Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Website for Dr Kirsten Ellis - https://sites.google.com/site/drkirstenellis/home
Biography
Dr Kirsten Ellis has a creative and technical background and has experience in designing, developing and evaluating systems for people with unique requirements. Her research interests include human computer interaction and how technology can create a more inclusive society. She had developed multiple resources using a variety of technologies including on the Nintendo DS lite, iPad, iPhone, Android and the Microsoft Kinect. She also plays with maker technologies including eTextiles to make creative pieces and artefacts to assist people. In addition, she also researches innovative technologies to create tangible objects as authentic learning experiences.
Making for All
Dr Kirsten Ellis is involved with creating a variety of activities to engage everyone, no matter what their abilities are, in STEM Making. By redesigning activities we can make it possible for everyone to engage in the making process. The items use off the shelf technology that are hacked, modified and used in different ways to facilitate activities that show the creative and fun side to technology that is then of interest to a more diverse range of users and developers.
Australian Sign Language
Dr Kirsten Ellis researches teaching sign language to hearing people so that they can interact with deaf people in a common language that is fully accessible to all participants and she has designed and developed multiple resources to enable this. Kirsten has conducted research in how the use a whole range of technologies to improve the learning experience and learning outcomes.
Young Children and Technology
Kirsten Ellis has researched two year old children using technology in terms of behavior, interaction style and concentration span. This work has tracked how new technologies are making computer accessible to even the youngest members of the community.
Digital Health
Kirsten is currently undertaking research on how to utilise the distributed nature of the internet to facilitate large scale medical projects. These project deal with the collection and distribution of information in a medical context that has not been previously possible.
Monash teaching commitment
Dr Kirsten Ellis has experience as the Chief Examiner for the following units in the Faculty of IT:
- FIT3149 Maker Lab
Kirsten has experience as the Lecturer for the following units in the Faculty of IT:
- FIT1012/FIT9027 Website authoring
- FIT2032/FIT3045 Industry-based learning
- FIT2003 IT professional practice
Education/Academic qualification
Information Technology, Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University
Award Date: 16 Oct 2008
Information Technology, Masters of IT (Research), Monash University
Award Date: 1 Jan 2002
Information Management, Bachelor of Applied Science, Deakin University
Award Date: 1 Jan 1995
Research area keywords
- Children's play
- Computer Education/Literacy
- Computer Graphics
- Computer Interface
- Computers and information technology in education
- Deaf Culture
- Deafness
- Development of CD ROMs
- Developmental Disabilities
- Developmental dyslexia
- Devices for the blind and deaf
- Disability
- Early Childhood Development
- Early Childhood Education
- Early childhood
- Education development and assessment
- Education research
- Educational/Instructional Technology
- Ethics in education
- Ethics in information technology
- Human Learning and Memory
- Human computer interaction, multimedia
- Information technology in education
Network
Projects
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COVID-19: Pedagogical Opportunities for students' Online Inquiry-Based-Learning
Kidman, G., Ellis, K., Kewalramani, S. & Tan, H.
1/10/20 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
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Inclusive Gallery Experiences: Creating an Accessible Bendigo Art Gallery for Blind and Low Vision Visitors
Butler, M., Marriott, K., Ellis, K., Holloway, L. & Dziekan, V.
1/11/19 → 30/04/22
Project: Research
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Engaged Exchanges: Teaching and integrating inquiry learning in online environments
Kidman, G., Tan, H., Kewalramani, S., Ellis, K., Rady, D., Kinnaird, N., Daujat, S. & Bourke, S.
27/10/20 → 10/12/20
Project: Research
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Making For All: reaching people with disabilities
Ellis, K., Crouch, L. & Senaratne, H.
1/04/20 → 22/09/20
Project: Research
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Maker workshops for all: including people with disabilities
Ellis, K., Morgan, M. & Crouch, L.
5/04/19 → 22/09/19
Project: Research
Research output
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A survey of dynamic parameter setting methods for nature-inspired swarm intelligence algorithms
Phan, H. D., Ellis, K., Barca, J. C. & Dorin, A., Jan 2020, In : Neural Computing and Applications. 32, 2, p. 567-588 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Building capacity: eTextile tactile storybook workshops
Holloway, L., Ellis, K. & Curtin, L., 2019, ASSETS ’19 - The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Azenkot, S. & Kane, S. (eds.). New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 597-599 3 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other
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Designing efficacious mobile technologies for anxiety self-regulation
Senaratne, H., Ellis, K., Oviatt, S. & Melvin, G., 2019, Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Cox, A. & Kostakos, V. (eds.). New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 6 p. LBW1819Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other
1 Citation (Scopus) -
MIC, an interactive sign language teaching system
Phan, H. D., Ellis, K. & Dorin, A., 2018, Proceedings of the 30th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI 2018): Melbourne 4 – 7 December 2018. McKay, D., Waycott, J., Morrison, A., Hee-Jeong Choi, J., Lugmayr, A., Billinghurst, M., Kelly, R., Buchanan, G. & Stevenson, D. (eds.). New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 544-547 4 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Toddler techie touch generation
Ellis, K., Power, M. & Albrecht, D. W., 2018, Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. Toups, Z. & Wyeth, P. (eds.). New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 127-139 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
Press / Media
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How to build a more inclusive STEM program in early childhood using robotics and conductive blocks
Sarika Kewalramani, Kirsten Ellis & Gillian Kidman
4/06/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature