Janet Wiles

Janet Wiles is a Professor in Human Centred Computing at the University of Queensland. Her multidisciplinary team co-designs language technologies to support people living with dementia and their carers and social robots for applications in health, education, and neuroscience. She is currently developing a citizen science project which uses insights from neuroscience, AI and language technologies to explore the electrical characteristics of mycelial networks of symbiotic fungi in local ecosystems. She received her PhD in computer science from the University of Sydney and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychology. She has 30 years’ experience in research and teaching in machine learning, artificial intelligence, bio-inspired computation, complex systems, visualisation, language technologies and social robotics, leading teams that span engineering, humanities, social sciences and neuroscience. She currently teaches research methods for thesis and masters students, and a new course in human-centred artificial intelligence. Previous special interest courses include a cross disciplinary course ”Voyages in Language Technologies” that introduced computing students to the diversity of Indigenous and non-Indigenous languages, and state-of-the-art tools for deep learning and other analysis techniques for working with language data. Human-centred computing, Information and Computing Sciences, Machine learning, Neural networks

[2026] Co-design of a web accessibility browser extension for people with post-stroke aphasia: Understanding experiences and priorities in the first stage of an experience-based co-design study [2026] Socially minded intelligence: how individuals, groups, and artificial intelligence can make each other smarter (or not) [2026] A social identity theory of digital identity [2025] Development of an mHealth application for self‐management of post‐stroke aphasia: protocol for experience‐based co‐design, user experience testing, feasibility field test and process evaluation [2025] Experience-based co-design of a smartphone app for post-stroke aphasia self-management: a process evaluation [2025] Disrupting hackathons: reflections on creating inclusive design events through collaboration [2025] Bri