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Damith Herath holds a PhD in Robotics from the University of Technology, Sydney for his research work at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems (CAS) on robotic mapping and navigation. He has worked as a Research Fellow at CAS, as a visiting Fellow at the Toyohashi University of Technology and as the lead Research Engineer on the ARC funded Thinking Head project at the MARCS Institute at the University of Western Sydney. Damith has over a decade of experience leading multidisciplinary robotic research projects and is the co- and founding chair of the International Workshop on Robotics & Art held in 2011 and 2014 alongside two key robotics conferences. Damith is the CEO and co-founder of Robological, a multi-award winning Robotics Startup based in Sydney, named one of the 23 most innovative young technology companies in Australia in 2014.
Damith is currently an Assistant Professor in Software Engineering attached to the Human-Centred Computing Laboratory at the Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Mathematics. He is also an Honorary Visiting Scholar at the National Facility for Human-Robot Interaction Research at the University of New South Wales.
Research interests
- Robot Perception
- Human Robot Interaction
- Robotic Art
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http://www.damith.org/
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Projects
- 4 Finished
Cloud Connected, Distributed Robotics Framework – A ROS Based Experimental Evaluation
Herath, D. & Santana, F.
20/02/18 → 20/08/18
Project: Other
Research Output
Arts + Health: : New Approaches to Arts and Robots in Health Care
Herath, D., McFarlane, J., Jochum, E. A., Grant, J. B. & Tresset, P., 23 Mar 2020, HRI '20: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: HRI '20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. New York, NY, USA: ACM Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1-7 7 p.Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Conference contribution
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On the Importance of Posture and the Interaction Environment
Hansen, A. K., Nilsson, J., Jochum, E. A. & Herath, D., 23 Mar 2020, Proceedings of HRI '20: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: HRI '20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. New York, NY, USA: ACM Association for Computing Machinery, p. 227-229 3 p.Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Conference contribution
Open Access
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From rituals to magic: Interactive art and HCI of the past, present, and future
Jeon, M., Fiebrink, R., Edmonds, E. A. & Herath, D., 12 Jun 2019, In : International Journal of Human Computer Studies. 131, p. 108-119 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
3
Citations
(Scopus)
An Experimental Study of Embodied Interaction and Human Perception of Social Presence for Interactive Robots in Public Settings
Herath, D., Jochum, E. & Vlachos, E., Dec 2018, In : IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. 10, 4, p. 1096-1105 10 p., 8240698.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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38
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A Proposed Wizard of OZ Architecture for a Human-Robot Collaborative Drawing Task
Hinwood, D., Ireland, J., Jochum, E. A. & Herath, D., 28 Nov 2018, Social Robotics - 10th International Conference, ICSR 2018, November 28-30 2018, Proceedings. Ge, S., Cabibihan, J-J., Salichs, M. A., Broadbent, E., He, H., Wagner, A. R. & Castro-Gonzalez, A. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 35-44 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11357 LNAI).Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Conference contribution
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Activities
- 1 Invited talk
UNCOVER EVENT: THE HUMAN COST OF ROBOTS
Caroline FISHER (Speaker), , Bruce Baer ARNOLD (Speaker), & Damith HERATH (Speaker)
19 Jun 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk