{"title":"Design and Implementation of a Framework for a Health Information Survey System","authors":"Heidi Bjering, Daniel Stratti, J. A. Ginige","doi":"10.1145/3290688.3290737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3290688.3290737","url":null,"abstract":"There are many health and wellbeing self-assessment tools, but using paper-based versions of these tools limits the wider applicability of them in the current digital world. Hence many self-assessment tools are implemented as web/mobile applications, allowing efficient mass data collection. The current implementation approaches of computerising health and wellbeing self-assessment tools exclude these tools being re-used in a different setting, such as in a different research project or by another healthcare practitioner; where the collected data needs to be independent of the original implementation. This paper presents a framework that facilitates the implementation of health and wellbeing self-assessment tools as templates, much like an MS PowerPoint or Word template, allowing new instances of the tool to be easily created and data to be independent of the original implementation. This framework provides both a research and a clinical component. The research component gives the ability to collect data, view graphs to enable some basic analysis and the possibility to download the data for further analysis. The clinical component enables the delivery of relevant information and resources to clients/patients depending on the outcomes of the questionnaires. This can be used strategically to tailor information and interventions for the particular stage or category a client is at, and thereby avoiding irrelevant information and information overload for the client.","PeriodicalId":297760,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130300055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Rupasinghe, F. Burstein, C. Rudolph, Steven Strange
{"title":"Towards a Blockchain based Fall Prediction Model for Aged Care","authors":"T. Rupasinghe, F. Burstein, C. Rudolph, Steven Strange","doi":"10.1145/3290688.3290736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3290688.3290736","url":null,"abstract":"Falls are one of the major health concerns for the elderly people. These falls often result in severe injuries which lead into huge medical expenses. Over the recent years, many ICT based fall detection and fall prevention solutions emerged to address the risk factors associated with falls. However, despite of these research studies, predicting the likelihood of falls still remains as a huge challenge in both medical and IT research domains. Data related to these risk factors being scattered among different healthcare providers can be attributed as a main reason for this challenge. This is further amplified by healthcare providers being reluctant to disseminate the data beyond their entities due to the security and privacy concerns. However, in recent years, blockchain has been proven as a promising technology to address the security and privacy challenges in healthcare data exchange as it provides a shared, immutable, and transparent audit trail for accessing data. Therefore, in this paper, we are going to propose a conceptual blockchain based fall prediction model leveraging smart contracts and FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard to identify the elderly people who are at a higher risk of falling.","PeriodicalId":297760,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127152436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chng Wei Lau, Quang Vinh Nguyen, Zhonglin Qu, S. Simoff, D. Catchpoole
{"title":"Immersive Intelligence Genomic Data Visualisation","authors":"Chng Wei Lau, Quang Vinh Nguyen, Zhonglin Qu, S. Simoff, D. Catchpoole","doi":"10.1145/3290688.3290722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3290688.3290722","url":null,"abstract":"Genomics data are very complex and could contain crucial information about a disease or how a treatment method may perform well on one but not on another. Understanding such genomic data would enable better insight into the correlation between genes and diseases, which could facilitate personalised treatments for the patients. Although visualisations have been increasingly used in the genomic analysis, there is still limited research work on interactive visualisations on immersive platforms, such as in Augmented and Virtual Reality. This paper presents a new interactive visualisation and navigation of genomics data in such environments. We provide an overview of the patient cohort in 3D genetic similarity-space as well as the views of the genes of interests for detail study. The visualisation employs avatars to represent the patients to enhance the realistic look-and-feel of the patients in the immersive environments. We illustrate the effectiveness of our platform through a childhood cancer dataset, B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia.","PeriodicalId":297760,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114434139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparing Pixel N-grams and Bag of Visual Word Features for the Classification of Diabetic Retinopathy","authors":"Pradnya Kulkarni, A. Stranieri, H. Jelinek","doi":"10.1145/3290688.3290726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3290688.3290726","url":null,"abstract":"The extraction of Bag of Visual Words (BoVW) features from retinal images for automated classification has been shown to be effective but computationally expensive. Histogram and co-variance matrix features do not generally result in models that have the same predictive accuracy as BoVW and are still computationally expensive. The discovery of features that result in accurate image classification on computationally constrained devices such as smartphones would enable new and promising applications for image classification. For example, smartphone retinal cameras can conceivably make diabetic retinopathy widely available and potentially reduce undiagnosed retinopathy if it could be achieved with computationally simple classification algorithms. A novel image feature extraction technique inspired by N-grams in text mining, called 'Pixel N-grams' is described that can serve this purpose. Results on mammogram and texture classification have shown high accuracy despite the reduced computational complexity. However retinal scan classification results using Pixel N-grams lag behind BoVW approaches. An explanation for the relative poor performance of Pixel N-grams with diabetic retinopathy that draws on concepts associated with the No Free Lunch theorem are presented.","PeriodicalId":297760,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference","volume":"25 24","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120867622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding Diabetes through Watch Based Interactive Play","authors":"Dale Patterson","doi":"10.1145/3290688.3290745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3290688.3290745","url":null,"abstract":"Play based systems, such as computer games, have proven effective as tools to enhance our human understanding, skills and capabilities in a number of real world activities. The active pursuit of gamification and applied games for tasks from education to design, training and simulation continues to grow. The field of healthcare is one key area offering significant potential. Raising the question of whether play based assistive tools, as a means to create greater understanding of serious medical conditions, and the health and lifestyle impacts they cause, can be effective. This research involved both the review of play based systems that are dedicated to assisting with diabetes, as well as the development of a new watch based mobile App designed specifically to assist players (both diabetic as well as broader community) in understanding the complex nature of managing diabetes. Diabetes is listed as the sixth leading cause of death worldwide and its improved management is listed as a priority by the world health organization. The results from the randomized control trial of the new watch based tool showed that participants who used the play based watch App, demonstrated a statistically significant improvement of their understanding of the condition and its management. This highlights the potential of play based digital tools to bring greater understanding of complex medical conditions to patients, care givers and the broader population.","PeriodicalId":297760,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116216108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chuxuan Tong, Jinglan Zhang, A. Chowdhury, S. Trost
