Professor Robert Steele
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Qualifications: BSC PhD Positions held:
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Biography
Robert's interests include the application of mobile and wireless technologies and Internet technologies to the health care domain, including secure electronic health records systems, social media and social networking and sensor technologies.
Robert's current and past research project leadership includes the role of first-named Chief Investigator on four Australian Research Council grants, one DIISR International Science Linkage grant and a ADHC Applied Research Grant. These six externally funded research grants led by Robert as lead investigator, along with other internal grants, have a total direct cost value of approximately $4,000,000.
Robert also has an extensive track record in developing innovative educational programs.
Research Interests
Robert's current international collaboration is focused on investigating the application of new wireless mesh technologies to rural and regional applications such as enhanced healthcare services. His work under ARC Discovery funding is investigating novel approaches to trust in mobile computing systems and this is being applied in the area of more secure and private electronic health records.
He is also leading the Connecting Older Adults project, which is investigating how online social networking can potentially decrease the isolation of older adults and improve their engagment in the community and offline social groups.
Robert also has extensive and successful industry collaboration experience. Areas of research interest include the rich representation of data in various application domains.
Teaching and Service Responsibilities
- Course Director, Master of Health Informatics
- Member of Standards Australia Health Informatics Committee IT-014.
- Vice Chair, ACM SIGMOBILE
Research Opportunities
Selected Publications
- Steele, R., Min, K., Lo, A. Personal Health Record Architectures: Technology Infrastructure Implications and Dependencies. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2012. (forthcoming)
- Steele, R., Lo, A. Telehealth and Ubiquitous Computing for Bandwidth Constrained Rural and Remote Areas. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2012 (forthcoming)
- Clarke, A., Steele, R. Secure and Reliable Distributed Health Records: Achieving Query Assurance Across Repositories of Encrypted Health Data, 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2012.
- Steele, R., Min, K. Health News Feed: Identifying Personally Relevant Health-related URLs in Tweets. Proceedings of 7th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2012), Singapore, 2012.
- Steele, R. Social Media, Mobile Devices and Sensors: Categorizing New Techniques for Health Communication. The 5th International Conference on Sensing Technology, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 2011
- Clarke, A., Steele, R. How Personal Fitness Data Can be Re-used by Smart Cities. The Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing, Adelaide, 2011.
- Steele, R. et. al. Indexing System and Method, US Patent, Pat. No. 7,987, 165, July 26, 2011.
- Steele, R. A Model for Social Network-enhanced Health Communication. International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, 2011.
- Yang, K., Steele, R. A Semantic Integration Solution for Online Accommodation Information Integration. Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, Beijing, China, 2011.
- Steele, R. Social Media, Mobile Devices and Sensors: Categorizing New Techniques for Health Communication. The 5th International Conference on Sensing Technology, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 2011
- Steele, R., Lo, A., Secombe, C., Wong, YK. Elderly Persons' Perception and Acceptance of Using Wireless Sensor Networks to Assist Healthcare. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 2009; 78(12): 788-801.
- Steele, R., Min, K. HealthPass: Fine-grained Access Control to Portable Personal Health Records. 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, Perth, 20-23 April 2010.
- Steele, R., Lo, A. Future Personal Health Records as a Foundation for Computational
Health. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5593/ 2009: 719-733. - Steele, R., Gardner, W., Chandra, D., Dillon, T. Framework and Prototype for a Secure XML-based Electronic Health Records System, International Journal of Electronic Healthcare 2007 - Vol. 3, No.2 pp. 151 - 174.
- Steele, R., Tao, W. MobiPass: A Passport for Mobile Business. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer, 11 (3), March, 2007, 157-169.
- Schmidt, S., Steele, R., Dillon, T. Fuzzy Trust Evaluation and Credibility Devlopment in Multi-Agent Systems. Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, Volume 7, Issue 2, March 2007, Pages 492-505.
- Kohlhoff, C., Steele, R. Evaluating SOAP for High Performance Business Applications: Real-Time Trading Systems. Proceedings of WWW2003, Budapest Hungary, 2003.