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Dr Callum Parker

Lecturer in Interaction Design

Email

callum.parker@sydney.edu.au

Address

G04 - Wilkinson Building

The University of Sydney

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Member of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre

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Biographical details

Dr Callum Parker’s research explores augmented city interfaces for improving the lives and experience of urban dwellers within today’s cities. This research involves the use of established smart city technologies, such as public displays (digital signage), and emerging technologies, such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), and robotics.

Callum holds a PhD from the Design Lab at the University of Sydney, which focused on gaining an understanding of how public interactive displays could be designed so that they are relevant to individuals in hyperconnected societies. He also holds a Bachelor of Computing where he majored in human interface technology at the HITLab Australia, University of Tasmania.

Alongside his extensive research portfolio, Callum is also the coordinator for units across the Design Computing program, including Designing for Virtual Reality (DECO3009), Interactive Product Design Studio (DECO3200), Advanced Interactive Product Design Studio (DECO4200), and Honours in Design Computing (DECO4001, DECO4002, DECO4003, and DECO4004).

Research interests

Callum works across a range of topics within human-computer interaction (HCI) and augmented city interfaces. Specific areas of interest include:

The design of augmented reality interfaces for engaging with cities and the communities within them (navigation, wellbeing, participation, etc)
Utilising digital technologies to engage urban dwellers around topics that affect them
Interaction methods for engaging with virtual content
Interaction with public displays (digital signage)
Using virtual reality simulations to create test bed urban environments for studies

PhD and master's project opportunities

Callum Parker's Research Area

Current research students

Project title	Research student
Augmenting Inclusivity and Learning in Museum Exhibits through AI-driven Narration and Multisensory Tactile Experience	Jimin LEE
Developing and improving the human-system takeover process in highly automated vehicles through multi-modal interaction	Joe LIU

Publications

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Book Chapters

Parker, C., Tomitsch, M., Fredericks, J. (2021). Smart engagement for smart cities: Design patterns for digitally augmented, situated community engagement. In Aurigi, A. and Odendaal, N. (Eds.), Shaping Smart for Better Cities: Rethinking and Shaping Relationships between Urban Space and Digital Technologies, (pp. 177-200). London: Elsevier. [More Information]

Journals

Tran, T., Parker, C. (2024). Advancing VR simulators for autonomous vehicle–pedestrian interactions: A focus on multi-entity scenarios. Transportation Research Part F, 107, 775-790. [More Information]
Yoo, S., Gulbransen-diaz, N., Parker, C., Wang, A. (2023). Designing Digital COVID-19 Screening: Insights and Deliberations. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(5). [More Information]
Tran, T., Parker, C., Hoggenmueller, M., Hespanhol, L., Tomitsch, M. (2023). Simulating Wearable Urban Augmented Reality Experiences in VR: Lessons Learnt from Designing Two Future Urban Interfaces. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 7(2), 1-23. [More Information]
Tran, T., Parker, C., Wang, Y., Tomitsch, M. (2022). Designing Wearable Augmented Reality Concepts to Support Scalability in Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Interaction. Frontiers in Computer Science, 4, 1-16. [More Information]
Tran, T., Parker, C., Tomitsch, M. (2021). A Review of Virtual Reality Studies on Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Interaction. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, 51(6), 641-652. [More Information]
Parker, C., Yoo, S., Jenek, W., Lee, Y. (2021). Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities. Interaction Design and Architecture(s), 48, 5-7.
Fredericks, J., Hespanhol, L., Parker, C., Zhou, D., Tomitsch, M. (2018). Blending pop-up urbanism and participatory technologies: Challenges and opportunities for inclusive city making. City, Culture and Society, 12, 44-53. [More Information]
Parker, C., Tomitsch, M., Kay, J. (2018). Does the Public Still Look at Public Displays?: A Field Observation of Public Displays in the Wild. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2(2), 73:1-73:24. [More Information]

