Associate Professor
Laurianne Sitbon
Faculty of Science,
School of Computer Science
Biography
Laurianne is a Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council (ARC), and associate professor in the school of Computer Science at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. 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 expertise spans human computer interactions (with a focus on co-design and cognitive accessibility), natural language processing (with a focus on semantics), and information retrieval.
Her current projects include how to support people with intellectual disability in the selection of visuals (eg. emojis) for communicating, how systems can use visuals (eg. emojis) to better communicate with people with intellectual disability, how to investigate the requirements of multi-modal conversational systems that can best support the needs of people with intellectual disability, and more generally how people, such as experts, can "converse" with systems, which analyse data and make predictions, to assist them in making decisions.
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.
Personal details
Positions
Faculty of Science,
School of Computer Science
Faculty of Science,
School of Computer Science
Keywords
Computer Human Interactions, Accessible Computing, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Processing, Information Retrieval
Discipline
Other Information and Computing Sciences, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing, Library and Information Studies
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
PhD
Professional memberships and associations
Teaching
- 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
Experience
Publications
- Sitbon L, Favre B, Brereton M, Koplick S, Fell L, (2020) Engaging the abilities of participants with intellectual disabilityin IIR research, CHIIR '20: Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
- Bayor A, Brereton M, Sitbon L, Ploderer B, Bircanin F, Favre B, Koplick S, (2021) Toward a Competency-based Approach to Co-designing Technologies with People with Intellectual Disability, ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
- Bircanin F, Brereton M, Sitbon L, Ploderer B, Bayor A, Koplick S, (2021) Including adults with severe intellectual disabilities in co-design through active support, CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths
- Wilson C, Sitbon L, Ploderer B, Opie J, Brereton M, (2020) Self-expression by design: Co-designing the ExpressiBall with minimally-verbal children on the autism spectrum, CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems p1-13
- Shackell C, Sitbon L, (2020) Computational opposition analysis using word embeddings: A method for strategising resonant informal argument, Argument and Computation p301-317
- Rajapakse S, Brereton M, Sitbon L, (2021) A respectful design approach to facilitate codesign with people with cognitive or sensory impairments and makers, CoDesign p159-187
- 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
- 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
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Laurianne, explore their research on ePrints (our digital repository).
Research projects
- 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
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Co-designing engaging multimodal technologies with people with intellectual disability and their support networks
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr David Ireland, Professor Margot Brereton - Leveraging Social Media to Co-Design Support for Developing Life Skills Among Young Adults with Intellectual Disability
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Margot Brereton, Professor Paul Roe, Dr Bernd Ploderer - CO-DESIGNING WITH ADULTS WITH MODERATE TO SEVERE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES TO ENABLE ACTIVE COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY USE
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 - People with Intellectual Disability and Online Health Information: e-Learning for Better Engagement
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Jinglan Zhang - Representing and Dynamically Maintaining Professional Skills and Knowledge in Rapidly Evolving Domains
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Colin Fidge
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Co-Design Beyond Words with Minimally-Verbal Children on the Autism Spectrum (2021)
- Analogical Frames by Constraint Satisfaction (2020)
- Finite Semiotics: A New Theory of Semiotics With Applications to Information Technology (2019)
- Making Collaborations to Design Personalised Technologies with People with an Intellectual Disability (2018)
- Smart Sampling of Environmental Audio Recordings for Biodiversity Monitoring (2018)
- Active Learning for Concept Extraction from Clinical Free Text (2017)
- Interactive Content Analysis: Evaluating Interactive Variants of Non-negative Matrix Factorisation and Latent Dirichlet Allocation as Qualitative Content Analysis Aids (2014)
- Semantic Search as Inference: Applications in Health Informatics (2014)
- A Tensor Encoding Model of Word Meaning: Theory and Application to Information Retrieval (2013)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
- Developing and Testing Readability Measurements for Second Language Learners (2016)