Allison Jing

About

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at RMIT University and an adjunct Researcher at the Empathic Computing Lab led by Prof Mark Billinghurst at Adelaide University. My research explores how XR can "superpower" human capabilities by augmenting interactions and environments to support cross-reality collaboration and by leveraging biosignals and human behaviors to enable trustworthy human–AI empathy. I call it Empathic Extended Intelligence (EXI). Based in Melbourne (current) / Seattle (home), my user-driven approaches are derived from years of experience in the customer-focused tech industry (as a content manager and product designer) and academia (as a research scientist intern). Previously, I have worked with Meta Reality Labs (Research), Microsoft, Xbox, Amazon, startups, NGOs, and rese