Emerging technologies for enrichment in old age: A critical perspective. This project aims to generate knowledge about older adults' experiences with emerging technologies used for social and emotional enrichment. Technologies like virtual reality are said to offer social benefits for those in advanced old age, but we have limited knowledge about the issues that can impede older adults’ experiences with these technologies and even cause harm for vulnerable users. This project seeks to identify e ....Emerging technologies for enrichment in old age: A critical perspective. This project aims to generate knowledge about older adults' experiences with emerging technologies used for social and emotional enrichment. Technologies like virtual reality are said to offer social benefits for those in advanced old age, but we have limited knowledge about the issues that can impede older adults’ experiences with these technologies and even cause harm for vulnerable users. This project seeks to identify empirically informed strategies for good practice in the design and deployment of emerging technologies for enrichment in old age. This should inform the future ethical design and use of emerging technologies to benefit the social and emotional well-being of older Australians.Read moreRead less
Real-time Event Detection, Prediction, and Visualization for Emergency Response. This project proposes novel end-to-end methods for real-time recognition and prediction of real-world events, leading to timely response to emergencies such as disease outbreaks and natural disasters, as well as prevention of crime, security breaches and the like. It will develop new techniques to quickly detect and predict events by incorporating adaptive learning and probabilistic models, and address fusion and sc ....Real-time Event Detection, Prediction, and Visualization for Emergency Response. This project proposes novel end-to-end methods for real-time recognition and prediction of real-world events, leading to timely response to emergencies such as disease outbreaks and natural disasters, as well as prevention of crime, security breaches and the like. It will develop new techniques to quickly detect and predict events by incorporating adaptive learning and probabilistic models, and address fusion and scalability factors to handle vast collections of heterogeneous data. An event surveillance system prototype will be developed to incorporate the findings of the research with tools to visualise and describe events.Read moreRead less
Efficient Management of Things for the Future World Wide Web. The future World Wide Web will connect billions of physical objects, which will offer exciting capabilities to change the world and improve the quality of human lives, just as what the Web has done in the past 20 years. Effectively and efficiently managing things is one inevitable challenge in this new era and is much more complicated than managing traditional Web documents. This project aims to focus on this key problem and develop n ....Efficient Management of Things for the Future World Wide Web. The future World Wide Web will connect billions of physical objects, which will offer exciting capabilities to change the world and improve the quality of human lives, just as what the Web has done in the past 20 years. Effectively and efficiently managing things is one inevitable challenge in this new era and is much more complicated than managing traditional Web documents. This project aims to focus on this key problem and develop novel techniques for linking resource-constrained things to the Web, searching them using a new search engine, as well as discovering latent relationships among things for advanced management tasks such as things recommendation and composition.Read moreRead less
Effective, efficient and scalable processing of big geo-textual streams. This project aims to develop novel approaches to realise the value of geo-textual data, which carries both location and textual information. The project expects to address three key challenges brought by massive volumes and high speeds of big geo-textual streams: better user experiences; increased efficiency; and greater scalability in query processing. The project should provide individuals, business and government agencie ....Effective, efficient and scalable processing of big geo-textual streams. This project aims to develop novel approaches to realise the value of geo-textual data, which carries both location and textual information. The project expects to address three key challenges brought by massive volumes and high speeds of big geo-textual streams: better user experiences; increased efficiency; and greater scalability in query processing. The project should provide individuals, business and government agencies with the ability to unlock key values in the overwhelming volume of high-speed, big geo-textual streams for important usage in many emerging key applications, such as social media analytics, location-based services, social networks, e-marketing and cybersecurity.Read moreRead less
Taming Large-Volume Dynamic Graphs in the Cloud. This project aims to develop efficient and scalable algorithms to process large-volume dynamic graphs in the cloud. The project expects to address key challenges and lay theoretical foundations in large-volume dynamic graph processing, which plays an important role in developing general-purpose, real-time structural search engines. Expected outcomes of this project include theoretical foundations and scalable algorithms to process big graphs that ....Taming Large-Volume Dynamic Graphs in the Cloud. This project aims to develop efficient and scalable algorithms to process large-volume dynamic graphs in the cloud. The project expects to address key challenges and lay theoretical foundations in large-volume dynamic graph processing, which plays an important role in developing general-purpose, real-time structural search engines. Expected outcomes of this project include theoretical foundations and scalable algorithms to process big graphs that evolve rapidly over time. These enable users to monitor and analyse structural information in large dynamic networks in real time. The project expects to open up a new research direction for graph processing to enrich frontier technologies and benefit many key applications in Australia.Read moreRead less
