Our people work on the places where people and technology overlap, including how people and society are affected by computing technology, and how to better educate technologists. We focus on three key areas of research: interactive information retrieval, human-computer interaction and computing education.
The ITI team is home to world-leading research on information retrieval, interaction and behaviour, and we are the strongest and largest interactive information retrieval group in the southern hemisphere. Our current research in the area is focussed on how people formulate and reformulate the queries that they submit to search engines, and the problems of mis- and dis-information and other social harms that can emerge from the misuse of digital information.
Our new team of human-computer interaction researchers come with a track-record of publication at the top HCI conferences such as ACM CHI and CSCW. We are looking at how new digital technologies and interactions can bring people closer to others and to the information that they need. At the same time, we are challenging existing paradigms that exclude groups of users, or enable anti-social and unethical behaviour.
In computing education, we are leveraging artificial intelligence to predict student success when studying computing at university. Learning is intellectually challenging. Our team are working on techniques that provide better scaffolding and support for those learning advanced computing methods, that result in a better focus on the key ideas and produce deeper learning.
ITI has a long track record of working with industrial partners, including Microsoft and Seek. Many of our staff have extensive professional portfolios in addition to their academic credentials, and we aim to produce technologies and ideas that have substantial and direct real-world impacts. If you’d like to study a PhD with us, or join our network of industrial collaborators, please get in touch with the ITI discipline lead, Dana McKay.
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