Jill Bennett
About Jill Bennett
Affiliations (Current and Past)
- University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Location
- Paddington, Australia
Bio
SIGGRAPH Asia 2023
Professor Jill Bennett is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), where she is also Director of the National Institute for Experimental Arts, and Founding Director of The Big Anxiety – festival of arts + science + people. Her Laureate Research Lab advances the study of the subjective experience of ageing, mental health, marginalisation and stigma, combining psycho-social approaches with the use of immersive environments and virtual reality to enable perspective sharing, and the development of effective methods for cultivating empathy.
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