Associate Professor Frada Burstein
Associate Professor Frada Burstein is a chief investigator of the SIP project. She leads and co-ordinate the project overseeing the conceptual design and modelling SIP and components with particular reference to Information and Decision Support System (IDSS) functionalities.
Associate Professor Julie Fisher
Associate Professor Julie Fisher is a chief investigator of the SIP project and her focus is on the case studies, user information needs analyses and usability studies of prototypes of smart information portal components.
Professor Sue McKemmish is a chief investigator of the SIP project contributing expertise in relation to metadata related approaches and SIP components. She also co-ordinates the exploration of key portal values - quality, reliability and trust - from stakeholder and broader societal perspectives.
Professor Warren brings to the project a background on electronic decision support for chronic disease management, electronic health record architecture and design of adaptive consumer internet portals. His current focus in the SIP project is on making the maintenance of meta-data for consumer health resources more sustainable and scaleable through methods of automatically inferring the meta-data attributes of Web pages.
Joanne Evans
Joanne Evans has been appointed as the Research Fellow for the SIP project from May 2007. As well as project management responsibilities, her research interests in the project lie in investigating how the efficiency and effectiveness of the processes for selecting and describing resources for inclusion in a virtual and distributed knowledge repository can be enhanced with intelligent technologies.
Kate Lazarenko
Kate Lazarenko is working as a Research Assistant. Her research interests are focused on personalisation, user profiling mechanisms, HCI, user-centred design, and usability. She has been involved in a number of research projects, and her proposed PhD thesis is expected to be related to the portal’s intelligent features, personalisation in particular.
Jue Xie
Jue Xie is a PhD student looking to investigate quality issues associated with health information on the Internet. Her main research interest is to support domain experts who work for third-party gateways in evaluating online health information through the use of intelligent technologies. She comes to the project with a number of years experience as a research assistant and a .Net programmer in a variety of component-based software engineering projects. She is also working as a programmer on the SIP project.
Guocai Chen
Rosetta Manaszewicz
Rosetta Manaszewicz has been appointed as a Research Fellow on the project to explore how the resource identification, selection and description processes of domain experts can be assisted by intelligent technologies. Rosetta was a Research Fellow on the Breast Cancer Knowledge Online Project and is currently undertaking PhD research investigating information use by women with advanced breast cancer.