About Professor Robert Steele
The intersection of health informatics, computer science and health innovation promises to provide many benefits and novel solutions in terms of patient safety, healthy living, improvements to preventative care, early detection and health system wide efficiencies and improvements.
Professor Steele is the Head of Discipline of the Discipline of Health Informatics. Professor Steele's interests include the application of mobile and wireless technologies and Internet technologies to the health care domain, including secure electronic health records systems and sensor technologiesRobert is currently leading five research projects as first-named Chief Investigator including four Australian Research Council grants and one DIISR International Science Linkage grant. In addition, Robert is the Head of Discipline of the Discipline of Health Informatics at the University of Sydney. Robert's current international collaboration, working with the University of California Santa Cruz and Microsoft Research, Seattle 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. Robert also has extensive and successful industry collaboration experience. Areas of research interest include the rich representation of data in various application domains.
Selected publications
- Steele, R, Lo, A, Secombe, C, Wong, Y K. Elderly Persons' Perception and Acceptance of Using Wireless Sensor Networks to Assist Healthcare. International Journal of Medical Informatics (Accepted, 2009)
- Steele, R, Lo, A. Future Personal Health Records as a Foundation for Computational Health, Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, Jun 29- Jul 2, 2009, Yongin, Korea.
- Tao, W., Steele, R. A Local Broker Enabled MobiPass Architecture for Enhancing Trusted Interaction Efficiency. Proceedings of the Australian Computer Science Conference, Wollongong, 22-25 January 2008, 55-61.
- 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.
- Kohlhoff, C., Steele, R. Evaluating SOAP for High Performance Business Applications: Real-Time Trading Systems. Proceedings of WWW2003, Budapest Hungary, 2003.
- 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 Development in Multi-Agent Systems. Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, Volume 7, Issue 2, March 2007, Pages 492-505.
- Secombe, C., Brookes, W., Steele, R. Using Wireless Sensor Networks for Aged Care: The Patient's Perspective. Proceedings of the International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for HealthCare 2006, Innsbruck, Austria, Nov 29 - Dec 1, 2006.
- Murphy, J., Steele, R., Shen, R. Exploiting the Rich Document Structures and Network Topology of Legal Information Systems. Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems 08 (PACIS 08), Suzhou, China.
- Yang, K., Lo, A., Steele, R. Ontology Mediated XML Data Translation. International Journal of Web Information Systems, 4(2), 2008, 181-197.
- Yang, K., Steele, R. An Ontology Mediated Web Service Aggregation Hub. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence Conference, Silicon Valley, Nov. 2-5, 2007.