[chisigmail] chisigmail Digest, Vol 53, Issue 5

[Christian Jones]

Hi

Would it be possible to include the following information (computer games scholarships below) in the next email digest. Many thanks in advance. (My CHISIG membership number is 225200)

Cheers
Christian


Computer Games Scholarships

The University of the Sunshine Coast is seeking applications for two PhD Research Scholarships in Computer Gaming commencing 2009

PhD project 1: Development of a computer game to teach environmental management (cf SimCity). The game will integrate with existing climate modelling systems to provide educational tools for schools through to government. The PhD candidate will receive a stipend valued at $25,000 per annum as part of the Smart Forest Alliance Queensland partnership.
For more information, download the Environmental Management Scholarship - Call for Expressions of Interest from:
http://www.usc.edu.au/Students/Future/FinancialAssistance/ScholarshipsBursariesPrizes/PostgraduateScholarshipsandBursaries/PostgraduateScholarshipsandBursaries.htm
Value: $25,000 per annum tax free. Relocation assistance is also available.
Commencement: ASAP
Duration: Three years full-time

PhD project 2: Development of a computer game to teach safety awareness skills and strategies to children to prevent them from becoming victims of child sexual abuse. The computer game can include console, desktop, mobile and multiplayer environments. The PhD candidate will receive a stipend valued at $25,000 per annum as part of the Telstra Foundation / Queensland Police Service / Daniel Morcombe Foundation project in partnership with Education Queensland and the Department of Child Safety.
For more information, download the Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Scholarship - Call for Expressions of Interest from:
http://www.usc.edu.au/Students/Future/FinancialAssistance/ScholarshipsBursariesPrizes/PostgraduateScholarshipsandBursaries/PostgraduateScholarshipsandBursaries.htm
Value: $25,000 per annum tax free. Relocation assistance is also available
Commencement: ASAP
Duration: Three years full-time

Application Form: To apply for either of the above scholarships, please download the Computer Games PhD Scholarships application from the link above.

The projects will be supervised by Dr Christian Jones at USC. Dr Jones has worked with commercial games developers including Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and has developed automotive Serious Games with Stanford University (US), Ford (US) and Toyota (Japan).

For more information, please contact Dr Jones by email cmjones at usc.edu.au or telephone +61 7 5459 4849 or mobile +61 0 4243 58195.

Closing date for applications is 30th June 2009



Dr Christian M. Jones,
MEng (Hons) PhD CEng MIET ILTM MBCS CITP
Faculty of Arts and Social Science,
University of the Sunshine Coast,
Maroochydore DC Queensland 4558
Australia
Phone: +61 7 5459 4849
Fax: +61 7 5430 2883
Mobile: 04243 58195
Email: cmjones at usc.edu.au
http://www.usc.edu.au/University/AcademicFaculties/Science/Staff/ChristianJones.htm

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Today's Topics:

   1. Call for Abstracts: HCSNet Workshop on Social Technologies
      Applications for Health and Medicine, August 20-21 2009,
      Melbourne (Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au)
   2. IDG Seminar: PhD Completion Seminar: The Silent Language of
      Designing Gesture, Talk and Representation at Work in the
      Architectural Design Studio (Daryl Ku)
   3. ACT CHISIG Meeting this Thursday 28th May - reminder
      (Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au)


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Subject: [chisigmail] Call for Abstracts: HCSNet Workshop on Social
	Technologies Applications for Health and Medicine, August 20-21 2009,
	Melbourne
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HCSNet Workshop on Social Technologies Applications for Health and Medicine
Thurs/Friday, August 20-21 2009, Melbourne (Australia)
http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/3103

Call for Submissions and Participation

Description

A great deal of research supports the belief that social interactions affect
people's health in various ways. Online communities have added a relatively
new dimension to the lives of many people. This workshop aims to bring together
a group of researchers and practitioners from medical, social and information
technology communities to understand how social technologies might be used to
support health and health initiatives: e.g. supporting people, their families
and their communities in managing health; building and supporting communities
of health workers and medical practitioners for improved communication and
information sharing; allowing communities of health stakeholders (policy makers,
practitioners, the public) to develop effective health-related policies and
initiatives.

