. (pp. 80-96) edited by Michael Filimowicz and Veronika Tzankova. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781351015356-5

  • Dekker, Andrew, Marrington, Justin and Viller, Stephen (2013). Going DEEP: Public, iterative release as a mobile research strategy. Tools for Mobile Multimedia Programming and Development. (pp. 1-17) Hershey, PA, United States: IGI Global. doi: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4054-2.ch001

  • Rittenbruch, Markus, Mansfield, Tim and Viller, Stephen (2009). Design and evaluation of intentionally enriched awareness. Awareness systems: advances in theory, methodology and design. (pp. 367-395) London, United Kingdom: Springer London. doi: 10.1007/978-1-84882-477-5_16

  • Lebbon, C., Rouncefield, M. and Viller, S. A. (2003). Observation for Innovation. Inclusive Design: Design for the Whole Population. (pp. 402-419) edited by J. Clarkson, R. Coleman, S. Keates and C. Lebbon. London, UK: Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4471-0001-0_25

  • O’Hare, G. M. P., Dongha, P., Macaulay, L. A. and Viller, S. (1994). Agency within CSCW: Towards the Development of Active Cooperative Working Environments. CSCW and Artificial Intelligence. (pp. 67-95) London, United Kingdom: Springer London. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4471-2035-3_6

  • Viller, Stephen (1991). The Group Facilitator: A CSCW Perspective. Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work ECSCW ’91. (pp. 81-95) Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Netherlands. doi: 10.1007/978-94-011-3506-1_6

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • Balson, Alexander, Bean, Richard, Chapman, Archie C., Snow, Stephen, Viller, Stephen, Horrocks, Neil and Glencross, Mashhuda (2022). On-demand batteries as a peer-to-peer service. IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia) Conference, Brisbane QLD Australia, 5-8 December 2021. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ISGTASIA49270.2021.9715657

  • Balson, Alexander, Bean, Richard, Chapman, Archie C., Snow, Stephen, Viller, Stephen, Horrocks, Neil and Glencross, Mashhuda (2022). On-demand batteries as a peer-to-peer service. IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), Brisbane, QLD Australia, 5-8 December 2021. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ISGTAsia49270.2021.9715657

  • Snow, Stephen, Weigel, Jason, Balson, Alex, Viller, Stephen and Glencross, Mashhuda (2022). User-centred design of a grid health virtual reality tabletop for energy networks. IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia) Conference, Brisbane QLD Australia, 5-8 December 2021. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ISGTASIA49270.2021.9715616

  • Macdonald, Lorna, Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen (2020). Design guidance for location-based play: a review of research frameworks. DRS2020, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 11-14 August, 2020. London, United Kingdom: Design Research Society. doi: 10.21606/drs.2020.174

  • Matthews, Sarah, Khan, Awais Hameed, Boden, Marie and Viller, Stephen (2020). Preserving sequential context: developing participatory video analysis practice. DRS2020, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 11-14 August, 2020. London, United Kingdom: Design Research Society. doi: 10.21606/drs.2020.296

  • Snow, Stephen, Khan, Awais Hameed, Viller, Stephen, Matthews, Ben, Heiner, Scott, Pierce, James, Luger, Ewa, Gomer, Richard and Filipczuk, Dorota (2020). Speculative designs for emergent personal data trails: signs, signals and signifiers. 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, HI, United States, 25-30 April 2020. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3334480.3375173

  • Matthews, Sarah, Viller, Stephen and Boden, Marie (2020). "...and we are the creators!" technologies as creative material. Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Sydney, NSW Australia, 9-12 February 2020. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3374920.3374980

  • Snow, Stephen, Filipczuk, Dorota, Viller, Stephen and Gomer, Richard (2020). Design jam as a pedagogy: teaching design thinking to computer science students at scale. OZCHI’19, Fremantle, WA, Australia, 2-5 December 2019. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3369457.3369468

  • Doherty, Skye, Snow, Stephen, Jennings, Kathleen, Rose, Ben, Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen (2020). Vim: a tangible energy story. 13th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2020, Bournemouth, United Kingdom, 3-6 November 2020. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-62516-0_24

  • Snow, Stephen, Viller, Stephen, Glencross, Mashhuda and Horrocks, Neil (2020). Where are they now?: Revisiting energy use feedback a decade after deployment. OZCHI’19, Fremantle, WA, Australia, 2-5 December 2019. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3369457.3369501

