Sandrine Balbo

2009

• Dip Nandi, Shanton Chang & Sandrine Balbo. A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Interaction Quality in Online Discussion Forums. In Proceedings of the 26th ASCILITE conference. Auckand, New Zealand, 6-9 Dec 2009.
• Sandrine Balbo, Arlene Silvas, Kieron McGuire, Albert Penticoss & Chao Li. The Deakin Learning Repository. In Proceedings of the Australasian Educause conference. Perth, Australia, 2-6 May 2009.
• Peter Francis, Sandrine Balbo & Lucy Firth. Towards co-design with users who have autism spectrum disorders. Universal Access in the Information Society International Journal. Vol 8, no 3, August 2009, pp. 123-135.

2008

• Steve Goschnick, Sandrine Balbo & Liz Sonenberg. From Task to Agent-Oriented Meta-Models, and back again. In proceedings of the 7th International workshop on TAsk MOdels and DIAgrams (TAMODIA 2008), 25-26 September 2008, Pisa, Italy.
• Steve Goschnick, Sandrine Balbo & Liz Sonenberg. ShaMAN: an Agent Meta-Model for Computer Games. In the proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Human-Centred Software Engineering (HCSE 2008), 25-26 September 2008, Pisa, Italy.
• Sandrine Balbo, Janette Gogler, Julie Steinkrug, Lina MinLi Lee, Severine Scheidt & Carola Hullin. The importance of including users in clinical software evaluation: what usability can offer in home monitoring. In proceedings of the Health Informatics Conference 2008, 31st August to 2nd September 2008, Melbourne, Australia.
• Steve Goschnick, Sandrine Balbo & Liz Sonenberg. The ShaMAN Agent Meta-model. Paper to the Agent-based Technologies and applications for enterprise interoperability workshop, to be held at the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2008), Estoril, Portugal, 13th May 2008.
• Sandrine Balbo. Demonstration of Speclad: a collaborative, problem-based, self-learning environment. Demonstration at the The Education MiniConf, Melbourne, 28 January 2008.
• Sandrine Balbo. The importance of understanding User Requirements: how can Models help? A tutorial at the Australia’s annual linux conference, Melbourne 28 Jan-2nd Feb 2008.

2007

• Chandika Jayasundara, Sandrine Balbo, Rod Farmer & Michael Kirley. Speclad: an Online Collaborative Problem-Based Learning Environment. In Proceedings of AaeE, Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education. Melbourne, Australia, 9-12 December 2007.
• Sandrine Balbo, Rod Farnmer & Chandika Jayasundara. SpeCLaD: An Object-Oriented Design Community Based Self-Learning Environment. In Proceedings of the ED-MEDIA 2007, World conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunication. Vancouver, Canada, 25-29 June 2007.
• Sandrine Balbo. Undertaking user testing. Invited talk at the Website Usability conference. Sydney, Australia, 22-24 Aug 2007.

2006

• Sandrine Balbo & Peter Benda. Practical tips on using an eye-tracking system to support usability testing. An Industry Case Study to be presented at OZCHI 2006, Sydney, 20-24 Nov 2006.
• Ivo Widjaja & Sandrine Balbo. Embodied and Enacted: The Janus Faces of Structure-of-Use. In Proceedings of the NordiCHI’06, The Fourth Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Oslo, Norway, 14-18 October 2006
• Steve Goschnick, Sandrine Balbo, Leon Sterling & Christine Sun. TANDEM – a Design Method for Integrating Web Services into Multi-Agent Systems. In Proceedings of the AAMAS’06, the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. Hakodate, Japan, 8-12 May 2006
• Australian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS) Featured Theme: Human-Computer Interaction. Sandrine Balbo, Todd Bentley & Penny Collins (Eds). AJIS Vol.13, no 2, May 2006

