Name
VELONAKI, Mari
Position and Affiliated Institution
Professor, Director of Creative Robotics Lab & Director of the National Facility for Human Robot Interaction Research, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Degree
PhD; BFA Honors 1st class
Education and Academic Employment
| Education: | |
| 2003 | PhD and BFA Honors Class 1, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| Academic Employment: | |
| 2010-Present | Creative Robotics Lab, AD, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| 2003-2010 | Australian Centre for Field Robotics, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
Research Topic
Human robot interaction; creative robotics; new interfaces.
Fields of Research Interests
Human Robot Interaction; novel interfaces, autonomous advisory systems.
Academic Publications
Chapters in Books
- M. Velonaki, Robotics, in Paul Thomas, ed. Encyclopaedia of New Media Art, vol. 2: Artists & Practice, Bloomsbury, in press 2024.
- M. Velonaki. Diamandini revisited – design principles for a cultural robot. In Lupetti ML, Zaga C, Cila N, Šabanović S, Jung MF, Designing Interactions with Robots: Methods and Perspectives, CRC Press 28 Nov 2024
- F.A. Robinson, O. Bown & M. Velonaki. The robot soundscape. In B.J. Dunstan, J.T.K.V. Koh, D. Turnbull Tillman, and S.A. Brown (eds.), Cultural Robotics: Social Robots and Their Emergent Cultural Ecologies, 35–65, Springer Nature, 2023
Journal Articles
- F. Robinson, H. Pelikan, K. Watanabe, L. Damiano, O. Bown & M. Velonaki. Introduction to the special issue on sound in human-robot interaction, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 12 (4),1-5, 2023
- F.A. Robinson, O. Bown & M. Velonaki. Designing sound for social robots: Candidate design principles. International Journal of Social Robotics 14(6), 1507–1525
Other Interests
Martial arts; mountain biking; collector of niche perfumes.
Affiliated Academic Organizations
Adjunct professor at: the University of Sydney, and at Waseda University
Awards
Professor Velonaki has received numerous research awards including Australia Research Council Fellowships; Australia Council of the Arts: Visual Arts Fellowship Award; Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts (finalist); Future Everything Award, Manchester UK, (finalist). Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award Exhibition, finalist, Queensland Art Gallery – Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, for the interactive work Fragile Balances.; National Digital Art Award 1999, awarded by the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, for the interactive work.