  • Hunter, Trevor, Worthy, Peter, Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen (2019). Soundscape : Participatory design of an interface for musical expression. 14th International Audio Mostly Conference: A Journey in Sound on ZZZ, Nottingham, United Kingdom, September 18 - 20, 2019. New York, NY, United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/3356590.3356640

  • Hunter, Trevor, Worthy, Peter, Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen (2019). Using participatory design in the development of a new musical interface : Understanding musician's needs beyond usability. 14th International Audio Mostly Conference: A Journey in Sound on ZZZ, Nottingham, United Kingdom, September 18 - 20, 2019. New York, NY, United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/3356590.3356635

  • Bodén, Marie, Pretorius, Bianca, Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen (2018). DBugs: large-scale artefacts for collaborative computer programming. 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2018, Trondheim, Norway, 19-22 June 2018. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. doi: 10.1145/3202185.3210773

  • Hunter, Trevor, Worthy, Peter, Viller, Stephen and Matthews, Ben (2018). Designing for citizen-centric smart cities: supporting people's needs of a community garden. OzCHI '18: 30th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 4-7 December 2018. New York, United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/3292147.3292217

  • Hunter, Trevor, Balachandran, Shiva, Worthy, Peter, Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen (2017). Soundscape: building connection between digital musicians and their audience. 29th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2017, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 28 November-1 December 2017. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3152771.3156176

  • Karimi, Arafeh, Worthy, Peter, McInnes, Paul, Bodén, Marie, Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen (2017). The community garden hack: Participatory experiments in facilitating primary school teacher's appropriation of technology. 29th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2017, Brisbane, Australia, November 28-1, 2017. New York, New York, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3152771.3152787

  • Morrison, Ann, Viller, Stephen, Heck, Tamara and Davis, Kate (2017). Workshop: Mixing quantitative with qualitative methods. current practices in designing experiments, gathering data and analysis with mixed methods reporting. 29th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2017, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, November 28, 2017-December 1, 2017. New York, New York, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3152771.3156195

  • Cervantes, Maria, Ramani, Ramya, Worthy, Peter, Weigel, Jason, Viller, Stephen A. and Matthews, Benjamin Robert (2016). Could the inherent nature of the internet of things inhibit person-to-person connection?. 11th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2016, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 4 - 8 June, 2016. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2908805.2909418

  • Viller, Stephen, Worthy, Peter, Boden, Marie, Weigel, Jason, Fitzpatrick, Geraldine, Rodden, Tom and Matthews, Ben (2016). IoT: designing for human values. 11th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2016, Brisbane, Australia, 4 - 8 June 2016. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2908805.2913019

  • Fischer, Joel E., Colley, James A., Luger, Ewa, Golembewski, Michael, Costanza, Enrico, Ramchurn, Sarvapali D., Viller, Stephen, Oakley, Ian and Froehlich, Jon E. (2016). New horizons for the IoT in everyday life: proactive, shared, sustainable. 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2016, Heidelberg, Germany, 12-16 September 2016. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2968219.2968347

  • Disalvo, Alyssa, Watson, Leila, Yu, Zishan, Worthy, Peter, Weigel, Jason, Viller, Stephen and Matthews, Ben (2016). StoryLamp: Sentimentality is killing the world. 11th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2016, Brisbane, Australia, 4-8 June, 2016. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2908805.2909409

  • Worthy, Peter, Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen A. (2016). Trust me: doubts and concerns living with the internet of things. DIS 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Fuse, Brisbane, Australia, 4-8 June 2016. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2901790.2901890

  • Worthy, Peter, Boden, Marie, Karimi, Arafeh, Weigel, Jason, Matthews, Ben, Hensby, Kristyn, Heath, Scott, Pounds, Paul, Taufatofua, Jonathon, Smith, Michael, Viller, Stephen and Wiles, Janet (2015). Children's expectations and strategies in interacting with a Wizard of Oz Robot. OZCHI '15, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December 2015. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2838739.2838793

  • Epifani, Andrea, Boden, Marie, Meinicke, Larissa, Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen (2015). Designing for visually impaired developers. World Conference of the International Association of Design Research, Brisbane, Australia, 2-5 November 2015. The International Association of Societies of Design Research.

