Joanne Zucco

Dr Joanne Zucco

Program Director

School of Computer Science and Information Technology

College of Engineering and Information Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Consulting:

Thursdays 10.30 am - 11.30 am via Zoom (see link below).

If you prefer, you may join at the aforementioned times via Zoom by following this link (Join from a PC, Mac, iOS or Android). 
No appointment necessary during consulting times. If you would like to meet with me outside of consulting times, please make an appointment via email.  If you can see me in my office or around the place, please feel free to drop in and speak with me in person (no appointment necessary). 

  • Wearable Computing
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Augmented Reality
  • User Interfaces
  • Learning and Teaching

Year Citation
2025 Pieschacon, J. M., Costabile, M., Cunningham, A., Zucco, J., Von Itzstein, G. S., & Smith, R. T. (2025). Smart Pipette: Elevating Laboratory Performance With Tactile Authenticity and Real-Time Feedback. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 31(9), 5788-5800.
DOI Scopus2 Europe PMC1
2020 Cao, R., Dey, S., Cunningham, A., Walsh, J., Smith, R. T., Zucco, J. E., & Thomas, B. H. (2020). Examining the use of narrative constructs in data videos. Visual Informatics, 4(1), 8-22.
DOI Scopus26 WoS25
2016 Zucco, J., & Thomas, B. H. (2016). Design guidelines for wearable pointing devices. Frontiers in ICT, 3(13), 1-19.
DOI Scopus4
2002 Thomas, B. H., Grimmer Somers, K. A., Zucco, J., & Milanese, S. F. (2002). Where does the mouse go? An investigation into the placement of a body-attached touchpad mouse for wearable computers. Personal and ubiquitous computing, 6(2), 97-112.
DOI Scopus45 WoS25

