Application Frameworks for Collaborative Learning. We will pioneer the use of key software engineering techniques - design patterns and application frameworks - to reduce the cost and improve the quality of online collaborative learning activities. For the first time, we will combine software engineering and educational knowledge to use design patterns to describe best practice for these activities in engineering terms; we will use application frameworks to aggregate these patterns and implement ....Application Frameworks for Collaborative Learning. We will pioneer the use of key software engineering techniques - design patterns and application frameworks - to reduce the cost and improve the quality of online collaborative learning activities. For the first time, we will combine software engineering and educational knowledge to use design patterns to describe best practice for these activities in engineering terms; we will use application frameworks to aggregate these patterns and implement them as a readily usable tool. The result will be a powerful new generation of stable collaborative eLearning tools with enhanced scalability, interoperability and adaptability.Read moreRead less
Towards a social theory of semiotic technology: Exploring PowerPoint's design and its use in higher education and corporate settings. PowerPoint has become the dominant technology for designing and delivering presentations in many important settings and skills in the use of PowerPoint have become essential for professional and academic success. This study will investigate the use of PowerPoint in higher education and corporate settings in order to discover what these skills are and how the desig ....Towards a social theory of semiotic technology: Exploring PowerPoint's design and its use in higher education and corporate settings. PowerPoint has become the dominant technology for designing and delivering presentations in many important settings and skills in the use of PowerPoint have become essential for professional and academic success. This study will investigate the use of PowerPoint in higher education and corporate settings in order to discover what these skills are and how the design of PowerPoint supports or hinders the achievement of a range of communicative purposes. The study will provide guidelines for evaluating and improving the design and use of PowerPoint and other, similar presentation software.Read moreRead less
Developing a model of animation knowledge transfer relating traditional character animation skills and advanced proprietary animation software knowledge. The project will develop a model for the transfer, to the learning of animation software programmes, of the traditional character animation skills necessary for a sustainable, creative, commercial animation practice. This is significant because the features of advanced animation software programs are regularly modified or transformed. Expected ....Developing a model of animation knowledge transfer relating traditional character animation skills and advanced proprietary animation software knowledge. The project will develop a model for the transfer, to the learning of animation software programmes, of the traditional character animation skills necessary for a sustainable, creative, commercial animation practice. This is significant because the features of advanced animation software programs are regularly modified or transformed. Expected outcomes are a model for transfer and a detailed, critical examination of how traditional character animation skills can be combined effectively with animation software in production studios.Read moreRead less
Entanglement renormalization: a new route to strongly correlated fermions and novel states of matter in two dimensions. The expected outcome of the research program is a significant boost in our understanding of strongly correlated fermion systems, which will reinforce Australia's competitiveness and international profile in aspects of breakthrough science and frontier technologies. By strengthening both the underpinning theory and innovative computational tools to study fermion systems, and by ....Entanglement renormalization: a new route to strongly correlated fermions and novel states of matter in two dimensions. The expected outcome of the research program is a significant boost in our understanding of strongly correlated fermion systems, which will reinforce Australia's competitiveness and international profile in aspects of breakthrough science and frontier technologies. By strengthening both the underpinning theory and innovative computational tools to study fermion systems, and by applying them to specific problems of recognized importance, this program will have direct implications in condensed matter physics and will exert significant influence in areas such as quantum chemistry, particle, nuclear and atomic physics, quantum computing, quantum atom optics and nanotechnology.Read moreRead less