Alexander Krumpholz

Research Engineer

Contact

CSIRO ICT Centre
Computer Science and Information Technology Building (Building 108)
North Road, Australian National University,
Canberra ACT 2601
Australia

Postal address:
GPO Box 664
Canberra ACT 2601
Australia

Tel: 61 2 6216 7073
Email

Science Area

• Information Retrieval

Biography

Alexander Krumpholz obtained a Diplom-Ingenieur in Applied Computer Sciences at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria in 2000. He has worked in a range of areas from database application design to information retrieval research, and consulted in workflow modelling. While in Maryland, USA, he developed a highly optimized web-based database application for GovCon.com.

In 2001 he joined CSIRO CMIS (Mathematical and Information Sciences) located in Carlton/Melbourne. Alex worked in the Technologies for Electronic Documents group building Knowledge Portals and researching with Panoptic, CSIRO's Information Retrieval engine.

From 2003 to 2005 Alex was based in Perth working in a distributed team that developed a collaborative surgical training system for microscope surgery of the ear. This system was based on the CSIRO Haptic Workbench technology. It combined the simulated realism of immersive haptics (force-feedback interaction technology) with the real-time remotely shared presence of the instructor and the student.

In 2006 Alexander joined Prof. David Hawking's Enterprise Search Team, focussing on Information Retrieval and Delivery of Semi-Structured Data, in particular the exploitation of inherent structure to increase retrieval quality.

Recent research includes the retrieval of medical literature matching a patient's case.

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Top 10 Publications

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O’Leary, S., Hutchins, M., Stevenson, D., Gunn, C., Krumpholz, A., Kennedy, G., Tykocinski, M., Dahm, M., and Pyman, B. "Validation of a networked virtual reality simulation of temporal bone surgery". Laryngoscope, 2008
Alexander Krumpholz and David Hawking, "InexBib - Retrieving XML Elements Based on External Evidence", in Proceedings of ADCS 2006. Brisbane, Australia, pp. 72-79, Dec. 2006
D. Stevenson and M. Hutchins and C Gunn and A Krumpholz, "Multiple approaches to evaluating multi-modal collaborative systems", Workshop on Effective Multimodal Dialogue Interfaces, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Sydney, Januar
Matthew A. Hutchins and Duncan R. Stevenson and Chris Gunn and Alexander Krumpholz and Tony Adriaansen and Brian Pyman and Stephen O’Leary, "Communication in a networked haptic virtual environment for temporal bone surgery training". Virtual Reali
Matthew Hutchins and Duncan Stevenson and Chris Gunn and Alexander Krumpholz and Brian Pyman and Stephen O'Leary. "'I think I can see it now!' — Evidence of learning in video transcripts of a collaborative virtual reality training trial". In pr
Matthew Hutchins and Matt Adcock and Duncan Stevenson and Chris Gunn and Alexander Krumpholz, "The Design of Perceptual Representations for Practical Networked Multimodal Virtual Training Environments", In proceedings of HCI International 2005: 11th Int
Alexander Krumpholz, "Building a Virtual Trainer for an Immersive Haptic Virtual Reality Environment", In: R. Kaschek (Ed.) Perspectives of Intelligent Systems’ Assistance, Technical Report TR 2005 / 2, Department of Information Systems, Massey Un
Matthew Hutchins and Stephen O'Leary and Duncan Stevenson and Chris Gunn and Alexander Krumpholz, "A Networked Haptic Virtual Environment for Teaching Temporal Bone Surgery", In proceedings of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 13, IOS Press, 2005.
A-M. Vercoustre and J. A. Thom and A. Krumpholz and I. Mathieson and P. Wilkins and M. Wu and N. Craswell and D. Hawking, "CSIRO INEX Experiments: XML Search using PADRE", in INEX Workshop, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, December 9-11, 2002.
Johann Eder and Alexander Krumpholz and Alexandros Biliris and Euthimios Panagos, "Self-maintained Folder Hierarchies as Document Repositories", Proceedings of 2000 Kyoto International Conference on Digital Libraries: Research and Practice, pp 356-363,

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