A ubiquitous system for indoor location-based services. This project aims to design a system capable of providing location-based services in WiFi-enabled indoor buildings. The project expects to address two major challenges hindering such a system, capability to identify a user's location in any indoor venue with minimum manual overhead, and effective data management techniques for indoor data. Expected outcomes of this project include new techniques for managing and utilising indoor location da ....A ubiquitous system for indoor location-based services. This project aims to design a system capable of providing location-based services in WiFi-enabled indoor buildings. The project expects to address two major challenges hindering such a system, capability to identify a user's location in any indoor venue with minimum manual overhead, and effective data management techniques for indoor data. Expected outcomes of this project include new techniques for managing and utilising indoor location data and enhanced international collaborations. The project will support and enhance a wide range of indoor applications such as emergency services, assisted healthcare systems, indoor asset tracking, event planning, indoor venue management, and consumer experience.Read moreRead less
Positive Computing: The design of technologies that support psychological wellbeing. Designing future technology to foster psychological wellbeing has the potential to affect population-wide positive change. The design of software like apps or social media, can impact things like cyber-bullying, depression, or even foster resilience. This project aims to connect experts across multiple disciplines (psychology, technology and policy) to develop pioneering methods, knowledge, and strategies that w ....Positive Computing: The design of technologies that support psychological wellbeing. Designing future technology to foster psychological wellbeing has the potential to affect population-wide positive change. The design of software like apps or social media, can impact things like cyber-bullying, depression, or even foster resilience. This project aims to connect experts across multiple disciplines (psychology, technology and policy) to develop pioneering methods, knowledge, and strategies that will allow future technologies to play an active role in improving health, performance, and quality of life for all Australians, through research-based design for wellbeing. In doing so, Australia will lead the way on the technological front in a growing global initiative to improve the wellbeing of nations.Read moreRead less
Next generation real-time trajectory mining for travel and transportation decision support. Mining human and vehicle trajectories in real time will enable a suite of next-generation applications such as traffic overload prediction, real-time event detection and route recommendation. This project will develop novel techniques for immediate mining of massive volumes of trajectory data as it is being continuously generated.
Decentralised Collaborative Predictive Analytics on Personal Smart Devices. This project tackles the challenging problem of personalised predictive analytics with resource-constrained personal devices and massive-scale data. The knowledge to be generated concerns privacy, fairness, and resource efficiency in the era of Internet of Things. The expected outcomes include a collaborative learning paradigm for building personalised models on personal smart devices in open and fully decentralised sett ....Decentralised Collaborative Predictive Analytics on Personal Smart Devices. This project tackles the challenging problem of personalised predictive analytics with resource-constrained personal devices and massive-scale data. The knowledge to be generated concerns privacy, fairness, and resource efficiency in the era of Internet of Things. The expected outcomes include a collaborative learning paradigm for building personalised models on personal smart devices in open and fully decentralised settings. Privacy and model fairness are core tenets of the paradigm. Personalised predictive analytics is frontier research that will position Australia at the forefront of AI and give business the tools needed to deploy innovative business systems for market exploitation with a secure, equitable and competitive advantage.Read moreRead less
Advanced search of cohesive subgraphs in big graphs. This project aims to study advanced cohesive subgraph searches, as well as design efficient and scalable techniques to conduct such searches. Cohesive subgraph search over big graphs is demanded by many applications, such as risk management, analysis of users’ behaviours, cybersecurity, crime detection, social marketing and community search. This project will develop, analyse, implement, and evaluate novel indexing and data processing techniqu ....Advanced search of cohesive subgraphs in big graphs. This project aims to study advanced cohesive subgraph searches, as well as design efficient and scalable techniques to conduct such searches. Cohesive subgraph search over big graphs is demanded by many applications, such as risk management, analysis of users’ behaviours, cybersecurity, crime detection, social marketing and community search. This project will develop, analyse, implement, and evaluate novel indexing and data processing techniques to support a set of advanced cohesive subgraph searches. This will provide significant benefits to many applications such as the next generation of fintech, cybersecurity, e-commerce, crime detection and social network analysis.Read moreRead less