School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Dr Robert Cuthbert

Research Officer
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
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Researcher biography

Robert is a Research Fellow 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 previous research revolved around the application of Virtual Reality (VR) for burn injury rehabilitation. Using collaborative design with burn survivors and healthcare professionals, he has developed functional VR rehabilitation prototypes tailored for burn injuries.

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

Publications

Journal Article (1)
Conference Papers (4)
Thesis (1)

Journal Article

Brown, Riley C. C., Simmich, Joshua, Cuthbert, Robert, Ross, Megan H., Molina-Garcia, Pablo and Russell, Trevor G. (2025). Safety of videoconferencing for physical rehabilitation and exercise: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical rehabilitation, 39 (9) 02692155251361916, 2692155251361916-1242. doi: 10.1177/02692155251361916

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
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
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

Thesis

Cuthbert, Robert (2024). Virtual journeys in rehabilitation: enhancing user motivation through virtual reality. PhD Thesis, School of Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology. doi: 10.5204/thesis.eprints.251730