AUT - Jacqueline Whalley

Dr Jacqueline Whalley

Senior Research Lecturer in Computer Science

Email: jwhalley@aut.ac.nz

Qualifications:

• Ph.D., Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
• M.Sc. (Distinction), University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
• B.Sc. (First Class Honours), Massey University, New Zealand.
• CertTertTchg., AUT University 

Memberships and Affiliations:

• Member ACM_SIGCSE
• Member ACM_SIGGRAPH

Teaching Areas:

• Computer Graphics and Animation
• Java Programming 1 & 2
• High Level Scripting
• Software Design and Implementation
• Software Engineering

Research areas:

Jacqui's research interests include: Geoinformatics, Information Visualization, Visual Analysis, Geographical Information Systems, Computer Graphics, Image and Audio Processing, and Computer Science Education. She has been undertaking eHeritage research using 3D GIS with a focus on the integration of multimedia and historical records for Whenua (land) and Whanau (people). Another key project is investigating the visualization of Genetic Biodiversity and Environmental Genomic data. Jacqui is a co-Principal investigator on BRACElet, an internationally recognised research program investigating the teaching and learning of novice programmers.

Research Funding

• Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies Contestable Research Grant (2008), for the "Geoinformatics for Treaty Claim Processes and Archaeological Sites" project
• Microsoft Research Asia Mobile Computing in Education Theme (2007), for the "Tablet PC Capture Platform with Microsoft Technologies for Explanograms" project
• ACM-SIGCSE Special Projects Grant (2007), for the "BRACElet" project
• The Wyn Hoadley Chancellor's Research Fund (2007)
• Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies Contestable Research Grant (2007) , for the "BRACElet" project
• CAPEX Grant (2006) 

Current Research Projects:

• Audio Segmentation, Classification and Visualisation
• Genomic Information Systems
• Radié – Visualisation and Analysis of Phylogenetic Trees
• GenGIS - Geospatial Analysis of Genomic Data from the Environment
• eHeritage
• A community based tool for the preservation of St. Michaels cemetery at Ngawha, Northland.
• A GIS for Māori Land Court Data
• Visualisation of whanau (people) and whenua (land)
• Oral history data mining and information visualisation
• 2D/3D Geographical Information Systems
• Scrapbook GIS
• Computer Science Education
• BRACElet
• Explanograms for Tablets

Publications:

Books/Book Chapters

• Whalley, J. & Kemp, Z., From electronic logbooks to sustainable marine environments: a GIS to support the common fisheries policy. In Andrew A. Lovett and Katy Appleton (Eds.) Environmental Decision Making with GIS, 2007, Taylor & Francis CRC press. ISBN: 0849374235

Journals

• Jacqueline Whalley, Stephen Brooks and Robert G. Beiko. Radié: Visualizing Taxon Properties and Parsimonious Mappings Using a Radial Phylogenetic Tree. Bioinformatics, volume 25, number 5, pp.672-673, March, 2009.
• Stephen Brooks and Jacqueline L. Whalley. Multilayer Hybrid Visualizations to Support 3D GIS. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, volume 32, number 4, pp. 278-292, July, 2008.
• Whalley, J. L., Clear, T. and Lister, R., (2007): The Many Ways Of The BRACElet Project. Bulletin of Applied Computing and Information Technology 5(1).
• Whalley, J. L., and Robbins, P., (2007): Report on the fourth BRACElet workshop. Bulletin of Applied Computing and Information Technology 5(1). Whalley, J.L., (2007). BRACElet Section Editorial. Bulletin of Applied Computing and Information Technology 5(1).
• Lister, R., Berglund, A., Clear, T, Bergin, J., Garvin-Doxas, K., Hanks, B., Hitchner, L., Luxton-Reilly, A., Sanders, K., Schulte, C and Whalley, J., (2006): Research Perspectives on the Objects-Early Debate, SIGCSE Bulletin, 38(4) . pp. 146 - 165

