Australasian Computer Science Week in Canberra

Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2016) of the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE), is being hosted at the Australian National University in Canberra, 2-5 February 2016. ACSW 2016 has ten conferences, plus meetings of IT deans and PhD students from across the region. The program includes plenary presentations by Professor Judy Kay, University of Sydney on "A Human-Centred View of Big Personal Data: Scrutable User Models for Privacyand Control", Dr Kerry Taylor, Chair W3C/OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group & ANU, on "Semantic Sensor Networks: The Internet of Things needs the Web of Data" and Geraldine Torrisi-Steele, Griffith University, on "Supporting students' development of metacognition and problem solving skills". Also a display of ANU TechLauncher for student start-ups.

Some other papers which caught my attention were:

1. Daniel Grunwell and Tony Sahama. Delegation of access in an Information Accountability Framework for eHealth
2. Simon and Judy Sheard. Academic integrity and computing assessments
3. Matthew Butler, Jane Sinclair, Michael Morgan and Sara Kalvara. Comparing International Indicators of Student Engagement for Computer Science  
4. Julia Prior, Samuel Ferguson and John Leaney. Reflection is Hard: Teaching And Learning Reflective Practice in a Software Studio  
5. Karen Blackmore, William Coppins and Keith Nesbitt. Using Startle Reflex to Compare Playing and Watching in a Horror Game  
6. Nikki Robins, Trish Williams and Krishnun Sansurooah. I know what you did last summer... An Investigation into Remnant Data on USB Storage Devices Sold in Australia in 2015.  
7. Carbone Angela and Margaret Hamilton. Pizza with university ICT students: What do students expect employers want? 
8. Matt Stevens and Richard Norman. Industry Expectations of Soft Skills in IT Graduates  
9. Nazish Khan and Andrew Luxton-Reilly. Is Computing for Social Good the Solution to Closing the Gender Gap in Computer Science? 
10. Carolyn Seton and Raina Mason. Decreasing the Digital Divide - Analysing the UI requirements of older Australians 
11. Ar Kar Kyaw, Pulin Agrawal and Brian Cusack. Wi-Pi: A Study of WLAN Security in Auckland CBD

Also:

• Benchmarking Workshop: Benchmarking and Curriculum Improvement for the Computing Disciplines, Chris Johnson, Executive Officer, ACDICT 
• Research/Tutorial Workshop: Using Cognitive Load Theory to improve troublesome courses, Dr Raina Mason  & Carolyn Seton, Southern Cross University

Twitter: #ACSW2016

Conferences at ACSW 2016:

1. Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling (APCCM)
2. Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC)
3. Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE)
4. Australasian Information Security Conference (AISC)
5. Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC)
6. Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC)
7. Australasian Web Conference (AWC)
8. Australasian Workshop on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management (HIKM)
9. Interactive Entertainment (IE)
10. Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence (ACALCI)