[chisigmail] FW: SA CHI meeting - 25th March

[Karen Hughes]

Sorry for those who have already received this notice through other
mailing lists...

 

When: Tuesday 25th March from 5:30 for a 5:45ish start

Title:    Supporting the reduced workforce

        An Open Discussion introduced and lead by Phillip Relf

Where: Excom building 191 Pulteney St, Adelaide

Format is intended to be fairly informal: drinks and nibbles on arrival

Presentation from about 5:45 followed by a discussion

Finally networking and more drinks and nibbles 

RSVP: to karen.hughes at saabsystems.com.au (just so I have some idea on
quantity of nibbles to organise). If you don't remember to RSVP you are
still most welcome :-)

Food and nibbles: I'm looking for volunteers to assist with this - if
you are willing please include this info in your RSVP and I will contact
you to discuss what's needed.

 

The Problem

A significant proportion of staff are approaching retirement age and
this has the potential to create a sizable loss of corporate knowledge.
This problem is acute for the Defence Force and has become a high
priority issue with Defence Senior Management. In addition, staff are
not being attracted to front-line Defence jobs and a lack of operators
is already manifesting on naval vessels. In order to support the Defence
needs of Australia, either operators must do more work or the operator
interfaces must support the operator during times of urgency.
Investigation of novel operator interfaces and enabling system
architectures are required.

 

Discussion

Phillip will lead a discussion on how better system design can be used
to support operators in an environment of shrinking workforces, drawing
on his own work within the Naval environment for examples and discussion
points. Ideas for consideration will include:

*       Intelligent Agents - examples: Doctrine management to work
allocation management, realisation, practical limitations, political
limitations 

*       Enabling Architectures - Capability, political issues, time
considerations

*       Genetic Programming - Application space, human intervention (the
means do not justify the ends)

 

Bio

Dr. Phillip Relf leads an Open Architecture initiative at DSTO and has
near thirty years experience developing/architecting very large software
systems and systems-of-systems in the Defence industry.  Currently the
application of Open Architecture methods to GUI design is under
investigation.  Phillip has worked as a knowledge engineer in St. Louis
USA interviewing engineers; designed user interfaces for air force,
army, navy and space applications; and functioned as software engineer,
systems architect and engineering manager.

 

Thanks
Karen Hughes
SA Representative

CHISIG
mob: +61 -4 1788 4876

 

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