Judy Kay
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There are increasing amounts of electronic information available about individuals: some of my main research interest projects exploit this to build scrutable user models that can drive personalisation. The scrutability of the personalisation means that people can, if they wish, scrutinise the system to see just what is personalised and the details of the user model and the processes that formed it.
  • Personis: user modelling based on AR (Accretion/resolution): doco | trac
    Collaborators: Assad, Carmichael, Kummerfeld, Niu.
  • Exomem: lifelong user modelling.
    ARC Discovery Project: Pervasive Lifelong User Modelling for User Controlled Personalisation and Augmented Cognition. Collaborator: Kummerfeld.
  • Locator: Personis demonstrator.. locations
  • MyPlace: Personis demonstrator.
  • Oncor: exploits ontologies for reasoning about location modelling.
  • Keep-in-Touch: support families in maintaining intimacy.
  • Cruiser: framework for creating tabletop interfaces
  • Photable, surface computing supporting story telling
  • Focus: associative file access for surface computing.
  • Group mirrors: exploiting learning traces for more more effective group work.
    Narcissus improved interface research.
    ARC Discovery Project: Analyzing and supporting cooperation management in online learning communities. Collaborators: Goodyear, Reimann, Yacef.
  • WikiNavMap: visualisation to support team-awareness in Trac
  • EDM: aims to exploit the huge amounts of personal learning data to build useful models of learners and learning. Foundation work for scrutable data mining of learner models.
    Bridging Support Grant Project. Collaborators: Brusilovsky, Koprinksa, Yacef, Zaiane.
  • Reflect: supports learning complex synthesis skills like programming, and development of metacognitive skills. Old Assess | New Sitelist SOFT2103 site | ACM Programming Comp
    trac
Older projects:
  • JITT Just-in-time training system using workflows and scrutable personalisation.
  • Iems - intelligent but scrutable mail management.
    University of Sydney Grant: Automatic Induction of Rules for e-mail Classification and SITCRC Smart Personal Assistant. Collaborators: Liz Crawford, Eric McCreath .
  • Secure persona creation and management: addresses the creation of useful user model subsets (personas), the secure distribution of persona ontologies to service providers and populated personas to the relevant users.
    Collaborators: Ajay Brar, Michael Hitchens and Bob Kummerfeld
  • Vlum++ and its newest evolution Andrew Lum's SIV Visualisation tools to support users in scrutinising large user models, James Uther's
  • Scrutably adaptive hypertext - web pages adapted to the user and supporting user control by always providing access to the detailed basis for the adaptation. Sasy teaching system with scrutably adaptive hypertext. Closely linked is the work on SATS, scrutably adaptive teaching strategies, by Sam Holden.
  • Ontologies for personalisation, with projects on supporting users in defining ontologies and building light-weight scrutable ontologies from existing dictionaries
  • Reflective practitioner Learning Environment for medical management
  • um, Personis - user modelling toolkit and Personis scrutable user modelling server:
  • Nightingale: natural interfaces to support reminiscence and the management of digital memories.
  • Basser Study - long term user modelling
  • Share: FairShare CPU scheduling
Current Research students and Honours students
Trent Apted - Gesture interfaces for ubicomp Trac | refs
David Carmichael - MyPlace
Anthony Collins - Tabletop file systems
Sam Holden - SATS, Scrutably Adaptive Teaching Strategies for flexible teaching from existing documents
Daren Ler - Metalearning
William Niu - Modelling personalised spaces
Jeremy Pu - Scrutable personalisation of web portals SAPS
David Storey - user modelling in multi-player games
Adam Ullman - Multiple Representations of Shared Information in a Collaborative Environment trac navmap
Past Research Students - most recent first
2008 Lichao Li A Reflective Learning Framework for Programming MSc Thesis.
2007 Andrew Lum Light-weight Ontologies for Scrutable User Modelling PhD Thesis.
2006 Marek Czarkowski Scrutable adaptive hypertext PhD Thesis.
2005 Doug Chesher Exploring the use of web-based virtual patient to support learning through reflection. PhD Thesis.
2004 Mike Dowman Learning colour terms PhD Thesis.
2003Kang Lee KAN, a classifier based on a keyword association network. PhD Thesis.
