Anusha Withana

I am a lecturer at School of Information Technologies, the University of Sydney, Australia. Before joining the university of Sydney, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland Informatics Campus, Germany. My primary research focus is in creating Blended Interfaces, which, I define as interfaces that are ubiquitous, blend into the environment and leverage on natural affordances of the context. Within the abstraction under this umbrella term, I explore the design factors such as interactivity in personal and shared spaces, modalities and social acceptance, also, technical factors such as re-usability, energy and appropriation.