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Conferences

Tran, T., Parker, C., Hoggenmueller, M., Wang, Y., Tomitsch, M. (2024). Exploring the Impact of Interconnected External Interfaces in Autonomous Vehicles on Pedestrian Safety and Experience. Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24), online: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Hepburn, L., Ulas, E., Cabrera, D., Cooper, C., Gough, P., Grace, K., Hespanhol, L., Hoggenmueller, M., Hu, W., Ijaz, K., Meron, Y., Pinilla Palacios, A., Parker, C., Sosa Medina, R., Tekmen Araci, Y., Watts, J., Wu, B., Zafeirakopoulos, M., Lulham, R. (2024). Speculative design positions on future liveable cities. DRS2024: Boston, Online: Design Research Society. [More Information]
Yu, X., Wang, Y., Tran, T., Zhao, Y., Berrio Perez, J., Hoggenmueller, M., Humphry, J., Loke, L., Masuda, R., Parker, C., Tomitsch, M., Worrall, S. (2023). Robots in the Wild: Contextually-Adaptive Human-Robot Interactions in Urban Public Environments. 35th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI '23), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Fredericks, J., Foth, M., Davis, H., Caldwell, G., Parker, C., Tomitsch, M. (2022). Designing Smart for Sustainable and Resilient Communities: The Role of Participatory Design in Addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals. PDC 2022 17th edition of the Participatory Design Conference, Newcastle upon Tyne United Kingdom: ACM New York, NY, USA. [More Information]
Globa, A., Parker, C., Philp, J., Antonios, J. (2021). Big Data Bugs - Investigating the design of Augmented Reality applications for museum exhibitions. 26th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia: Projections, CAADRIA 2021, Hong Kong: Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA).
Hoggenmueller, M., Tomitsch, M., Parker, C., Nguyen, T., Zhou, D., Worrall, S. (2020). A Tangible Multi-Display Toolkit to Support the Collaborative Design Exploration of AV-Pedestrian Interfaces. OzCHI '20: the 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, New York USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Tran, T., Parker, C. (2020). Designing exocentric pedestrian navigation for AR head mounted displays. 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2020), Honolulu: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Yao, Y., Parker, C., Zhang, W., Jeung, J., Yoo, S. (2020). Exploring the use of drones for taking accessible selfies with elderly. 2020 Interdisciplinary Workshop on Human-Drone Interaction, iHDI 2020, Honolulu: CEUR-WS.
Parker, C., Tomitsch, M., Davies, N., Valkanova, N., Kay, J. (2020). Foundations for Designing Public Interactive Displays that Provide Value to Users. 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Parker, C., Fredericks, J., Yoo, S., Hoggenmueller, M. (2019). "Let's take a selfie": Design considerations for public selfie booths. 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (OzCHI 2019), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Nguyen, T., Hollander, K., Hoggenmueller, M., Parker, C., Tomitsch, M. (2019). Designing for Projection-based Communication between Autonomous Vehicles and Pedestrians. 11th ACM International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2019), Utrecht: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Fredericks, J., Parker, C., Caldwell, G., Foth, M., Davis, H., Tomitsch, M. (2019). Designing smart for sustainable communities: Reflecting on the role of hci for addressing the sustainable development goals. 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (OzCHI 2019), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Shin, J., Kim, H., Parker, C., Kim, H., Oh, S., Woo, W. (2019). Is any room really OK? the effect of room size and furniture on presence, narrative engagement, and usability during a space-adaptive augmented reality game. 18th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2019), Beijing: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [More Information]
Parker, C., Fredericks, J., Yoo, S., Hoggenmueller, M. (2019). Let's take a selfie: Design Considerations for Public Selfie Booths. 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (OzCHI 2019), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Parker, C., Caldwell, G., Fredericks, J. (2019). The impact of hyperconnectedness on urban hci: Challenges and opportunities. 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (OzCHI 2019), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Owensby, C., Parker, C., Tomitsch, M. (2018). A framework for designing interactions between pedestrians and driverless cars: insights from a ride-sharing design study. 30th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI 2018), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Yoo, S., Parker, C., Kay, J. (2018). Adapting Data from Physical Activity Sensors for Visualising Exertion in Virtual Reality Games. Annual International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2018), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Parker, C., Jenek, W., Yoo, S., Lee, Y. (2018). Augmenting cities and architecture with immersive technologies. 4th Media Architecture Biennale Conference (MAB 2018), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Parker, C., Hoggenmueller, M., Tomitsch, M. (2018). Design strategies for overcoming failures on public interactive displays. 7th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis '18), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Parker, C., Kay, J., Tomitsch, M. (2018). Device-free: An implicit personalisation approach for public interactive displays. 2018 Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference (ACSW 2018), Brisbane: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Parker, C., Tomitsch, M. (2017). Bridging the interaction gulf: Understanding the factors that drive public interactive display usage. 29th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OZCHI 2017), : SPIE. [More Information]
Yoo, S., Parker, C., Kay, J. (2017). Designing a personalized VR exergame. 25th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2017), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Parker, C., Fredericks, J., Tomitsch, M., Yoo, S. (2017). Towards Adaptive Height-Aware Public Interactive Displays. 25th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2017), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Parker, C., Kay, J., Baldauf, M., Tomitsch, M. (2016). Design implications for interacting with personalised public displays through mobile augmented reality. The 5th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis'16), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Yoo, S., Parker, C. (2015). Controller-less interaction methods for google cardboard. 3rd ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Parker, C., Kay, J., Tomitsch, M., Baldauf, M. (2015). Keeping it private: an augmented reality approach to citizan participation from public displays. UBICOMP 2015: ACM International Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Yoo, S., Parker, C., Kay, J., Tomitsch, M. (2015). To Dwell or Not to Dwell: An Evaluation of Mid-Air Gestures for Large Information Displays. The 27th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OzCHI 2015), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Parker, C., Tomitsch, M. (2014). Data Visualisation Trends in Mobile Augmented Reality Applications. The 7th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI 2014), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]

