CoolCampus Monash Mobility Workshop

Proceedings of the 3rd CoolCampus Workshop

"Monash Mobility: Interconnecting university community with ICT"

The purpose of the CoolCampus Workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, and users with focus on how mobile/pervasive/wireless technology can support and advance academic activities and processes of a university.

Monash University is a multi-campus university spanning five countries with its campuses and academic centres. Separated by vast distances we strive to be a connected university and weaved together by modern technologies. Monash University's strategic direction for 2006 is to develop "a high quality campus experience designed to develop the whole individual, encourage all students to benefit from time spent at a second Monash campus" (Monash 2025). The advent of mobile technologies will change the way in which the university operates and renders innovative services to enhance the learning, teaching, research and operational environment. Modern computer and communication technologies will enable connectivity for university students and staff "anytime", "anywhere", with "any technology".

Topics:

Organizing Committee:

• Arkady Zaslavsky (SCSSE)
• Helena Scheepers (SIMS)
• Janette Burke (Library)
• Phil Steele (Campus Co-ordination)
• Rob Gray (CoolCampus)
• Paul Hii (CoolCampus)

Date: 24th October 2005, Monday

Location: Lecture theatre E7, Building 72, Monash University (Clayton)

Online: Monash Marratech Portal->CC Monash Mobility Workshop (This is a link to enter the e-meeting room ".CC Monash Mobility Workshop": URL:https://coolcampus.csse.monash.edu.au/launch.jsp?sid=49). A Marratech client is required to enter an e-meeting room. Instructions to download, install and use Marratech client are available at http://infotech.monash.edu.au/coolcampus/collaborate. Presentation slides will be displayed on the Marratech client's whiteboard so that online participants can view them live.

Presenters: Please email Paul your final version of your presentation slides anytime before the Workshop. You could also submit to Paul Hii or Rob Gray your softcopy of the presentation slides upon arrival at the Workshop. The purpose is for uploading the slides onto Marratech for online participants to view during the presentations. Presenters will present as per normal.

Registration: Please send registrations to Rob Gray to assist with catering.

Guest Speakers

• Research Issues in Sensor Networks, Prof. Rao Kotagiri (University of Melbourne)

The talk highlights research issues in sensor network design.  The issues covered include control system theory to software design issues.

Biography:

Professor Ramamohanarao (Rao) Kotagiri received his ME degree at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1974, and PhD degree at Monash University in 1980. He was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 1983 and was appointed a professor in computer science in 1989. Rao held several senior positions including Head of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Melbourne, Co-Director of the Key Centre for Knowledge-Based Systems, and Research Director for the Cooperative Research Centre for Intelligent Decision Systems.  He served as a member of the Australian Research Council Information Technology Panel. He also served on the Editorial Boards of the Computer Journal and the VLDB Journal. At present he is also on the Editorial Boards for Universal Computer Science, the Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems, IEEE TKDE and VLDB Journal. He served as a program committee member of several International conferences including SIGMOD, IEEE ICDM, VLDB, ICLP and ICDE. He was the program Co-Chair for VLDB, PAKDD and DOOD conferences.  He is a steering committee member of IEEE ICDM, PAKDD and DASFAA. Rao is a fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia, Australian Academy Technological Sciences and Engineering and Australian Academy of Science. Rao has research interests in the areas of Database Systems, Logic Based Systems, Agent Oriented Systems, Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Intrusion Detection and Machine Learning.  He is currently the Head of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne.

• Mobile Platform 2015, Dr. Steven Duvall (Intel)

We will examine the dominant trends in mobile platforms and consider where the trends are likely to lead in the next 10 years. We will then discuss several important research questions associated with these trends, including usage models, broadband wireless, platform resource management, CPU architectures and component technologies.

Biography:

Dr Steven Duvall is the director of technology for Intel Capital's International Sector. In this role, he is responsible for sourcing new technology opportunities for the company and for supporting the investment teams in each country in their technology-related investments.

With more than 21 years' experience working for Intel, Steven has held positions as Senior Process Engineer, Computer-aided Design Engineer and Director of Optimisation and Statistical Modelling for Intel's Technology and Manufacturing Group (TMG). In his previous position, he led the investigation and development of advanced computer-aided design tools for optimising manufactured technologies and integrated circuits.

