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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
(George Bernard Shaw)
CHAI research is in the broad area of
Pervasive, ubiquitous or invisible computing.
This looks to the future where
computers are widely distributed throughout our environment serving our needs -
to adapt the world to our individual needs.
We aim to invent and explore future technologies which can dramatically enhance
our lives, and showing that they do this in important areas of human
activity such as learning, work, supporting social connections and health.
We want to continue our track record of research that moves beyond the lab
into real world use.
This demands a broad range of research, based on solid technological foundations right
through to
research in the design of the interaction and the ways that people's
use of new
technology affect their lives.
CHAI is exploring personalisation that enables the user to scrutinise
and control the whole personalisation process. This is particularly important in
pervasive computing where devices and services recede into the environment,
becoming invisible. It is key to effective management of privacy and security
in pervasive and personalised environments. CHAI has created a layered set of
theories and tools for personalisation. These tools support knowledge representation
and reasoning, data mining, machine learning and user interfaces.
Another dimension of CHAI research is in novel pervasive computing interfaces
such as tabletop interaction and pervasive appliances that are embedded in
the environment to serve very specific functions.
Potential application areas are vast. CHAI has explored testbeds in ubiquitous,
pervasive computing as well as intelligent teaching systems. The latter reflect
the group's work in teaching computer science and in building teaching systems
that help develop reflective, deep learners.
Major CHAI funding has come from a range of sources, including
the Australian Research Council,
Hewlett Packard,
the Federal Government Science Lectureships Initiative,
Carrick and
CHAI principals led the University of Sydney's partnership in winning
the Smart Internet Technology CRC, funded by the
Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres Programme.
Since 2000, the group has won external research grants over $2.05 million,
royalty income of $708K and external teaching and scholarship grants of
$2.03 million.
CHAI has significant deployed research, including a user-based CPU scheduling
system (the FairShare Scheduler which supports web services used by millions of people)
and the message handling system MHSnet (with clients such as DFAT).
It has produced spin off companies, Personis, TMX and Message Handling Systems.
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