🎉 Congratulations to Anusha Withana, Josiah Poon, Qiang Tang, and Wei Bao, freshly promoted to Associate Professors in the School of Computer Science at U Syd! This is a recognition of their expertise and leadership, and we're proud to have them at #USydCompSci!
December 5, 2024 at 2:45 AM
🎉 Congratulations to Anusha Withana, Josiah Poon, Qiang Tang, and Wei Bao, freshly promoted to Associate Professors in the School of Computer Science at U Syd! This is a recognition of their expertise and leadership, and we're proud to have them at #USydCompSci!
We had academic speakers like @ccanonne.github.io @vellosoraptor.bsky.social @jlizier.bsky.social , Anusha Withana and Zhiyong Wang
July 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
We had academic speakers like @ccanonne.github.io @vellosoraptor.bsky.social @jlizier.bsky.social , Anusha Withana and Zhiyong Wang
What a way to start the year! Researchers at the School of CS at #USyd have 14 papers accepted at #CHI2026, the premier conference in #HCI!
Congratulations to Anusha Withana (@anushaw.bsky.social), Eduardo Velloso (@vellosoraptor.bsky.social), Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, their students, and collaborators!
Congratulations to Anusha Withana (@anushaw.bsky.social), Eduardo Velloso (@vellosoraptor.bsky.social), Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, their students, and collaborators!
January 19, 2026 at 10:46 PM
What a way to start the year! Researchers at the School of CS at #USyd have 14 papers accepted at #CHI2026, the premier conference in #HCI!
Congratulations to Anusha Withana (@anushaw.bsky.social), Eduardo Velloso (@vellosoraptor.bsky.social), Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, their students, and collaborators!
Congratulations to Anusha Withana (@anushaw.bsky.social), Eduardo Velloso (@vellosoraptor.bsky.social), Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, their students, and collaborators!
🎉 Huge congratulations to A/Prof Anusha Withana, who was awarded a #FutureFellowship by the Australian Research Council for his project, a "Co-Design Framework to In-Situ Fabricate Coevolutionary Enabling Devices"! #USyd
July 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
🎉 Huge congratulations to A/Prof Anusha Withana, who was awarded a #FutureFellowship by the Australian Research Council for his project, a "Co-Design Framework to In-Situ Fabricate Coevolutionary Enabling Devices"! #USyd
Not my area, but if you're interested in researchers doing innovative, groundbreaking research in #HCI (on-skin wearable devices! Growing interfaces out of fungi!) then look no further than my colleague Anusha Withana at @sydneycompsci.bsky.social.
He's fantastic!
www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/...
He's fantastic!
www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/...
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May 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Not my area, but if you're interested in researchers doing innovative, groundbreaking research in #HCI (on-skin wearable devices! Growing interfaces out of fungi!) then look no further than my colleague Anusha Withana at @sydneycompsci.bsky.social.
He's fantastic!
www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/...
He's fantastic!
www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/...
🎉 Congratulations to Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Anusha Withana, and Chang Xu on their #LinkageProjects! These will enable their teams and industry partners to empower children with cerebral palsy, cut energy waste, and deliver better aged care to all Australians! #ResearchWithImpact #USyd
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May 19, 2026 at 1:56 AM
🎉 Congratulations to Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Anusha Withana, and Chang Xu on their #LinkageProjects! These will enable their teams and industry partners to empower children with cerebral palsy, cut energy waste, and deliver better aged care to all Australians! #ResearchWithImpact #USyd
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i dunno if you can re-activate an account on here, if he does it's withana dot bsky dot social
August 24, 2023 at 10:03 PM
i dunno if you can re-activate an account on here, if he does it's withana dot bsky dot social
We actually forgot one: that's 15 (and counting). Truly an amazing crop!
📄 SRL Proxemics: Spatial Guidelines for Supernumerary Robotic Limbs in Near-Body Interactions, by Hongyu Zhou, Yihao Dong, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, and Anusha Withana from the School of CS at #USyd
📄 SRL Proxemics: Spatial Guidelines for Supernumerary Robotic Limbs in Near-Body Interactions, by Hongyu Zhou, Yihao Dong, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, and Anusha Withana from the School of CS at #USyd
What a way to start the year! Researchers at the School of CS at #USyd have 14 papers accepted at #CHI2026, the premier conference in #HCI!
