Smart Tools and Services
This research program investigates the tools, theories and practices needed to make computer based systems work intelligently and efficiently, and to align these systems more closely to human needs. Scientists are collecting more data than they can analyse and manage and research projects are increasingly multi-disciplinary, requiring collaboration between scientists across the world. Smart Tools and Services also focus on emerging technologies which build on the interrelated themes of computational intelligence, human-computer interaction and construction and management of complex systems. As digital systems become more sophisticated and are used in increasingly complex ways, we need to find new techniques for guaranteeing that the resulting systems have the appropriate emergent properties and satisfy our overall requirements.
eResearch
Our eResearch work looks at accelerating discovery in scientific research, particularly in bioinformatics and earth sciences, through smart software tools which enable the simple and rapid analysis of vast amounts of data and which support collaboration between scientists.
This research includes:
- programming languages and systems
- eResearch and cyber infrastructure
- autonomous and smart devices
- bioinformatics
- embedded computer systems
- sensor networks and environmental sensing.
Visual and Media Computing
Research is also being pioneered in the field of computer games and other forms of interactive entertainment where the recent explosion in their use has made multimedia content-rich social environments an integral part of the way we interact with technology.
Research areas include:
- human-computer interaction
- games technology
- computer vision
- interaction design.
For more information within the field of research please contact 07 3138 1000 or infotech.research@qut.edu.au