Experience & education

  • 2022–2024
    Staff Research Scientist (IC6) — Meta Reality Labs, Redmond, WA, USA
  • 2022–
    Honorary Senior Fellow — The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
  • 2018–2022
    Lecturer / Director, Empathic XR & Pervasive Computing Lab — The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
  • 2016–2018
    Research Fellow, Empathic Computing Lab — University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
  • 2014–2016
    Postdoctoral Researcher, HIT Lab AU — University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia
  • 2013–2014
    Postdoctoral Researcher — Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA
  • 2008–2009
    Researcher — James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
  • 2013
    PhD, Computer & Information Science — University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

Awards & recognition

  • Best Paper Award — IEEE VR 2024 (VR.Net)
  • Best Paper Nomination — OzCHI 2017
  • Best Paper Nomination — IEEE ISMAR 2012
  • CIS Research Award — University of South Australia
  • First runner-up — Australian Entrepreneurs’ Challenge (BrowsAR)
  • Business-plan competition wins

Selected publications

  • A. Dey , and collaborators (2025). Differentiating presence in VR using physiological signals. Pervasive and Mobile Computing. Journal
  • A. Dey , and collaborators (2024). Machine-learning classification of presence using psychophysiological signals. Scientific Reports (Nature). Journal
  • E. Wen , C. Gupta , T. Sasikumar , M. Billinghurst , J. Wilmott , E. Skow , A. Dey , S. Nanayakkara (2024). VR.Net: A real-world dataset for virtual reality motion sickness research. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. IEEE VR 2024). Journal ★ Best Paper Award, IEEE VR 2024
  • A. Dey , H. Chen , A. Zhuang , M. Billinghurst , R. W. Lindeman (2019). Sharing manipulated heart rate feedback in collaborative virtual environments. Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR). Conference
  • A. Dey , M. Billinghurst , R. W. Lindeman , J. E. Swan II (2018). A systematic review of ten years of augmented reality usability studies: 2005 to 2014. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Journal
  • A. Dey , T. Piumsomboon , Y. Lee , M. Billinghurst (2017). Effects of sharing physiological states of players in a collaborative virtual reality gameplay. Proc. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Conference ★ Best Paper Nomination, OzCHI 2017

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Selected invited talks

  • 2024-10
    Workshop on Intelligent XR (iXR) — Invited Panellist — IEEE ISMAR, Seattle, USA
  • 2023
    Mitigating visual discomfort in immersive environments — Invited talk — Amazon, Seattle, USA
  • 2023
    Physiological computing for immersive systems — Invited talk — Microsoft Research, Bengaluru, India
  • 2023
    Adaptive and empathic extended reality — Invited talk — Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
  • 2022
    Empathic computing in extended reality — Invited talk — University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
  • 2021
    Presence, physiology, and adaptive XR — Invited talk — University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
  • 2020
    Workshop on empathic and physiological computing — SIGGRAPH Asia