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Dr Belinda Dunstan

Dr Belinda Dunstan

Senior Lecturer

Doctor of Philosophy, ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Australia Art & Design,ÌýCreative Robotics Lab
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Australia Art & Design
Bachelor of Art Education, ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Australia Art & Design

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Built Environment

Belinda J Dunstan is a Senior Lecturer in the ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, and isÌýthe Principal Lead for theÌýthe ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Creative Robotics Lab.ÌýMotivated by curiosity and care for how technology will shape human activity in the future, her multidisciplinary research practice spans the disciplines of fine art, design, architecture, education and social robotics to engage in ‘critical-futuring’.
In 2024, Belinda authored and designed Australia's first minor in Social Robotics for the Bachelor of Design. She is also the Course Convenor for Interior Architecture:ÌýCritical Perspectives and for Computational Design: Human-Machine Interaction.ÌýBelinda’s research focuses on the appearance design, movement planning and future cultural implications of social robots.ÌýHer current research interests are inÌýsocial robot morphology, technology ethics and cultural robotics.ÌýRecently, Belinda was the lead editor of Cultural Robotics: Social Robots and their Emergent Cultural Ecologies (Springer, 2023).
E-mail
belinda.dunstan@unsw.edu.au
Location
Faculty of Built Environment 2009 Red Centre Building
  • Book Chapters | 2025
    Dunstan B; Dunstan B, 2025, 'Listening to Materials: Dialogue Between Digital and Analogue Practices in Designing Social Robots', in Tavares M; Henno J; Guerra P (ed.), art_design_technology: tensions and distensions, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, pp. 27 - 60,
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Dincer D; Dunstan B, 2023, 'X-ACT: Desire Lines of a Healing Bone', in Borlini M; Califano A (ed.), Urban Corporis. To the Bones, Anteferma, Italy, pp. 165 - 173
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Dunstan B; Dincer D, 2023, 'X-ACT: Desire Lines of a Healing Bone', in Milocco Borlini M; Califano A (ed.), Urban Corporis-To the Bones, Anteferma Edizioni, Italy, pp. 164 - 171
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Dunstan B; Hoffman G, 2023, 'Social Robot Morphology: Cultural Histories of Robot Design', in Dunstan B; Turnbull Tillman D (ed.), Cultural Robotics: Social Robots and their Emergent Cultural Ecologies, Springer Cham,
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Dunstan B; Koh JTKV, 2023, 'Emergent Cultural Ecologies in Social Robotics', in Dunstan B; Turnbull Tillman D; Brown S (ed.), Cultural Robotics: Social Robots and their Emergent Cultural Ecologies, Springer, Cham,
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Marynowski W; Knowles J; Bown O; Dunstan B, 2023, 'Sonic robotics: musical genres as platforms for understanding robotic performance as cultural events', in Dunstan B; Koh J; Turnbull Tilman D; Brown S (ed.), Cultural Robotics 2.0, Springer Nature, pp. 219 - 235,
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Tillman D; Velonaki M, 2023, 'On  Display: Robots as Culture', in Dunstan B; Brown S; Koh JTV; Tillman D (ed.), Cultural Robotics: Social Robots and their Emergent Cultural Ecologies, Springer, NY and Switzerland,
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Wozniak - O'Connor V, 2023, 'Data, Site, Materials: Robotics and Digital Fabrication Within Installation Art', in Dunstan B; Koh J; Tillman D; Brown S (ed.), Cultural Robotics: Social Robots and Their Emergent Cultural Ecologies, pp. 75 - 88,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Dunstan B; Fabbri A; Haeusler M; Ramos Jaime C; Yu KD, 2019, 'The Centaur Pod Pavilion', in Computational Design. From Promise to Practice, pp. 80 - 95
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Davies AP; Crosby A, 2016, 'Compressorhead: The Robot Band and its Transmedia Storyworld', in Koh J; Dunstan B; Silvera-Tawil D; Velonaki M (ed.), Cultural Robotics, First International Workshop, CR 2015, Held as Part of IEEE RO-MAN 2015, Springer International Publishing, pp. 175 - 189
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Dunstan BJ; Silvera Tawil D; Koh JTKV, 2016, 'Cultural Robotics: Robots as Participants and Creators of Culture', in Dunstan BJ; Silvera Tawil D; Koh JTKV; Velonaki M (ed.), Cultural Robotics: First International Workshop, CR 2015, Held as Part of IEEE RO-MAN 2015, Kobe, Japan, August 31, 2015. Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, pp. 3 - 13,
