Overview
Background
Dr. Thilina Halloluwa is a Teaching Focused Lecturer in the Human-Centred Computing discipline. He is a SEDA accredited educator with over 15 years of academic and industry experience. As an applied researcher, he is passionate about extending research to have non-negative real-world impact. He received a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from Queensland University of Technology , Australia and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
Prior to joining UQ, Thilina was a Lecturer at the University of Sydney (2023), and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Colombo (2013-2023).
Availability
- Dr Thilina Halloluwa is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Doctoral (Research) of Computer-Human Interaction, Queensland University of Technology
- Member, Association for Computing Machinery, Association for Computing Machinery
- Member, International Federation for Information Processing, International Federation for Information Processing
Research interests
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Education for all – Attempting to broaden the reach of Education through technology
Often times, people think technology in education means that the teachers will be replaced by machines. However, the impacts a real human beings could have on one’s learning, the social experiences that lead to better education, cannot be replicated by any technology. This research project focus on augmenting this social/collaborative learning experience between students and teachers and exploring how diffract technologies could make students better at learning and teachers better at communicating knowledge.
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Human Money Interaction: Designing for Personal Finances
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) has become more prominent in the corporate world. How do we ensure that human well-being is prioritized when we adopt and accelerate the deployment of such powerful technology, especially within the financial services industry where trust is paramount? How do we develop technology in a responsible way while continuing to innovate? How these technologies can be used to support underserved communities? How can they enhance the existing practices/cultural values? These are the questions I try to find answers for with this project.
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Smart Agro – A Smart Agriculture Project
The world population is expected to reach 9.6 billion before 2050. The United Nations claim that the food production has to increase by 70% just to keep pace. They have also listed several barriers to fulfill this imperative. The Smart Agro project focus on finding solutions pass those barriers.
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Metrix – Assisting managers to make accurate estimates on the Software Projects
Effort estimation is where software teams evaluate the relative size of a task or product backlog item based on how much effort it will require to finish. According to the University of Oxford, more than half of all major IT projects with beginning costs over $15 million massively exceed their budgets. In addition, the cost overruns increase by 15% for every additional year that a project is set to continue, making it more probable that it would go over budget and schedule. Activities involving effort estimation are crucial to the planning and managing of a software project to ensure its timely and cost-effective completion. This project aims at supporting engineers make better decisions on their software project estimations.
Works
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2019
Conference Publication
Dhana Labha: A financial management application to underbanked communities in Rural Sri Lanka
Halloluwa, Thilina and Vyas, Dhaval (2019). Dhana Labha: A financial management application to underbanked communities in Rural Sri Lanka. INTERACT 2019: Human-Computer Interaction, Paphos, Cyprus, 2–6 September 2019. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-29384-0_45
2018
Journal Article
Sociocultural practices that make microfinance work: a case study from Sri Lanka
Halloluwa, Thilina, Usoof, Hakim and Vyas, Dhaval (2018). Sociocultural practices that make microfinance work: a case study from Sri Lanka. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2 (CSCW) 65, 1-22. doi: 10.1145/3274334
2018
Journal Article
Gamification for development: a case of collaborative learning in Sri Lankan primary schools
Halloluwa, Thilina, Vyas, Dhaval, Usoof, Hakim and Hewagamage, K. P. (2018). Gamification for development: a case of collaborative learning in Sri Lankan primary schools. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 22 (2), 391-407. doi: 10.1007/s00779-017-1073-6
2018
Conference Publication
Value for money: co-designing with underbanked women from rural Sri Lanka
Halloluwa, Thilina, Bandara, Pradeepa, Usoof, Hakim and Vyas, Dhaval (2018). Value for money: co-designing with underbanked women from rural Sri Lanka. 30th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, OzCHI 2018, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 4-7 December 2018. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3292147.3292157
2017
Conference Publication
Designing for financial literacy: co-design with children in rural Sri Lanka
Halloluwa, Thilina, Vyas, Dhaval, Usoof, Hakim, Bandara, Pradeepa, Brereton, Margot and Hewagamage, Priyantha (2017). Designing for financial literacy: co-design with children in rural Sri Lanka. 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), Mumbai, India, 25-29 September 2017. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-67744-6_21
2016
Conference Publication
Gamifying mathematics for primary students in rural Sri Lanka
Halloluwa, Thilina, Vyas, Dhaval, Usoof, Hakim, Hewagamage, K. P. and Sahama, Tony (2016). Gamifying mathematics for primary students in rural Sri Lanka. 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden, 23-27 October 2016. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2971485.2971522
2016
Conference Publication
Interaction design for tablet based edutainment systems for mathematical education of primary students
Halloluwa, Thilina, Vyas, Dhaval, Sahama, Tony, Hewagamage, K. P. and Usoof, Hakim (2016). Interaction design for tablet based edutainment systems for mathematical education of primary students. 15th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, ICTer 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 24- 25 August 2015. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ICTER.2015.7377706
2015
Conference Publication
Interaction design for tablet based edutainment systems for mathematical education of primary students
Halloluwa, Thilina, Vyas, Dhaval, Sahama, Tony, Hewagamage, K. P. and Usoof, Hakim (2015). Interaction design for tablet based edutainment systems for mathematical education of primary students. Fifteenth International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer), Colombo, Sri Lanka, 24-25 August 2015. New York, NY USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ICTER.2015.7377706
2014
Journal Article
Stimulating learners' motivation in primary education in Sri Lanka - a literature review
Halloluwa, H. K. T. C., Usoof, Hakim and Hewagamage, K. P. (2014). Stimulating learners' motivation in primary education in Sri Lanka - a literature review. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning, 9 (1), 47-52. doi: 10.3991/ijet.v9i1.2964
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Thilina Halloluwa is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Learning in the Digital Age: Investigating the Role of Large Language Models to Address Dropout Rates in Higher Education
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Dhaval Vyas
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