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Congratulations to Sam Thorogood on Apple (AUC) Innovation Seeding Grant
Posted by: CHAI, Mon 19 May, 2008

Congratulations to Sam Thorogood on winning an Apple University Consortium (AUC) Innovation Seeding Grant for 2008.

His thesis topic is titled "Who am I: Files and their identities":

"My research topic involves systems for maintaining identity, uniqueness and freshness through time and over multiple loosely-coupled systems. In more functional terms, I aim to investigate and develop personal information management (PIM) systems that empower individual users with the ability to track the history and lineage of their own files over time. This information can actually be imagined as a "family tree" of files. Obviously, my research goals will be supported by a development project. I plan to release practical, unobtrusive tools that will enhance user experience, while utilising the Mac OS X Finder. These tools will provide users with up-to-date information about any specified file, including information on its parents, siblings and children - that is, in the form of the family tree analogy described."

Congratulations to Greg Darke on Apple (AUC) Honours Scholarship
Posted by: CHAI, Mon 17 March, 2008

Congratulations to Greg Darke on winning an Apple AUC Honours Scholarship.

His thesis topic is "an activity driven file interface":

Modern task management typically requires the coordination of many digital resources - email, calendar items, documents and contacts. This information is becoming more distributed, moving online and across multiple devices - smart phones, laptops and desktop computers. As a result, coordinating all these devices and resources is becoming increasingly difficult, particularly when these tasks involve multiple people. Pervasive computing, in particular 'Activity based computing' can help alleviate this difficulty by seamlessly integrating resources. My research will focus on looking into methods that can be used to associate data with specific tasks, such as documents that are likely to be related to each other because they were used together. I will also be evaluating how effective these methods are.

Congratulations to Anthony Collins
Posted by: Judy Kay, Mon 04 February, 2008

Congratulations to Anthony Collins on his acceptance to the PhD programme.

Congratulations to Lichao Li
Posted by: Judy Kay, Fri 01 February, 2008

Congratulations to Lichao Li (better known here as Bruce) on successfully passing examination of his MSc thesis, entitled A Reflective Learning Framework for Programming.

Lab Spotlight - CHAI
Posted by: Judy Kay, Tue 06 November, 2007

CHAI is in the Lab Spotlight Vol. 3, No. 44

Smart Internet Technology CRC files patent 2007231829
Posted by: CHAI, Fri 02 November, 2007

Smart Internet Technology CRC files patent 2007231829: Systems and Methods for file transfer to a pervasive computing system.

CHAI at Tabletop 2007, Newport, Rhode Island, USA.
Posted by: Judy Kay, Wed 10 October, 2007

Trent Apted, Anthony Collins and Judy Kay attended Tabletop 2007, the second international Tabletop conference held in Newport, RI, USA. Anthony presented Tabletop file system access: Associative and hierarchical approaches, reporting our recent exploration of ways to tackle the fundamental challenge of interfaces to support file access on tabletops - with their interaction limitations (no mouse or keyboard) and with the goal to exploit the social interaction that is normal at tables. This work draws on PhD research of Apted and MSc research of Collins. Although this is just the second Tabletop conference (the first was held in Australia in 2006), the importance of this area was reflected in the large number of submissions, the low acceptance rate and the range of high profile sponsors, ranging from handware suppliers like SMART, commercial researchers, MERL, to Microsoft Research, who have given us the new term, Surface Computing, as well as exciting pointers to the largescale potential of this research area.

Judy Kay elected to the UM Inc. Board
Posted by: CHAI, Fri 28 September, 2007

Associate Professor Judy Kay has been elected by the Adaptive Hypermedia Steering Committee to join the User Modeling Inc. (UM Inc.) Board. This Board will work towards the creation of a new integrated society that will run the annual conference that joins the former User Modeling with the current Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia conference series.

CHAI Awarded Australian Research Council Discover Grant
Posted by: CHAI, Wed 26 September, 2007

CHAI has been awarded an Australian Research Council Discover Grant, titled "Pervasive Lifelong User Modelling for User Controlled Personalisation and Augmented Cognition". This grant is for a duration of 5 years (2008-2012), and is valued at $349,322.

Judy Kay appointed PC chair of AH2008
Posted by: Bob Kummerfeld, Mon 03 September, 2007

Judy Kay has been appointed co-chair of the programme committee of the major conference in personalisation, Adaptive Hypermedia 2008. AH2008 will be held in Hannover, Germany in July 2008.

Kim Upton wins WWDC Scholarship
Posted by: Judy Kay, Wed 23 May, 2007

Congratulations to Kim Upton, on winning aWWDC scholarship to attend the World Wide Developers Conference.

Anthony Collins awarded second prize in CHI undergraduate research competition
Posted by: Judy Kay, Thu 03 May, 2007

Congratulations to Anthony Collins who won second prize in the undergraduate student research competition at CHI, the premier Computer Human Interaction Conference, putting him into the

ACM student research competition finalists. The conference was held in San Jose, California, USA.

Kimberley Upton wins Apple University Consortium Honours scholarship
Posted by: CHAI, Tue 24 April, 2007

Congratulations to Kimberley Upton on winning an Apple University Consortium Honours Scholarship to support her thesis work about "Supporting CSCL with Wiki Text Analysis and Visualisations of Team Work"

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