In 1999, Steven was appointed an Intel Fellow, providing strategic technical guidance to the company and representing Intel on industry technical panels. Steven has twice been awarded Intel's highest individual recognition award, in 1989 and 1993.

Steven is an independent director of Altium Ltd, an Australian developer of electronic design automation tools, is a member of the Australian Research Council's Expert Advisory Committee on Mathematics, Information and Communication Sciences, and Chairs the IEEE NSW Joint Circuits and Systems and Solid-State Circuits Chapter.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Steven received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Operations Research from Stanford University and B.S. degree in Engineering from Humboldt State University.

• The Future of Internet Based Conferencing: Ubiquitous Human Group Communication, A/Prof. Peter Parnes (Lulea University and Marratech)

In the modern world where many companies and groups are distributed there is a strong need for tools that support distributed work, yet very few companies actually use more than phones and email for their daily collaborative work. If they need to meet physically, they travel long distances wasting resources in the form of time, money on travel, pollution from their transports and mostly they are not available for interaction with their other colleagues. The latter creates stress for both the traveler and the persons in her/his organization that need to interact with the traveler to get their work done as smoothly as possible.

At the same time the need for distributed work increases with the possibility for having work forces distributed over large geographical areas. Employees work more from their home and on the road today than they did just a decade ago and personal experience show that allowing employees to work in a more relaxed environment as their home minimizes stress symptoms, and increases life quality. One such support tool is e-meetings where users can interact in real-time using high-quality audio, video, text chat, shared whiteboard, shared applications and co-web browsing.

Biography:

Associate Professor Peter Parnes enjoys applied research which is attractive to the industry outside the research community. Research interests include distributed applications and real-time human communication over the Internet. Peter Parnes has a PhD in Computer Science received from the Luleå University of Technology in 1999 and he became Associate Professor at the same university in 2004. He has a strong record of financing research and he has insight into how to create spin-off companies as he is the founder of the Swedish company Marratech AB which became IST-Price Winner in 2001. Peter holds 5 patents in the area of distributed applications and he has published more than 40 academic publications in international journals and conferences. Peter Parnes is currently employed at Luleå University of Technology where he is the acting research subject representative for Media Technology, as well as at Marratech AB as Chief Scientist. Peter Parnes has a long experience in creating and leading research projects and he strongly believes that applied research leads to both stronger academic results as well as leads to results that are attractive to the industry and in turn contributes to business development.

• A Vision for Monash University, Professor Stephen Parker

Monash University’s aim, as stated in Monash Directions 2025 is:

‘By 2025 we will be one of the best universities in the world, distinctive because our research-intensive, international focus enables us to address important theoretical and practical challenges, and develop graduates who will wish to do the same’

As a university ‘in the world’, Monash will continue to build and nurture engagement between all its campuses, and between campuses and their communities.  Effective campus coordination, including the use of ICT, will be a fundamental enabler of this engagement.  Staff and student mobility between Monash campuses and centres will also contribute to, and enhance this engagement.  As a result, a distinctively ‘Monash’ staff and student experience will be developed, and the Monash culture strengthened.

Biography

Professor Stephen Parker is the Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Senior Vice-President of Monash University, providing cross-portfolio support for the Vice-Chancellor. He has specific roles in university planning, international activities and the implementation of quality assurance and improvement programs. An honours graduate in Law from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Professor Parker holds a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Wales. He is admitted to legal practice in England and Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Queensland, and has taught at University College Cardiff, The Australian National University, Griffith University and Monash. Professor Parker has held various major research grants for projects on legal ethics, family law, judicial independence and reform of civil procedure. He has published books and monographs on the history of marriage law, the law relating to unmarried cohabitation, children’s rights and legal ethics. He is the co-author of a textbook called Law in Context, designed to introduce law students to the ways other disciplines view law, and of Australian Family Law in Context. In 1998 Professor Parker wrote a report for the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration entitled Courts and the Public. Professor Parker was Dean of Law at Monash 1999-2003.