  • Dekker, Andrew, Worthy, Peter, Viller, Stephen, Zimbardi, Kirsten and Robinson, Ricky (2014). Designer client communication in web design: a case study on the use of communication in practice. Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI 2014), Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2-5 December 2014. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2686612.2686681

  • Weigel, Jason, Viller, Stephen and Schulz, Mark (2014). Designing Support for Collaboration around Physical Artefacts: Using Augmented Reality in Learning Environments. IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) - Science and Technology, Munich Germany, 10-12 September 2014. Piscataway, NJ United States: I E E E. doi: 10.1109/ISMAR.2014.6948507

  • Lu, Zeqing, Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen (2014). Designing for reducing procrastination on side projects. Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI 2014), Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2-5 December 2014. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2686612.2686673

  • Boden, Marie, Dekker, Andrew, Viller, Stephen and Matthews, Ben (2013). Augmenting play and learning in the primary classroom. IDC 2013, New York, NY, United States, 24-27 June 2013. Danvers, MA, United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/2485760.2485767

  • Nor, Romiza M. and Viller, Stephen (2013). Community exchange: Social software to support group discussion. 2013 International Conference of Information and Communication Technology, ICoICT 2013, Bandung, Indonesia, 20 - 22 March 2013. Piscataway, NJ United States: I E E E. doi: 10.1109/ICoICT.2013.6574564

  • Dole, Shelley, Boden, Marie, Campbell, Chris and Viller, Stephen (2013). Green robots, sustainable cities and inquiring minds: young children engineer robots to create cities of the future. 7th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED), Valencia, Spain, 4-6 March 2013. Valencia, Spain: International Association of Technology, Education and Development (IATED).

  • Yang, Jason, Rintel, Sean and Viller, Stephen (2013). Principled ways of finding, analysing and planning for communicative overhead in interaction technology for fashion industry. 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV United States, 21 - 26 July 2013. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-39265-8_54

  • Baharin, Hanif, Rintel, Sean and Viller, Stephen (2013). Rhythms of the domestic soundscape: Ethnomethodological soundwalks for phatic technology design. 14th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, 2 - 6 September 2013. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-40498-6_36

  • Campbell, C., Boden, M., Dole, S. and Viller, S. (2013). Young children engineering robots to create cities of the future: A work in progress. 24th International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, Chesapeake, Canada, 25-29 March 2013. New Orleans, Louisiana, United States: SITE.

  • Henricksen, Karen and Viller, Stephen (2012). Design of software to support families with food-allergic and food-intolerant children. 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI 2012), Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 26 - 30 November 2012. New York, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2414536.2414571

  • Yang, Jason, Viller, Stephen and Rintel, Sean (2012). Outsourcing: Mashing up design methods and technologies in the fashion industry. PIN-C 2012: Participatory Innovation Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 12-14 January 2012. Sønderborg, Denmark: University of Southern Denmar.

  • Morrison, Ann, Viller, Stephen and Mitchell, Peta (2011). Building sensitising terms to understand free-play in open-ended interactive art environments. CHI 2011: The 29th CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 7-12 May 2011. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi: 10.1145/1978942.1979285

  • Boden, Marie, Andrew Dekker and Viller, Stephen (2011). Discovery table: Exploring the design of tangible and ubiquitous technology for learning in preparatory classrooms. 23rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, Canberra, Australia, 28 November - 2 December 2011. New York, United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/2071536.2071543

  • Morrison, Ann, Viller, Stephen and Mitchell, Peta (2011). Open-ended art environments motivate participation. 8th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE2011), Lisbon, Portugal, 8–11 November 2011. New York, United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/2071423.2071479

  • Yuille, Jeremy, Akama, Yoko, Macdonald, Hugh, Stewart, Nifeli, Vaughan, Laurene and Viller, Stephen (2010). Dialogic shifts: The rhythm and sequence of artefacts in aesthetically informed interaction design practice. 22nd Annual Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction, Brisbane, Australia, 22-26 November 2010. New York , United States: ACM Press (Association for Computing Machinery). doi: 10.1145/1952222.1952263

  • Morrison, Ann, Viller, Stephen and Mitchell, Peta (2010). Ethnography considered useful: Situating criticality. 22nd Annual Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction, Brisbane, Australia, 22 - 26 November 2010. New York, United States: ACM Digital Library. doi: 10.1145/1952222.1952261

  • Isai, Bashkim and Viller, Stephen (2010). Meet Eater: Affectionate computing, social networks and human-plant interaction. 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction (OZCHI 2010), Brisbane, Australia, 22-26 November 2010. New York , United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/1952222.1952322

