Duncan Stevenson
PhD student at the Australian National University, School of Computer
Science
I am a PhD student in the School
of Computer Science at the Australian National University,
currently (May 2009) in my fourth and final year of my candidature. Up to
June 2008 I worked for the CSIRO ICT Centre on a range of broadband application
demonstrator projects and I am now using the results of two of those projects
as the data for my PhD.
My research interests involve
applying novel visualisation techniques, telecollaborative technology and human
factors to create prototype applications for the real world. Below I give
links to pages describing my most recent projects, and a link to my list of
publications.
My contact details are:
Post: School
of Computer Science, Australian National
University, Canberra
0200 Australia.
Email: duncan.stevenson@anu.edu.au
Previous projects
These projects were conducted while I was employed by
the CSIRO ICT Centre. The funding for the projects came from both the ICT
Centre and from the then federal Department of Communications, Information Technology
and the Arts under their Advanced Networks Program.
Remote outpatient
consultations for paediatric surgery (2006 to 2009)
This project was conducted with the Royal Children's
Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. It prototyped the use of
broadband Internet to support remote outpatient consultations for children who
had had complex surgery that required long-term rehabilitation and monitoring.
This hospital has a catchment of 6 million people covering Victoria,
Tasmania and parts of New South Wales and the travel burden on the
children and their families to attend these consultations is high. The concept
was that these consultations would occur at a regional hospital local to where
the patients lived. The consultations required a high level of interpersonal
communication between surgeon and patient/family, shared access to radiological
data (X-Ray, CT scan) and an effective way for a clinic assistant located with
the patient to present a physical examination of the patient to the surgeon.
The telehealth system that was constructed in this project was used in a pilot
trial at the hospital in September 2007, operating between two rooms in the
same building to ensure continuity of care and to provide for an immediate
face-to-face follow-up consultation as part of the trial protocol. Forty-four
consultations were conducted during this trial. The following web page shows details of our broadband
telehealth system.
Remote surgical
masterclass (2005-2006)
(to be completed)
Telecollaborative
virtual reality training for temporal bone surgery (2004-2005)
(to be completed)