Yicheng Xu is a PhD candidate in the Design Lab at the University of Sydney's School of Architecture, Design and Planning. His research and artistic practice investigates movement-based and embodied experience design in human-robot interaction within the context of dance choreography, exploring the boundaries between human and nonhuman entities in performative settings.

Dr. Kristina Mah is a transdisciplinary practice-based arts-led researcher working across research and design at the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology and the Design Lab at the University of Sydney. Her work explores how to more deeply understand somatic attunement, develop ways of supporting empathy through design, or discovering how empathy emerges through resonance or play in more-than-human environments with diverse communities. She is interested in the integration of contemplative, somatic or movement-based knowledge-making into research and practice. 

Dr. Marius Hoggenmuller is a Lecturer in Interaction Design at the Design Lab, University of Sydney’s School of Architecture, Design, and Planning. His research explores how to design and prototype interactions with emerging technologies, with a particular focus on robotic systems in public urban environments. He is interested in how the form, behavior, and presence of robots shape social interactions and public life. His work often uses speculative and experimental design approaches to rethink how robots might operate outside of controlled settings, supporting alternative visions for human–robot coexistence in everyday spaces.

Dr. Yaron Meron is a researcher and Lecturer in Design at the University of Sydney’s School of Architecture, Design and Planning. His work focuses on graphic and communication design as interdisciplinary practices, with particular emphasis on socially engaged design, artificial intelligence, and responsible design thinking. Yaron’s methodological approach draws heavily on experimental, performative practices that intervene in the interactive spaces between designers and stakeholders. Yaron’s work in socially engaged, AI-informed design intersects productively with performance-based robotics and popular culture research, offering critical, participatory methods for exploring audience interaction. His experimental, performative approach provides a framework for ethically grounded, technologically rich collaborations in interactive and cultural design contexts.

Jo Martin is a PhD candidate in the Design Lab of the University of Sydney with a research focus on movement design and digital scenography for performance using computer vision. She has broad business experience across a variety of sectors including finance and e-commerce start-ups. She has been an educator, producer and performer. Her research includes the use of theatre methods, specifically “Six Viewpoints” training to investigate movement, objects and space in HCI workshops and design collaborations. The horizontal approach of the practice makes it particularly useful for the exploration of “more-than-human” design and robotics.

Yi Zhao is a PhD candidate in the Robotic Lab at the University of Sydney. His work focuses on constructing a new design framework for human-robot collaboration (HRC) tasks and aims at inspiring designers to explore the characteristics of robotic behaviour and interaction, enabling robots to communicate and work with humans as partners in the HRC project.

Lanxin Li is a PhD candidate in the Design Lab at the University of Sydney's School of Architecture, Design and Planning. Her research focuses on wearable devices, human-computer interaction (HCI), and user experience design, which aligns with the wearable prototype design of the robotics in this study. 

Wendy Qi Zhang is a PhD candidate at the Affective Interactions Lab at The University of Sydney, where she explores embodied, cultural and collective healing within human-computer interaction. Her research and artist practice engages with interactive technologies, and performance informed by cyber-feminist, Daoist, and Buddhist perspectives.