Tim Comber, BAppSci(Hons)(SCU) Tim Comber completed a B.App.Sc.(Computing) Honours in 1993 at Southern Cross University. In the seventies he almost completed a degree in Psychology but dropped out to raise his kids. He has had a variety of occupations: timber docker, farmer, house-husband, clerk in Telecom, dole bludger, railway station assistant, opal miner, bread slicer. His hobbies and interests (in no particular order): classical guitar, gems and minerals, reading SF and fantasy, gardening, fishing, computer games, Amiga 500. Currently Tim teaches first year programming and web development. His research interests are Internet usage, human-computer interaction and teaching programming.
Conference publications
Managing your business through effective IT management - secure it or lose it (with D Bruce Armstrong), School of Commerce and Management Papers (2005)
Internet and computer usage: comparisons among metropolitan centres, coastal regional centres and inland regional centres (with D Bruce Armstrong, Don Dingsdag, and Gerard J. Fogarty), Proceedings of Delivering IT and e-business value in networked environments: 14th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) (2003)
In this exploratory paper the authors compare Internet and computer usage data from the Basic...
User operations as language elements: measuring usability and user competence through redundancy (with John R. Maltby), CHINZ 03, the Fourth Annual International Conference of the New Zealand Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, 3-4 July (2003)
Layout complexity: does it measure usability? (with John R. Maltby), Human-computer interaction: interact '97, international conference on human-computer interaction, 14-18 July (1997)
This research investigates the validity of the layout complexity metric to GUI screen design. This...
Achieving balance in software engineering curricula (with Bruce Lo and Richard Watson), International Conference Software Engineering: Education and Practice - SEEP'96, January 24-27 (1996)
Achieving balance is an issue that faces all curriculum designers. The complexity of the software...
Theses
The importance of text width and white space for online documentation, School of Commerce and Management Papers (1994)
This study investigates the importance of text width and passive white space on comprehension, speed...