Refereed Conferences

• Jessie Zhang, Jacqueline L. Whalley and Stephen Brooks. A Two-Phase Method for Audio Segmentation. To appear at ICME 2009, Cancun, Mexico, June, 2009.
• Jessie Zhang, Stephen Brooks and Jacqueline L. Whalley. Adaptive Audio Classification Based on Adaptive Partitioning. To appear at ICME 2009, Cancun, Mexico, June, 2009.
• Philpott, A., Clear, T., and Whalley, J. (2009). Understanding student performance on an algorithm simulation task: implications for guided learning. Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Chattanooga, TN, USA, March 04 - 07, 2009). SIGCSE '09. ACM, New York, NY, 408-412.
• Whalley, J. and Lister, R. (2009). The BRACElet 2009.1 (Wellington) Specification. Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2009), Wellington, New Zealand. CRPIT, 95. Hamilton, M. and Clear, T., Eds. ACS. 9-18.
• Robert G. Beiko, Jacqueline Whalley, Suwen Wang, Harman Clair, Greg Smolyn, Sylvia Churcher, Mike Porter, Christian Blouin, and Stephen Brooks. Spatial Analysis and Visualization of Genetic Biodiversity. Proceedings of Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial 2008, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 316-324, September, 2008.
• Jessie Zhang, Jacqueline L. Whalley and Stephen Brooks. Time Mosaics - An Image Processing Approach to Audio Visualization. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, Espoo, Finland, pp. 273-280, September, 2008.
• Clear, T., Whalley, J., Hill, J., Liu, Y., Pears, A. & Plimmer, B. (2008), A Global Software Project: Developing a Tablet PC Capture Platform for Explanograms, Proceedings Koli Calling '08, Eighth Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research, Koli, Finland, November 13-16, 2008, pp. 72-82.
• Mike Lopez, Jacqueline Whalley, Phil Robbins and Raymond Lister. Relationships between reading, tracing and writing skills in introductory programming, ICER’08, ACM Press, September 6-7, 2008, Sydney, Australia.
• Thompson, E., Luxton-Reilly, A., Whalley, J., Hu, M. and Robbins, P. (2008): Bloom's Taxonomy for CS assessment. Proceedings Tenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2008), Wollongong, NSW, Australia. CRPIT, 78. Simon and Hamilton, M., Eds., ACS. 155-162.
• Terri Lomax, Jacqui Finlay, Jacqueline Whalley and Anne Philpott. Whenua and Whanau – Visualising People Land Relationships. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications (NACCQ 2008), In Samuel Mann and Mike Lopez (Eds.), Auckland, New Zealand, pp.71-76, 4-7 July, 2008.
• Clear, T., Edwards, J., Lister, R., Simon, B., Thompson, E. and Whalley, J. (2008). The teaching of novice computer programmers: bringing the scholarly-research approach to Australia. Proceedings Tenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2008), Wollongong, NSW, Australia. CRPIT, 78. Simon and Hamilton, M., Eds., ACS. 63-68.
• Judy Sheard, Angela Carbone, Raymond Lister, Beth Simon, Errol Thompson and Jacqueline Whalley. Going SOLO to Assess Novice Programmers. (2008): ITiCSE’08, June 30–July 2, 2008, Madrid, Spain.
• Brooks, S. and Whalley J.L., Towards a Comprehensive Multilayer Hybrid Display for GIS Data. Proceedings of GIS Research UK 2007, GISRUK'07, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland , April 2007.
• Brooks, S. and Whalley J.L., Visualizing Collapsible 3D Data in a Hybrid GIS, Proceedings of GRAPP 2007 Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, Barcelona, Spain, March. 2007.
• Zarine Kemp, Lei Tan and Jacqueline Whalley, (2007): Interoperability for Geospatial Analysis: a semantics and ontology-based approach. In James Bailey and Alan Fekete (Eds.) Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian Database Conference (ADC2007), Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), Vol. 63, pp. 83-92.
• Whalley J. L., Prasad, C. and Kumar, A., (2007): Decoding Doodles: Novice Programmers and Their Annotations. In Sam Mann and Simon (Eds.) Proceedings of the 9th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2007) .Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), Vol. 66., 171-178.
• Thompson, E., Whalley, J., Lister, R., & Simon, B., (2006). Code classification as a learning and assessment exercise for novice programmers. In S. Mann & N. Bridgeman (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual NACCQ Conference, pp. 291-298, 2006.
• Whalley, J., (2006): CSEd Research Instrument Design: the Localisation Problem. In S. Mann & N. Bridgeman (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual NACCQ Conference, pp. 307-312, 2006.
• Lister, R., Simon, B., Thompson, E., Whalley, J. & Prasad, C., (2006): Not seeing the forest for the trees: Novice programmers and the SOLO taxonomy, Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2006), SIGCSE Bulletin,38 (3). pp. 118 - 122.
• Kemp, Z., Tan, L. & Whalley, J. (2006): Context-aware spatial analysis and information fusion from heterogeneous data repositories, Proceedings of GIS Research UK 2006, GISRUK'06, Nottingham, UK.
• Whalley, J. L., Lister, R., Thompson, E., Clear, T., Robbins, P., Kumar A. P. K. & Prasad, C., (2006): An Australasian Study of Reading and Comprehension Skills in Novice Programmers, using the Bloom and SOLO Taxonomies. Proceedings of the 8th Australasian Computing Education Conference, pp. 243-252.
• Brooks, S. & Whalley, J.L., (2005): A 2D/3D Hybrid Geographical Information System, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and Southeast Asia, Graphite 2005, pp 323-330.
• Green, J., Whalley J., and Johnson, C., (2004): Automatic Programming with Ant Colony Optimization. Proceedings of the 2004 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, Loughborough, September 2004.
• Whalley, J. & Kemp, Z., The Common Fisheries Policy: an Integrated GIS and Spatial Data Analysis Approach. In A Lovett, editor, Proceedings of GIS Research UK 2004, GISRUK'04, University of East Anglia, Norwich, April 2004.
• Whalley, J., Tuite, M., & Johnson, C., A virtual lab for exploring the [PSI]+ yeast prion. In Faramarz Valafar, editor, Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences, volume II, pages 583-589. CSERA Press, June 2002.

