Ghazaleh Sepahpour

Ghazaleh Sepahpour is a Lecturer in Product and Industrial Design at the University of South Australia (UniSA Creative), located at the City West Campus. Her research focuses on human-product relationships, user experience design, and transactional analysis in design contexts. Her work explores how users perceive and interact with smart devices, including auxiliary activities like updates and security management.

Key research areas include emotional design, human-computer interaction, and generational differences in technology engagement. Recent studies investigate how auxiliary activities associated with smart devices influence user attitudes, emphasizing opportunities to reduce task burden through design improvements.

Her publications span topics from product-person relationships to children's play environments and decision-making processes. Notable contributions include applying transactional analysis frameworks to understand cellphone interactions and developing models for measuring emotional connections to inanimate objects.

No scientific awards or grants are explicitly listed in the provided texts. She advises no students in the available data, and her affiliations remain centered at UniSA Creative without additional institutional links noted.