Professor Judith Kay
PhD
J12 - The School of Information Technologies
The University of Sydney
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Biographical details
Judy Kay is Professor of Computer Science and leads the CHAI: Computer Human Adapted Interaction Research Group. Her research aims to create new technologies for human computer interaction (HCI). Her personalisation research has created the Personis user modelling framework. This is a unified mechanism for keeping and managing people's long term personal data from diverse sources. This is the foundation for building personalised systems. Personis models are distinctive in that they were designed to be scrutable, because interfaces enable the user to scrutinise their user model and personalisation processes based on it. In learning contexts, she has created interfaces for Open Learner Models that make this personal data available in useful forms for long term learning and self-monitoring.
Her interface research has created the Cruiser Natural User Interaction (NIU) software framework. This provides new ways for people to make use of large interactive tabletops and wall displays. By mining the digital footprints of such interaction, this research is creating new ways for people to learn to collaborate, and to learn and work more collaboratively.
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, C5'2012, International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing, Playa Vista; ICLS'12, International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Sydney.
Research interests
Along with the allure of 'smart' technology, there is often the frustration of such devices seeming to 'have a mind of their own'. But this may one day be a thing of the past, if Professor Judy Kay has her way. Her research into human-computer interaction aims to give users systems that are more transparent, and where they feel in control.
"I believe that we need to design and create personalised computer systems to ensure that the user can understand and control what is happening. If your computer personalises something for you in a certain way, you should be able to work out why it did that. If you want it to work differently, you should be able to work out how to do that. Then you can get personalisation to work for you, the way you want it to.
"The area I really want to apply this to is in helping people to learn more effectively throughout their lives.
"For example, it's hard to learn group-work skills - working in a group can be frustrating and difficult. So my team has created an interactive tabletop system that helps the group work more effectively. It also captures data about the way they work, then transforms that data to show team members more useful patterns for the dynamics in their group. This means that each person can discover how well they are working, get pointers on how to improve and then see improvements. In this way they can improve their group-work skills and ultimately learn better together.
"I also want to create technology to help people achieve lifelong goals such as improved health, fitness and sustainable behaviours.
"I studied at the University of Sydney, and then chose to become an academic here because I was inspired by working our wonderful students and the intellectually rich and stimulating multidisciplinary environment."
Teaching and supervision
COMP5047 - Pervasive Computing
COMP5212 - Software Construction
INFO3315 - Human-Computer Interaction
Current projects
Selected grants
2013
- Meta cognitive scaffolds for lifelong learning; Kay J; DVC Research/Bridging Support Grant.
2012
- Smart Services (SMART CRC): Multi-Channel Content Delivery and Mobile Personalisation. Project No MCCD05 (H5); Kay J; Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre/CRC Research Project Agreement.
- Smart Services (SMART CRC): New Media Services. Project N0-NMS05 (H5); Kay J; Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre/CRC Research Project Agreement.
- Learning Technology and the Learning Sciences; Goodyear P, Kay J, Jacobson M, Reimann P, Freebody P, Martin J, Dong A, Calvo R, Kummerfeld R, Shaw T, Yacef-Cullum K, Ellis R, Sharma M, Bobis J, Taylor C, Maton K, Markauskaite L, Chan C, Dey A, Dillenbourg P, Kapur M, Laurillard D, Linn M, Luckin R, Ohlsson S, Pea R, Williams M; DVC Research/Research Network Scheme (SyReNS).
2011
- 2596 New Media Services - Smart Services CRC Project Number: NMS04; Kay J; Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre/Research Support.
- Research Work Package WP01 (Sydnovate foyer on Level 5) and Research Work Package WP02; Kay J, Fry M; Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre/Research Support.
2008
- Multi Channel Content Delivery and Mobile Personalisation; Fry M, Greenhalgh A, Kay J, Kummerfeld R, Tjondronegoro D; Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre/Research Support.
- Personalisation; Wobcke W, Xu Y, Nayak R, Greenhalgh A, Curran J, Bain M, Mahidadia A, Compton P, Li Y, Spink A, Kay J, Koprinska I, Yacef-Cullum K; Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre/Research Support.
- Education and New Media Technology Smart Services - CRC Project No. ENM01; Greenhalgh A, Reimann P, Johnson I, Kay J; Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre/Research Support.
- Pervasive Lifelong User Modelling for User Controlled Personalisation and Augmented Cognition; Kay J, Kummerfeld R; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Project.
2007
- Sequential pattern analysis in learning traces; Koprinska I, Yacef-Cullum K, Kay J; University of Sydney/Bridging Support.
- Glass box data-mining to support scalable learner-centred systems; Yacef-Cullum K, Kay J, Koprinska I; University of Sydney/Bridging Support.
2006
- Talented Students Projects Computer Lab and Electronic Response Lecture Theatre; Koprinska I, Ryan G, Yacef-Cullum K, Kay J, Kummerfeld R; University of Sydney/Teaching Innovation Grant - Faculty of Science.
