Dr Duncan Stevenson
Areas of expertise
- Computer Human Interaction 080602
Research interests
I am interested in the application of human-computer interaction (HCI) to complex industrial problems and, in particular, to application of Information and Communication Technologies to the health sector.
My work over the past 30 years has involved working with industrial partners to combine their expertise in their application field with research expertise in HCI to prototype new ways of meeting their needs.
Important aspects of this work include field studies of current ways that the application needs are met, requirements gathering/elicitation, progressive prototype/review cycles within the development of a working solution, field trials and evaluation.
Biography
I joined CSIRO in 1981, in what was then called the Division of Computing Research, to work on large-scale image processing for remotely sensed image data (satellite, airborne), working with researchers and industry in such fields as land and water management.
In the 1990's we worked specifically with the mining industry, using virtual reality technology to build systems for interacting with large-scale 3D mining and exploration data sets. In late 1996 we acquired several leading-edge haptic devices (the Phantom device from Sensable Technologies Inc.) and incorporated these into our work.
From early 2000 we focused our work on medical simulation for training and build a number of demonstrator systems based on the CSIRO Haptic Workbench.
In 2005 we were approached by surgeons from the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, to explore a telehealth approach to delivering outpatient consultations (so that patients who were in the rehabilitation phase from surgery would be able to have their consultations at their local hospital instead of making the long journey to Melbourne). We conducted a field trial of our telehealth system at the hospital in September 2007 and I used the data from this trial as the major case study for my PhD thesis.
I left CSIRO in June 2008 and completed my doctoral thesis (awarded March 2010). I am currently an Honorary Associate Professor in the Research School of Computer Science, ANU.
In second semester of 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 I taught a combined 3rd-year/Masters course in Human-Computer Interaction at the ANU (course codes COMP3900 and COMP6390) and I will teach that course again in 2017.
My recent research projects include investigating touch-free manipulation of a patient's image data during surgery, working with surgeons at The Canberra Hospital.
Publications
- Tsimeris, J, Stevenson, D, Gedeon, T et al. 2017, 'Phlebotomists do it better: Exploring soft interaction in the medical domain', 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2017, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, USA, pp. 979-984pp.
- Stevenson, D, Gardner, H, Neilson, W et al 2016, 'Evidence from the surgeons: gesture control of image data displayed during surgery', Behaviour and Information Technology, vol. 35, no. 12, pp. 1063-1079pp.
- Tsimeris, J, Stevenson, D, Broughton, M et al. 2015, 'Adapting a Soft 2.5D Actuated Shape Display for Rebound Tenderness Simulation and Training', Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction OzCHI'15, ed. Carter M.Gibbs M.Smi, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, pp. 549-556.
- Taylor, J, Stevenson, D & Gedeon, T 2015, 'Domain Exploration of ICT Use in Consumer-to-Producer Feedback Loops within the Fair Trade System', Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction OzCHI'15, ed. Carter M.Gibbs M.Smi, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, pp. 231-239.
- Taylor, J, Tsimeris, J, Zhu, X et al. 2015, 'Observations from Teaching HCI to Chinese Students in Australia', ASEAN CHI Symposium 2015, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, pp. 31-35.
- Tsimeris, J, Gedeon, T, Stevenson, D et al. 2015, 'It's Alive! Perceptions of a Soft Tangible User Interface', TGI_Tangible Gesture Inetraction (TEI'15), MDPI Publishing, USA, pp. 1-6.
- Radoll, P, Fleissner, S, Stevenson, D et al 2013, 'Impoving ICT Support for Aboriginal Land councils in New South Wales', 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2013), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York USA, pp. 116-119.
- Tsimeris, J, Stevenson, D, Gedeon, T et al. 2013, 'Using Force Form, a Dynamically Deformable Interactive Surface, for Palpation Simulation in Medical Scenarios', Smart Material Interfaces ICMI 2013, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York USA, pp. 1-4.
- Tsimeris, J, Stevenson, D, Adcock, M et al. 2013, 'User Created Tangible Controls Using ForceForm: a Dynamically Deformable Interactive Surface', 26th ACM UIST Symposium, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York USA.
- Tsimeris, J & Stevenson, D 2012, 'Proprioceptive and Tactile Interaction in the 21st Century', Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI 2012), ed. Loke,L and Robertson, T, Conference Organising Committee, Melbourne, VIC, pp. 1-4.
- Stevenson, D 2011, 'Tertiary-Level Telehealth: A Media Space Application', Computer Supported Cooperative Work, vol. 20, no. 1-2, pp. 61-92.
- Stevenson, D 2011, 'Requirements and Design for Smart Healthcare Applications', Electronic Journal of Health Informatics, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 1-10.
- Stevenson, D, Hutchins, M & Smith, J 2010, 'Human-centered evaluation for broadband tertiary outpatient telehealth: A case study', International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 506-536.
- Wilson, L, Stevenson, D & Cregan, P 2010, 'Telehealth on Advanced Networks', Telemedicine and e-Health, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 69-79.
- Stevenson, D 2008, 'Training and Process Change: A Collaborative Telehealth Case Study', Conference of the computer-human interaction special interest group (OZCHI 2008), ed. Margaret Burnett et al, Association for Computing Machinery Inc (ACM), New York, pp. 65-72.
- Stevenson, D & Wilson, L 2008, 'HCI for Broadband Tele-health into Developing Countries', Conference of the computer-human interaction special interest group (OZCHI 2008), ed. Margaret Burnett et al, Association for Computing Machinery Inc (ACM), New York, p. 2.
- O'Leary, S, Hutchins, M, Stevenson, D et al 2008, 'Validation of a Networked Virtual Reality Simulation of Temporal Bone Surgery', The Laryngoscope, vol. 118, no. 6, pp. 1040-6.
- Stevenson, D, Li, J, Smith, J et al 2008, 'A Collaborative Guidance Case Study', Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC 2008), ed. Beryl Plimmer and Gerald Weber, Australian Computer Society Inc., Australia, pp. 33-42.
- Palmer, D, Adcock, M, Smith, J et al 2007, 'Annotating with Light for Remote Guidance', Conference of the computer-human interaction special interest group (OZCHI 2007), ed. Mark Billinghurst, Association for Computing Machinery Inc (ACM), New York, pp. 103-110.
