IS Research Committee
The School of Information Systems hosted The Australasian Conference in Information Systems in December 2007.
An important element of the School's research development program is the IS Research Committee. Participants include all IS staff active in research and postgraduate research students. The Annual Research Reports of the School of Information Systems are now available:
These reports presents highlights of the year, research higher degree completions, research grants obtained, industry links, and research publications from IS staff members.
IS staff are active in research projects, detailed below. For details of research, contact Associate Professor Aileen Cater-Steel, Chair, IS Research Committee.
Collaboration for Ageing and Aged-Care Informatics Research
Project Leader - Assoc Prof Jeffrey Soar
IS Team members - Abdul Hafeez-Baig, Dr Judith Symonds (Auckland University of Technology), Prof Youngjoon Seo (visiting Prof) and Clint Moloney (PhD student)
The Collaboration for Ageing and Aged-care Informatics Research (CAAIR) involves researchers from across USQ Faculties, other Australian and international universities, government and industry. It aims to be the leading centre for information management and technology solutions to address the issues of ageing and aged care that are of increasing concern to most countries.
The first of the millions of baby boomers are now in their early 60s. The percentage of people over 65 will double by 2050, becoming the largest demographic group in most countries. Technologies will be critical in supporting the frail elderly, supporting families of the elderly, enabling clinicians, supporting home and community-based care, and in deferring moves to institutional care settings. There will be large savings from applying technology to foster prevention, early detection and new ways for families and clinicians to support the frail elderly.
CAAIR will undertake highly innovative and internationally competitive research on opportunities for technology innovation to address the challenges for enhancing active ageing and meeting increasing demands for aged care in community and institutional settings.
The existing strong international links will ensure this research excellence is translated into outcomes of economic, social and cultural benefit to Australia. It also has substantial potential value for improving efficiency and quality of aged care services in Australia, as well as providing products that will generate exports.
System development, implementation and evaluation
Project Leader - Prof Mark Toleman
Team members - Barb Roberts, Mustafa Ally, Assoc Prof Aileen Cater-Steel, Fiona Darroch, Shelly Grist, Dave Roberts, Dr Wui-Gee Tan, Dr Jianming Yong, Zoohan Gani (PhD student).
The mission of the project team on Information Technology System Development, Implementation and Evaluation is to promote and support high quality research into the full range of information technology artefacts and processes relevant to organisations. The research will encompass design and development of systems as well as implementation, deployment and evaluation of such systems.
Technology management
Project Leader - Prof Raj Gururajan
Team members - Dr Jianming Yong, Abdul Hafeez-Baig, and Charmaine Ryan
This project group conducts quality research in the domain of technology management with specific attention paid to human behaviours, knowledge transfer, web services and technology diffusion. To date, the team has won over $1.2M in funding support and currently manages six funded projects with Queensland Health.
Scope of research includes:
- health informatics with specific attention paid to technology diffusion issues including standards
- creativity and human behaviour issues in innovation, KM and technology including research methods pertaining to these aspects
- management and leadership issues within the scope of managing innovation and technology
- policy issues for managing technology and innovation
- emerging trends in innovative technologies
- commercialisation and entrepreneurial endeavour flowing from innovation and technology
- web services, security and privacy management issues.
Information systems management, strategy and policy
Project Leader - Dr Michael Lane
Team members - Glen van der Vyver, Srecko Howard, and Angela Howard
The project group will have a broad and strategic focus on a number of relevant business themes:
- information quality
- information systems strategy
- information systems policy.
This group investigates multidisciplinary real life business problems with the aim of winning competitive external grants, attracting high calibre research students and producing high quality research. Technology is becoming increasingly commoditised and almost cost free. Not surprisingly businesses and organisations in general are becoming much more concerning and savvy regarding the use of technology.
Hence, information systems as a discipline, provides the connection between key business drivers and the business application of information and systems to enable and add strategic value to organisations and their core business processes.
IT service management
Project Leader - Assoc Prof Aileen-Cater Steel
Team members - Dr Wui-Gee Tan, Prof Mark Toleman and Aileen Koh (PhD student)
For a number of years, this project group has been active in researching the adoption of process improvement frameworks for IT service management. Frameworks include the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), ISO/IEC 20000, and CMMI C4S. As well, ICT governance issues related to service management are examined. The project group has a research agreement with itSMF Australia – the IT Service Management Forum. An ARC Linkage project grant was awarded to commence in 2008. The partners in the ARC project are Queensland Health and itSMF.
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