• Walkabout u-Learning = e-Learning + m-Learning, Dr. Des Casey and Janet Fraser

In the USA the number of mobile phone connections now exceeds the number of landline connections. Furthermore, this year there has been a 25% decrease in world-wide PDA sales. These two facts point to a consumer preference for the convergence of phones and PDA’s to mobile devices offering a combined functionality.

This new mobile environment needs to be explored for potential usefulness in the de-structured modes of learning increasingly adopted by students. Some learning has become de-structured in terms of places of learning, and times and periods of learning. Further there is an imperative for life-long learning, much of which will not take place in formally structured learning environments.  Students will need to develop skills in self-directed, independent learning: learning that will be integrated into the multi-tasking lifestyles many now pursue.

Consequently, there is a growing need to synthesise sound educational teaching and learning practice with desktop and mobile technologies. Walkabout u-Learning looks to extend a desktop learning environment (e-learning) to incorporate mobile technologies (m-learning), to implement a truly ubiquitous learning environment (u-learning).

Biography

Janet Fraser is a Lecturer at the Peninsula School of Information Technology. Janet’s area of research interest covers educational technologies and ubiquitous Web based learning environments.

• Cross Campus Collaboration, Professor Phillip Steele and Michelle King

Many Monash students and staff members based on a Monash campus may wish to collaborate with one or more colleagues located on other Monash campuses.  This collaboration may be achieved in a number of ways including travel or the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT).  A number of factors influence the way in which the collaboration is achieved including the geographic location of the collaborators, the time they have available for the collaboration, the personal / social / organisational context of the collaboration and the collaboration technologies available. This presentation makes some suggestions about how Monash might most effectively support cross campus collaboration across its campus network.

Biography

Professor Phillip Steele is Pro Vice Chancellor Campus Coordination and Academic Director Berwick and Peninsula campuses.  In his role as PVC Campus Coordination, Phillip promotes a focus on the Monash campus network and the interconnections between the campuses and promotes the strategic use of ICT at each campus with the aim of fostering cross campus collaboration and resource sharing.  Phillip is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and holds a Doctorate of Philosophy from Deakin University. Philip’s research interests include information modelling and information systems development and he has lectured and published widely in these areas. He founded the CoolCampus Initiative at Monash University in 2003.

• From Collaboration to Content, Dr. Andrew Treloar

This presentation will look at the increasingly tight relationshiop between collaboration and content creation. This has implications for the sort of collaborative environments provided as well as the ways in which content is managed. The presentation will talk about plans underway at Monash to respond to this evolving environment, as well as possible outcomes in this area arising from the DART project.

Biography

Dr. Andrew Treloar has a B. A. (hons.), majoring in Germanic Languages and Linguistics,  a Grad. Dip. in computer science, and an M. A. with the topic A Computer-assisted analysis of characterisation in Virginia Woolf’s ‘The Waves’, all from Melbourne University. In 1999 he received his Ph. D. from Monash University with the topic Hypermedia Scholarly Publishing - Transformation of the Scholarly Journal.

Andrew is currently Senior Project Manager (Information Management) within Information Technology Services at Monash University. He is also the Project Architect for the ARROW project (http://arrow.edu.au/) and Interim Project Director for the DART project (http://dart.edu.au/).

Prior to  coming to Monash he was Senior Lecturer in Information Management at Deakin University. He has taught extensively in the areas of the Internet, database management, project management and electronic information sources. He has also consulted in Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, South Korea and Fiji.

His research areas include electronic scholarly publishing and institutional repository software. He never gets enough time for reading or working in his vegetable garden, or talking to his chooks.

• Internet Jurisdiction and Privacy, Dr. Moira Patterson

Developments in pervasive technology raise a number of complex legal issues which are made more complex where the systems extend beyond a single state or country, given that laws may vary as between Australia states and also between Australia and other countries.  This paper will focus on the privacy, information security and intellectual property law issues arising from proposed new collaboration tools for Monash.

Biography

Dr. Moira Paterson is a Senior Lecturer in Law and author of Freedom of Information and Privacy in Australia: Government and Information Access in the Modern State (2005). Her areas of teaching and research expertise include privacy, intellectual property and Internet law.

CoolCampus Initiative gratefully acknowledges the support by Information Technology Services  in providing wireless Internet access to all guests at the workshop.