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Berwick School of Information Technology

The Berwick School of Information Technology (formerly the School of Multimedia Systems) is the newest of the six schools within the Faculty of Information Technology. The school, which was created at the beginning of 2001, is the result of a strategic initiative by the faculty to focus its multimedia teaching and research at the Berwick campus.

The school offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in the multimedia area and attracts significant numbers of international and Australian full-fee students.

Research

The principal areas of research within the Berwick School of Information Technology encompass the various aspects of multimedia system technologies and applications such as:

Advances in e-commerce

Current research activities: cultural issues in the adoption of e-business by SMEs in developing countries; ontology based mobile agent
framework and experience design in internet applications.

Ethical and social implications of IT

Current research areas: cyber-terrorism; surveillance technologies and privacy issues; politics and the internet.

Interactive environments and multimedia visualisation

Topics: animation; 3D visualisation of complex system simulations for archaeologists, ecologists and town planners; game engine based GIS visualisation systems and motion capture based virtual human systems.

IT applications in education

Current research activities: educational multimedia; teaching programming subjects via distance education; multimedia learning for five-year-old hearing impaired children; computer-mediated competence testing methods for flexible learning.

Further information may be found on the Berwick School of Information Technology website at www.infotech.monash.edu.au/berwick.

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