Congratulations to Anusha Withana (@anushaw.bsky.social), Eduardo Velloso (@vellosoraptor.bsky.social), Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, their students, and collaborators!
Congratulations to Anusha Withana (@anushaw.bsky.social), Eduardo Velloso (@vellosoraptor.bsky.social), Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, their students, and collaborators!
February 10, 2026 at 12:14 AM
We actually forgot one: that's 15 (and counting). Truly an amazing crop!
📄 SRL Proxemics: Spatial Guidelines for Supernumerary Robotic Limbs in Near-Body Interactions, by Hongyu Zhou, Yihao Dong, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, and Anusha Withana from the School of CS at #USyd
📄 SRL Proxemics: Spatial Guidelines for Supernumerary Robotic Limbs in Near-Body Interactions, by Hongyu Zhou, Yihao Dong, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, and Anusha Withana from the School of CS at #USyd
🎉 Shakyani Jayasiriwardene (PhD student), Anusha Withana, & Zhanna Sarsenbayeva's paper "More Than Words: The Impact of Voice Assistant Personality Traits on Failure Mitigation" has been accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp)!
🔗 Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
#HCI #AffectiveComputing #VoiceAssistants #AI
🔗 Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
#HCI #AffectiveComputing #VoiceAssistants #AI
More Than Words: The Impact of Voice Assistant Personality Traits on Failure Mitigation | Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
The influence of voice assistants' inherent characteristics and personality cues on
human empathy remains an underexplored research area. This study investigates how
manipulating voice assistants' per...
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September 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
🎉 Shakyani Jayasiriwardene (PhD student), Anusha Withana, & Zhanna Sarsenbayeva's paper "More Than Words: The Impact of Voice Assistant Personality Traits on Failure Mitigation" has been accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp)!
🔗 Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
#HCI #AffectiveComputing #VoiceAssistants #AI
🔗 Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
#HCI #AffectiveComputing #VoiceAssistants #AI
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Beth Plale, Sai Navya Jyesta, Sachith Withana: Vector embedding of multi-modal texts: a tool for discovery? https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08216 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08216 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.08216
September 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Beth Plale, Sai Navya Jyesta, Sachith Withana: Vector embedding of multi-modal texts: a tool for discovery? https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08216 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08216 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.08216
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SJB MP receives police protection after assassination threat
Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Jagath Withana has been provided with two police officers for his personal security after revealingContinue Reading
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MP Jagath Withana under threat over underworld links, not politics — IGP
Inspector General of Police (IGP) C.D. Priyantha Weerasooriya says Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Jagath Withana is facing threatsContinue Reading
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SJB MP Jagath Withana’s son arrested
The son of Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Parliamentarian Jagath Withana has been arrested by officers of the Panadura-Walana Anti-Corruption Unit.Continue Reading
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Russian, Wu, Tim Moesgen, Myung Jin, Kim, Xinyan Yu, Naoki Kameyama, Anusha Withana, Marius Hoggenmueller, Luke Hespanhol: Speculating the Impacts of Mediated Social Touch Technology https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04489 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.04489 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04489
June 4, 2026 at 6:41 AM
Russian, Wu, Tim Moesgen, Myung Jin, Kim, Xinyan Yu, Naoki Kameyama, Anusha Withana, Marius Hoggenmueller, Luke Hespanhol: Speculating the Impacts of Mediated Social Touch Technology https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04489 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.04489 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04489
Kuang, Jiang, Koemel, Ahmadi, Stamatakis, Tag, Withana, Sarsenbayeva: An LLM-Assisted Toolkit for Inspectable Multimodal Emotion Data Annotation https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02569 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.02569 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.02569
March 4, 2026 at 6:33 AM
Kuang, Jiang, Koemel, Ahmadi, Stamatakis, Tag, Withana, Sarsenbayeva: An LLM-Assisted Toolkit for Inspectable Multimodal Emotion Data Annotation https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02569 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.02569 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.02569
Zheyuan Kuang, Tinghui Li, Weiwei Jiang, Sven Mayer, Flora Salim, Benjamin Tag, Anusha Withana, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva: Understanding the Effects of Interaction on Emotional Experiences in VR https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02535 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.02535 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.02535
March 4, 2026 at 6:33 AM
Zheyuan Kuang, Tinghui Li, Weiwei Jiang, Sven Mayer, Flora Salim, Benjamin Tag, Anusha Withana, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva: Understanding the Effects of Interaction on Emotional Experiences in VR https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02535 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.02535 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.02535
