Please note that Sandrine is not taking up any new students.

Some notes on Bridging the gap between Research Students’ and Supervisors’ expectations of supervision. A useful set of notes and references for future and current students/supervisors.

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Current students

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology doctoral student:

  • Dip Nandi (July 2009 – Co-supervisor: Margaret Hamilton): To be defined, but around quality in online learning.

University of Melbourne doctoral students:

Completed

Honours:

  • Ian Lu (2006 – Co-supervisor: Jon Pearce): DIANE+: Applying Task Analysis to People’s Visiting Experience in a Museum.
  • Zoran Begic (2005- Co-supervisor: Robert Johnson): Web information architecture and Task model.
    • Peter Francis (2004 – Co-supervisor: Lucy Firth ): Techniques to include users with autism in the design of assistive technologies.
    • Aaron Mullane (2003 – Co-supervisor: Steve Howard): DIANEnx, modeling navigational exploration in the web context.

      Master research projects:

      • Dip Nandi (2008 – 615-690, Postgraduate Minor Research Project – Co-supervisor: Shanton Chang ): Evaluating quality in online asynchronous interactions on discussion forums between students and student’s facilitators.
      • Arno van Vulpen (Sept. 07 to Apr. 08 – Utrecht University, the Netherlands, master research project – Co-supervisors: Shlomo Berkovsky and Fabian Bohnert): Exploring how to bridge User Modeling and Task Modeling.
        • Sylvie Neu (Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Master research project: 03-08/2007 – Co-supervisor: Jon Pearce): Usability or Learnability: What are we testing? – Project run in collaboration with Aconex.
        • Severine Scheidt (Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Master research project: 03-08/2007): Austin project
          • Björn Busch-Geertsema (Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Master research project: 03-12/2005): A contextual analysis of the work of an Information Architect – Project run in collaboration with Datalink.
            • Björn’s thesis (pdf, 3.5 MB).
          • Jos Lim (2005- Utrecht University, The Netherlands, Master research project: 11/2004 to 06/2005 – Co-supervisor: Lucy Firth ): following up from the 2003 CRSS grant, understanding communication issues in web development teams.
            • Ali Khan (2004 – 615-690, Postgraduate Minor Research Project): A Tale of Two Methodologies for web development: Heavyweight vs Agile.

            Other projects

            • 2007-08 DIS summer scholarship: Lina MinLi Lee: conducting usability evaluations in the e-Health and e-Education domains – project in collaboration with The Austin Health
            • 2006 – Matt Dart & Michael Sarthou (volunteers): Documenting how to use Sensis’s SMI Head Mounted Eye tracking Device and Software – project i n collaboration with Sensis
            • 2005-6 – Matt Dart (summer scholarship): Moving to Eclipse for 615240-Concepts in Software Development 2 – In 2006, we are giving up using JBuilder for Eclipse, an Open Source alternative. “Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software.”
            • 2004-5 – Zoran Begic (summer scholarship): Web information architecture and Task model.
            • 2004-5 – Yannie Yan Kwai (volunteer): Usability Evaluation and Multi-Modalities, project run in collaboration with Sensis.
            • 2004-5 – Chi Sun (volunteer): helpt with the preparation of the 615240 group project requirement specifications.
            • 2004 – Aswin Vasudevan, Anton Nithianandan and William Chu (volunteers – extended winter vacation project): To modify a simple graphical analytical tool that provides a user interface to EMA. The tool is developed in Java and instead of accepting as input the Sequence Graph (as within the EMA project), we wish the tool to accept as input a Task Model, as defined by the WAUTER project.