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DR FRANK VETERE



Contact Details

Organization: Information Systems
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
Email:
Homepage: http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/fvetere
Work: 8344 1496
Fax: 9349 4596
Room: 4.62
Level: 04
Building: 111-117 Barry St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Human Computer Interaction Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Norway SINTEF Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1985
Diploma in Applied Science Swinburne University of Technology 31-Dec-1992
Graduate Diploma in Education Melbourne College of Advanced Education 31-Dec-1987
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2002

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member CHISIG 01-Jan-1996
Member ACM 01-Jan-1996

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) The University of Melbourne Deans Award for Excellence in Teaching (Science Faculty) 01-Jan-2006

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
Socially Oriented Requirements Engineering - Software Engineering meets Ethnography Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
Appropriation & Extension of Multimedia Messaging Service for Young People Chief Investigator SMART INTERNET TECHNOLOGY CRC PTY LTD 01/01/2003
CP10-TOWARDS AN AUST.STANDARD FOR HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION DESIGN Chief Investigator SMART INTERNET TECHNOLOGY CRC PTY LTD 01/08/2004
CP 17: PLASI: BUILDING AN AUTHORITATIVE USABILITY PATTERN COLLECTION (THE "PLASI PROJECT") Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE,
SMART INTERNET TECHNOLOGY CRC PTY LTD
01/10/2005
PETER MACCALLUM CANCER INSTITUTE - FOR "EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES TO IMPROVE SUPPORTIVE CARE FOR YOUNG ADULTS LIVING WITH CANCER" PROJECT Chief Investigator PETER MACCALLUM CANCER INSTIT 31/03/2008

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 2007

Book Chapters

  • e-Portfolios: a means of capturing learning on the move
    Year: 2007
    Book: ePortfolio: Adding Value to Lifelong Learning
    Publisher: Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyvasklya
    Authors(s):

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Brute force as input for networked gaming
    Year: 2007
    Event name: OZCHI 2007
    Conference Publication: 2007 conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia
    Page numbers: 167-170
    Publisher: Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group(Canberra)
    Author(s):
  • Design experiences with networked exertion games
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Pergames-4th International Symposium on Pervasive Gaming Applications
    Conference Publication: Pergames-4th International Symposium on Pervasive Gaming Applications. Proceedings
    Publisher: Shaker Verlag(Aachen)
    Author(s):
    URL - open access pergames
  • Designing Tangible Artefacts for Playful Interactions and Dialogues
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Designing tangible artefacts for playful interactions and dialogues
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Designing pleasurable products and interfaces
    Page numbers: 61 - 75
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
    Author(s):
    URL - open access http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1314161.1314167
  • Happy coincidences in designing for social connectedness and play through opportunistic image capture
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Conference on Designing for User Experience (DUX 07)
    Conference Publication: Conference on Designing for User Experience (DUX 07)
    Publisher: AIGA: The Professional Association for Design (New York)
    Author(s):
    URL - open access http://dux2007.com/
  • How probes work
    Year: 2007
    Event name: OzCHI 2007 - Australasian Computer-Human Interaction Conference
    Conference Publication: OzCHI 2007 Entertaining User Interfaces
    Page numbers: 29-37
    Publisher: Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group(Canberra)
    Author(s):
  • Time and Design of Familial Social Connectivity Systems
    Year: 2007
    Event name: International Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of SIMTECH 2007
    Publisher: Lancaster University (Lancaster)
    Author(s):
  • Virtual Box: Supporting Mediated Family Intimacy through Virtual and Physical Play
    Year: 2007
    Event name: OZCHI 2007
    Conference Publication: 2007 Conference of the Computer-Human interaction Special interest Group of Australia
    Page numbers: 151 - 159
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

  • 'My Grandfather is Dead': Narratives of Culture & Curriculum
    Year: 2006
    Event name: mLearn 2006
    Conference Publication: mLearn 2006
    Author(s):
  • 'Was it good for you darling?' - Intimacy, Sex and Critical Technical Practice
    Year: 2006
    Event name: CHI
    Conference Publication: CHI2006
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
    Author(s):
    URL - open access http://www.chi2006.org/call/positionpapers.php
  • Teacher involvement in usability testing with children

     


    Year: 2006
    Event name: Interaction Design and Children
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 5th International conference for Interaction Design and Children
    Page numbers: 89-92
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
    Author(s):
  • A magic box for understanding intergenerational play
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI'06
    Conference Publication: CHI2006
    Page numbers: 1475 - 1480
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
    Author(s):
  • Distributed Hide and Seek
    Year: 2006
    Event name: OZCHI
    Conference Publication: OZCHI
    Author(s):
    URL - open access http://www.ozchi.org/2006/index.php?id=cfp
  • Mobile Phones and ePortfolios: Using Lifeblog Software in Learning Situations
    Year: 2006
    Event name: mLearn
    Conference Publication: mLearn
    Author(s):
    URL - open access http://www.mlearn2006.org/participate/
  • Randomness as a resource for design
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems
    Page numbers: 132-139
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
    Author(s):

Reports

  • 'Pretty good examples': Using mobile phones for ePortfolio evidence and reflection.


