Dr Dianna Hardy ~ Senior Lecturer

Dr Dianna Hardy is a Lecturer in the Information Technology and Computer Science discipline at James Cook University. Dianna combines over ten years of industry experience in Lead Software Development  with a strong teaching focus on interface design and implementation. Dianna holds a PhD in Information Technology along with a master’s degree in Social Science which strongly informs her expertise in user experience in cross-cultural settings, with emphasis on Aboriginal health and wellbeing. Her research is focused on co-design methods with varied participants from cross-disciplinary silos in health, anthropology/archaeology, and biological science utilising Virtual Reality, multi-platform delivery and user-centred design.

Currently Dianna is highly engaged in research which seeks to use co-design methods such as Design Thinking to enable community groups to solve complex, real world problems and empower individuals to expand their ability to make a difference in the world.

Dianna is the Design Thinking Coordinator in the Discipline of Information Technology and leads the development and delivery of the annual JCU Technology Design sprint which is the largest education-based Design Thinking sprint in Australia. Last year over 55 organisations (including Optus, Technology One, IBM, Glencore and others) along with over around 400 students from Information Technology and Engineering at JCU engaged in innovative problem solving and protyping activities to solve sustainability isses.

 

Teaching

• CP1401: Fundamentals of Problem Solving and Programming 1 (Level 1; TSV)
• CP1403: Design Thinking (Level 1; TSV)
• CP1801: Fundamentals of Problem Solving and Programming I (Level 1; TSV)
• CP1803: Design Thinking (Level 1; CNS & TSV)
• CP2408: Design Thinking and Creative IT Industries (Level 2; TSV)
• CP5047: ICT Project 2: Implementation and Commissioning (Level 5; TSV)
• CP5638: Web Design and Development (Level 5; TSV)
• CP5639: Problem Solving and Programming I (Level 5; TSV)
• CP5641: Design Thinking Principles (Level 5; CNS & TSV)
• IA2022: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People as Colonial Subjects (Level 2; CNS & TSV)
• IA2030: Comparative Indigenous Studies (Level 2; CNS & TSV)

Research Disciplines

• Information Systems (0806)
• Curriculum and Pedagogy (1302)
• Anthropology (1601)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Expanding Knowledge (9701)
• Learner and Learning (9301)
• Heritage (9503)

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

• Otto T and Hardy D (2016) Transforming artefacts into digital heritage: developing interactive databases for use by Aboriginal communities. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series, 10. pp. 117-132
• Madden D, Cadet-James Y, Atkinson I and Watkin Lui F (2014) Probes and prototypes: a participatory action research approach to codesign. CoDesign, 10 (1). pp. 31-45
• Madden D, Cadet-James Y, Watkin-Lui F and Atkinson I (2012) Healing through ICT: enhancing wellbeing in an Aboriginal community. Journal of Tropical Psychology, 2. pp. 1-9

Book Chapters

• Hardy D, Forest E, McIntosh Z, Myers T and Gertz J (2016) Moving beyond "just tell me what to code": inducting tertiary ICT students into research methods with aboriginal participants via games design. In: OzCHI '16 Proceedings of the 28th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp. 557-561

Conference Papers

• Simon , Myers T, Hardy D and Mason R (2019) Variations on a theme: academic integrity and program code. Proceedings of the 21th Australasian Computing Education Conference. In: ACE2019: 21th Australasian Computing Education Conference, 29-31 January 2019, Sydney, NSW, Australia
• Hardy D, Myers T and Sankupellay M (2018) Cohorts and cultures: developing future design thinkers. Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Computing Education Conference. In: ACE2018: 20th Australasian Computing Education Conference, 30 January - 2 February 2018, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
• Kingsun M, Myers T and Hardy D (2018) C-DOM: a structured co-design framework methodology for ontology design and development. Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference. In: ACSW'18: Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference, 29 January - 2 February 2018, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
• Zhu R, Hardy D and Myers T (2018) Building applications that matter: co-designing with adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. In: HIS 2018: 7th International Conference of Health Information Science, 5-7 October 2018, Cairns, QLD, Australia
• Hardy D, Forest E, McIntosh Z, Gertz J and Myers T (2016) Co-creation of a digital game to support language revitalisation. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering. In: CDVE 2016: 13th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering, 24-27 October 2016, Sydney, NSW, Australia
• Jalil S, Hardy D, Myers T and Atkinson I (2014) But it doesn't go with the décor: domesticating a telemedicine diabetes intervention in the home. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group. In: OzCHI 2014: Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group, 2-5 December 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia
• Myers T, Trevathan J, Madden D and O'Neill T (2013) Linked data for cross-disciplinary collaboration cohort discovery. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. In: ISWC: 12th International Semantic Web Conference and LD4IE: 1st workshop on Linked Data for Information Extraction, 21-25 October 2013, Sydney, NSW, Australia
• Bidwell N and Hardy D (2009) Dilemmas in situating participation in rural ways of saying. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7. In: OZCHI '09 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7, 23-27 November 2009, Melbourne, Australia

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 19+ research outputs authored by Dr Dianna Hardy from 2006 onwards.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• Investigation of Disabled Australian's Interaction with Online Security: A Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Step Towards First Class Digital Citizen (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Leveraging E-Learning in educational institutions (PhD , Secondary Advisor)