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Dr Anthony Collins
Smart Services CRC
Contact Details
E-mail: anthony.collins@sydney.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9036 9745
School of Information Technologies
Room 311, Level 3 West, Building J12
University of Sydney
NSW, 2006, Australia
Web-site: http://sydney.edu.au/it/~anthony
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Research Interests
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), novel user interfaces to file systems and personal information,
collaborative and group-oriented software, tabletop interfaces, pervasive and ubiquitous computing.
About
Dr Anthony Collins is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Computer Human Adapted Interaction (CHAI) research group at the University of Sydney, in conjunction with the Smart Services CRC Multi-Channel Content Delivery and Mobile Personalisation project. He received a Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology (Advanced) (Hons 1) degree in 2006, followed by a PhD in 2011, both from the University of Sydney. His PhD thesis, titled "New dimensions of file access at tabletops: associative and hierarchical; private and shared; individual and collaborative", explored the nature of file system access in pervasive computing, focusing on collaborative tabletop interaction. In his current position, he continues to conduct research in Human-Computer Interaction, particularly in the areas of pervasive and surface computing. His research currently investigates new software interfaces for real-world tabletop applications, encompassing themes such as: digital document access; multi-user collaboration with documents around a tabletop; export and organisation of content at a tabletop; using private devices (e.g. smartphones and tablets) in conjunction with shared collaborative displays; gesture learnability for tabletops in public spaces; and user modeling for personalisation of tabletops. He is also a leading researcher in the ongoing commercialisation of a comprehensive tabletop software platform developed within the CHAI research group.
Current Projects
Recent Publications
A. Collins, A. Clayphan, J. Kay, and J. Horder. My museum tour: Collaborative poster creation during school museum visits. In Educational Interfaces, Software, and Technology 2012: 3rd Workshop on UI Technologies and Educational Pedagogy, page to appear, 2012. [View Details]
L. Hespanhol, M. Tomitsch, K. Grace, A. Collins, and J. Kay. Investigating intuitiveness and effectiveness of gestures for free spatial interaction with large displays. In E. Huang, editor, 2012 International Symposium on Pervasive Displays, 2012. [View Details]
A. Collins. New dimensions of file access at tabletops: associative and hierarchical; private and shared; individual and collaborative. PhD thesis, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, 2011. [View Details]
A. Collins, C. J. Ackad, T. Apted, P. Sztajer, P. Ward, H. Weng, and J. Kay. Core functionality and new applications for tabletops and interactive surfaces. In UbiComp '11, 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing, pages 607-608, New York, NY, USA, 2011. ACM Press. [View Details]
A. Collins, J. Kay, C. Stewart, E. Fitzgerald, and C. Ackad. A system, method and computer program for interacting with data (tabletop “multi-page”), 2011. [View Details]
A. Clayphan, A. Collins, C. J. Ackad, B. Kummerfeld, and J. Kay. Firestorm: a brainstorming application for collaborative group work at tabletops. Technical Report 678, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, August 2011. [View Details]
A. Clayphan, A. Collins, C. Ackad, B. Kummerfeld, and J. Kay. Firestorm: A brainstorming application for collaborative group work at tabletops. In ITS '11: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, pages 162-171, New York, NY, USA, 2011. ACM. [View Details]
R. Martinez, A. Collins, J. Kay, and K. Yacef. Who did what? who said that? Collaid: an environment for capturing traces of collaborative learning at the tabletop. In ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, ITS 2011, pages 172-181, 2011. [View Details]
A. Collins and J. Kay. File System Access for Tabletop Interaction, pages 353-374. Tabletops - Horizontal Interactive Displays. Springer, 2010. [View Details]
A. Collins, H. Coche, T. Kuflik, and J. Kay. Making the tabletop personal: employing user models to aid information retrieval. Technical Report 655, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, 2010. [View Details]
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