SoIT's News Issue 2 2009

2009 AUC Scholarships

School of IT Honours student Christina Yum has been awarded an Apple University Consortium (AUC) Honours Scholarship. The scholarships, for honours students working on research projects that in some way depends on or uses uniquely Apple technologies, are awarded based on academic merit as well as the student’s interest and passion for the research area.

Christina is working with Professor Judy Kay in the Computer Human Adapted Interaction Research Group (CHAI) on a project based around a user study of task management. Christina explains; “My honours project will give a holistic view of personal task management, understanding how individuals and teams manage what they need to do, and understanding how software tools can aid this process.” Christina will be conducting a field trial where people make use of a set of tools for planning their tasks over multiple machines and using an iPhone.

Honours students Tim Dawborn and Sam Tardif and PhD student James Bunton also won scholarships from AUC to attend the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco in June. The conference showcases the latest innovations and developments from Apple, and attendance is a great opportunity for students programming and developing applications on the Macintosh platform.

Photo: Tim Dawborn, Sam Tardif, James Bunton and Christina Yum.