research

Current research projects:

  • 2022–2024 Researcher, CAPTURE (CApturing Paradata for documenTing data creation and Use for the REsearch of the future) project, ERC, with Prof Isto Huvila
  • 2022-2023 Senior Researcher, PICCH (Polyvocal Interpretations of Contested Colonial Heritage) project, JPICULTURE-Cultural heritage and global change, with Prof Pia Borlund and Prof Nils Pharo

Previous research projects:

  • 2022 Chief Investigator, User Study of Data Discovery, Health Studies Australian National Data Asset (HeSANDA) User Interview, research consultancy project with Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), with Dr Mingfang Wu and Dr Megan Power
  • 2021–2022 Chief Investigator, User Study of Data Discovery, research consultancy project with Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), with Dr Mingfang Wu and Dr Megan Power
  • 2019–2020 Chief Investigator, Future Cognitive Agents to Support Aeronautical Actors, research consultancy with Airbus AI research team, funded by Airbus Central Research & Technology
  • 2014–2017 Chief Investigator, Computational Intelligence for Complex Structured Data, collaborative research with Prof Tamás (Tom) Gedeon, Dr Richard Jones, Prof Andreas Nürnberger and Prof Peter Baranyi
  • 2014–2015 Co-Principal Investigator, National Learning and Teaching Resource Audit and Classification, collaborative research with Philip Hider, Barney Dalgarno, Sue Bennett, Carole Gerts, Carla Daws, Lance Deveson, Barbara Spiller and Robert Parkes
  • 2012–2015 Principal Investigator, Natural Search User Interfaces for Complex Biomedical Search, collaborative research with Prof Tom Gedeon, Dr Paul Thomas and Marijana Bacic.
  • 2010-2012 Co-Principal Investigator, The Actual Importance of RDA (Resource Description & Access) Elements in Supporting Key User Tasks, collaborative research with Dr Philip Hider.
  • 2004–2007 Graduate Assistant, A Better Book Browser: How to Read a Million Books, supervised by Profs Michael Lesk and Nina Wacholder.
  • 2004 Research Assistant, HARD (High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents) Evaluation Track within TREC (Text REtrieval Conference), supervised by Prof Nicholas Belkin.
  • 2002–2003 Research Assistant, Robust Face Recognition from a High Stakes Paradigm, supervised by Prof Mark Frank.
  • 2002 Research Assistant, Research on Reading Electronic Documents on the Web, supervised by Prof Shan-Ju L. Chang.
  • 1999–2001 Research Assistant, Elicitation Behavior during Information Retrieval Interaction, supervised by Prof Mei-Mei Wu.
  • 1999-2000 Research Assistant, Exploring Aspects of Lexical Semantics in Taiwanese, supervised by Prof Chinfa Lien.
  • 1999 Research Assistant, An Evaluation Test-bed for Chinese Information Retrieval, supervised by Prof Mei-Mei Wu.
  • 1999 Research Assistant, Tone Sandhi of Liujia Yaoping Hakka Dialect, supervised by Prof Hui- Chuan Hsu.
  • 1996–1998 Research Assistant, Research on Browsing Behavior in the Libraries, Information Seeking and Use Behavior of Humanities Scholars, supervised by Prof Shan-Ju L. Chang.