The group is exploring novel interfaces for ubiquitous computing. One important outcome is the Cruiser Tabletop research into natural interaction at a table. The importance of this work is in supporting the social interaction that is normal around a table. Another major project explores support for intergenerational computing: the Keep-in-Touch interface.

The core of the personalisation research aims to ensure the user can maintain control, being able to scrutinise and control the whole process of personalisation: the user can determine what is modelled about them, how this is managed and how it is used. This is particularly important in pervasive computing. The core technologies to come from this are the Personis user modelling server and Personis-Lite.

The testbed areas are in ubiquitous, pervasive computing as well as intelligent teaching systems. The latter reflect the research group's work in teaching computer science and in building teaching systems that help develop reflective, deep learners. Major initiatives include the Assess self-assessment system, SIMPRAC a simulation environment that supports reflective learning of medical management, VLUM and SIV novel interfaces to support reflection based on large user models, the Tutor scrutably adaptive hypertext framework, the SATS scrutably adaptive teaching system and the JITT (Just-in-time Training) support for workplace learning.

The group has significant deployed research, including a user-based CPU scheduling system, the FairShare Scheduler. Recent major grants to the group come from the Australian Research Council Discovery Grants, the Smart Internet Technology CRC and Science Lectureships - Building the Internet Workforce.

She has over 200 publications in the areas of personalisation and teaching and learning. These appear in top conferences and journals in this area: SigCHI conference on Computer Human Interaction; the User Modeling conferences; the User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction journal; and Communications of the ACM. This work has led to the invited keynote addresses at major conferences: UM'94 User Modeling Conference, Boston, USA; IJCAI'95 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Montreal, Canada; ICCE'97, International Conference on Computers in Education, Kuching, Malaysia; ITS'2000, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Montreal, Canada; AH2006 Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, Dublin, Ireland.

There is a tight link between her teaching and research. She has led major projects in the teaching and learning of Computer Science, especially programming. These are both in research into building the individualised elearning systems of the future and improved teaching and learning of computer science. These research aspects are central to the School of Information Technologies' Computer Science Education Research Group. She has won one personal and one group Award for Teaching Excellence. he has a strong commitment to Computer Science Education and creation of a rich student experience. She has had a long term role as staff liaison for the student society, SUITS, Sydney University IT Society, and she has been creating an alumni association, which was formally constituted in 2008 as USITAA, University of Sydney IT Alumni Association.

Editorial Positions:
Associate Editor for IJAIED, the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education.
Associate Editor for IEEE TLT Transaction on Learning Technologies.
Editorial Board member for UMUAI User modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: the Journal of Personalization Research.

Her research and scholarship activities are in the four area described below.

Fair Share has been commercialised by Aurema Pty Ltd (formerly Softway). It has been licenced for global deployment to Sun Microsystems, Compaq, Siemens[tm], SGI[tm], Cray[tm] and other leaders of server technology. The Sun product is described at: Solaris Resource Manager FAQ May 2001, Solaris Resource Manager[tm] - Features, Functions, & Benefits, May 2001. In February 2007, Aurema was acquired by Citrix. "Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 98% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers." from news release .

As part of a scholarly approach to teaching, I have been actively involved in the design of new teaching units grounded on existing literature in computer science education. As part of the teams involved in teaching innovations and their evaluation, I have also been able to contribute to that literature. Major activities include: trialling, careful evaluation and then introduction of problem-based learning in foundation programming units; an innovative approach to teaching user interface design and programming; a collaborative project with medicine on teaching by example; tools for supporting student reflection; a senior undergraduate unit on Computer Science Education Research Processes; a mentor programme; a summer school for high school students; and a national study of women in computer science undergraduate courses and approaches to increasing participation rates.