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Email

wafa.johal@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Associate Professor, Digital Innovation
School of Computing and Information Systems
Education
PhD
Grenoble Alpes University
Masters (Research)
Grenoble Alpes University
ORCID

0000-0001-9118-0454

A/Prof Wafa Johal

Associate Professor, Digital Innovation
School of Computing and Information Systems

118 Scholarly works
6 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2024

    Research contracts (non-grants)

    Implication of Industry 4.0 Technologies on Work Practices
  • 2023

    Book Chapter

    Culture in Social Robots for Education
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-28138-9_9
  • 2022

    Conference Proceedings

    Let's Compete! The Influence of Human-Agent Competition and Collaboration on Agent Learning and Human Perception
    DOI: 10.1145/3527188.3561922
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Editorial: Robots for learning
    DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2022.1050658
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Envisioning social drones in education
    DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2022.666736
  • 2021

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Human-Centred Robot Training (Transfer In)
  • 2021

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Human-Centred Robot Training (Transfer In) Establishment Grant
Wafa Johal

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2023
Women in AI 2023 in Education Category Women in AI APAC
2021
ARC DECRA
2021
GROW Award - UNSW Faculty of Engineering 2021 - 20kAUD Early Career Research Award UNSW Engineering
2020
UNSW Faculty of Engineering 2020 Award for the category Equity, Diversity and Inclusio UNSW Engineering

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2026

    Conference Proceedings

    Modelling Visuo-Haptic Perception Change in Size Estimation Tasks
    DOI: 10.1145/3772318.3791140
  • 2026

    Conference Proceedings

    Oops, I Did It Again (But I Know It): Robot Failure Consistency and Awareness in Human-Robot Collaboration
    DOI: 10.1145/3772318.3790336
  • 2026

    Conference Proceedings

    One Body, Many Minds: Exploring Design Frictions and Considerations for Multi-Agentic Systems in Human-Robot Interaction
    DOI: 10.1145/3772363.3799366
  • 2026

    Conference Proceedings

    Multi-Agentic Systems in HRI (MAgicS-HRI): Bridging Design and Real-World Challenges for End Users
    DOI: 10.1145/3776734.3788825
  • 2026

    Conference Proceedings

    Investigating the Impact of Robot Degree of Redundancy on Learning from Demonstration
    DOI: 10.1145/3757279.3785606
  • 2026

    Conference Proceedings

    From Conversation to Orchestration: HCI Challenges and Opportunities in Interactive Multi-Agentic Systems
    DOI: 10.1145/3765766.3765795
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    Exploring Deictic Interface Referencing Outside-Vehicle Landmarks: Study of In-cabin Multimodal Interaction
    DOI: 10.1145/3744335.3758475
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    "I can feel the risks by looking at the robot face": Communicating Risk through a Physical Agent
    DOI: 10.1145/3715336.3735759

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