Fiona Andreallo

Dr Fiona Andreallo

Post-Doctoral Early Career Fellow

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Design and Social Context


Emailfiona.andreallo@rmit.edu.au


Campus: Melbourne City


 

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DSC | School of Design


Emailfiona.andreallo@rmit.edu.au


Campus: Melbourne City


Programs

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 Fiona Andreallo is a post-doctoral Early Career fellow at RMIT. She joined RMIT in 2021 where she contributes to research, postgraduate supervision and lectures in the School of Design and Social Context

Overview

Fiona Andreallo is a researcher and EC fellow at RMIT. She has previously published studies of social robot-human interactions and cultural understandings of social robot designs, meaningful experiences and the personalisation of dementia care. Passionate about inclusive communities, she has worked on research projects with the local government, The Art Gallery of NSW, Hammond Care (Australia), and The Sydney Institute for Robotics and Information Systems (SIRIS).

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Industry experience

Most recently Fiona has worked with industry bodies including SIRIS (Sydney Institute for Robotics and Information Systems), Hammond Care (Australia), and The Art Gallery of New South Wales. She has a background as a Digital media artist, Medical illustrator, and Art director for a publication house in Sydney.

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Research

Fiona is a scholar of Human-centred interaction design, her work focuses on sustainable design based on user needs (or life-centred design) in the contexts of emerging developments in digital infrastructures, artificial intelligence and automated decision-making woven into everyday life. More information can be found by accessing the ORCID link at the side of this page.

Research keywords

 Human-computer interaction, Life-centred Design, Digital Cultures, Technology Design, Robotics, Communication, Social Media, Social robots, Memes, Selfies, Touch, Visual Communication, Semes

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Supervisor interest areas

  • Life-centred Design
  • Technology-human relationships and communication
  • Communication design
  • Visual communication
  • Social media
  • Digital media
  • Social robots
  • Identity and representation
  • Inclusive communities
  • Digital ethnographies
  • Life-centred Design methods
  • Multi-disciplinary focused research

Feature publications

Mapping selfies and Memes as Touch

Palgrave Macmillan

Fiona Andreallo (2022).

Robotic Faciality: The Philosophy, Science and Art of Robot Faces

International Journal of Social Robotics

Chris Chesher & Fiona Andreallo (2021).

Eye Machines: Robot Eye, Vision and Gaze

International Journal of Social Robotics

Chris Chesher & Fiona Andreallo (2021).

Key publications by year

  • Human-robot companionship: Cultural ideas, limitations, and aspirations. An analysis of sex robot marketing videos International Journal of Social Robotics, 2022-02-02 | journal-article

  • Andreallo, F., & Chesher, C. (2019). Prosthetic Soul Mates: Sex Robots as Media for Companionship. M/C Journal22(5). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1588
  • Andreallo, Fiona. (2019). The selfie generation: a transformation of visual social relationships. Vista. 153-171. DOI:10.21814/vista.3019. 
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.