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2024

Tran, T., Parker, C. (2024). Advancing VR simulators for autonomous vehicle–pedestrian interactions: A focus on multi-entity scenarios. Transportation Research Part F, 107, 775-790. [More Information]
Tran, T., Parker, C., Hoggenmueller, M., Wang, Y., Tomitsch, M. (2024). Exploring the Impact of Interconnected External Interfaces in Autonomous Vehicles on Pedestrian Safety and Experience. Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24), online: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Hepburn, L., Ulas, E., Cabrera, D., Cooper, C., Gough, P., Grace, K., Hespanhol, L., Hoggenmueller, M., Hu, W., Ijaz, K., Meron, Y., Pinilla Palacios, A., Parker, C., Sosa Medina, R., Tekmen Araci, Y., Watts, J., Wu, B., Zafeirakopoulos, M., Lulham, R. (2024). Speculative design positions on future liveable cities. DRS2024: Boston, Online: Design Research Society. [More Information]

2023

Yoo, S., Gulbransen-diaz, N., Parker, C., Wang, A. (2023). Designing Digital COVID-19 Screening: Insights and Deliberations. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(5). [More Information]
Yu, X., Wang, Y., Tran, T., Zhao, Y., Berrio Perez, J., Hoggenmueller, M., Humphry, J., Loke, L., Masuda, R., Parker, C., Tomitsch, M., Worrall, S. (2023). Robots in the Wild: Contextually-Adaptive Human-Robot Interactions in Urban Public Environments. 35th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI '23), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Tran, T., Parker, C., Hoggenmueller, M., Hespanhol, L., Tomitsch, M. (2023). Simulating Wearable Urban Augmented Reality Experiences in VR: Lessons Learnt from Designing Two Future Urban Interfaces. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 7(2), 1-23. [More Information]

2022

Fredericks, J., Foth, M., Davis, H., Caldwell, G., Parker, C., Tomitsch, M. (2022). Designing Smart for Sustainable and Resilient Communities: The Role of Participatory Design in Addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals. PDC 2022 17th edition of the Participatory Design Conference, Newcastle upon Tyne United Kingdom: ACM New York, NY, USA. [More Information]
Tran, T., Parker, C., Wang, Y., Tomitsch, M. (2022). Designing Wearable Augmented Reality Concepts to Support Scalability in Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Interaction. Frontiers in Computer Science, 4, 1-16. [More Information]

2021

Tran, T., Parker, C., Tomitsch, M. (2021). A Review of Virtual Reality Studies on Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Interaction. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, 51(6), 641-652. [More Information]
Parker, C., Yoo, S., Jenek, W., Lee, Y. (2021). Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities. Interaction Design and Architecture(s), 48, 5-7.
Globa, A., Parker, C., Philp, J., Antonios, J. (2021). Big Data Bugs - Investigating the design of Augmented Reality applications for museum exhibitions. 26th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia: Projections, CAADRIA 2021, Hong Kong: Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA).
Parker, C., Tomitsch, M., Fredericks, J. (2021). Smart engagement for smart cities: Design patterns for digitally augmented, situated community engagement. In Aurigi, A. and Odendaal, N. (Eds.), Shaping Smart for Better Cities: Rethinking and Shaping Relationships between Urban Space and Digital Technologies, (pp. 177-200). London: Elsevier. [More Information]

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2020

Hoggenmueller, M., Tomitsch, M., Parker, C., Nguyen, T., Zhou, D., Worrall, S. (2020). A Tangible Multi-Display Toolkit to Support the Collaborative Design Exploration of AV-Pedestrian Interfaces. OzCHI '20: the 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, New York USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Tran, T., Parker, C. (2020). Designing exocentric pedestrian navigation for AR head mounted displays. 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2020), Honolulu: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Yao, Y., Parker, C., Zhang, W., Jeung, J., Yoo, S. (2020). Exploring the use of drones for taking accessible selfies with elderly. 2020 Interdisciplinary Workshop on Human-Drone Interaction, iHDI 2020, Honolulu: CEUR-WS.
Parker, C., Tomitsch, M., Davies, N., Valkanova, N., Kay, J. (2020). Foundations for Designing Public Interactive Displays that Provide Value to Users. 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]