Yihao Dong, Praneeth Bimsara Perera, Chin-Teng Lin, Craig T Jin, Anusha Withana: TactDeform: Finger Pad Deformation Inspired Spatial Tactile Feedback for Virtual Geometry Exploration https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03476 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.03476 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.03476
February 4, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Yihao Dong, Praneeth Bimsara Perera, Chin-Teng Lin, Craig T Jin, Anusha Withana: TactDeform: Finger Pad Deformation Inspired Spatial Tactile Feedback for Virtual Geometry Exploration https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03476 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.03476 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.03476
Zhou, fan, Dong, Takashita, Inami, Sarsenbayeva, Withana: SRL Proxemics: Spatial Guidelines for Supernumerary Robotic Limbs in Near-Body Interactions https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00494 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.00494 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.00494
February 3, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Zhou, fan, Dong, Takashita, Inami, Sarsenbayeva, Withana: SRL Proxemics: Spatial Guidelines for Supernumerary Robotic Limbs in Near-Body Interactions https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00494 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.00494 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.00494
Zhou, Huang, Wijaya, Cheng, Lindlbauer, Velloso, Bianchi, Sarsenbayeva, Withana: One Body, Two Minds: Alternating VR Perspective During Remote Teleoperation of Supernumerary Limbs https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00493 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.00493 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.00493
February 3, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Zhou, Huang, Wijaya, Cheng, Lindlbauer, Velloso, Bianchi, Sarsenbayeva, Withana: One Body, Two Minds: Alternating VR Perspective During Remote Teleoperation of Supernumerary Limbs https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00493 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.00493 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.00493
Cheng, Bloch, Wang, Bianchi, Withana, Guo, Heller, Lindlbauer: Auditorily Embodied Conversational Agents: Effects of Spatialization and Situated Audio Cues on Presence and Social Perception https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22082 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22082 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22082
January 30, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Cheng, Bloch, Wang, Bianchi, Withana, Guo, Heller, Lindlbauer: Auditorily Embodied Conversational Agents: Effects of Spatialization and Situated Audio Cues on Presence and Social Perception https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22082 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22082 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22082
Jayasiriwardene, Zhou, Jiang, Tag, Stamatakis, Withana, Sarsenbayeva: From Fixed to Flexible: Shaping AI Personality in Context-Sensitive Interaction https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08194 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.08194 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.08194
January 14, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Jayasiriwardene, Zhou, Jiang, Tag, Stamatakis, Withana, Sarsenbayeva: From Fixed to Flexible: Shaping AI Personality in Context-Sensitive Interaction https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08194 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.08194 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.08194
Hongyu Zhou, Yihao Dong, Masahiko Inami, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Anusha Withana: A Survey on Methodological Approaches to Collaborative Embodiment in Virtual Reality https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18877 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18877 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.18877
July 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Hongyu Zhou, Yihao Dong, Masahiko Inami, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Anusha Withana: A Survey on Methodological Approaches to Collaborative Embodiment in Virtual Reality https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18877 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18877 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.18877
Tinghui Li, Pamuditha Somarathne, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Anusha Withana: TA-GNN: Physics Inspired Time-Agnostic Graph Neural Network for Finger Motion Prediction https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13034 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13034 https://arxiv.org/html/2503.13034
March 18, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Tinghui Li, Pamuditha Somarathne, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Anusha Withana: TA-GNN: Physics Inspired Time-Agnostic Graph Neural Network for Finger Motion Prediction https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13034 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13034 https://arxiv.org/html/2503.13034
Jie Li, Anusha Withana, Alexandra Diening, Kai Kunze, Masahiko Inami: Beyond Human: Cognitive and Physical Augmentation through AI, Robotics, and XR -- Opportunities and Risks https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09987 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.09987 https://arxiv.org/html/2503.09987
March 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Jie Li, Anusha Withana, Alexandra Diening, Kai Kunze, Masahiko Inami: Beyond Human: Cognitive and Physical Augmentation through AI, Robotics, and XR -- Opportunities and Risks https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09987 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.09987 https://arxiv.org/html/2503.09987