We intend this workshop to be a place to foster communication across the
relevant disciplines in order to design and develop effective tools and user
experience  to support online health communities.

This workshop will be held close (in time) to CollabTech 2009 (The Fifth
International Conference on Collaboration Technologies 2009), which is being
held in Sydney, August 12-14, 2009 (http://www.collabtech.org/).   This will
provide opportunities for participants (especially from overseas) to attend
both events to exchange ideas and experiences.
Audience
We hope to attract a multidisciplinary range of researchers and practitioners
from the medical, social and information technology communities working in
areas such as health, social science, and online communities related to health.

Issues of interest may include:
* support for patients vs. support for carers
* tools for developing online communities
* designing effective user experience for online patient communities
* strategies for building online health communities and developing long-term
engagement
* motivating information-sharing, content development, and contribution to policy
* health education and policy development: developing trusted content
* tailoring health information
* methods/techniques to provide motivational support
* trust, ethics, and related issues in online health-related communities

Event Format

The workshop will be held over two days, on Thursday August 20th and
Friday August 21st, 2009, in the Melbourne area (precise location to be determined).
The workshop will include invited speakers (including a HCSNet-supported
international presenter), presentations from participants and interested parties,
workshopping and development of ideas, and plenty of time for discussion.
Submission instructions are given below.

Event Outcomes

We hope the workshop will help the community to build a collective
understanding about online health and medical communities: from the health
perspective, what support can a social network provide; from the social
network community, how can they provide that support; overall, how can
such systems be deployed, evaluated and adopted. We also hope that the
workshop will build bridges across the communities (health and social
networks), and even generate a sustained interest and community around this
area. We envisage this workshop to be the first of a series.

Submission Format

Interested participants are invited to submit a position statements
(about 300 words) describing their interest in the area of health/medical
online communities, along with a short biography.

Submission is via the online submission page:
http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/add/submission/3103.

Note that to make a submission (or to qualify for free attendance) you need to
sign up to the HCSNet community 2 months before the event (it's free!); you can
register for HCSNet at (http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/user/register).

Submissions deadline:  10th July, 2009

Publication

Submitted abstracts will be published online and also distributed to participants.
We are planning to solicit long articles after the workshop to capture the work in
workshop proceedings.

Registration Information

Registration for the workshop is free for HCSNet members that have signed up to HCSNet
2 months in advance of the event. For non-HCSNet members registration is $50 per day.
For members and non-members please follow the link below to register once registration
has opened.

Registration deadline: Friday 31st July 2009

Travel Grants

HCSNet will fund a number of travel grants to help cover the costs of travel and
accommodation for participants from outside the Melbourne area. HCSNet has also
approved a Student Support Grant to enable students to participate. The provision of
a submission as described above is a prerequisite for funding. If not all participants
can be covered, funding grants will be allocated based on the relevance of your abstract
to the workshop theme; also, students and early career researchers (in HCSNet terms,
those who have received their PhDs in the last fifteen years) will have priority.

Please ensure that you indicate at time of submission if you wish to be considered for a travel grant.

Important Dates
* Submissions deadline: Friday 10th July 2009
* Notification re: travel grants: Monday 27th July 2009
* Registration deadline:  Friday 31st July 2009
* Workshop: Thursday August 20th to Friday August 21st, 2009

Organisers

Dr Lawrence Cavedon, RMIT University and NICTA
Dr Nathalie Colineau, CSIRO ICT Centre
Dr Cecile Paris, CSIRO ICT Centre

Further information

Queries regarding the workshop can be sent to Nathalie Colineau at Nathalie.Colineau [AT] csiro.au.
Contact Lawrence Cavedon, at lawrence.cavedon [AT] rmit.edu.au   for queries related to HCSNet.

About HCSNet

HCSNet (http://www.hcsnet.edu.au) is the ARC Research Network in Human Communication Science,
and promotes interdisciplinary research in speech, language, and sonics.

