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Associate Professor Toni Robertson
Associate Professor, FIT
Toni
Robertson established the Interaction Design and Work
Practice Lab in 2002. Her research has focused on how an understanding
of actual human activities (including, for example, work and cognition)
can be developed and then used to design technology that is both
useful and appropriate for its use. She is a specialist in the application
of qualitative and participatory research and design methods and
the use of phenomenological perspectives to understand actual human
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Associate Professor John Leaney
Adjunct Associate Professor, FIT
John Leaney's main teaching, scholarship and research
focus is Computer and Software Systems Engineering (or the Engineering
of Computer Based Systems, ECBS). John is Deputy Director of the
UTS Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, Associate
Professor Faculties of Information Technology and Engineering, Program
Co-Chair, IEEE ECBS 2005 Program Committee and a member of the Architecture
based Engineering (ABE) group of the IICT at UTS.
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Professor Jenny Edwards
Adjunct Professor, FIT
Jenny Edwards is an adjunct professor in the Faculty
of IT at UTS. She has worked widely in computing for many years
in education and consulting. The technical aspect of her research
is into large scale numerical algorithms for grid and supercomputers
but she also has longstanding interests in computing education,
in social and ethical implications of computers and in women in
computing.
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Professor Ross Gibson
Adjunct Research Professor, New
Media & Digital Culture
Ross Gibson is a teacher and writer who also makes
films and multimedia systems. He has curated several acclaimed exhibitions.
Ross devises artistic content, architectural design and ICT systems
for museums, public spaces and large dynamic databases. Examples
include the Museum of Sydney where he was senior consultant producer
between 1993 and 1996, and the Australian Centre for the Moving
Image where Gibson was Creative Director during its estabishment
phase between 1999 and early 2002. He is currently Research
Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at UTS.
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Lian Loke
Lecturer FEng, PhD Student FIT
Lian Loke is a lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering
where she teaches software design. Her research interests are in
designing for and from the moving body when human movement is input
to interactive technologies. Her doctoral thesis explores ways of
understanding, describing and representing human movement for use
in the design process, and methods for returning to the lived experience
of movement for interaction.
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Julia Coleman Prior
Lecturer FIT, PhD Student FIT
Julia is a full-time lecturer in the Department of
Software Engineering, teaching database design. The aim of her research
is to produce an ethnography of software developers. Julia is using
a longitudinal study of professional software developers to develop
an understanding of software development work, as it is actually
done in the workplace, in contrast to a controlled, experimental
set-up in a research laboratory or research based on retrospective
accounts of software development practice.
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Dr Theresa Dirndorfer
Anderson
Lecturer, HSS
Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson designs and delivers courses
(postgraduate and undergraduate) in information retrieval and organisation
as well as in social informatics. She is an active researcher with
interests in the interplay between emerging technologies & work
practices and structuring information for re-use within digital
collections. Her core research focuses on representation and relevance
assessment processes. Her PhD thesis, “Understandings of relevance
and topic as they evolve in the scholarly research process”
contributes both to understandings about the ways relevance is assessed
from a user’s perspective and to the development of a framework
for exploring relevance. It demonstrates the strengths of ethnographic
research & creative analytic practices for information behaviour
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Dr Tim Mansfield
Senior Research Scientist, CRC/DSTC
Tim Mansfield is a socio-technical systems designer
and researcher working in Sydney, Australia. He teaches web technology
at the University of Technology, Sydney and leads research in the
HxI initiative (http://www.hxi.org) at NICTA. Between 2005 and 2007,
he consulted with both commercial and non-profit organisations on
social software and collaborative work. Between 1995 and 2005 he
was a Senior Research Scientist at DSTC Pty Ltd. Dr Mansfield is
a nationally renowned pretend ethnographer, in the same month as
he submitted his PhD he also staged an improvised pantomime about
the life of Harold
Holt and in May 2008 he will be ordained a priest in the Apostolic
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Astrid Twenebowa
Larssen
PhD Student, FIT
Astrid Twenebowa Larssen investigates characteristics
of human-computer interaction when movement of the human body becomes
the input for interaction. New input and interaction options are
becoming possible as a result of technological developments. These
new forms of interaction are enabling interaction without the constraints
of the desktop paradigm, and they allow increased or different physicality
for the user. This research then is seeking to understand how to
use the body as a resource in design by considering ways of describing
the movements taking place in the interaction, and exploring ways
of evaluating systems that rely on movements as their source of
input. Astrid has a background as an athlete and an analytic chemist.
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Kirsten Sadler
PhD Student, FIT
Kirsten Sadler has a background in Engineering, specialising
in wireless communications. After 5 years in industry Kirsten returned
to University to explore the gap between the technology design world
and the world of the everyday practices of technology users. Kirsten's
research interests are in the area of mobile HCI. These include
qualitative mobile research methods, narrative, and the social implications
of technical design. In her PhD she is exploring the concept of
"mobility" within the Mobile HCI literature and how this
concept is currently being used to inform mobile technology design.
Her research involves a series of empirical studies of the practices
of freelancers in Media industries. |
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Dr Jeni Paay
Visiting Fellow. FIT
Jeni Paay is a Visiting Fellow at IDWoP, UTS. She
is also working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Interaction
Design Group at the University of Melbourne on the "Socially
Oriented Requirements Engineering" project. Jeni is interested
in theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of interaction
design, development, and use of socio-technical systems combining
ideas from HCI, CSCW and Architecture. She has used architectural
and sociological methods and theories to study existing situations
for social interactions in public places for the purpose of informing
the design and implementation of pervasive computer systems facilitating
social interactions between groups of friends situated in city environments.
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Penny Hagen
Masters Student, FIT
Penny Hagen specialises in design strategy and research
with an emphasis on employing and appropriating UX design methods,
process and technologies to support design for social change. Penny's
perspective on design is grounded in her work as an interaction
and interface designer, digital media trainer, researcher and strategist
across community and commercial projects. Her interest in emerging
interaction design methods led to a research position at IDWOP investigating
mobile methods. Penny is currently completing her Masters on participatory
design methods for creating social software. Penny also works fulltime
as the Executive Producer for design agency Digital Eskimo driving
an experimental design research program.
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