    Year: 2006
    Authors:

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

  • Bridging the intergenerational divide: Implications of employing cultural probes in distributed homes
    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: 1-5
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne, Department of Information Systems (Melbourne)
    Author(s):
  • Broadening stakeholder involvement in UCD: Designers' perspectives on child-centred design
    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: 1-9
    Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)(New York)
    Author(s):
  • Hug over a distance
    Year: 2005
    Event name: CHI 2005: Technology, Safety, Community
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of Late Breaking Results Track, CHI 2005 Conference Proceedings
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery(New York)
    Author(s):
  • Mediating intimacy: Designing technologies to support stong-tie relationships
    Year: 2005
    Event name: CHI 2005: Technology, Safety, Community
    Conference Publication: CHI 2005 Conference Proceedings
    Page numbers: 471-480
    Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery(New York)
    Author(s):
  • Phatic technologies: Sustaining sociability through ubiquitous computing
    Year: 2005
    Event name: The First International Workshop on Social Implications of Ubiquitous Computing at CHI 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Social Implications of Ubiquitous Computing at CHI 2005
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Institute for Pervasive Computing, ETH Zurich(Zurich)
    Author(s):
  • Picture scenarios for representing use context in design
    Year: 2005
    Event name: CHINZ 2005 Making CHI Natural: 6th International Conference NZ Chapter of the ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI-NZ)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of CHINZ 2005: Making CHI Natural
    Page numbers: 17-18
    Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)(New York)
    Author(s):
  • Serendipity Shuffle
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Citizens online:considerations for today and the future
    Conference Publication: Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA), OZCHI
    Volume: 122
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
    Author(s):
  • SynchroMate: A phatic technology for mediating intimacy
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Conference on Designing for User Experience DUX 2005
    Conference Publication: Papers of the Conference on Designing for User Experience
    Page numbers: 2-7
    Publisher: AIGA: The Professional Association for Design (New York)
    Author(s):
  • The serendipity shuffle
    Year: 2005
    Event name: OZCHI 2005 Citizens Online: Considerations for Today & the Future
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of OZCHI 2005
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)(New York)
    Author(s):
  • Using picture scenarios to represent context in the design process
    Year: 2005
    Event name: OZCHI 2005 Citizens Online: Considerations for Today & Future
    Conference Publication: Tutorial proceedings from OZCHI 2005
    Page numbers: 1-2
    Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)(New York)
    Author(s):
  • Visualizing use context with picture scenarios in the design process
    Year: 2005
    Event name: The 7th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
    Page numbers: 271-274
    Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)(New York)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2004

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Heuristic evaluation and mobile usability: Bridging the realism gap
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 6th International Symposium, MobileHCI 2004
    Conference Publication: Mobile Human-Computer Interaction - MobileHCI 2004
    Page numbers: 49-60
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
    Author(s):
  • Mediating intimacy: Digital kisses and cut and paste hugs
    Year: 2004
    Event name: The 18th British HCI Group Annual Conference, HCI 2004: Design for Life
    Conference Publication: HCI 2004: Design for Life
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 45-48
    Publisher: Research Press International (Bristol)
    Author(s):
  • Scenario-based design methods in mobile appliances development: A case study in industry
    Year: 2004
    Event name: OZCHI 2004
    Conference Publication: OZCHI 2004 Conference Proceedings
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: University of Wollongong(Wollongong)
    Author(s):
  • Trust in mobile guide design: Exploiting interaction paradigms
    Year: 2004
    Event name: OZCHI 2004
    Conference Publication: OZCHI 2004 Conference Proceedings
    Page numbers: 1-11
    Publisher: University of Wollongong(Wollongong)
    Author(s):
  • Using cultural probes to explore mediated intimacy
    Year: 2004
    Event name: OZCHI 2004
    Conference Publication: OZCHI 2004 Conference Proceedings
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: University of Wollongong(Wollongong)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2003

Conference Publications/Papers

  • A user-centred process for determining requirements for moblie technologies: the TramMate project
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 7th Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems 2003
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 7th Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems 2003
    Page numbers: 683-694
    Publisher: University of South Australia Library(Adelaide)
    Author(s):
  • Designing TramMate - a context aware mobile system supporting use of public transportation
    Year: 2003
    Event name: DUX 2003 Designing for User Experiences
    Conference Publication: DUX 2003 Designing for User Experiences
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
    Author(s):
  • Evaluating and evolving digital mobile maps
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 2003 Australasian Computer Human Interaction Conference OzCHI 2003
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2003 Australasian Computer Human Interaction Conference OzCHI 2003
    Page numbers: 116-125
    Publisher: The Ergonomics Society of Australia (Canberra)
    Author(s):
  • Layering a minimal interface
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT '03 IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
    Conference Publication: Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT '03 IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
    Page numbers: 415-422
    Publisher: IOS Press(Amsterdam)
    Author(s):
  • 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):

Publications in 2002

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Just what do the youth of today want? Technology appropriation by young people