RECOVER Injury Research Centre

Dr Robert Cuthbert

BGames&IntEnt, BInfTech(Hons)
Research Fellow
RECOVER Injury Research Centre
The University of Queensland
Level 7, Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service
296 Herston Road
HERSTON QLD 4029

Robert is a Research Officer who joined the RECOVER Injury Research Centre in 2024. He is part of the Technology-enabled rehabilitation team, which focuses on developing more effective and efficient health services supported by technology innovation.

Robert's PhD project revolved around the application of Virtual Reality (VR) for burn injury rehabilitation. Using collaborative design with burn survivors and healthcare professionals, he developed a functional VR rehabilitation prototype tailored for burn injuries. He then led an evaluation process within the burn survivor community, ensuring the application aligned with end-users' needs and expectations.

Robert's research interests include the application of serious games in healthcare settings.

Publications

Conference Papers (4)

Conference Papers

Turkay, Selen, Formosa, Jessica, Cuthbert, Robert, Adinolf, Sonam and Brown, Ross Andrew (2021). Virtual reality esports - understanding competitive players' perceptions of location based VR esports. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Electr Network, 8-13 May 2021. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3411764.3445073
Cuthbert, Robert, Turkay, Selen, Brown, Ross, Johnson, Daniel, Altizer, Roger and Desselle, Mathilde (2020). Tradies, technology and therapy: towards designing gameful VR environments for burn rehabilitation. CHI PLAY '20: The Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, Canada, November 2020. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3410404.3414236
Turkay, Selen, Formosa, Jessica, Adinolf, Sonam, Cuthbert, Robert and Altizer, Roger (2020). See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil: how collegiate esports players define, experience and cope with toxicity. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Electr Network, 25-30 April 2020. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3313831.3376191
Cuthbert, Robert, Turkay, Selen and Brown, Ross (2020). The effects of customisation on player experiences and motivation in a virtual reality game. 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (OZCHI), Fremantle, WA, Australia, 2 - 5 December 2019. New York, NY, United States: Asasociation for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3369457.3369475