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Professor Judy Kay

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portrait of Judy Kay Judy Kay is Professor of Computer Science at the School of Information Technologies (formerly, Basser Department of Computer Science) at the University of Sydney. She is a principal in the CHAI: Computer Human Adapted Interaction Research Group, leading research in advanced technologies for human computer interaction, supporting personalisation, pervasive and mobile interaction. Her vision is to support a highly personalised way for people to interact with the computers that they carry, those embedded within the environment as well as desktop computers. CHAI researchers are exploring ways to ensure that people can readily make use of these as part of their own personalised augmented memory. We aim to put a personalisation layer over these devices so that each person can make the most effective use of them for key aspects of their lives. Critical to this vision is that the user should always feel a sense of control over the personalisation. She creates new tools for interaction in support of lifelong learning, collaboration and personalised smart services.

Examples of exploring novel interfaces for ubiquitous computing include new software for surface computing that enables people to interact at a table, new ways to access files when collaborating at a tabletop and the Keep-in-Touch communication appliance.

Her personalisation research has created a framework for building personalised applications which enable the user to scrutinise and control the whole process of personalisation. The core technologies are the Personis user modelling server and Personis-Lite.

She has extensive publications , in venues such as the conferences, Pervasive, Computer Human Interaction (CHI), User Modeling (UM, AH, UMAP) and journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Communications of the ACM, Computer Science Education. Invited keynote addresses include: UM'94 User Modeling Conference, Boston, USA; IJCAI'95 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Montreal, Canada; ICCE'97, International Conference on Computers in Education, Kuching, Malaysia; ITS'2000, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Montreal, Canada; AH2006 Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, Dublin, Ireland; ITS'2008, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Montreal, Canada; EC-TEL'2010, European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, Barcelona, Spain.

