Kim
Marriott
I am currently the Head of the Clayton School
of IT. I also lead the Adaptive Diagrams and Documents Laboratory. This is
part of the Center
for Research into Intelligent Systems (CRIS). We are investigating how to
best move away from a print-based view of documents and their content to one
that takes more advantage of the capabilities of electronic media. We want to provide the technology for
creating interactive documents and diagrams whose appearance adapts to their
viewing environment and to user requirements. For instance an organization chart
needs to be displayed in quite different ways on a PDA and on a laptop and in a
very different way to someone who is blind. We also want to support
interaction, annotation and dynamic content.
Main Research Areas
§ Human
use of visual languages.
I am interested in how humans comprehend and reason with two-dimensional visual
languages such as mathematics, finite state diagrams or house plans.
§ Computational
understanding of visual languages. I am also interested in how we can build software that
provides human-like understanding and reasoning with two-dimensional visual
languages. As part of this I have investigated grammatical and logical
approaches to the specification and recognition of such visual notations.
Together with Bernd Meyer
and others I have built a number of tools which
automatically generate an incremental parser from a grammatical specification
of a visual notation, the latest of these is CIDER. More recently we have developed GestureLab. This is a software tool designed to
facilitate rapid development and testing of domain specific gesture recognizers
for on-line applications.
§ Interactive
scientific visualization and diagram authoring tools. Most of my research in this area
has focused on algorithms for automatic diagram layout but I am also interested
in usability and what makes a particular visualization effective. Recent
research with my former PhD student Michael Wybrow
and Tim Dwyer has lead to
the interactive diagramming tool Dunnart.
Most recently we are focusing on layout of network diagrams including the many
kinds of diagrams that arise in systems biology.
Along
with my former PhD student Pater Sbarski I helped
design the layout algorithms used in the argument mapping tool Rationale and the decision support
tool bCisive
produced by the local software company Austhink Pty
Ltd. Support for constraint solving in such interactive graphical applications
is provided by the QOCA
constraint solving toolkit and the adaptagrams project.
A
recent project is to develop a low-cost technology for interactive viewing of
tactile diagrams by blind people. This is being undertaken by
my PhD student Chatai Goncu
with help from Vision Australia.
§ Constraint
programming. Another
area of research is developing programming languages and methodologies for
solving combinatorial optimisation and satisfaction
problems. One project is the NICTA G12
project where I am involved in the design of the Zinc modeling language.
For more information about Constraint Programming Languages see Programming with Constraints:
An Introduction.
§ Program
analysis. My final
area of research is analysis and optimisation of
programs, in particular, for constraint and logic programming languages. I am
no longer an active researcher in this area.
See
my selected publications list for more
details.
I am involved with the following
journals, book series and conferences that you might be interested in:
- Journal
of Visual Languages and Computing
- CSLI-Studies
in the Theory and Applications of Diagrams
- IEEE Symposium on Visual
Languages and Human-Centric Computing 2010
- Diagrams 2010 - Sixth
International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams
- 10th
ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng2010)
Contact Details
- Phone:
(+61 3) 9905 5525
- Fax:
(+61 3) 9905 5159
- e-mail: Kim.Marriott@infotech.monash.edu.au
- h-mail: Clayton School of IT, Monash
University, Vic 3800, Australia.