Evonne Miller is Professor of Design Psychology at Queensland University of Technology and Director of the QUT Design Lab. She is the inaugural Queensland Health Research Chair in Healthcare Design, based at Clinical Excellence Queensland’s Healthcare Improvement Unit where she engages with consumers, clinicians, and community to collaboratively co-design creative solutions to improve healthcare. Evonne is a recognised international thought leader in design for health, with expertise in design thinking, participatory co-design, co-production, futures thinking, and qualitative arts-based research and knowledge translation.

Dr Glenda Amayo Caldwell is a Professor in Architecture and the Academic Lead Research in the School of Architecture & Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering at the Queensland University of Technology. Glenda is the Associate Director Research Training for the ARC Australian Cobotics Centre and a Chief investigator in the centre’s Designing Socio-Technical Robotic Systems program of research. She is an architecture and design scholar with internationally recognised expertise in physical, digital, and robotic fabrication, leading Industry 4.0 innovation through human-centred research in human-robot collaboration, design robotics, media architecture, and human-building interaction. Her research sits at the cross section of architecture and interaction design where she: (1) integrates human, social, and technical considerations into robotic processes and industrial manufacturing; and, (2) uses a ‘Research-through-Design’ approach to engage industry and communities in a reflexive conversation about creativity, architectural innovation and how we might collaboratively solve societal and environmental challenges and harness future opportunities.

Marianella Chamorro-Koc (BA, MA, PhD), is Professor in Industrial Design at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She is a design educator and researcher. Her research projects in Design for Health are driven to enhance people interactions with personal technologies to manage their health, and her projects focus on consumer grade health tech devices enabling person-centred care at home by addressing the uniqueness of a person’s health journey over their lifespan. She investigates how people interact with technologies at point of care and employ early prototyping to involve all stakeholders as part of the Human-Centred Design process. She is the School of Design Academic Lead Research Training and she is a member of Design Research Society (DRS). Professor Lisa Scharoun is a multi-award winning teacher, researcher and designer with expertise in Visual Communications and Cross-cultural design. She received a Master of Arts in Design Studies from Central Saint Martins (University of Arts London) and subsequently worked in London as a graphic and interior designer before taking on a role as a Senior Lecturer in Visual Communications at Raffles Design Institute in Shanghai, China. Prior to her appointment at QUT, Dr. Scharoun spent eight years at the University of Canberra where she was Program Director for Design and the founder of the Cross-cultural Design Lab. Professor Scharoun is the Head of School of QUT School of Design. Evonne Miller is Professor of Design Psychology at Queensland University of Technology and Director of the QUT Design Lab, where we reimagine and redesign the future. She is the inaugural Queensland Health Research Chair in Healthcare Design, based at Clinical Excellence Queensland’s Healthcare Improvement Unit where she engages with consumers, clinicians, and community to collaboratively co-design creative solutions to improve healthcare.

Helen Manchester has just completed a UKRI Healthy Ageing funded research project ‘Connecting through Culture as we Age’. She is Co-investigator on the ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures. The Centre is a five year programme of work bringing together world-leading interdisciplinary expertise to explore sociodigital futures in the making to support fair and sustainable ways of life. Helen is particularly interested in feminist and post human approaches to researching ageing and digital technologies, just futures, and participatory methods. She develops methodologically innovative approaches to researching with minoritised communities, often working in collaboration with artists, technologists, civil society organisations and policy-makers. She has published widely in the field of ageing and technologies, in particular on participatory methods and co-designing technologies with older adults.

Jenny Waycott is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, working in the interdisciplinary field of human-computer interaction. Much of her research aims to understand how new technologies can be designed and used to foster social wellbeing in later life. A/Prof Waycott leads a program of research that is examining how emerging technologies, such as virtual reality and social robots, are used by caregivers and older adults to provide social and emotional enrichment in later life, especially for people living in aged care. More broadly, A/Prof Waycott is interested in ethical issues associated with designing and evaluating new technologies, including AI, for use in sensitive settings such as aged care, where a respectful and empathetic approach is critical to ensure new technologies provide benefit without causing harm. Professor Raelene Wilding is a Professor and Head of the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University. She conducts social research exploring the intersections of care, technology and migration. She leads the Multilingual Inclusive Emergency Alerts project, which examines the important question of how migrants in Australia access essential emergency and health information if they speak languages other than English. Her other projects include investigations of the impact of new technologies on the wellbeing and care of older adults from diverse cultural backgrounds, the role of new media in the lives of migrants and older adults, and the complex issue of identities in later life.