The Bionics and Cognitive Science Centre
Research Personnel
Academic Staff
Dr Mark Symmons
Acting Director
Cognitive Science
School of Humanities Communications and Social Sciences
Monash University Gippsland Campus
Churchill Vic 3842
| Email: | mark.symmons@monash.edu |
| Phone: | +61 3 990 26747 |
| Interests: | Active and passive touch, kinaesthetic and cutaneous processes |
Dr George Van Doorn
Lecturer in Psychological Studies
Cognitive Science
School of Humanities Communications and Social Sciences
Monash University Gippsland Campus
Churchill Vic 3842
| Email: | george.vandoorn@monash.edu |
| Phone: | +61 3 990 26746 |
| Interests: | Active and passive touch, sensory integration, neuroscience, time and temperature perception, and evolutionary psychology. |
Adjunct Researchers
Dr Barry Richardson
Cognitive Science
School of Humanities Communications and Social Sciences
Monash University Gippsland Campus
Churchill Vic 3842
| Email: | barry.richardson@monash.edu |
| Phone: | +61 3 990 26432 |
| Interests: | Application of haptics to virtual environments, sensory substitution, teleremote surgery, simulation, and robotics |
Dr Dianne Wuillemin
Cognitive Science
School of Humanities Communications and Social Sciences
Monash University Gippsland Campus
Churchill Vic 3842
| Email: | dianne.wuillemin@monash.edu |
| Phone: | +61 3 990 26753 |
| Interests: | Neuroscience, haptic illusions |
Collaborating Colleagues at Monash
Assoc Prof Yousef Ibrahim
School of Applied Sciences and Engineering
Monash University Gippsland Campus
Churchill Vic 3842
| Email: | yousef.ibrahim@monash.edu |
| Phone: | +61 3 990 26482 |
| Interests: | Robotics and artificial intelligence |
Dr Madhu Chetty
Gippsland School of Computing and Information Technology
Monash University Gippsland Campus
Churchill Vic 3842
| Email: | mahdu.chetty@monash.edu |
| Phone: | +61 3 990 27148 |
| Interests: | Programming and artificial intelligence |
Overseas Associates
- Professor John Kennedy, Toronto University, Canada
Interests: Drawings by the blind; haptics - Professor Ken Johnson, Johns Hopkins University, US
Interests: Sensory processes (especially touch) - A/Professor Gunnar Jansson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Interests: Mobility aids - Professor Darwin Caldwell, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy
Interests: Tactile sensing, haptic feedback, force augmentation exoskeletons, bipedal and quadrapedal robots, telepresence and teleoperation procedures
Students
Jacqui Howell
PhD Student
Cognitive Science
School of Humanities Communications and Social Sciences
Monash University Gippsland Campus
Churchill Vic 3842
Email: jacqui.howell@monash.edu
Ruth McFarlane
Master's Student
Cognitive Science
School of Humanities Communications and Social Sciences
Monash University Gippsland Campus
Churchill Vic 3842
Email: ruth.mcfarlane@monash.edu
Industry Consultants
- Robert Accardi, Priority 1 Design Ltd., Melbourne
Haptic exoskeleton design - Goran Filipovic GFE Systems, Melbourne
Exoskeleton programming - Ivor Bryan STEM Partnership, Melbourne
Technology evaluation - Stephen Furner, British Telecom, UK
Multimodal communications