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Dunstan BJ; Koh JT, 2015, 'A Cognitive Model for Human WIllingness to Collaborate with Robots', in Samani H (ed.), Cognitive Robotics, CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp. 127 - 137,
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Dunstan BJ, 2015, 'A Cognitive Model for Human Willingness to Collaborate with Robots: The Emergence of Cultural Robotics', in Cognitive Robotics, pp. 127 - 142
  • Edited Books | 2023
    Tillman D; Dunstan B; Brown S; Koh JTV, (eds.), 2023, Cultural Robotics: Social Robots and their Emergent Cultural Ecologies, Springer, NY and Switzerland,
    Edited Books | 2016
    Koh JT; Dunstan BJ; Silvera-Tawil D; Velonaki M, (eds.), 2016, Cultural Robotics First International Workshop, CR 2015, Held as Part of IEEE RO-MAN 2015, Kobe, Japan, August 31, 2015., Springer International Publishing, Switzerland,
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Dunstan BJ; Hoffman G, 2024, 'Rethinking Bodily Expression in Human-Robot Communication: Insights from Sculpture', Interaction Design and Architecture S, pp. 98 - 116,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Dunstan BJ; Stonham M; Dincer D, 2024, 'Uncertain Future Dwelling: Emergent Interiors of the Metaverse', Interiority, 7, pp. 151 - 174,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Fabbri A; Dunstan B; Haeusler M, 2018, 'HRI for the Construction Industry: Challenging Architectural Fabrication towards Collaborative Artisanal Choreographies', International Journal of Architectural Computing, 16
    Journal articles | 2016
    Koh JTKV; Dunstan BJ; Silvera-Tawil D, 2016, 'Preface', Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9549
  • Conference Abstracts | 2025
    Dunstan B; Koh JTKV; Samani H, (eds.), 2025, 'Cultural Robotics: Diversified Sustainable Practices', in The 2nd International Workshop on Cultural Robotics: Diversified Sustainable Practices, Melbourne, Australia, presented at 2025 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Melbourne, Australia, 04 March 2025 - 06 March 2025,
    Conference Papers | 2025
    Dunstan BJ; Koh JTKV; Samani H, 2025, 'Cultural Robotics: Diversified Sustainable Practices', in ACM IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, pp. 1967 - 1969,
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2024
    Dunstan B, 2024, Robotum Exuviae (2024), SHErobots: Ecologies of Care, TU Delft Library, Delft, The Netherlands, 12 February 2024 - 30 March 2024, medium: Specimens: Silicone rubber, gel medium, tubing, resin, acrylic, foam core, specimen pins, sheet metal, copper mesh. Video of Still, Life [2:09], at: https://www.tudelft.nl/library/over-de-library/evenementen/sherobots-ecologies-of-care
    Creative Written Works | 2022
    Dunstan B, 2022, Still, Life: Artist Statement, SHErobots: Tool, Toy Companion, Turnbull Tillman D, (ed.), The University of Sydney
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2022
    Dunstan B, 2022, Still, Life (2022), SHErobots, Tinsheds Gallery, 20 October 2022 - 26 November 2022, medium: Silicone, at: https://architectureau.com/calendar/exhibitions/she-robots-tool-toy-companion/
    Theses / Dissertations | 2020
    Dunstan B, 2020, The Plastic Dynamism of the Human Aesthetic: Employing Futurist Methodologies in the Cross-Disciplinary Design of Social Robot Morphologies, ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ,
    Creative Written Works | 2019
    Dunstan B, 2019, FEMUFACTURE: Artist Statement, FEMUFACTURE e-catalogue,
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2019
    Dunstan B, 2019, Still, Life (2019), FEMUFACTURE, The Japan Foundation, Sydney, 06 February 2019 - 27 March 2019, medium: Silicone Eco-Flex rubber compound, fabric, rubber adhesive. Formed from laser-cut Perspex moulds, at: https://jpf.org.au/media-releases/femufacture/
    Reports | 2017
    Dunstan B, 2017, A Guide to Ethical Conduct in Human Research for ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Art & Design Research Practitioners, Australian Government Department of Education and Training, Online,
    Patents | 2015
    Dunstan B, 2015, Robot Movement and Morphology Design Patent, Patent No. #JP2016-052253
    Conference Papers | 2015
    Dunstan BJ; Silvera-Tawil D; Koh JTKV; Velonaki M, 2015, 'Cultural robotics: Robots as participants and creators of culture', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Kobe, Japan, pp. 3 - 13, presented at 2015 International Workshop in Cultural Robotics, Kobe, Japan, 31 August 2015 - 31 August 2015,
    Conference Papers | 2014
    Dunstan BJ; Koh JTKV, 2014, 'A cognitive model for human willingness in human-robot interaction development', in Zhu K (ed.), SA '14 SIGGRAPH Asia 2014, ACM, Shenzhen, China, presented at SIGGRAPH ASIA, Shenzhen, China, 03 November 2014 - 06 November 2014,

²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ ADA Early Career Researcher Development Fund (2025)
²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Built Environment Seed Funding (2025)
²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Built Environment Early Career Research GrantÌý(2021)
CoBuild 4.0 in collaboration with Landom NSWÌý(2018)
²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Faculty Travel Grant (2015)
²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Faculty Travel Grant (2014)
Australian Postgraduate Award (2014–2017)
²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Isenberg Award for Excellence in Sculpture (2013)

The Society of Interior Designers Australia (SIDA) Foundation International Travel Award for ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Interior Architecture (2025)
²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Scientia Education Academy Exemplary Teaching Practice Award (2024)
²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Faculty of the Built Environment Dean’s Award for OutstandingÌýContributions to Student Learning (Sessional Staff) (2015)
²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ CATEI Award for Outstanding Teaching Performance (2016: S1)
²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ CATEI Award for Outstanding Teaching Performance (2015: S1, S2)
²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ CATEI Award for Outstanding Teaching Performance (2014: S1, S2)

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[TED talk profile]: TEDx ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ:ÌýÌý

[Interview]:Ìý²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Newsroom, ‘Social robotics can help us move towards a more inclusive society’:

[Podcast Interview]: OPENSCR Podcast, Episode 2- Cultural Robotics, Technology Ethics and Human-Machine Interaction:

[Panel Moderator]: Sydney Writer’s Festival, Technology Panel: Keeping Tech in Check-

[Radio]: Interview with John Stanley 2GB:ÌýÌý

[Interview Panel Recording]: AI in Legal Practice Summit 2018: AI Law, Robot Personalities, Ethics, Regulation & Risk Management:ÌýÌý

[Interview Panel Recording]: Panel discussion at Goethe-Institut Australia, on Humans and IA:ÌýÌý

[Interview Panel Link]: VIVID Sydney: Art Meets Artificial Intelligence:ÌýÌý

[Weblink]: Sydney Design Week: FEMUFACTURE, Exhibition and Panel Discussion:ÌýÌý

[Weblink] Sparkfest 2020 Tech Talk: Internet of Things:ÌýÌý

[Print]: Interview with MUAH: Social Robotics and Collaboration:ÌýÌý

[Print]: Interview with Create Digital for Engineers Australia:ÌýÌý

[Weblink] ANAT SALON :: Emotionally Engaging the Machine:Ìý

[Workshop]: Rising Sun Motorcycle Workshop:Ìý

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