Allison Jing
Details
Department: School of Computing Technologies
Campus: City Campus Australia
allison.jing@rmit.edu.au
ORCID: 0000-0002-0418-3217
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Collaborative projects
- Industry Projects
About
I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at RMIT University and an adjunct Researcher at the Empathic Computing Lab led by Prof Mark Billinghurst at Adelaide University. My research explores how XR can “superpower” human capabilities by augmenting interactions and environments to support cross-reality collaboration and by leveraging biosignals and human behaviors to enable trustworthy human–AI empathy.
Based in Melbourne (current) / Seattle (home), my user-driven approaches are derived from years of experience in the customer-focused tech industry (as a content manager and product designer) and academia (as a research scientist intern). Previously, I have worked with Meta Reality Labs (Research), Microsoft, Xbox, Amazon, startups, NGOs, and research centers in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.
Research fields
- 460708 Virtual and mixed reality
- 460806 Human-computer interaction
- 420302 Digital health
- 460802 Affective computing
Academic positions
- Postdoc Fellow
- University of South Australia
- STEM
- Adelaide, Australia
- 1 Feb 2023 – 30 Sep 2023
- Lecturer
- RMIT University
- Computing Technologies
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2 Oct 2023 – Present
Non-academic positions
- Research Scientist Intern
- Meta Reality Labs
- Redmond, United States
- 16 May 2022 – 16 Sep 2022
- Content Manager
- Microsoft
- Redmond, United States
- 1 Mar 2014 – 31 Aug 2017
Supervisor projects
- EmoG: Mixed Reality Empathy-Generative Agent to Express Emotion Among People with Communication Impairments
- 11 May 2026
- Using Physiological Cues to Improve Empathy in Mixed Reality Human-AI Interaction
- 2 Mar 2026
- Using Pgysiological Cues to Improve Empathy in Mixed Reality Human-AI Interaction
- 13 Jan 2026
Teaching interests
Mixed Reality (COSC2476-UG /COSC2477-PG)
Foundation of AI
Programming Bootcamp Java
Research interests
XR/MR/CrossReality, Multimodal i/o, Empathic Human-AI Collaboration, Human-Computer Interaction, Biofeedback
