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DR SANDRINE BALBO



Contact Details

Organization: Information Systems
Position: Honorary (Fellow)
Email:
Homepage: http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/sandrine
Work: 03 8344 1497
Fax: 03 9349 4596
Room: 5.54
Level: 05
Building: 111-117 Barry St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Human-Computer, task and work analysis and Contextual design User Interaction engineering, Usability evaluation of user interaction France, Australia, Canada
Health Information Systems Usability engineering Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
New Zealand The University of Auckland Research
France Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique Research
Canada Concordia University Research
Canada Nuance Communications Research
France Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I) 31-Dec-1986
Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I) 31-Dec-1990
Master of Science Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I) 31-Dec-1989
Doctor of Philosophy Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I) 31-Dec-1994

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member ACM Member 01-Jan-1995
Member UPA Member 01-Jan-2005
Member CHISIG Member 01-Jan-1995

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Dynamic personalisation for assisted navigation of information rich, physical environments Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Conference Publications/Papers

  • From Task to Agent-oriented Meta-models, and Back Again
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 7th International Workshop on Task Models and Diagrams (TAMODIA 2008)
    Conference Publication: Engineering Interactive Systems 2008
    Volume: LNCS
    Issue: 5247
    Page numbers: 41-57
    Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg(Berlin)
    Author(s):
  • ShaMAN: An Agent Meta-model for Computer Games
    Year: 2008
    Event name: Second Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering (HCSE 2008)
    Conference Publication: Engineering Interactive Systems 2008
    Volume: LNCS
    Issue: 5247
    Page numbers: 237-245
    Publisher: Springer(Berlin)
    Author(s):
  • The importance of including users in clinical software evaluation: what usability can offer in home monitoring
    Year: 2008
    Event name: Health Informatics Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of Health Informatics Society of Australia (HIC 2008)
    Page numbers: 7
    Publisher: Health Informatics Society of Australia(Melbourne)
    Author(s):

Reports

Publications in 2007

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Speclad: An Online Collaborative Problem-Based Learning Environment
    Year: 2007
    Event name: AaeE 2007: Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education
    Conference Publication: AaeE 2007: Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education
    Page numbers: 1-7
    Publisher: Australasian Association for Engineering Education(Canberra)
    Author(s):

  • SpeCLaD: An Object-Oriented Design Community Based Self-Learning Environment.


    Year: 2007
    Event name: ED-MEIDA 2007 - World conference on education Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunication
    Conference Publication: ED-MEDIA 2007, World conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunication
    Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
    Author(s):

Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Embodied and Enacted: The Janus Faces of Structure-of-Use
    Year: 2006
    Event name: The Fourth Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the NordiCHI 06
    Publisher: NordiCHI
    Author(s):
  • Embodied and enacted: the Janus faces of structure-of-use
    Year: 2006
    Event name: NordiCHI 2006
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2006
    Page numbers: 421-424
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
    Author(s):
  • Practical tips on using an eye-tracking system to support usability testing
    Year: 2006
    Event name: OZCHI
    Conference Publication: OZCHI2006 design: activities, artefacts and environments
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
    Author(s):
  • TANDEM - a Design Method for Intergrating Web Services into Multi-Agent Systems
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Fifth Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-06)
    Page numbers: 939-942
    Publisher: ACM Press(Melbourne)
    Author(s):
    Editor(s):

Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Evaluating the usability of a mobile guide: The influence of location, participants and resources
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Behaviour & Information Technology
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 51-65
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd(London)
    Author(s):
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Approaching the sensitive user with care: An online Delphi study
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Workshop on Appropriate Methods for Design in Complex and Sensitive Settings at OZCHI 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Workshop on Appropriate Methods for Design in Complex and Sensitive Settings at OZCHI 2005
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne, Department of Information Systems (Melbourne)
    Author(s):
  • Appropriateness of user interfaces to tasks
    Year: 2005
    Event name: The 4th International Workshop on Task Models and Diagrams for user interface design TAMODIA 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Task Models and Diagrams for User Interface Design TAMODIA 2005
    Page numbers: 111-118
    Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)(New York)
    Author(s):
  • Game-first programming for information systems students
    Year: 2005
    Event name: The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: Creativity & Cognition Studio Press(Sydney)
    Author(s):
  • Leading web usability evaluations to WAUTER
    Year: 2005
    Event name: AusWeb 05
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of AusWeb 05
    Page numbers: 1-15
    Publisher: Southern Cross University(Lismore )
    Author(s):
  • Spheres of role in context-awareness
    Year: 2005
    Event name: OZCHI 2005 Citizens Online: Considerations for Today & Future
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of OZCHI 2005 Citizens Online: Considerations for Today & Future
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)(New York)
    Author(s):
  • Structuration of activity: A view on human activity
    Year: 2005
    Event name: OZCHI 2005 Citizens Online: Considerations for Today & Future
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of OZCHI 2005 Citizens Online: Considerations for Today & Future
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)(New York)
    Author(s):
  • Towards a framework to analyse information architecture work practices
    Year: 2005
    Event name: OZCHI 2005 Citizens Online: Considerations for Today & Future
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of OZCHI 2005 Citizens Online: Considerations for Today & Future
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)(New York)
    Author(s):
  • Usability design notations: A comparison of functional flow diagrams and task models
    Year: 2005
    Event name: The Usability Professional Association 14th Annual Conference UPA 2005: Bridging Cultures
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Usability Professional Association 14th Annual Conference UPA 2005: Bridging Cultures
    Page numbers: 1-14
    Publisher: Usability Professionals' Association (Illinois)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Choosing the right task-modelling notation: A taxonomy
    Year: 2004
    Book: The Handbook of Task Analysis for Human-Computer Interaction
    Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates(New Jersey)
    Authors(s):

Conference Publications/Papers

  • A tale of two methodologies: Heavyweight versus agile
    Year: 2004
    Event name: The Tenth Australian World Wide Web Conference, "AusWeb X: The Challenge of Integration As The Web Moves Into Its Second Decade"
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of AusWeb04
    Page numbers: 465-468
    Publisher: Southern Cross University(Lismore )
    Author(s):
  • DIANEnx: Modelling exploration in the web context
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 6th Asia Pacific Conference, APCHI 2004
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 6th Asia Pacific Conference, APCHI 2004
    Page numbers: 620-624
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
    Author(s):
  • Exploring web exploration: An empirical study
    Year: 2004
    Event name: OZCHI 2004
    Conference Publication: OZCHI 2004 Conference Proceedings
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: University of Wollongong(Wollongong)
    Author(s):
  • WEPN-Web Evaluation Path Navigator
    Year: 2004
    Event name: The Tenth Australian World Wide Web Conference, "AusWeb X: The Challenge of Integration As The Web Moves Into Its Second Decade"
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of AusWeb04
    Page numbers: 465-468
    Publisher: Southern Cross University(Lismore )
    Author(s):

Publications in 2003

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Walking through mobile use: Novel heuristics and their application
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Australasian Computer Human Interaction Conference OzCHI 2003
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2003 Australasian Computer Human Interaction Conference OzCHI 2003
    Page numbers: 24-33
    Publisher: The Ergonomics Society of Australia (Canberra)
    Author(s):
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