edit Recent Conferences, special issues
2012-May-5-10: CHI Texas, Austin, LBR deadline 9 Jan. | Educational Interfaces, Softw are, and Technology | Personal informa tics | Technologies for families
2012-Apr-16 MultiA-Pro: International Workshop on Interoperability of User Profiles in Multi-Application Web Environments, In conjunction with WWW2012, Lyon, France.
2012-Feb-14 Ubiquitous Pers onalization (UP'2012) at IUI 2012.
2012-Feb-11-12: Personal Information Management (PIM) Seattle, WA: Deadline Nov 25.
2012-Feb-9-10: Joint EPFL-USYD Workshop. Talk: Overview of Computer-Human Adapted Interaction research: personalisation, digital ecosystems, tabletops and lifelong, life-wide learning.
2012-Jan-30: ACE Australasian Computing Education Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
2012-Jan-18: C5 International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing. Playa Vista, CA
2011-Dec-19-20: CSEIT 2011 Computer Science Education: Innovation and Technology CSEIT 2012. Best Student Paper Award Richard Gluga.
2011-Dec-02: ADCS
2011-Nov-30..Dec-2: International eLearning Futures Conference
2011-Nov-28..Dec-2: OzCHI: Canberra,
2011-Nov-24: Sydney Computer Science Conventicle | ALTC Improving Teaching Practice
2011-Nov-13: ITS Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces Conference reviews
2011-Nov-03: Learning Technology Research Fest - researchers and practitioners in the sciences and technologies of learning
2011-Oct-30: University of Sydney - Israel Research Partnership Forum
2011-09-17: Ubicomp, Beijing, China.
2011-10-16: UIST 2011-Oct-24: E-Ed 2011 Usability and Educational Technology 2011
2011-Jul-11: UMAP, Girona, Spain. PALE
2011-Jul-108-20: Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2011 Seattle.
2011-Jul-6-8: EDM 4th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2011). Best Student Paper - Roberto Martinez.
2011-Jun-26:
AIED, Canterbury, NZ. gsite | gsiter
2011-Jun-19: IDC 2011 International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
2011-Jun-7: Pervasive 2011 | reviews | HPDI, reviews
2011-May-16-17: Ubiquitous User Modeling Workshop, Haifa, Israel
2011-May-07: CHI2011 | Interaction Techniques and Devices | Expanding and Enhancing interaction through Technology, Systems and Tools | reviews
2011-03-27: LAK'11 Learning Analytics & Knowledge
2010-Nov-07: ITS 2010 Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2010, Saarbrucken, Germany
2010-Nov-22: OzCHI, Brisbane
2010-Dec-06: MobiQuitous 2010
2011-Jan-17: ACE2011 Perth, Australia
10-Oct-01: EC-TEL 2010
10-Sep-26: RecSys, Barcelona, Spain.
10-Sep-26: Ubicomp
10-Jul-19: SIGIR - Geneva, Switzerland. reviews
cover of ITS proceedings 10-Jun-14: ITS2010, Pittsburgh | reviews | org | CSPRED
10-Jun-20: UMAP 2010 | PUMP
10-Jun-28,29: HCSNet Workshop on Natural User Interfaces: Multitouch and Gestural Interactions
10-May-17: Pervasive 2010 - Helsinki, Finland, reviews
10-May-17: Pervasive personalisation workshop
10-Apr-10: CHI2010 | reviews
10-Jan-22: ACE: reviews
10-Feb-07: IUI Hong Kong 09-12-04: ADCS Sydney
09-12-02: Smart Services CRC Inaugural Participants Conference
9-11-30: ICCE Hong Kong.
09-11-23: OzCHI Melbourne.
09-11-23: Tabletop Banff, Canada.
09-11-06:PIM 2009 09-11-04:UIST
09-09-30: UbiSys 2009 System Support for Ubiquitous Computing Workshop
09-09-30: UBICOMP Orlando, Florida.
09-07-07: UIC 09 Ubiquitous Intelligence and Com puting, | reviews
logo for UMAP conference 09-06-22: UMAP Trento, Italy, 22-26 June | reviews | planner
09-06-22: Lifelong User Modelling UMAP Workshop
09-07-01: EDM Cordoba, Spain, 1-3 July 2009 | reviews
09-06-29: NGITS, Israel, reviews
09-07-06: AIED'09, July 6-10, Brighton | reviews
09-07-06:TUMAS with AIED.
09-07-06:SWEL with AIED.
09-05-21: IAC09 IT in Aged Care.
09-05-11: Pervasive'09 Nara, Japan.
09-04-05: CHI'09 | Tabletop | reflection | temporal | Age matters
09-03-03: Adaptive Training Technologies, March 3 - 5
09-01-20: ACE Wellington, New Zealand Jan 20 - 23
08-12-09: HAI'08 at IAT'08.
08-12-09: TUMAS-A 2008 at IAT'08.
08-12-08: ADCS'08 Hobart.
08-12-08: OZCHI 2008 Cairns
08-10-27: ICCE 2008 Taipei, Taiwan
08-11-02: ICT Building Lifelong Learning Companions USC, LA.
08-10-19: UIST 2008 Oct 19-22, Monterey, CA.
08-10-02: Tabletop 2008 Amsterdam
08-09-21: Ubicomp Seoul
08-09-06: ICER Sydney,
08-07-28: AH 2008 Hannover
08-06-23: ITS 2008 Montreal | *CATS | * SWEL'08 | Meta-Cognition
08-06-20: EDM'08
08-06-19: Pervasive 2008 Sydney | DC CFP | CAPC 2008 | @ Home
08-05-31: AVI 08
08-04-05: CHI 2008 Florence
08-01-13: UbiqUM'08 at IUI
08-01-22: ACE 2008 Wollongong
07-07-16: CSCL 2007 Rutgers.
07-10-10: Tabletop: Rhode Island
07-10-07: UIST 2007 Rhode Island
07-09-16: UbiComp 2007 Innsbruck, Austria
07-07-01: TKDE e-Learning Special Issue
07-06-25: UM 2007 Corfu, Greece | UbiDeUM'2007 | SociUM | PING
07-07-09: AIED 2007 Jul 9-13
07-07-18: EDM at ICALT, Niigata, Japan
07-05-13: Pervasive Toronto, Ontario
07-04-28: CHI 2007 San Jose, USA
07-01-29: ACE 2007 Ballarat
07-01-28: IUI 2007 Hawaii, USA
06-10-15: UIST 2006 Montreux, Switzerland
06-09-17: UbiComp 2006 Orange County, CA
06-08-28: UBIQUM '06 Italy
06-05-07: Pervasive 2006 Dublin, Ireland.
06-06-26: ITS 2006 Taiwan
06-06-21: AH 2006 Dublin, Ireland
06-04-24: CHI 2006 Montreal, Canada.
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Hul 2012 - ICLS
Keynote speaker for International Conference of the Learning Sciences: The Future of learning. Kindly sponsored by the NSW Department of Trade and Investment. 2 - 6 July, 2012.
Jun 2012 - Pervasive
co-Programme Chair for Pervasive 2012 to be held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. 19 - 22 June, 2012.
Jan 2012 - C5 Keynote speaker
Keynote speaker, with Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology, at International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing Playa Vista, CA 18 - 20 January 2012.
Video
Dec 2011 - International eLearning Futures Conference
Invited keynote speaker at: International eLearning Futures Conference Auckland, New Zealand, 30 November - 2 December.
Jun 2011 - AIED 2011
General Chair at 15th AIED - Artificial Intelligence in Education in Auckland, New Zealand (unfortunately had to move from Christchurch).
Jul 2011 - EDM Award
Best Student Paper Award: R. Martinez, K. Yacef, J. Kay, A. Kharrufa, and A. Al-Qaraghuli. Analysing frequent sequential patterns of collaborative learning activity around an interactive tabletop. EDM2011, 4th International Conference on Educational Data Mining
Sep 2010 - EC-TEL 2010 Keynote
Opening Keynote at EC-TEL 2010 Fifth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, Barcelona, Spain. 28 September - 1 October.
Interviewed at the associated virtual conference ICT2010, Europe's most important forum for ICT research and innovation, in Brussels by The Centre for Social Innovation, ZSI, linking across over the globe, including Africa, Asia, Australia and Latin America.
Apr, Aug 2010: Tabletop Computing Video
Presentation for the Smart Services CRC Showcase. This demo showcases CHAI research on tabletop computing enabling users to interact naturally for collaboration, learning, entertainment and planning in different services industries. (21st April, Sydney, presentation also at Showcase, 25th August, Brisbane).
June 2010: Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Programme co-Chair for ITS, Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, June 14 - 18, 2010, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Jan 2010: ACE
Programme committee for ACE 2010, Twelfth Australasian Computing Education Conference Brisbane, Australia 18th - 22nd January 2010
June 2010: Pervasive
Programme committee for Pervasive 2010, The Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing 17-20 May 2010 - Helsinki, Finland.
Jan 2010: Women's Education Worldwide Conference
Presentation at conference held 6-8 January 2010, The Women's College, University of Sydney:
Women in IT: a shrinking minority
March 2009: Army Research Institute Adaptive Training Technology Workshop
Invited Presentation at workshop held March 3-5, 2009, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
The lifelong learner model: key to life-long, context-aware, teaching, learning, remembering and augmented cognition
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