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Professor Jeffrey Soar

Name :	Professor Jeffrey Soar
Position :	Professor and Chair in Human-Centred Technology
Section :	Faculty of Business and Law School of Information Systems
Office :	T329
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4631 1255
Extension :	1255
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BA(Hons) Monash GDipEd HawthorneInstEd GDipCommDataProc RMIT MEd La Trobe PhD NSWUT

Professional Memberships

Health Informatics Society of Australia (Board member 2001-2002);
Australian Computer Society;
Australian Association for Gerontology;

Professional Affiliations

Personal Chair in Human-centred Technology Innovation, School of Information Systems, Faculty of Business & Law, USQ
Director CAAIR (Collaboration for Ageing & Aged-care Informatics Research)
Convenor of SAIL (Smart Ageing & Independent Living) research consortium;
Convener, Queensland Smart Home Initiative;
Founder and Secretary of Aged Care Informatics Australia, a Special Interest Group of the Health Informatics Society of Australia;
Queensland Action for Universal Housing Design (Affiliate)

Research Interests

Professor Soar has over 150 peer-reviewed publications as well as other papers, posters, abstracts and commissioned reports to governments; he has given over 40 invited key-note addresses at national and international events; and has attracted grants and commissions to support over $10M in research.
His research interests include:
- smart homes and intelligent assistive technologies
- smart ageing & independent living
- e-health, aged & community care informatics,
- technology and economic development
- aged care leadership and innovation

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

1. Soar J, Gow J, Caniogo V. (2012) Sustainability of health information systems in developing countries: the case of Fiji. HIM J. 2012;41(3):13-9.
2. Neupane A, Soar J and Vaidya K (2012) Perceived benefits related to anti-corruption from e-tendering system in Nepal. Asian Journal of Information Technology, 11 (1). pp. 22-29.
3. Su, Y., J. Soar, et al. (2012). Consumer-centered eHealth: challenges and opportunities for China. Advanced Science Letters: 3-8.
4. El Sayed, Faeka and Soar, Jeffrey and Wang, Zoe (2012), Development of Interactive Multimedia Health Informatics CD-ROM for Aboriginal Health Workers- Case Study: Tuberculosis (TB), Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, 35 (6), pp.17-26
5. Wang P and Soar J, (2012) A Model for Security and Privacy in e-Health. In Proceedings COINFO, Information Sharing in the Cloud, 23-25 November 2012, Nanjing
6. Yuginovich T, Soar J and Su Y, (2012), Impact analysis of Smart Assistive Technologies for people with dementia. Proceedings COINFO, Information Sharing in the Cloud, 23-25 November 2012, Nanjing

Most notable :

Professor Soar's most notable research outcomes include:
- establishing the Queensland Smart Home Initiative in 2006, and
- building the SAIL (Smart Ageing & Independent Living) research consortium.
SAIL will develop, through research, pathways to adoption of ehealth in home and community settings - home telecare, telehealth and intelligent assistive technologies.
Its role is in attracting funds for its collaborative research program through grant writing, philanthropy, awareness-raising and networking.

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

Post-graduate research supervision, current student research topics include:
- e-government
- e-banking
- e-health
- e-learning
- technology and economic development
- eprocurement and economic development
- home telehealth for chronic illness support
- hospital avoidance and connected communities of care
- multi-media to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's health
- ehealth development

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 16 years
Other : 5 years

Administrative Responsibilities

Personal Chair, School of Information Systems, Faculty of Business & Law;
Interim Convenor SAIL (Smart Ageing & Independent Living);
Director CAAIR - Collaboration for Ageing & Aged-Care Informatics Research CAAIR, USQ;
Convener QSHI - Queensland Smart Home Initiative