QUT | Staff Profiles | Laurianne Sitbon

Name: Dr Laurianne Sitbon
Position(s): ARC Future Fellow
Science and Engineering Faculty,
School of Computer Science; Senior Lecturer
Science and Engineering Faculty,
School of Computer Science
Discipline *: Other Information and Computing Sciences, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing, Library and Information Studies
Phone: +61 7 3138 8079
Email: l.sitbon@qut.edu.au
Location: View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
Identifiers and profiles
Qualifications: PhD
Professional memberships and associations: Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
Keywords: Applied Cognition, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Spaces, Text Analytics, Computer Human Interactions, Accessible Computing

* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Dr Laurianne Sitbon is a senior lecturer in the school of Computer Science and a Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council (ARC). She started her academic career initiating QUT’s undergraduate and postgraduate students to the joys of search engine technologies, including data mining and natural language processing. Her research now investigates how to design better interactions models of information access supported by natural language processing technologies. She is convinced that there is enormous value for improvements in search engines from a better understanding of the human mind (how we create meaning out of words, how we make decisions) and people’s diverse abilities. She obtained her Masters of Science and Engineering from the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard in France and he PhD in Computer Science from the University of Avignon in France.

This information has been contributed by Dr Laurianne Sitbon.

Unit Design and re-design

2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 – Advanced Information Storage and Retrieval IFN647, in the Master of IT (IN20), 60 to 140 students, QUT
2017, 2018 – Databases IFB130 (scaling up to 1,000 students, starting a Peer Program within the unit)
2015, 2019 – Data Manipulation IFN509, transition unit (IN20 Master of IT curriculum, 40 students), QUT
2014 – Databases IAB130 (new unit for the new IN01 BIT curriculum, 325 students), QUT
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 – Search Engine Technology INB/INN344 (new unit, 10-45 students), QUT
2013-2014 – Data Warehousing and Mining INB/INN343 (redesigned for collaborative learning spaces in 2014, 50-60 students), QUT
2007 – Computational linguistics (new unit for the Master of IT, 30 students), University of Avignon

Project supervision CELL Projects (interdisciplinary groups) The Community Engaged Learning Lab has been established by LTU in 2012 as a framework to allow students from all faculties to engage in interdisciplinary projects that can benefit communitypartners, and thus operate in a service learning fashion.

S2 2014: My Budget Buddy, Designing and prototyping a website to support people with intellectual disability when allocating their NDIS budget to support services.
S1 2014: Designing tools to make legal information accessible to young offenders, iYouth justice project, consortium of community partners.
S1 2014: Evaluating and improving a Virtual Learning Environment to facilitate remote lifestyle education for users with intellectual disabilities, with the Endeavour Foundation
S2 2013: A website for setting goals and visualize progress towards them for users with intellectual disabilities, with the Endeavour Foundation.
S2 2013: Information through technology for prisoners, with Queensland Corrective Services
S1 2013: A personal goal management portal for users with intellectual disabilities, with the Endeavour Foundation.

Capstone projects (groups, bachelor of IT)

S2 2014: Mobile game to support young offenders. In partnership with iYouth Justice consortium. S2 2013: Information through technology for prisoners (see CELL projects). In partnership with Queensland Corrective Services.
S2 2013: Web based document management system to manage disabled service users at Endeavour Foundation. In partnership with the Endeavour Foundation.
S2 2013: Put yourself in the picture: a mobile application to help users with intellectual disabilities express what they want to achieve. In partnership with the Endeavour Foundation.
S2 2013: A virtual learning environment for users with intellectual disabilities: a virtual world where people with intellectual disabilities can train their social skills, and can practice sequencing every day life tasks. In partnership with the Endeavour Foundation.
S2 2012: The informed parent: a search engine that uses topic clustering and authority indicator to present a fair and unbiased view of the various opinions.
S2 2011: A real estate mashup: helping users finding rental housing according to quality of life.