Year Citation
2024 Gower, J., Baumeister, J., Thomas, B. H., & Zucco, J. (2024). Augmented reality annotations for assisting with decision-making and time-critical tasking. In Proceedings - 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR 2024 (pp. 865-873). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus1
2023 Clarke, T. J., Mayer, W., Zucco, J. E., Drogemuller, A., & Smith, R. T. (2023). Volumetric X-ray vision using illustrative visual effects. In Proceedings - 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct, ISMAR-Adjunct 2023 (pp. 769-771). US: IEEE.
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2023 Gower, J., Baumeister, J., Thomas, B. H., & Zucco, J. (2023). Augmented reality annotations in a collaborative time-critical task. In Proceedings - 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct, ISMAR-Adjunct 2023 (pp. 631-636). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus3
2023 Clarke, T. J., Mayer, W., Zucco, J. E., & Smith, R. T. (2023). Generating pseudo random volumes for volumetric research. In Proceedings - 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct, ISMAR-Adjunct 2023 (pp. 266-270). US: IEEE.
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2022 Clarke, T. J., Mayer, W., Zucco, J. E., Matthews, B. J., & Smith, R. T. (2022). Adapting VST AR X-ray vision techniques to OST AR. In IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct) (pp. 495-500). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus5 WoS4
2022 Gower, J., Baumeister, J., Knight, M., Thomas, B., & Zucco, J. (2022). Augmented reality support for performance and decision-making in collaborative time-critical tasks. In Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct, ISMAR-Adjunct 2022 (pp. 958-963). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2017 Ssin, S. Y., Zucco, J. E., Walsh, J. A., Smith, R. T., & Thomas, B. H. (2017). SONA: Improving situational awareness of geotagged information using tangible interfaces. In 2017 International Symposium on Big Data Visual Analytics, BDVA 2017 (pp. 1-8). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus3
2016 Walsh, J. A., Zucco, J., Smith, R. T., & Thomas, B. H. (2016). Temporal-geospatial cooperative visual analysis. In 2016 Big Data Visual Analytics (BDVA) proceedings (pp. 1-8). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus8
2014 Thomas, B. H., Marner, M. R., Smith, R. T., El, S. N., Itzstein, G. S., Klein, K., . . . Suthers, T. (2014). Spatial augmented reality: a tool for 3D data visualization. In 2014 IEEE VIS International Workshop on 3DVis: does 3D really make sense for data visualization (pp. 45-50). US: IEEE Press.
DOI Scopus29 WoS22
2010 Porter, S. R., Marner, M. R., Smith, R. T., Zucco, J., & Thomas, B. H. (2010). Validating spatial augmented reality for interactive rapid prototyping. In T. Hollerer (Ed.), 9th IEEE international symposium on mixed and augmented reality 2010: science & technology, ISMAR 2010 - Proceedings (pp. 265-266). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus43
2010 Porter, S. R., Marner, M. R., Smith, R. T., Zucco, J., Thomas, B. H., & Schumacher, P. C. (2010). Spatial augmented reality for interactive rapid prototyping. In Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence : ICAT 2010 (pp. 110-117). Japan: Virtual Reality Society of Japan.
2009 Zucco, J., Thomas, B. H., Grimmer, K. A., & Cockburn, A. (2009). A comparison of menu configurations and pointing devices for use with wearable computers while mobile and stationary. In Proceedings : 2009 International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC '09 (pp. 63-70). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus10 WoS2
2009 Duff, A. H., Aziz, S. M., Fielke, J. M., Johnston, H. M., Quinn, D. M., & Zucco, J. (2009). Places, spaces and friendly faces: energising the orientation experience for first year engineering students. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (pp. 569-574). Adelaide, South Australia: University of Adelaide.
2006 Zucco, J., Thomas, B. H., & Grimmer, K. A. (2006). Evaluation of four wearable computer pointing devices for drag and drop tasks when stationary and walking. In Proceedings of the tenth IEEE international symposium on wearable computers (pp. 29-36). United States: IEEE Computer Society.
DOI Scopus18 WoS7
2005 Zucco, J., Thomas, B. H., & Grimmer, K. A. (2005). Evaluation of three wearable computer pointing devices for selection tasks. In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE international symposium on wearable computers Vol. 2005 (pp. 178-185). USA: IEEE.
DOI Scopus17 WoS7
2004 Cooper, N. D., Keatley, A. T., Dahlquist, M. C., Mann, S. A., Slay, H., Zucco, J., . . . Thomas, B. H. (2004). Augmented reality Chinese checkers. In ACM SIGGHI: International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Vol. 74 (pp. 117-126). New York, USA: ACM.
DOI Scopus29
2000 Thomas, B. H., Grimmer Somers, K. A., Zucco, J., & Milanese, S. F. (2000). Where does the mouse go?. In IEEE Conference.
1999 Thomas, B. H., Grimmer, K. A., Makovec, D., & Gunther, B. (1999). Determination of Placement of a Body-Attached Mouse as a pointing Devise for Wearable Computers. In D. Mizell (Ed.), 3rd International Symposium on Wearable Computers (pp. 193-194). New York, USA: IEEE.
Scopus16
1999 Thomas, B. H., Grimmer Somers, K. A., Makovec, D., Zucco, J., Milanese, S. F., & Gunther, B. (1999). Evaluation of the placement of a body-attached mouse as a pointing input device for wearable computers. In ISWC - International Symposium on wearable computers.
1998 Zucco, J., Thomas, B. H., & Trichina, E. V. (1998). Interactive Animation for Visualisation of Mapping of Parallel Programs into Parallel Processors. In 2nd International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems Vol. 3 (pp. 386-395). USA: IEEE.

  • D2D CRC Limited Scholarship, D2D CRC Limited, 05/12/2016 - 30/06/2020

  • D2D DC16006: Integrated Law Enforcement: Narrative Visualisation, D2D CRC Limited, 01/07/2016 - 30/06/2019

Courses I teach

  • COMP 1039 Problem Solving and Programming (2025)
  • INFS 3091 Industry Professional Development (2025)
  • COMP 1039 Problem Solving and Programming (2024)
  • INFS 3091 Industry Professional Development (2024)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Principal Supervisor Design for emotional wellbeing using virtual/mixed reality: Exploring the cross-cultural dynamics that affect the planning, aesthetics and final design layout of living spaces in the homes of multicultural Australians. - Doctorate Part Time Ms Venus Mirael St. Germain
2022 Co-Supervisor Hand skill training with custom haptics, real-time visual instruction, and immersive technologies - Doctorate Full Time Mr Juan Pieschacon Aponte
2020 Principal Supervisor Augmented reality for supporting performance and decision-making in time-critical environments. - Doctorate Part Time Mr Jamie Robert Gower
2020 Co-Supervisor VIRTs: Volumetric Illustrative Rendering Techniques to improve x-ray vision perception on optical see through mixed reality - Doctorate Part Time Mr Tom John Clarke

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