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Nathalie Colineau
Senior Research Scientist
CSIRO - ICT Centre
Locked Bag 17, North Ryde 1670 NSW

Physical Address:
CSIRO - ICT Centre
Building E6B Macquarie University
North Ryde 2113 NSW
Australia
phone: (+61) 2 9325 3151
Fax:    (+61) 2 9325 3200
http://ict.csiro.au/staff/Nathalie.Colineau/index.php

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Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 21:53:27 +1000
From: Daryl Ku <s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: [chisigmail] IDG Seminar: PhD Completion Seminar: The Silent
	Language of Designing Gesture, Talk and Representation at Work in the
	Architectural Design Studio
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(Apologies for cross posting)

You are cordially invited to an IDG Seminar.


PRESENTER:	Inger Mewburn, Department of Architecture, Building and  
Planning, University of Melbourne

TITLE:		PhD Completion Seminar:  The Silent Language of Designing Gesture,  
Talk and Representation at Work in the Architectural Design Studio

VENUE:		University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street,  
Carlton

DATE and TIME:	Friday 29 May 2009, 3-4 pm


ABSTRACT:
Gesture can be thought of as a knowledge practice that helps to bind  
professional communities together. This project was concerned with the  
gesture practice of architects, specifically gestures that occur during  
collaborative design practice in educational settings. The location of the  
study was the design studio, where experienced architects work with  
students on design propositions. What is interesting about the design  
studio is a heavy reliance on things - drawings, models and computer  
screens - which need to be understood as an integral part of the gesture  
work that is being done. This two year field study looked for patterns of  
gesture behaviour and the knowing manipulation of things when architecture  
students and teachers engaged in what might be called 'design story  
telling'. It is hoped that this knowledge will help form the basis for a  
better accommodation of gesture in online and blended learning contexts  
for architecture education and, potentially, other design practices.

BIO:
Inger Mewburn graduated as an architect in the early 1990s and worked in  
practice for about a decade before becoming an architectural design  
teacher. She has just completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne and  
currently works as a research fellow at RMIT University. Her interactive  
digital art work has appeared in magazines and exhibitions around the  
world including Melbourne, the UK, France, Greece, Austria, China and the  
USA.


Please forward to others if interested. All are Welcome.
http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.html

-- 
Daryl Ku
PhD Candidate & Interaction Design Group Coordinator

Interaction Design Group
Department of Information Systems
Room 4.65, ICT Building
University of Melbourne
+61 3 834 41516
s.ku at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au


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Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 22:33:12 +1000
From: <Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au>
Subject: [chisigmail] ACT CHISIG Meeting this Thursday 28th May -
	reminder
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The next meeting of the Canberra Chapter of CHISIG will be on Thursday 28th May at the School of Computer Science at the Australian National University (building 108, North Road).
Duncan Stevenson, a PhD student in Computer Science and also chair of the ACT CHISIG chapter, will talk on:

"A Case Study in Human Factors for Broadband Telehealth"

This talk will cover the development and evaluation of a broadband telehealth system aimed at paediatric outpatient consultations.  The system was developed by staff of the CSIRO ICT Centre in Canberra and a pilot trial of the system was held at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne during September 2007.  Twelve half-day clinics were conducted covering 4 surgical specialties and 44 patients.  The talk focuses on human factors issues in requirements gathering, component design and testing, and the pilot trial of the integrated system.

The talk will be followed by a demonstration of the system operating between two rooms in the CSIRO wing of building 108.

Venue: Lunch Room, Level 2, Computer Science and Information Technology Building (Building 108), North Road, ANU.
Time:
4:45pm Light refreshments
5:15pm Presentation, followed by a demonstration of the telehealth system in the CSIRO wing of the building.

Note that while the main door to the building will be unlocked the doors to the
CSIRO wing will remain locked.  If you arrive after the demonstration has started phone me on my mobile (see number below) and someone will come to let you in.

Parking:  Before 5:00 there is voucher parking next to North Oval, across Barry Drive from the campus, or voucher parking further along North Road into the campus.  After 5:00 the main car parks on Daley Road start to empty.

I will arrange for ANU Security to leave the main doors to the building unlocked during the meeting and will put up signs to the rooms.  If you have trouble finding the meeting phone me on 0419 140 209.

If you plan to attend, please let me know by email Duncan.stevenson at anu.edu.au<mailto:Duncan.stevenson at anu.edu.au> or if you have questions phone me during the day on 6216 7076.

Duncan Stevenson
Chair, ACT Chapter


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