2005

• Proceedings of OZCHI 2005, the 19th conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of Australia. Todd Bentley and Sandrine Balbo (Eds). Canberra, November 2005. (Electronic publication, ACM International Conference Proceedings Series)
• Björn Busch-Geertsema, Sandrine Balbo, John Murphy & Scott Davey. Towards a framework to analyse Information Architecture work practices . In Proceedings of the OZCHI2005 conference. Canberra , Australia, 23-25 Nov. 4 pages (ACM electronic publication).
• Ivo Widjaja & Sandrine Balbo. Spheres of Role in Context-awareness. In Proceedings of the OZCHI2005 conference. Canberra , Australia, 23-25 Nov. 4 pages (ACM electronic publication).
• Ivo Widjaja & Sandrine Balbo. Structuration of Activity: a View on Human Activity. In Proceedings of the OZCHI2005 conference. Canberra , Australia, 23-25 Nov. 4 pages (ACM electronic publication).
• Peter Francis, Lucy Firth & Sandrine Balbo. Approaching the sensitive user with care: An online Delphi study. Position paper to the workshop on Appropriate Methods for Design in Complex and Sensitive Settings. OZCHI2005 conference. Canberra, Australia, 23-25 Nov.
• Steve Goschnick & Sandrine Balbo. Game-first programming for IS students. In Proceedings of the IE2005, The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment. Sydney, Australia, 23-25 Nov. 2005
• Sandrine Balbo, Dirk Draheim, Christof Lutteroth, Gerald Weber. Appropriateness of User Interfaces to Tasks. In proceedings of TAMODIA2005, the 4th International Workshop on TAsk MOdels and DIAgrams for user interface design, Gdansk, Poland, September 26-27, 2005.
• Sandrine Balbo, Steve Goschnick, Derek Tong & Cécile Paris. Leading Web Usability Evaluations to WAUTER. In Proceedings of the 11th Australian World Wide Web Conference (AusWeb), Gold Coast, Australia, 2005.
• Ali Khan & Sandrine Balbo. Agile versus Heavyweight Web Development: an Australian Survey . In Proceedings of the 11th Australian World Wide Web Conference (AusWeb), Gold Coast, Australia, 2005.
• Sandrine Balbo, Nadine Ozkan, Kristina Pitula & Elise Bonneville. Usability Design Notations: A Comparison Of Functional Flow Diagrams and Task Models. In Proceedings of the Usability Professional Association Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada, 2005.
• Nadine Ozkan, Kristina Pitula, Élise Bonneville & Sandrine Balbo. Notations en Design Centré Utilisateur: Une comparaison des Diagrammes de flux fonctionnels et des modèles de tâche. In Proceedings of the Usability Professional Association Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada, 2005. (French translation of the English UPA paper.)
• Jesper Kjeldskov, Connor Graham, Sonja Pedell, Frank Vetere, Steve Howard, Sandrine Balbo & Jessica Davies. Evaluating the Usability of a Mobile Guide: a Comparison of Four Different Approaches. Journal of Behaviour and Information Technology. Volume 24/1.

2004

• Aaron. Mullane & Sandrine Balbo. 2004. Exploring Web Exploration: An Empirical Study. In Proceedings of OZCHI2004 conference. Wollongong, Australia.
• Aaron Mullane & Sandrine Balbo. DIANEnx: Modelling Exploration in the Web Context. 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (APCHI), Rotorua, New Zealand, 2004.
• Ali Khan & Sandrine Balbo. A Tale of two Methodologies: Heavyweight versus Agile. In Proceedings of the tenth Australian World Wide Web Conference (AusWeb), Gold Coast, Australia, 2004.
• Steve Goschnick & Sandrine Balbo (DIS), Derek Tong, Cathy Glen, Tony Chiang, Wendy So & Chi-May Ooi (CSSE). WEPN – Web Evaluation Path Navigator. In Proceedings of the tenth Australian World Wide Web Conference (AusWeb), Gold Coast, Australia, 2004. Winner of the best poster award.
• Sandrine Balbo, Nadine Ozkan & Cecile Paris. Choosing the right task modelling notation: A Taxonomy. In The Handbook of Task Analysis for Human-Computer Interaction, D. Diaper and N. Stanton (Eds.), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (LEA), 2004

2003

• Frank Vetere, Steve Howard, Sonja Pedell and Sandrine Balbo, “Walking Through Mobile Use: Novel Heuristics and their Application”, in Proceedings of OZCHI2003 conference, Brisbane (Australia), November 2003

2000 and prior – main publications

• C. Paris, S. Balbo & N. Ozkan, “Novel Uses of Task Models: Two Case Studies”, in Cognitive Task Analysis, J.M.C. Schraagen, S.E. Chipman, V. Shalin (Eds.), Laurence Erlbaum Associates, 2000
• S. Balbo & M. Specht, “Extending the Scope of Task Models in Industrial Context”, in Proceedings of OZCHI’99 conference, Wagga Wagga (Australia), November
• N. Ozkan, C. Paris & S. Balbo, “Understanding a Task Model: An Experiment”, in Proceedings of People and Computer XIII – HCI’98, Sheffield (UK) , Springer-Verlag, p. 123-137, 1-4 September 1998
• S. Balbo & C. Lindley, “Adaptation of a task analysis methodology to the design of a decision support system”, in Proceedings of INTERACT’97, Sydney (Australia), Chapman and Hall (IFIP publishers), 1997
• N. Ozkan, D. Stevenson & S. Balbo, “HCI at CSIRO: practical research”, in Proceedings of INTERACT’97 conference, Sydney (Australia), Chapman and Hall (IFIP publishers), 14-18 July 1997
• N. Ozkan & S. Balbo, “Requirements Analysis for a Multimedia Usability Laboratory”, CSIRO – Mathematical and Information Sciences – Sydney, DIT technical report 96/61, November 1996
• S. Balbo, “Task models and automation of the Evaluation of User Interface Usability”, in Proceedings of OZCHI’95 conference, Wollongong (Australia), November 1995
• S. Balbo, “Automatic Analysis Mechanism for the Ergonomic Evaluation of user interfaces”, href=”http://publications.imag.fr/publications/theses/1994/Balbo.Sandrine/notice-francais.html”>PhD thesis (in French), University of Grenoble, September 1994. (French title: Evaluation automatique des Interfaces Utilisateur : un pas vers l’automatisation.)
• J. Coutaz, D. Salber & S. Balbo, “Towards automatic evaluation of multimodal user interfaces”, in Knowledge Based System, vol. 6, n°4, Dec. 1993