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Demystified ERP

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Demystified ERP

Our presentation kicked off with Master of Research student, Olu Okunade’s presentation of his research entitled ‘Demystified ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)’. It aims to enable a one size-fit-all collaboration between virtual and office based teams using a web-based visualisation.   His questions are to answer what the most suitable visualisation tool is, and what can…

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Enabling Fairer Assessment Strategies On Learning And Teaching With Analytics

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Enabling Fairer Assessment Strategies On Learning And Teaching With Analytics

Our second presentation today is by Masters by Research student, Rezina Akhter. Her passion is in using data analytics to create a better and fairer marking scheme for students.   Akhter introducing her fairer assessment strategies  “The term of fair marking is debatable,” Akhter explained. “However, it should be noted that this does not reflect…

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Scientometric Analysis of HAI Conference

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Scientometric Analysis of HAI Conference

Our group began with a presentation by Dr Omar Mubin on his upcoming conference presentation. Mubin’s research is on scientrometric, which is the study on how research is being done. Current trends in this field include looking at citations, publication evolutions and impact analysis. Mubin introducing his presentation. “There are many fields that can be…

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Genomic Data Visualisation Using 3D Game Engine

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Genomic Data Visualisation Using 3D Game Engine

Masters student, Wei Lau, presented his second Masters project today.   Similar to his previous project, he aims to use the Unity3D gaming engine to create a visualisation system for medical data. He hopes to use it on Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) devices, such as Google Cardboard and the Hololens. His ultimate…

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Using Machine Learning to Support Better and Intelligent Visualization for Genomic Data

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Using Machine Learning to Support Better and Intelligent Visualization for Genomic Data

With her Confirmation of Candidature coming up, Masters of Philosophy student, Jolin Qu, treated our meeting this week with a preview of her presentation. Her research is titled Using Machine Learning to Support Better and Intelligent Visualization for Genomic Data.   “Visualisation is the process of using diagrams to show data.”  Qu’s goal is to…

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What are the Differences Between Science and the Humanities?

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What are the Differences Between Science and the Humanities?

What are the differences between science and the humanities?   This was the question Dr Rachel Hendery began in today’s meeting.   “There are some pretty big differences in the data people are interested in,” Hendery explained. “Science often uses large and numeric data, while humanities are concerned on how these data affect human.”  …

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Decision Goals in Data Visualisation

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Decision Goals in Data Visualisation

Simeon Simoff opened our meeting this week with an inspirational speech titled, The Art and Science of Designing Visualisation for Decision Making, in which he explained a selection of research that he has conducted in the past.   “This is something that would hopefully assist you,” the professor began to the group of HDR students….

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Medicine Visualisation in 3D

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Medicine Visualisation in 3D

Today, we had the chance to be given a presentation of Nader Khalifa’s PhD project, titled “A Visualisation System for Analysing Biomedical and Genomic Data Sets Using Unity3D Platform.”   Nader Khalifa explaining his research  Khalifa is working alongside Westmead Hospital, and has been on the project for over three years.   “We need to…

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Web Based Medical Visualisation

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Web Based Medical Visualisation

In this week’s meeting, Andrew Brunker, a PhD candidate in data visualisation, presented his research on an interactive visualisation for medical treatment. His literature review spaned the horizon of 3D models and heat maps.   According to Brunker, he created a workflow that went through: question, data, visualisation, and knowledge.   “The framework is web…

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QoS-Aware Data-Intensive Hybrid Mobile Cloud Computing Framework

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QoS-Aware Data-Intensive Hybrid Mobile Cloud Computing Framework

This week, we were also lucky to have Mohammad Alkhalaileh present his research titled QoS-Aware Data-Intensive Hybrid Mobile Cloud Computing Framework.   His topic explored the computation capability of mobile computing without having to be connected using a fixed physical link.   “The limitation of mobile computing include battery, resource intensive tasks and lower bandwidth…

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