Backgrounder
September 30, 2008
BUILDING ONTARIO’S INNOVATION ECONOMY
Digital Media And Information And Communications Technologies
Queen’s University
Dr. Roel Vertegaal
Developing human-computer interaction that lets users focus on tasks not technology
Provincial Funding: $397,773
Imagine a future in which we’re surrounded by computers that respond to our needs without our conscious use, a future where the human-computer interaction is so good we don’t notice it, allowing us to concentrate completely on the task at hand. That’s the goal of computer scientists like Dr. Roel Vertegaal. He and his research team at the Human Media Lab at Queen’s University are working on new human-computer interaction technologies that will allow people to interact seamlessly with computers in their surroundings. It’s research that has the potential to transform the way we work with both input and display devices, and help Ontario maintain its position at the forefront of this new area of study.
Dr. Ahmed Hassan
Development of an empirical software engineering facility capable of mining software repositories for large long lived industrial and open source projects
Provincial funding: $100,000
Helping Ontario’s software development sector deliver the next generation of products on time and on budget is the goal of research being conducted by Dr. Ahmed Hassan at Queen’s University. The software engineering researcher’s focus is the development of innovative tools and techniques to mine software repositories for historical code development information. Through mining these historical records, Dr. Hassan’s research will enable software companies to base their new product development and product release decisions on solid information instead of current ad-hoc techniques. Dr. Hassan’s research is of tremendous interest to leading IT companies such as IBM and RIM.
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