- Improving the Formative and Summative Assessment of Novice Computer Programmers; Thomas R, Lister R, deRaadt M, Kay J, Carbonne A; Carrick Institute of Teaching and Learning/Priority Projects Program.
- Using mobile IT to support sustained student inquiry in learning environments beyond the classroom; Stewart K, Reimann P, Nolan A, Nolan A, Geelan C, Jobson M, Kay J, O'Brien T, Osborne A; DEST/ASISTM Project Grant.
- LinuxGym: A sustainable and easy-to-use automated developmental assessment tool for computer scripting skills; Solomon A, Kay J, Shepherd J, Lister R; Carrick Institute of Teaching and Learning/Priority Projects Program.
- Enabling resources to support the development of leadership skills in groupwork: moving students beyond the comfort zone; Kay J, Drury H, Bonanno H; Faculty of Science/Teaching Improvement Fund.
- Glass box data-mining to support scalable learner-centred systems; Yacef-Cullum K, Kay J, Koprinska I; University of Sydney/Bridging Support.
2005
- Bridging the Gap: Smart Support for the Intergenerational Distributed Family; Kummerfeld R, Kay J, Koprinska I, Poon J, Yacef-Cullum K; Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre/Cooperative Research Centres.
- Group and Individual Customisation of Information in Supporting Intergenerational Communication; Kay J, Niu W; Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre/Scholarship.
- Context Aware Information Presentation / Visualisation of Decision Making; Kay J, Apted T; Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre/Scholarship.
- Analyzing and supporting cooperation management in online learning communities; Reimann P, Kay J, Yacef-Cullum K, Goodyear P; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Project.
- Software and Modelling Learning Laboratory Equipment; Curran J, Fekete A, Kennedy G, Kay J, Kummerfeld R, Louie D, Ryan G, Yacef-Cullum K; University of Sydney (Sesqui)/Teaching Grant.
- Closing the Loop on Unit of Study Evaluations; Kay J, Hubble T, Taylor C; Faculty of Science/Teaching Improvement Fund.
- Two APAI top-up scholarship; Kay J; Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre/Cooperative Research Centres.
2004
- User controlled personalisation in a system for tutoring logic.; Yacef-Cullum K, Kummerfeld R, Kay J; University of Sydney (Sesqui)/Research & Development.
2003
- Nymity; Kay J, Kummerfeld R, Quigley A; Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre/Cooperative Research Centres.
- IE-07: Nightingale Project; Smart Internet Technology CRC Pty. Ltd.; Landfeldt B, Zomaya A, Kay J, Everitt D, Quigley A, Greenhalgh A; Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre/BLO Project.
- Personalised Educational Systems; Kay J, Kummerfeld R; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Special Research Initiatives.
- Seven APAI top-up scholarships; Quigley A, Kay J, Kummerfeld R, Landfeldt B; Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre/Cooperative Research Centres.
2002
- Knowledge acquisition and Machine Learning, Smart Personal Assistant Project 01; Takatsuka M, Yacef-Cullum K, Tobias J, Davis J, Kay J, Koprinska I, Poon J; Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre/Cooperative Research Centres.
- Project IE-01 Pelican Defining the Context; Tobias J, Chawla S, Kay J, Kummerfeld R; Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre/Cooperative Research Centres.
- Web Workforce; Fekete A, Williamson K, Johanson G, Kay J, Kummerfeld R; DEST/Science Lectureship project.
- Workflow Model-Based: Just-in-Time Workplace Training; Davis J, Kay J, Yacef-Cullum K; Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre/Cooperative Research Centres.
- APAI top-up scholarship; Kay J, Kummerfeld R; Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre/Scholarship.
- Eye Tracker Usability Laboratory; Kay J, Feng D, Eades P; University of Sydney/Equipment Grant.
- Workflow Based Just-In-Time Workplace Training; Tobias J, Kay J, Davis J; Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre/BLO Project.
2001
- Natural Adaptive User Interface Prototype, NAUI-Project 01; Davis J, Koprinska I, Poon J, Takatsuka M, Yacef-Cullum K, Kay J, Tobias J; Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre/BLO Project.
- Automatic induction of rules for e-mail classification; Kay J, McCreath E; University of Sydney (Sesqui)/New Staff Support Scheme.
1999
- User modelling software development research agreement between Personis Pty Ltd and The University of Sydney; Barr P, Cousins R, Kummerfeld R, Kay J; Personis Pty Ltd/BLO Project.
- Multi-computer FairShare; Kay J, Kummerfeld R; Australian Research Council (ARC)/SPIRT scheme - APAI scholarship.
- Distributed process scheduling for a single image multicomputer; Kummerfeld R, Kay J, Chubb P; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Spirt Grants.
Selected publications
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Proceedings of the Lifelong User Modelling Workshop, at UMAP '09 User Modeling Adaptation, and Personalization (School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney,2009)
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Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (Springer,2008)
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