Associate Professor Dian Tjondronegoro

PhD (Deakin University), Graduate Certificate in Education (Queensland University of Technology), Bachelor of Information Technology (1st class Honours) (Queensland University of Technology)

A/Prof. Tjondronegoro founded and leads QUT Mobile Innovation Lab since 2010, which focuses on research, teaching, and industry engagement in mobile and multimedia computing. The team was nominee of the Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in 2015. He has lead the mobile research and development for three Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs): CRC Smart Services (smart video optimisation for mobile and multi-channel delivery), CRC Rail Innovation (mobile technologies for delivering real-time transit information and mobile payment), and CRC Young and Well (mobile music tool for mood journey). Since 2009, he has been actively collaborating with cross-disciplinary researchers to design, develop, and evaluate mobile eHealth applications for promoting women wellness after cancer, fostering motivations for perinatal mental health, and promoting responsible drinking. His research interest is bringing multimodal data (image, sound, video, and text) “out of the box” to support intuitive and engaging interactions through mobile and wearable devices and embedded sensors in the environment. He has published more than 120 papers in multimedia computing, mobile computing, and human-computer interactions fields, including in T-MM, T-AC, JASIS, IVC, MTAP, and TOMM  journals, and at A* conferences such as ACM MM conference proceedings. He has written two edited books in the field of mobile multimedia. Research discipline: Information Systems (Service Sciences), Computer Science (Multimedia data analytics, machine learning, mobile health, Internet of Things) Research Themes:

• Affective Computing: combine multimedia and sensor data for identifying human emotions and mood. Human response and reaction is important to understand their interest in video content, which can be leveraged to identify key segments/summaries from video. Also, it is important to understand the correlation between human mood and emotion. State-of-the-art sensors can be used to collect and analyse day-to-day human data
• Computational Health and Wellness: combine multimedia and signals data for quantifying health and wellness. We also apply information extraction and retrieval from Web and social media to aggregate health information.
• Pervasive User Interactions: deliver user-centered interactions with richly aggregated intelligent data to augment human’s intellect using the emerging user interface technologies, such as smartphones, smart watches, augmented reality (e.g. HoloLens) . deliver mobile video streaming that is acceptable for users in different contexts, particularly health and entertainment. The focus on users mean that we also aim to  understand users’ factors in HCI and model the correlations with their acceptability, and perceived easy-to-use and usefulness. This also includes to use of “gamification” to improve user’s engagement.

Selected Research Grants:

• D. Anderson, A. McCarthy, P., Yates, M. Turner, N.King, L., Monterosso, M. Krishnasamy, K. White, S. Hall, D.Tjondronegoro. The Womens Wellness after Cancer Program. NHMRC Partnership $1,186,000
• 01/01/2014 to 31/12/2015: "TrISMA - Tracking Infrastructure for Social Media Analysis"ARC Linkage - Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) CIs: A Bruns, J Burgess, J Banks, D Tjondronegoro, A Dreiling, et al $710,000
• 01/07/2012 to 30/06/2016: "E-tools for wellbeing" CIs: Hides L, Kavanagh DJ, Young R, Shochet I, Tjondronegoro DW, Johnson D, Wolff R, Drennan J. Young and Well CRC Ltd $2,016,899
• 01/10/2008 to 30/06/2014: "Multi-Channel Content Delivery & Mobile Personalisation" CIs: Tjondronegoro, DW, Li, Y. Xu, Y. Smart Services CRC $657,879
• 01/01/2011 to 31/12/2013: "Leveraging Mobile Phone Technology to Influence Responsible Drinking Behaviours" CIs: Drennan JC, Connor JP, Kavanagh DJ, Tjondronegoro DW, Fry M-L, Previte JA, White AM. ARC Discovery Projects (DP110102848) $148,548
• 31/03/2006 to 30/06/2009 Investigation of a Dynamic Collaborative Framework for Multi-Modal Devices CIs: Roe, P, Tjondronegoro, D., Zhang, J. ARC Linkage Projects with APAI or APDI components $497,614

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