Dana McKay

Mapping the contours of digital journeys: a study of international students' social networks in Australian higher education

Shanton Chang, Catherine Gomes, Maria Platt, Sabrina Trumpour, Dana McKay, Basil Alzougool

Journal article  |  2021  |  HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

International students’ capacity to undertake a digital journey to embrace new digital resources has real life implications in ter..

It's about missing much more than the people: How students use digital technologies to alleviate homesickness

RM Kelly, Y Cheng

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Homesickness, which refers to feelings of distress caused by separation from home, is prevalent among university-aged students. Ch..

Standing in theway of control: A call to action to prevent abuse through beter design of smart technologies

D McKay, C Miller

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Smart home technologies, designed to make our lives easier by controlling our homes with the click of a button, can also be key dr..

I've Got All My Readers with Me: A Model of Reading as a Social Activity

H Zhang, D McKay, G Buchanan

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  CHIIR 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

Reading is not simply a solitary activity. It occurs in a social context, which influences both a reader's choices about what to r..

Lady Chatterley's Library: Books and Reading as Public Performance and Private Act

D McKay, MB Twidale, G Buchanan

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  CHIIR 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

If reading was simply ingesting information, it would not matter what format that information arrived in-whether it be digital, po..

Humanities Scholars and Digital Humanities Projects: Practice Barriers in Tools Usage

R Liu, D McKay, G Buchanan

Book Chapter  |  2021  |  Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Humanities scholars face many problems when trying to design, build, present, and maintain digital humanities projects. To mitigat..

What’s Data Got to Do with It? An Agenda for a New Generation of Digital Libraries

G Buchanan, D McKay, D Bainbridge

Book Chapter  |  2021  |  Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Digital libraries have matured rapidly in recent years: practical large-scale libraries are now ubiquitous, and many fundamental p..

Hey Alexa, What Should I Read? Comparing the Use of Social and Algorithmic Recommendations for Different Reading Genres

H Zhang, G Buchanan, D McKay

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Users often seek reading recommendations for what to read, across a variety of topics of interest and genres. While there has been..

Feed the Tree: Representation of Australia-based Academic Women at HCI Conferences

Dana McKay, George Buchanan

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  OzCHI '20: 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction

Conference attendance is an important part of any career in academic computing, facilitating both the citations that are key for a..

Worth 1000 Words?: The Influence of Image Versus Text Content on the Book Selection Process

H Zhang, D McKay, G Buchanan

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Following the rise of the electronic book, how readers interact with books and ebooks to choose what to read, has been a growing t..