  • Boden, Marie, Viller, Stephen and Dole, Shelley (2010). Spelling Bug: Benefits of using adaptive technology for training spelling in primary school classrooms. 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction (OZCHI 2010), Brisbane, Australia, November 22-26, 2010. New York , United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/1952222.1952295

  • Yang, Jason, Dekker, Andrew, Muhlberger, Ralf and Viller, Stephen (2009). Exploring virtual representations of physical artefacts in a multi-touch clothing design collaboration system. OZCHI '09: 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7, Melbourne, Australia, 23 - 27 November, 2009. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1738826.1738895

  • Macdonald, Hugh, Yuille, Jeremy, Stanton, Reuben and Viller, Stephen (2009). The social life of visualization. 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group - Design: Open 24/7, OZCHI '09, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 23 - 27 November 2009. New York, NY United States: ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Press. doi: 10.1145/1738826.1738858

  • Heyer, Clint, Brereton, Margot and Viller, Stephen (2008). Cross-channel mobile social software: An empirical study. 26th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Florence, Italy, 5-10 April 2008. New York, U.S.A.: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/1357054.1357294

  • Morrison, Ann, Mitchell, Peta and Viller, Stephen A. (2008). Evoking gesture in interactive art. 2008 ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Vancouver, Canada, 27-31 October 2008. New York, U.S.A.: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi: 10.1145/1462027.1462030

  • Yuille, Jeremy, Vaughan, Laurene, Rittenbruch, Markus, Viller, Stephen and MacColl, Ian (2008). Spontaneous scenarios: an approach to user engagement. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Florence, Italy, 5 - 10 April 2008. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1358628.1358642

  • Riche, Yann, Simpson, Matthew and Viller, Stephen (2008). Zebra: Exploring users' engagement in fieldwork. 7th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems - DIS 2008, Cape Town, South Africa, 25-27 February 2008. New York, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/1394445.1394451

  • Viller, S. and Morrison, A. (2007). I don't get out of bed until my PIM tells me to.. International Workshop on Social Ineraction and Mundane Technologies., Melbourne, Australia, 26-27 November, 2007. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Microsoft Research.

  • Wyeld, T., Prasolova-Forland, E. and Viller, S. (2007). Theatrical place in a 3D CVE: An online performance of plato's allegory of the cave in a distributed 3D CVE.. International Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology (ICCGI 2007), Guadeloupe, French Caribbean, 4-9 March, 2007. Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE.

  • Wyeth, P., Diercke, C. and Viller, S. A. (2006). Design for Inspiration: Children, personal connections and educational technology. OZCHI 2006: The 18th Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction, Sydney, Australia, 20-24 November 2006. Sydney, Australia: CHISIG. doi: 10.1145/1228175.1228247

  • Axup, Jeff, Viller, Stephen, MacColl, Ian and Cooper, Roslyn (2006). Lo-Fi matchmaking: A study of social pairing for backpackers. 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2006), Orange County, CA, United States, 17-21 September 2006. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/11853565_21

  • Axup, Jeff, Viller, Stephen, MacColl, Ian and Cooper, Roslyn (2006). Lo-Fi matchmaking: A study of social pairing for backpackers 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2006. UbiComp 2006: The Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Orange City, CA, United States, 17-21 September 2006. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/11853565_21

  • Viller, S. A., Brereton, M. F., Redhead, F. S. and Axup, J. (2005). A Collaborative Digestion and Design Game for Community and Technology Exploration. Designing for User Experience, Dux05, Fort Mason, San Francisco, California, 3-5 November, 2005. New York, NY: American Institute of Graphic Arts.

  • Axup, J. C. and Viller, S. A. (2005). Augmenting travel gossip: Design for mobile communities. 19th Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of Australia on Computer-human Interaction: Citizens online: Considerations for Today and the Future, Canberra, Australia, 21-25 November 2005. Narrabundah, Ausrtalia: Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia.

  • Axup, J. C. and Viller, S. A. (2005). Formative research methods for the extremely mobile: Supporting community interaction amongst backpackers. Workshop on Appropriate Methods for Design in Complex and Sensitive Settings, Canberra, Australia, 22 November 2005. Melbourne, Australia: University of Melbourne.