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2019

Parker, C., Fredericks, J., Yoo, S., Hoggenmueller, M. (2019). "Let's take a selfie": Design considerations for public selfie booths. 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (OzCHI 2019), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Nguyen, T., Hollander, K., Hoggenmueller, M., Parker, C., Tomitsch, M. (2019). Designing for Projection-based Communication between Autonomous Vehicles and Pedestrians. 11th ACM International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2019), Utrecht: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Fredericks, J., Parker, C., Caldwell, G., Foth, M., Davis, H., Tomitsch, M. (2019). Designing smart for sustainable communities: Reflecting on the role of hci for addressing the sustainable development goals. 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (OzCHI 2019), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Shin, J., Kim, H., Parker, C., Kim, H., Oh, S., Woo, W. (2019). Is any room really OK? the effect of room size and furniture on presence, narrative engagement, and usability during a space-adaptive augmented reality game. 18th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2019), Beijing: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [More Information]
Parker, C., Fredericks, J., Yoo, S., Hoggenmueller, M. (2019). Let's take a selfie: Design Considerations for Public Selfie Booths. 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (OzCHI 2019), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Parker, C., Caldwell, G., Fredericks, J. (2019). The impact of hyperconnectedness on urban hci: Challenges and opportunities. 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (OzCHI 2019), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]

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2018

Owensby, C., Parker, C., Tomitsch, M. (2018). A framework for designing interactions between pedestrians and driverless cars: insights from a ride-sharing design study. 30th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI 2018), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Yoo, S., Parker, C., Kay, J. (2018). Adapting Data from Physical Activity Sensors for Visualising Exertion in Virtual Reality Games. Annual International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2018), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Parker, C., Jenek, W., Yoo, S., Lee, Y. (2018). Augmenting cities and architecture with immersive technologies. 4th Media Architecture Biennale Conference (MAB 2018), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Fredericks, J., Hespanhol, L., Parker, C., Zhou, D., Tomitsch, M. (2018). Blending pop-up urbanism and participatory technologies: Challenges and opportunities for inclusive city making. City, Culture and Society, 12, 44-53. [More Information]
Parker, C., Hoggenmueller, M., Tomitsch, M. (2018). Design strategies for overcoming failures on public interactive displays. 7th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis '18), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Parker, C., Kay, J., Tomitsch, M. (2018). Device-free: An implicit personalisation approach for public interactive displays. 2018 Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference (ACSW 2018), Brisbane: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Parker, C., Tomitsch, M., Kay, J. (2018). Does the Public Still Look at Public Displays?: A Field Observation of Public Displays in the Wild. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2(2), 73:1-73:24. [More Information]

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2017

Parker, C., Tomitsch, M. (2017). Bridging the interaction gulf: Understanding the factors that drive public interactive display usage. 29th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OZCHI 2017), : SPIE. [More Information]
Yoo, S., Parker, C., Kay, J. (2017). Designing a personalized VR exergame. 25th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2017), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Parker, C., Fredericks, J., Tomitsch, M., Yoo, S. (2017). Towards Adaptive Height-Aware Public Interactive Displays. 25th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2017), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]

2016

Parker, C., Kay, J., Baldauf, M., Tomitsch, M. (2016). Design implications for interacting with personalised public displays through mobile augmented reality. The 5th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis'16), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]

2015

Yoo, S., Parker, C. (2015). Controller-less interaction methods for google cardboard. 3rd ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Parker, C., Kay, J., Tomitsch, M., Baldauf, M. (2015). Keeping it private: an augmented reality approach to citizan participation from public displays. UBICOMP 2015: ACM International Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Yoo, S., Parker, C., Kay, J., Tomitsch, M. (2015). To Dwell or Not to Dwell: An Evaluation of Mid-Air Gestures for Large Information Displays. The 27th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OzCHI 2015), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]

2014

Parker, C., Tomitsch, M. (2014). Data Visualisation Trends in Mobile Augmented Reality Applications. The 7th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI 2014), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]

Selected Grants

2024

Advancing Crisis Resilience in Southeast Asia Through Immersive Technologies and AI Supported Community Engagement, Fredericks J, Yoo S, Parker C, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre/SSEAC Incubator Program

2022

Shared-space interactions between people and autonomous vehicles, Tomitsch M, Worrall S, Parker C, Kay J, Nebot E, Marvin S, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

The University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning