Dr Awais Hameed Khan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Social Science
Affiliate Research Fellow
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
+61 7 344 36335
ADM+S Centre biography
Read more about Awais Hameed Khan in the ADM+S Centre.
Researcher biography
I am a designer / technology researcher / illustrator / (reluctant) academic / (recovering) marketer — with over a decade of experience working across emerging technologies, telecommunications, consumer goods, and design consulting sectors. I am interested in the human and social aspects of designing technology, in collaboration with users. I enjoy working on human-computer interaction projects, developing participatory design tools and methods, design fictions, and using speculative approaches in my work.
Publications
Journal Articles
Doherty, Skye, Matthews, Ben, Khan, Awais Hameed and van de Fliert, Elske (2024). Fire futures: design for community-led resilience. Environmental Hazards, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-21. doi: 10.1080/17477891.2024.2419025
Ghahremanlou, Lida, Khan, Awais Hameed, Kegalle, Hiruni, D'Silva, Rhea, Watt, Ned, Whelan-Shamy, Daniel and Magee, Liam (2024). Automating thematic analysis: how LLMS analyze controversial topics. Microsoft Journal of Applied Science, 21, 69-87. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2405.06919
Snow, Stephen, Khan, Awais Hameed, Day, Kaleb and Matthews, Ben (2024). Household Wattch: Exploring opportunities for surveillance and consent through families’ household energy use data. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 31 (4) 55, 1-30. doi: 10.1145/3673228
Gardezi, Maaz, Abuayyash, Halimeh, Adler, Paul R., Alvez, Juan P., Anjum, Rubaina, Badireddy, Appala Raju, Brugler, Skye, Carcamo, Pablo, Clay, David, Dadkhah, Ali, Emery, Mary, Faulkner, Joshua W., Joshi, Bhavna, Joshi, Deepak R., Khan, Awais Hameed, Koliba, Christopher, Kumari, Sheetal, McMaine, John, Merrill, Scott, Mitra, Shreya, Musayev, Sardorbek, Oikonomou, Panagiotis D., Pinder, George, Prutzer, Edward, Rathore, Jitender, Ricketts, Taylor, Rizzo, Donna M., Ryan, Benjamin E.K., Sahraei, Maryam ... Zia, Asim (2024). The role of living labs in cultivating inclusive and responsible innovation in precision agriculture. Agricultural Systems, 216 103908. doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2024.103908
Matthews, Ben, Khan, Awais Hameed, Snow, Stephen, Schlosser, Paul, Salisbury, Isaac and Matthews, Sarah (2021). How to do things with notes: the embodied socio-material performativity of sticky notes. Design Studies, 76 101035, 101035. doi: 10.1016/j.destud.2021.101035
Conference Papers
Snow, Stephen, Khan, Awais Hameed, Matthews, Ben, Rodríguez, Inmaculada, Desjardines, Audrey, Seals, Ayanna, Sosa-Tzec, Omar, Tran, Anh-Ton, Pierce, James, Peng, Xiangjun and Viller, Stephen (2024). Using annotated portfolios to interrogate speculative designs: the case of emergent personal data trails. Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction OzChi 2024: Beyond being human, Brisbane/Meeanjin, QLD, Australia, 30 November - 4 December 2024. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery.
Gardezi, Maaz, Abuayyash, Halimeh, Adler, Paul R., Alvez, Juan, Anjum, Rubaina, Badireddy, Appala Raju, Brugler, Skye, Carcamo, Pablo, Clay, David E., Dadkhah, Ali, Emery, Mary, Faulkner, Joshua W., Joshi, Bhavna, Joshi, Deepak, Khan, Awais, Koliba, Christopher, Kumari, Sheetal, McMaine, John, Merrill, Scott, Mitra, Shreya, Musayev, Sardorbek, Oikonomou, Panagiotis D., Pinder, George F., Prutzer, Edward, Rathore, Jitender, Ricketts, Taylor, Rizzo, Donna M., Ryan, Benjamin, Sahraei, Maryam ... Zia, Asim (2024). Promoting responsible innovation in precision agriculture through living labs. AGU24, Washington, DC, Australia, 9 - 13 December 2024.
Khan, Falaah Arif, Khan, Awais Hameed and Stoyanovich, Julia (2024). Unfinished Comics for Inclusive AI. Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 20-25 February 2024.
Khan, Falaah Arif, Khan, Awais Hameed, Stoyanovich, Julia and Kimelfeld, Benny (2024). Unfinished comics for inclusive communication about data management in research and practice. EDBT/ICDT 2024 Joint Conference, Paestum, Italy, 25-28 March 2024.
Munn, Luke, Khan, Awais Hameed, Hettiachchi, Danula, Sabie, Samar, Ghahremanlou, Lida, Saghir, Saarim, Lambourne, Nicholas and Magee, Liam (2024). Unmaking AI: engaging critically and creatively with generative AI. Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction OzCHI: Beyond being human, Brisbane/Meeanjin, QLD, Australia, 30 November - 4 December 2024.
Doherty, Skye, van de Fliert, Elske, Khan, Awais Hameed and Matthews, Ben (2023). Sharing responsibility for risk: codesigning media for bushfire resilience. International Association for Media and Communication Research, Lyon, France, 9–13 July 2023.
Khan, Awais Hameed, Sabie, Samar and Vyas, Dhaval (2023). The pragmatics of sustainable unmaking: informing technology design through e-waste folk strategies. ACM Designing Interactive Systems, Philadelphia, PA USA, 10-14 July 2023. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3563657.3596056
Khan, Awais Hameed, Snow, Stephen and Matthews, Ben (2023). Participatory design tools: leveraging materiality and familiarity to adapt unconventional materials into design tools. 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition, C&C '23, Online, 19 - 21 June 2023. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3591196.3593339
Vyas, Dhaval, Khan, Awais Hameed and Cooper, Anabelle (2023). Democratizing making: scaffolding participation using e-waste to engage under-resourced communities in technology design. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23), Hamburg, Germany, 23 - 28 April 2023. New York, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3544548.3580759
Scott, Steven Alan, Khan, Awais Hameed and Matthews, Ben (2022). First impressions: a visual catalogue for understanding interactions with novel interfaces in augmented reality. TEI '22: Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Daejeon, Republic of Korea, 13-16 February 2022. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3490149.3502259
Khan, Awais Hameed, Ejaz, Neelam, Matthews, Sarah, Snow, Stephen and Matthews, Ben (2021). Speculative design for education: using participatory methods to map design challenges and opportunities in Pakistan. Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Virtual, 28 June - 2 July 2021. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3461778.3462117
Snow, Stephen, Khan, Awais Hameed, Glencross, Mashhuda and Horrocks, Neil (2021). Neighbourhood Wattch: Using Speculative Design to Explore Values Around Curtailment and Consent in Household Energy Interactions. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan, 8-13 May 2021. New York, NY United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3411764.3445095
Li, Hong, Khan, Awais Hameed, Hurtig, Kuisma Martin, Jarusriboonchai, Pradthana and Häkkilä, Jonna (2021). Flexi Card Game: a design toolkit for unconventional communication systems for long-distance relationships. International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Salzburg, Austria, 14-17 February 2021. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3430524.3440650
Snow, Stephen, Guinea, Toby, Balson, Alexander, Khan, Awais Hameed, Glencross, Mashhuda and Horrocks, Neil (2020). Rent-a-Watt: Rethinking energy use feedback. OzCHI '20: 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Sydney, NSW Australia, 2-4 December 2020. Washington, DC United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3441000.3441059
Li, Hong, Kalving, Matilda, Khan, Awais Hameed and Häkkilä, Jonna (2020). Designing unconventional communication systems for long-distance relationships using the Flexi Card Game: a card-based design toolkit. International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, Essen, Germany, 22-25 November 2020. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3428361.3431195
Khan, Awais Hameed, Snow, Stephen, Heiner, Scott, Hardgrove, Robert, Matthews, Sarah and Matthews, Ben (2020). The politics of materiality: exploring participatory design methods, tools and practices. DRS2020, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 11 - 14 August, 2020. London, United Kingdom: Design Research Society. doi: 10.21606/drs.2020.246
Matthews, Sarah, Khan, Awais Hameed, Boden, Marie and Viller, Stephen (2020). Preserving sequential context: developing participatory video analysis practice. DRS2020, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 11-14 August, 2020. London, United Kingdom: Design Research Society. doi: 10.21606/drs.2020.296
Johnson, Nicholas Samuel, Khan, Awais Hameed, Lawrence, Abbie, Torrens, George Edward and Storer, Ian (2020). Mapping the Organisational Landscape of the UK FMCG Industry: A Review of Packaging Design and Development Professionals. DRS2020, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 11-14 August 2020. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Design Research Society. doi: 10.21606/drs.2020.260
Khan, Awais Hameed, Snow, Stephen, Heiner, Scott and Matthews, Ben (2020). Disconnecting: towards a semiotic framework for personal data trails. 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 6-10 July 2020. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3357236.3395580
Khan, Awais Hameed, Snow, Stephen and Matthews, Ben (2020). Tracing design: practitioner accounts of design value, documentation and practices. 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 6-10 July 2020. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3357236.3395537
Snow, Stephen, Khan, Awais Hameed, Viller, Stephen, Matthews, Ben, Heiner, Scott, Pierce, James, Luger, Ewa, Gomer, Richard and Filipczuk, Dorota (2020). Speculative designs for emergent personal data trails: signs, signals and signifiers. 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, HI, United States, 25-30 April 2020. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3334480.3375173
Khan, Awais Hameed (2020). Participatory design tools: exploring the value of design through materiality. CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 25-30 April 2020, Honolulu, HI USA. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3334480.3375023
Khan, Awais Hameed and Matthews, Ben (2019). The semantics of design and why they matter. Academy for Design Innovation Management Conference, London, United Kingdom, 18-21 June 2019. London, United Kingdom: Academy for Design Innovation Management. doi: 10.33114/adim.2019.03.405
Khan, Awais Hameed and Matthews, Ben (2019). Democratizing soap: the methodological value of using Constructive Assemblies as a Participatory Design tool. 13th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2019, Tempe, AZ, United States, 17-20 March 2019. New York, NY, United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/3294109.3295641
Khan, Awais Hameed, Heiner, Scott and Matthews, Ben (2019). Disconnect: a proposal for reclaiming control in HCI. 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Glasgow, Scotland, 4 May 2019. New York, NY, USA: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/3290607.3313048
Khan, Awais Hameed, Hunter, Trevor and Worthy, Peter (2018). Outpost : A proposal for libraries of the future. OzCHI '18, Melbourne, Australia, 4 - 7 December, 2018 . New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/3292147.3292244
Zheng, Chunnan, Khan, Awais Hameed and Matthews, Ben (2018). Bridging the cross-cultural language divide through design. 30th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, OzCHI 2018, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 4-7 December 2018. New York, NY, United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/3292147.3292222
Khan, Awais Hameed, DiSalvo, Alyssa , Wang Ng, Ki , Balachandran, Shiva, Hunter, Trevor and Worthy, Peter (2017). The sixth sense: augmenting sensory perception through critical design. 11th ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2017, Yokohama, Japan, 20 - 23 March 2017. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3024969.3035533
Research Report
Henman, Paul, Thomas, Julian, Soldatic, Karen, Goldenfein, Jake, Weatherall, Kimberlee, Sleep, Lyndal, Carney, Terry, Chand, Kunal, Khan, Awais Hameed, Wilcock, Scarlet, Livingstone, Stephanie and Matulionyte, Rita (2023). Submission by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society (ADM+S). Brisbane, QLD Australia: Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme.
Thesis
Khan, Awais Hameed (2022). Material forms of participation: exploring the value of design by making design methods accessible to non-designers. PhD Thesis, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/2d156cb
Creative Works
Munn, Luke and Hameed Khan, Awais (2025). Unmaking AI Design Cards. Carlton, VIC Australia: ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.
Khan, Awais Hameed and Snow, Stephen (2025). The bootleg design cards toolkit. Carlton, VIC, Australia: ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.
Khan, Awais Hameed, Whelan-Shamy, Daniel, Watt, Ned, D'Silva, Rhea, Kegalle, Hiruni, Ghahremanlou, Lida and Magee, Liam (2023). AI Sub Zero Bias Cards. Carlton, VIC, Australia: ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.
Doherty, Skye, Khan, Awais Hameed, Matthews, Ben and van de Fliert, Elske (2023). Fire Futures concept portfolio. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Doherty, Skye, Khan, Awais Hameed, Matthews, Ben and van de Fliert, Elske (2022). Fire Futures participatory design tools. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.