  • MacColl, I. D., Morrison, A. J., Muhlberger, R. M., Simpson, M. R., Viller, S. A. and Wyeld, T. G. (2005). Reflections on reflection: Blogging in undergraduate design studios. Blogtalk Downunder, Sydney, Australia, 19-22 May 2005. Sydney, Australia: INCSUB.

  • Axup, Jeff C., Viller, Stephen A. and Bidwell, Nicole J. (2005). Usability of a mobile, group communication prototype while rendezvousing. International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, 15-20 May 2005. Los Alamitos, CA, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.. doi: 10.1109/ISCST.2005.1553290

  • MacColl, I. D., Cooper, R. E., Rittenbruch, M. and Viller, S. A. (2005). Watching ourselves watching: Ethical issues in ethnographic action research. OZCHI05, Canberra, Australia, 21-25 November 2005. Narrabundah, Australia: CHISIG.

  • Drennan, Penelope, Viller, Stephen and Wyeth, Peta (2004). Engaging game characters: Informing design with player perspectives. Third International Conference on Entertainment Computing, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 1-3 September 2004. Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/b99837

  • Cooper, Roslyn, Viller, Stephen and Burmeister, Jay (2004). Observations in a maternity ward: Usability considerations for EHRs in an interrupt driven environment. 12th National Health Informatics Conference (HIC 2004), Brisbane, Australia, 25-27 July 2004. Melbourne, Australia: Health Informatics Society of Australia.

  • Simpson, Matthew and Viller, Stephen (2004). Observing architectural design: Improving the development of collaborative design environments. First International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualisation and Engineering, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 19-22 September 2004. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

  • Axup, J. C., Bidwell, N. and Viller, S. A. (2004). Representation of self-reported information during mobile field studies: Pilots and orienteers 2. The 2004 Conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (OZCHI), Wollongong, Australia, 22-24 November 2004. Wollongong, Australia: CHISIG.

  • Brereton, M. F., Donovan, J. W. and Viller, S. A. (2003). Talking about watching: using the video card game and wiki-web technology to engage IT students in developing observational skills. ACE 2003 - Computing Education 2003, Adelaide, Australia, 4-7 February 2003. Sydney, NSW Australia: Australian Computer Society.

  • O'Brien, M. and Viller, S. A. (2002). Developing Professional Designers in Information Environments: A Problem-oriented Case Study Approach in Technology Education. Learning in Technology Education Chellenges for the 21st Century, Parkroyal Hotel, Gold Coast, Australia, 5-7 December 2002. Griffith University Brisbane: Centre for Technology Education Research, Griffith University.

  • Martin, David, Rodden, Tom, Rouncefield, Mark, Sommerville, Ian and Viller, Stephen (2002). Finding patterns in the fieldwork. Seventh European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 16-20 September 2002, Bonn, Germany. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. doi: 10.1007/0-306-48019-0_3

  • Martin, David, Rodden, Tom, Rouncefield, Mark, Sommerville, Ian and Viller, Stephen (2001). Finding patterns in the fieldwork. Seventh European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Bonn, Germany, 16-20 September 2001. Berlin, Germany: Springer.

  • Viller, Stephen and Sommerville, Ian (1999). Social analysis in the requirements engineering process: from ethnography to method. 4th IEEE International Symposium on Requirement Engineering (RE 99), Limerick, Ireland, 7-11 June 1999. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ISRE.1999.777980

  • Sommerville, I., Sawyer, P. and Viller, S. (1998). Viewpoints for requirements elicitation: a practical approach. 3rd International Conference on Requirements Engineering, Colorado Springs, CO United States, 6-10 April 1998. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICRE.1998.667811

Edited Outputs

Other Outputs

  • Doherty, Skye , Rose, Ben , Jennings, Kathleen, Snow, Stephen , Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen (2020). Vim. Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland.

  • Bean, Richard, Snow, Stephen, Glencross, Mashhuda, Viller, Stephen and Horrocks, Neil (2020). Keeping the power on to home medical devices. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.802

  • Skye Doherty, Kathleen Jennings, Ben Matthews and Stephen Viller (2019). Physical News Card Deck. Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland.

  • Baber, Kim, De Manincor, John, Klein, Eve, Viller, Stephen and Kratz, Svenja (2016). Sulcus Loci - Exhibit at the State Library of Qld.

  • Doherty, Skye, Epifani, Andrea, Lloyd, David, Harrison, John and Viller, Stephen (2015). NewsCube. Samford, QLD, Australia: NewsCubed.

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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Completed Supervision