My previous research covers a range of interdisciplinary human-computer interaction and educational technology projects, including:
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Making the Invisible Visible: Digital Storytelling for Neighbourhood Social Cohesion2013 - 2014 Melbourne Networked Society Institute seed project
This project explored the potential of digital technologies to enable housebound people to share their experiences with the local community through digital storytelling. The project demonstrated the power of video for fostering creative personal storytelling among people who normally have limited opportunities to share their experiences. This image shows a richly decorated entrance to the home of one of our housebound participants. The objects and decorations in her home featured prominently in her digital story. |
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Reconceptualising and Supporting Disaster Recovery as Growth: Informed by People Affected by the Black Saturday Bushfires
2014 Interdisciplinary seed funding grant from the Melbourne Social Equity Institute. Project website |
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Enabling Socially-Inclusive and Ethical Visual Methodologies
2013 - 2014 Interdisciplinary seed funding grant from the Melbourne Social Equity Institute. Project report - Guidelines for Ethical Visual Research Methods Book - Ethics and Visual Research Methods: Theory, Methodology and Practice |
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Mobile Augmented Reality: Information, Interfaces, and Interactions in Healthcare and Biomedical Environments
2012 - 2013 Interdisciplinary seed funding grant from the Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (now Melbourne Networked Society Institute) IBES white paper |
Assessment of Students' Web 2.0 Authoring in Higher Education
2009 - 2011: I worked on an ALTC-funded project, "Web 2.0 Authoring Tools in Higher
Education Learning and Teaching: New Directions for Assessment and Academic Integrity" (led by Kathleen Gray). The project examined how lecturers assess students' Web 2.0 activities (e.g., blogging, wiki writing) in Australian universities and resulted in a set of resources to support academics using Web 2.0 technologies in their teaching.
Education Learning and Teaching: New Directions for Assessment and Academic Integrity" (led by Kathleen Gray). The project examined how lecturers assess students' Web 2.0 activities (e.g., blogging, wiki writing) in Australian universities and resulted in a set of resources to support academics using Web 2.0 technologies in their teaching.
Educating the Net Generation
2007 - 2009: I was involved in the Educating the Net Generation project (led by Gregor Kennedy). The project investigated the technology skills and experiences of students and teaching staff at three Australian universities. We also implemented and evaluated a range of social technologies in different teaching and learning contexts.
Educating the Net Generation: A Handbook of Findings for Practice and Policy
Educating the Net Generation: A Handbook of Findings for Practice and Policy
Increasing Participation and Access to Higher Education: Aboriginal Youth and
their use of Mobile Phones
2011 - 2012: I contributed to a project that examined the use of mobile phones by Victorian Aboriginal Youth, and the potential for mobile phones to increase engagement in education. The project was funded by an Interdisciplinary Seed Funding Grant, and an Equity Innovation Grant from the University of Melbourne.
"Keeping Intouchable": A community report on the use of mobile phones and social networking by young Aboriginal people in Victoria
"Keeping Intouchable": A community report on the use of mobile phones and social networking by young Aboriginal people in Victoria
Consumers' Use of Music Technologies
2004 - 2005: I worked as a Research Fellow at RMIT - in the user-centred design group of the Smart Internet Technologies CRC, led by Supriya Singh. The project I was involved in examined how people use digital music technologies, with the aim of developing guidelines for the design of digital rights management tools.
Mobile learning, activity theory, and technology appropriation
My PhD research - supervised by Eileen Scanlon and Ann Jones - examined how handheld computers (PDAs) were being appropriated as formal and informal learning tools in learning and workplace settings. Using Activity Theory, I developed a socio-cultural framework for understanding how tools are appropriated to fit into users' learning and workplace activities.