Jeni Paay

Jeni Paay is Associate Professor in Interaction Design in the School of Design at Swinburne University. She is also program director for the Smart Cities Research Institute at Swinburne University in ‘Future Spaces for Living’, and Program Director for the Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne University in ‘User Experience Design for Services’. Jeni has a cross-disciplinary background spanning architecture, computer science, and interaction design, and has published widely within the area of Human-Computer Interaction. She has researched and taught within the overall research themes of human computer interaction, design methods and interaction design for urban and domestic computing for over twenty-five years.

Jeni has been with Swinburne for just over a year. Prior to this, she worked in Denmark for seven years in the Human Centred Computing Group in the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University. Before moving to Denmark, she worked as Lead Interaction Designer at CSIRO Sydney on the HxI project, a collaboration between CSIRO Sydney, NICTA Sydney, and DSTO, Adelaide.