Posters

• Robert G. Beiko, Suwen Wang, Sylvia Churcher, Greg Smolyn, Harman Clair, Christian Blouin, Jacquelyn Whalley and Stephen Brooks. GenGIS: Mapping and Analysis of Environmental Genomic Data. Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB), Toronto, July 2008.
• Philpott, A., Robbins P, & Whalley J.L. (2007). Assessing the steps on the road to relational thinking, Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications, Nelson, New Zealand.

Technical Reports

• Whalley, J.L., and Kemp, Z. FishCAM: Fisheries Computer Aided Management, Final Report, European Union: CRAFT (Cooperative Research Action for Technology) project, Key Action No. 1.1.1 - 5: Sustainable Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Ref: Q5CR-2001-70746. June, 2004.
• Johnson, C. & Whalley, J., Detecting collisions in sets of moving particles: a survey and some experiments. Technical Report 8-02, University of Kent, June 2002.
• Clear, T., Lister, R., Simon, B., & Whalley, J. (2007). Report on the ACM SIGCSE Sponsored Sixth BRACELet Workshop. Auckland: AUT University.

Other

• Philpott, A., Whalley, J. L. and Koh, Y-S., (2007): Visual Programming Workshop, In Leo Hitchcock and Shoba Tegginmath (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third IT Symposium, pp 37-38.
• Whalley, J. L., (2005): Novices Programmers: The BRACElet project, Proceedings of the First IT Symposium, pp 37-38.

Awards:

• Associate Editor of the International Journal of Visual Analytics (IJVA)
• Referee for SIGCSE, ACE, ITiCSE, ICER and NACCQ conferences.
• Best Innovation Prize (ACM-NACCQ, 2008) for "Whenau and Whanau – Visualising People Land Relationships"
• The CITRUS award for best collaborative research paper (ACM-NACCQ, 2006) for "Code classification as a learning and assessment exercise for novice programmers"
• Highly commended in the best paper category (ACM-NACCQ, 2006, as judged by Dr Jane Prey of Microsoft Research) for "Code classification as a learning and assessment exercise for novice programmers"