Welcome Kelly Blincoe! Kelly is visiting our lab this week. We look forward to collaborating with you and the opportunity to learn from you. Kelly Blincoe Monash Information Technology

Promoting gender balance in IT/SE job ads is crucial. Our research (to appear in JSS) shows many ads unintentionally favour male candidates. We've developed recommendations to help create more inclusive ads. Pre-print: nzjohng.github.io/publications/p… Prof John Grundy Monash Information Technology

We’ve developed an NLP approach to extract key components (actors, entities, processes) from user stories, modelling them as knowledge graphs for better analysis & collaboration. Precision: 96%, Recall: 100%. scitepress.org/Link.aspx?doi=… Monash Information Technology

The #VLHCC2024 Kicks off today!! 🌟 Our general chair #AndrewFish and Program co-chairs, Prof John Grundy and #AnitaSharma are setting the stage for a week of groundbreaking ideas and collaboration!! Let's dive into human-centric computing together🌟 📷 credits: Kashumi Madampe, PhD

🚀 Yesterday's workshop on "Recruiting Participants for HCC," chaired by Prof John Grundy and Dulaji Hidellaarachchi, was a great success! Big thanks to Kashumi Madampe, PhD for leading an engaging brainstorm session and adding depth to our conversation. Your insights are invaluable! #VLHCC24

Spotlight on the Humanise Lab: Innovating with a conscience. We ensure AI & digital systems are designed with human values & ethics at their core. Our work spans human-centric design, ethical AI, interdisciplinary research, & real-world impact. Learn more: monash.edu/it/humanise-lab

🏆 Congrats to Prof John Grundy on winning the 2024 Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Research Supervision (Software & Data Engineering, SSC)! John's knowledge, innovative mentorship and industry ties have helped drive student success. Well deserved!

🏆 Congrats to Ruchi on winning the 2024 Dean's Award for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (Community)! Well deserved Ruchi! monash.edu/it/news/2024/d…

As VLHCC 2024 comes to a close, we want to extend a heartfelt thank you to all the speakers, attendees, & organizers who made this event a success! Your insights, energy, and collaboration have truly made this an unforgettable conference. We look forward to seeing you next year.

Congrats Vedant Chauhan on your 1st publication on How do software practitioners perceive human-centric defects? #SoftwareEngineering #HCD nzjohng.github.io/publications/p…

🌟 What an amazing week! 🌟 I had the honour of co-chairing a workshop with Prof John Grundy at VL/HCC, presented our work, chaired a session, and managed social media/publicity. Grateful for the opportunity and all the support—couldn’t have done it without you all !!!

We're developing an 'Adaptive User Support System using Multimodal Large Language Models' to enhance user interaction with complex software. Our system segments the UI and tailors support messages to user preferences. Excited to present this at VL/HCC2024! nzjohng.github.io/publications/p…

First emergency conference #afac24 #aidr24. Amazing experience with plenty of insights to emergency management area in Australia. So different from the IT conferences I'm used to, as this one had actual fire trucks and emergency personnel in it 🎉☺️ VicEmergency @HumaniSE_Lab

🎉Excited to share our paper on the accessibility of low-code platforms has been accepted in IST journal! We reviewed 38 studies, revealing the need for more inclusive tools for users with visual impairments. Let's make low-code accessible to everyone. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Read the paper born from Chetan Arora's work with Austrian postal service Österreichische Post: i.mtr.cool/kxtrbdynls Discover how #AI can help #requirementsengineering in #postalservices and the role of bilingualism. A great example of an industry-research partnership 💛 @HumaniSE_Lab

Last week at #VLHCC, Dulaji Hidellaarachchi and Prof John Grundy co-chaired a workshop on the challenges of recruiting participants for human-centric computing studies. It was a great platform for sharing strategies to overcome these hurdles and enhance participant engagement.

At #VLHCC2024, Kashumi Madampe, PhD led a session on human-centric computing studies roadmap development. She also gave a talk titled "The Struggle is Real!" about the challenges of recruiting participants for empirical software engineering studies, sharing solutions and strategies

Congrats to @kanijtanjila on winning the 2024 Dean’s Award for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (Community - Information Empowered Communities, Digital Transformation) alongside Professor Gillian Oliver, Dr Md Khalid Hossain, Dr Manika Saha, Dr Misita Anwar. Well deserved!

Automating Internationalisation in Android Apps with Androi18n. Our tool, Androi18n, uses AI to streamline app translation, learning from existing apps to deliver consistent, reliable results. Revolutionising global reach for Android developers! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…