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MR PETER BENDA



Contact Details

Organization: Information Systems
Position: SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER
Email:
Homepage: http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/people/academic/peter_benda.html
Work: 8344 1499
Mobile: 0413 085 126
Fax: 9349 4596

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Human-Computer Interaction, Persuasive Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Human Factors, Cognitive Engineering Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours Standing) University of Toronto 22-Nov-1995
Certificate in Preventive Engineering University of Toronto 22-Nov-1995
Masters of Applied Science University of Toronto 05-Aug-1997

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Registered Association of Computing Machinery Professional Society Membership 01-Jan-1999

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Scholarship Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada 01-Sep-1995
Scholarship Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada 01-May-1994
Prize University of Toronto 01-May-1994

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Happy coincidences in designing for social connectedness and play through opportunistic image capture
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Conference on Designing for User Experience (DUX 07)
    Conference Publication: Conference on Designing for User Experience (DUX 07)
    Page numbers: 2-18
    Publisher: AIGA: The Professional Association for Design (New York)
    Author(s):
    URL - open access http://dux2007.com/
  • Lessons from failure: reconceiving Nokia Lifeblog as personal change support
    Year: 2007
    Event name: DUX 07
    Conference Publication: DUX 07
    Publisher: Lancaster University (Lancaster)
    Author(s):
  • Speaking in Character: Using Voice-over-IP to Communicate within MMORPGs
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment 2007
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2007 Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment
    Publisher: School of Creative Media, RMIT University(Melbourne)
    Author(s):
  • Time and Design of Familial Social Connectivity Systems
    Year: 2007
    Event name: International Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of SIMTECH 2007
    Publisher: Lancaster University (Lancaster)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2006

Conference Publications/Papers

  • "heh - keeps me off the smokes...": probing technology support for personal change
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 20th Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of Australia on Computer-human Interaction: OzCHI’06
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 20th conference of the computer-human interaction special interest group (CHISIG) of Australia on Computer-human interaction: design: activities, artefacts and environments
    Page numbers: 221-228
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
    Author(s):
  • Practical tips on using an eye-tracking system to support usability testing
    Year: 2006
    Event name: OZCHI
    Conference Publication: OZCHI2006 design: activities, artefacts and environments
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
    Author(s):
  • Proximity-Based Chat in a First Person Shooter: Using A Novel Voice Communication System for Online Play
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Joint International Conference on Cybergames and Interactive Entertainment
    Conference Publication: Proceedings IE 2006: Third Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment
    Page numbers: 96-102
    Publisher: Murdoch University(Perth)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2005

Conference Publications/Papers

  • From user input to preliminary design models: towards representing geospatial information within mobile Location-Based Services
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Conference of the Spatial Sciences Institute (SSC2005)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Conference of the Spatial Sciences Institute (SSC2005)
    Page numbers: 542-551
    Publisher: Spatial Sciences Institute(Melbourne)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Exploring the Usefulness of Cartographic Representations for Location-Based Services in an Australian Context
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Spatial Science
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 71-87
    Author(s):
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