{"title":"An Interactive Visualization Tool for Sensor-based Physical Activity Data Analysis","authors":"Chuxuan Tong, Jinglan Zhang, A. Chowdhury, S. Trost","doi":"10.1145/3290688.3290734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3290688.3290734","url":null,"abstract":"The paper proposes to apply an interactive visual tool to support analysis of human daily physical activities and sedentary behaviours. Current research of physical activity relies on data-driven methods such as deep learning while few of them adopts human-centric approaches. This research aims to highlight the user- centred exploration of physical activity data, and inspire comprehensive data interpretation by visualization. The design of the interactive visualization tool is derived from the parallel coordinates technique, which is capable of mapping high-dimensional datasets, and allows users to have an intuitive and global view of all the features. Additional visual extension such as brushing axes and selecting individual or multiple groups improves further detailed exploration of the dataset. A focus group evaluation is employed to assess the visualization tool qualitatively. According to observation, parallel coordinates plots effectively aid to distinguish physical activities and sedentary behaviours from patterns observation. Moreover, interactions with the visualization tool also enhance the user-centred visualization. Users are able to look into high-dimensional datasets, inspect data quality, and select effective features subsets by themselves with this interactive visualization tool.","PeriodicalId":297760,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference","volume":"275 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122935650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Systems Design Framework for a Practice-Based Evidence Approached Clinical Decision Support Systems","authors":"Hamzah Osop, T. Sahama","doi":"10.1145/3290688.3290742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3290688.3290742","url":null,"abstract":"The widespread adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the healthcare industries have given rise to the increase in the generation of valuable Electronic Health Records (EHRs). This brings potential in the secondary uses of EHRs for research, analysis and decision making support. Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) has become an integral tool in assisting healthcare professionals, make well-informed decisions. However, CDSSs are plagued with issues of effectiveness in delivering recommendations and support. With ongoing concerns regarding the limitations of evidence generated from systematic studies and effectiveness of CDSS to offer recommendations, a Practice-based evidence (PBE) approach to decision making is proposed. In this study, we present a system design framework that models and implements a PBE-approached CDSS. Such a CDSS design leverages on practical evidence in the form of EHRs where health records of patients are inferred and potentially used to support decision making for other similar patient types. Our design approach includes identifying suitable data sources and integration tool that packages various sources of health records as evidence for decision support systems. We present a prototype of our PBE-approached CDSS that provides patient-centric statistical information and prediction modelling.","PeriodicalId":297760,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126376393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Model-Driven Approach for Visualisation Processes","authors":"R. Morgan, G. Grossmann, M. Schrefl, M. Stumptner","doi":"10.1145/3290688.3290698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3290688.3290698","url":null,"abstract":"With the digital transformation of industries as proposed by Industry 4.0, there will be an increased amount of data collected and exchanged between enterprise systems. Software developers and domain experts are exposed to complex data specifications when dealing with enterprise interoperability. It is a major challenge to understand standards specifications and ensure interoperability in an increasing connected world. In this paper we propose the unique combination of model-driven techniques and interactive data visualisation to simplify the understanding by exploring specifications and data visually without the need to program up front. With our proposed approach it is possible to model and execute interactions of end users with different types of visualisation in a visualisation process. Compared to existing work the advantages of this presented approach are (1) a model-driven tool-independent solution that clearly separates data navigation from change of presentation for increased re-usability and (2) combines them in a visualisation process that (3) can be modelled and executed without the need of programming.","PeriodicalId":297760,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127493156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Taghikhah, W. Raffe, G. Mitri, S. D. Toit, A. Voinov, J. Garcia
{"title":"Last Island: Exploring Transitions to Sustainable Futures through Play","authors":"F. Taghikhah, W. Raffe, G. Mitri, S. D. Toit, A. Voinov, J. Garcia","doi":"10.1145/3290688.3290746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3290688.3290746","url":null,"abstract":"A serious game was designed and developed with the goal of exploring potential sustainable futures and the transitions towards them. This computer-assisted board game, Last Island, which incorporates a system dynamics model into a board game's core mechanics, attempts to impart knowledge and understanding on sustainability and how an isolated society may transition to various futures to a non-expert community of players. To this end, this collaborative-competitive game utilizes the Miniworld model which simulates three variables important for the sustainability of a society: human population, economic production and the state of the environment. The resulting player interaction offers possibilities to collectively discover and validate potential scenarios for transitioning to a sustainable future, encouraging players to work together to balance the model output while also competing on individual objectives to be the individual winner of the game.","PeriodicalId":297760,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127105815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decision Model for the Security and Utility Risk Evaluation (SURE) Framework","authors":"Angela Billard","doi":"10.1145/3290688.3290694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3290688.3290694","url":null,"abstract":"The Security and Utility Risk Evaluation (SURE) framework is a framework for specifying and calculating risk to enable dynamic and autonomous decisions about cyber security and utility risk in generic computer-based systems. The SURE framework's decision model provides the ability to select between multiple alternative mitigation strategies in order to optimise security and utility risk during the operation of a system. This paper presents the decision model of the SURE framework and an example illustrating how the decision model operates in a mobile networking scenario. The example shows that the SURE framework's decision model enables a better fit than existing security decision models between the context of the requested action, security and utility requirements and the selected mitigation strategy, giving greater flexibility to both policy makers and users.","PeriodicalId":297760,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130636218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}