2002Lachlan Patrick GraphApp: A Portable Graphics Package Designed for Teaching. PhD Thesis.
2001James Uther On the visualisation of large user models in web based systems. PhD Thesis.
2000Noroja Parandeh-Ghebi Evaluation of a viewable user model in an authentic field study of teaching a text editor. MSc Thesis.
1990Frank Ng Ego: an expandable goal oriented tutoring system. PhD Thesis.
Recent Masters and Honours thesis students
2007 Kimberley Upton Narcissus: an Interactive Visualisation for Mirroring the Activities of Small Groups
2007 Carolin Plate Mobile Navigation in Ubiquitous Environments - Comparing Affect and Effectiveness of Linguistic and Cartographic Communication. trac
2006 Anthony Collins Exploring tabletop file system interaction
2006 Mark Hingston User friendly recommender systems
2006 Glen Whitaker Collaborative image-based tagging and interactive mapping on tabletops
2006 Patrick Burns Novel Multi-modal User Interaction for Intergenerational Communication Systems
2006 Veasna Hoy Spoken command interaction with KiT
2005 Simon Goldrei Seminar
2004 Ajay Brar Privacy and Security in Ubiquitous Personalised Applications
2004 Lichao Li (Bruce) Learner Reflection in Student Self-Assessment
2004 Belinda Richards Activity Modelling using Email and Web Page Classification
2004 Robert Whitaker Location and Activity Modelling in Intelligent Environments
2003 Abdur Sikder Enhanced multiple choice questions for user modelling
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CSED Monash
Top Journals - Personalisation
UMUAI - User modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: the Journal of Personalization Research
Top Journals - AIED/ITS/CSED
Computer Science Education
IEEE TLT IEEE Trans on Learning Technologies
Instructional Science
ijCSCL International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
IJAIED - International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. Main IJAIED web site
IJEL - International Journal on E-Learning, Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education
ILE Interactive Learning Environments
Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of Computer-Enhanced Learning
Journal of Educational Computing Research
JEMH - Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia
JILR - Journal of Interactive Learning Research
Learning & Instruction
Top Journals - Pervasive
Human-Computer Interaction | issue-list
IEEE Pervasive - magazine
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing - Springer
TOCHI Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Top Journals - ML/AI
IEEE Trans on Knowledge & Data Engineering
Top Journals - Broader
ACM TWeb ACM Transactions on the Web
CACM - Communications of the ACM
IC Inline - IEEE Internet Computing
TOIS - Transactions on Information Systems, ACM
TOIT - Transactions on Internet Technology, ACM
ACM Transactions on the Web
Personalisation companies
Pure Profile
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More Journals
ATL - Advanced Technology for Learning started 2004
Behaviour & Information Technology
Educational Technology & Society - Journal of International Forum of Educational Technology & Society and IEEE Learning Technology Task Force
Journal of the Learning Sciences, Taylor and Francis Site, 1991-1999, Society
Journal of Location Based Services
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Elsevier
IEEE Security & Privacy
IJKL - International Journal of Knowledge and Learning
IJCEELL - International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning
Human Computer Interaction - A Journal of Theoretical, Empirical, and Methodological Issues of User Science a nd of System Design, Erlbaum
Interacting with Computers - The interdisciplinary journal of Human-Computer Interaction
ITSE - International Journal of Interactive,Technology and Smart Education
Information Systems - Databases: Their Creation, Management and Utilization An International Journal
IJHCS - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies/Knowledge Acquisition
JERIC - Journal of Educational Resources in Computing
JIME - Journal of interactive media in education
JoDi - Journal of Digital Information
NRHM New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia
TICL - Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning - An International, Interdisciplinary Journal of Structural Learning TISSEC ACM Transactions on Information and System Security
Pervasive and Mobile Computing Elsevier
UAIS - UAIS - Universal Access to the Information Society.
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