Trent Apted's Bio

In March 2005, Trent Apted started his PhD at the University of Sydney after working with NICTA for one year as a research engineer on Project Nightingale; a joint research project with the University of Sydney and the Smart Internet CRC. In his PhD work, Trent is exploring the potential of the "tabletop interface" as a platform for formal and informal face-to-face collaboration, multimedia display and exchange, information visualisation and entertainment.

After studies in 2003, Trent was awarded the University Medal and first class Honours in the Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology (Advanced) at the University of Sydney. For his honours thesis he investigated learning techniques for interactive tangible user interfaces, or "Smart Toys", and graduated with the highest fourth-year weighted average mark in the Faculty of Science. While undertaking his degree he did tutoring and gained experience in a range of computer science disciplines including machine learning, knowledge representation, database design, computer security, networking and user interfaces as a result of coursework and research projects while participating in the Science Talented Student Programme.

During the last two years of his undergraduate degree, he published papers in four international conferences and submitted a paper to the International Journal on Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning (special issue on Concepts and Ontologies in WBES), which appeared in 2004. He has since published work in a number of workshops and conferences, as his tabletop research matures.

-- Trent Apted 2005-09-30, 2007-01-09 (minor)

Previous positions

Shortly after graduating in 2003, Trent worked for the Networks and Pervasive Computing Programme at the National ICT Australia (NICTA), on Project Nightingale -- a project aimed at helping the social and intellectual fitness of Australia's ageing population. In conjunction with researchers from NICTA and SITCRC, Trent developed a novel digital photograph sharing application for use in a pervasive computing environment. It allows an elder to engage in reminiscence activities without the need for a keyboard, mouse or computer monitor.

In his time at university as an undergraduate, he worked as a research assistant for the Smart Internet Technology Research Group (now Networks and Systems group) and did tutoring for the school of IT at the University of Sydney.

Qualifications

Trent was awarded the University Medal and first class honours in the Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology (Advanced) from the University of Sydney in 2003. For his honours thesis he investigated learning techniques for interactive tangible user interfaces, or "Smart Toys", and graduated with the highest fourth-year weighted average mark in the Faculty of Science.

Refereed Publications

Apted, T, J Kay and A Quigley, Tabletop Sharing of Digital Photographs for the Elderly. In Proceedings of CHI2006, the Conference in Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 24 - 27, 2006, Montréal, Québec, Canada, pp. 781 - 790. DOI (ACM): 10.1145/1124772.1124887 Authors' Version (noncommercial and personal use only)

Apted, T and J Kay, MECUREO Ontology and Modelling Tools. In WBES of the International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning, Special Issue on Concepts and Ontologies, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2004, pp. 191 - 211. Electronic Edition

Apted, T, J Kay and M Assad, Sharing Digital Media on Collaborative Tables and Displays. In Proceedings of The Spaces In-between: Seamful vs. Seamless Interactions (in conjunction with UbiComp 2005), September 11th, Tokyo, Japan. Local Copy

West, D, T Apted and A Quigley, A context inference and multi-modal approach to mobile information access. In Proceedings of AIMS2004, Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems (in conjunction with UbiComp 2004), September 7th, Nottingham, England, pp. 28 - 35. EE (Full Proceedings) Workshop Page Local Copy

Landfeldt, B, J Kay, R Kummerfeld, A Quigley, D West, T Apted and G Sinclair, Context Aware Invisible Interfaces (Successful Aging). Work in Progress, In IEEE Journal of Pervasive Computing, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2004, pp. 48 - 50. IEEE Xplore PDF EE Abstract

Quigley, A, D West, T Apted and B Landfeldt, Invisible Interfaces: From pen & paper to shared table interaction. In Proceedings of the workshop on Invisible & Transparent Interfaces, Advanced Visual Interfaces 2004, Gallipoli, Italy, May 25th, pp. 15-24. Workshop Page

Apted, T, J Kay and A Lum, Supporting Metadata Creation with an Ontology Built from an Extensible Dictionary. In P De Bra, W Nejdl (eds), LNCS vol. 3137, Proceedings of Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems: Third International Conference, AH 2004, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, August 23-26, 2004, pp. 4 - 13. Electronic Edition BibTeX (DBLP)

Apted, T, J Kay, A Lum, J Uther, Visualisation of ontological inferences for user control of personal web agents. In E Banissi, K Borner, C Chen, G Clapworthy, C Maple, A Lobben, C Moore, J Roberts, A Ursyn, Jian Zhang (eds), Proceedings of IV03-VSW, Information Visualisation - Semantic Web Visualisation, IEEE, accepted May 2003, pp. 306 - 311. Electronic Edition BibTeX (DBLP)

Apted, T, J Kay and A Lum, Visualisation of learning ontologies. In Proceedings of AIED Conference, 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2003, IOS Press, pp. 359 - 361.

Apted, T and J Kay, Generating and Comparing Models within an Ontology. In Kay, J and J Thom, (eds) Proceedings ADCS2002, Australian Document Computing Symposium, 16 December 2002, pp. 63 - 78.

Apted, T and J Kay, Automatic Construction of Learning Ontologies.. In Aroyo, L and Dicheva, D, (eds) Proceedings ICCE Workshop on Concepts and Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems, ICCE 2002, International Conference on Computers in Education, CS-Report 02-15 Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, pp. 55 - 62. EE (full proceedings available) Short Version BibTeX (DBLP)

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Patents (as Inventor)

Technical Reports

Apted, T, J Kay and A Quigley, A study of elder users in a face-to-face collaborative multi-touch digital photograph sharing scenario. School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, TR 567. March 2005. ISBN 1864877162. Full paper available.

Apted, T, and J Kay, Privacy and Remote Display Control on a Multi-User Pervasive Tabletop. School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, TR 601. November 2006. ISBN 1864878789. Full paper available.

Apted, T, J Kay and M Assad, Sharing Digital Media on Collaborative Tables and Displays. School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, TR 602. November 2006. ISBN 1864878797. Full paper available.

Apted, T and J Kay, Designing a "Copy" Function for Interactive Tabletops. School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, TR 603. November 2006. ISBN 1864878800. Full paper available.

Curriculum vitae

My CV / Resume as a PDF (2008-04-29) and, if you really want it, my Transcript.