Masters by coursework projects (individual, master of IT)

S1 2015 – Computing similarity between words from different disciplines
S1 2014 – Designing an interactive digital mindmap for large interactive screens
S1 2013 – Requirements for an information system centered around users with intellectual disabilities. In partnership with the Endeavour Foundation

This information has been contributed by Dr Laurianne Sitbon.

Rajapakse S, Brereton M, Sitbon L, (2019) A respectful design approach to facilitate codesign with people with cognitive or sensory impairments and makers, CoDesign p1-29
Wilson C, Brereton M, Ploderer B, Sitbon L, (2019) Co-design beyond words: 'Moments of interaction' with minimally-verbal children on the autism spectrum, Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems p1-15
Bayor A, Sitbon L, Ploderer B, Bircanin F, Koplick S, Brereton M, (2019) Leveraging participation: Supporting skills development of young adults with intellectual disability using social media, Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019) p143-155
Sitbon L, Bayor A, Bircanin F, Koplick S, Brereton M, (2018) An exploration of how people with intellectual disability engage with online information retrieval, Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems p1-6
Kholghi M, Sitbon L, Zuccon G, Nguyen A, (2016) Active learning: a step towards automating medical concept extraction, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA p289-296
Koopman B, Zuccon G, Bruza P, Sitbon L, Lawley M, (2016) Information retrieval as semantic inference: a Graph Inference model applied to medical search, Information Retrieval p6-37
Bruza P, Kitto K, Ramm B, Sitbon L, (2015) A probabilistic framework for analysing the compositionality of conceptual combinations, Journal of Mathematical Psychology p26-38
Brereton M, Sitbon L, Abdullah M, Vanderberg M, Koplick S, (2015) Design after design to bridge between people living with cognitive or sensory impairments, their friends and proxies, CoDesign p4-20
Symonds M, Bruza P, Zuccon G, Koopman B, Sitbon L, Turner I, (2014) Automatic query expansion: A structural linguistic perspective, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology p1577-1596
De Vine L, Zuccon G, Koopman B, Sitbon L, Bruza P, (2014) Medical semantic similarity with a neural language model, Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management p1819-1822

For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.

Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)

Title: A Pictorial Communication Framework for Inclusion
Primary fund type: CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID: FT190100855
Start year: 2020
Keywords

Title: Human-Machine Teaming:Designing Synergistic Learning of Humans and Machines
Primary fund type: CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID: DP200103582
Start year: 2020
Keywords

Title: New Information Access Technologies for People with Intellectual Disability
Primary fund type: CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID: LP160100800
Start year: 2016
Keywords

Title: Framing authentic assessment of service learning within an information technology curriculum
Primary fund type: CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID: SD15-5151
Start year: 2015
Keywords: Assessment And Feedback Practices; Information Technology; Personal Development; Service Learning

Recruiting students (PhD, Masters, Honours) in distributional semantics and/or technology design (including Human Computer Interactions) to join in on my research projects!

Scholarships and top-ups available for outstanding applicants.

Current supervisions

Supporting Social Skills Learning for Children and Adolescents with Autism Using a Co-designed Robot
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr David Ireland, Professor Margot Brereton
Co-Designing Digital Technologies to Support Minimally-Verbal Children on the Autism Spectrum: Leveraging Interests and Strengths to Support Self-Expression
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Margot Brereton, Associate Professor Beth Saggers, Dr Bernd Ploderer
Co-Designing with Young Adults with Intellectual Disability to Leverage their Social Media Participation for Life Skills Development
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Margot Brereton, Professor Paul Roe, Dr Bernd Ploderer
People with Intellectual Disability and Online Health Information: e-Learning for Better Engagement
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Jinglan Zhang
Design celebrates disability: Understanding, revealing and supporting social competence skills in people with complex communication needs and challenging behaviour
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Margot Brereton, Dr Bernd Ploderer
Making and Ageing: Connecting Older Adult Makers through Technology
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Bernd Ploderer, Professor Margot Brereton

Completed supervisions (Doctorate)

Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)

Developing and Testing Readability Measurements for Second Language Learners (2016)
Some Extensions to Representation and Encoding of Structure in Models of Distributional Semantics (2013)

Dr Laurianne Sitbon

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