LifeGuide: An infrastructure for empowering behavioural intervention research (2009)
Yang, Yang, Osmond, Adrian, Weal, Mark, Wills, Gary, De Roure, David, Joseph, Judith, ...
Behavioural interventions are packages of tailored advice and support for behaviour change, which are known as one of the most important methodologies and technologies adopted by social scientists...
Yang, Yang, Osmond, Adrian, Chen, Xiaoyu, Weal, Mark, Wills, Gary, De Roure, David, ...
Behavioural interventions - packages of advice and support for behaviour change - are one of the most important methodologies and technologies employed by social scientists for understanding and...
South Africa has a national shortage of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) personnel. Great strides are being made to improve the level of ICT literacy among the school population....
Enhancing Grid Service Discovery with a Semantic Wiki and the Concept Matching Approach (2009)
Guan, Tao, Fowler, David, Bandara, Ayomi, Zaluska, Ed, De Roure, David, Crowder, Richard, ...
An important challenge of realizing the vision of Grid computing that heterogeneous resources are shared in dynamic and multi-institutional virtual organization is that users need to locate, find,...
Navigation Over a Large Ontology for Industrial Web Applications (2009)
Crowder, Richard, Wilson, Max L., Fowler, David, Shadbolt, Nigel, Wills, Gary, Wong, Sylvia
Ontologies for industrial semantic web applications are often very large. This is especially true in scientific and engineering applications where there exists a large pool of technical terminology...
The design of effective feedback in computer-based sport training (2009)
P Iskandar, Yulita Hanum, Gilbert, Lester, Wills, Gary
This paper presents the design of effective feedback in the motor skill domain via Computer-based Sport Training (CBST) in order to support athletes‘ achievement of their intended training...
A Semantic Matching Approach for Distributed RDF Data Query on a Knowledge Bus (2009)
Guan, Tao, Fowler, David, Crowder, Richard, Tao, Feng, Shadbolt, Nigel, Wills, Gary
During the past several years, semantic web technologies have been applied to facilitate the sharing of data in new and unexpected ways. Various heterogeneous data are assigned well-defined meaning...
Social and Community Informatics and Social Theories of Networks (2009)
Wills, Julia, Parker, Marlon, Wills, Gary
There are Non Government Organisations (NGOs), technical and academic interest in the community driven Athlone Living Lab and its social innovations. With actors across many disciplines, it is...
A conceptual framework for serious games (2009)
Yusoff, Amri, Crowder, Richard, Gilbert, Lester, Wills, Gary
A considerable number of serious games have been developed over the last ten years, with varying degrees of success. Due to a lack of clear standards and guidelines for game developers, it is...
Co-design and Co-deployment Methodologies for Innovative m-Learning Systems (2009)
Millard, David, Howard, Yvonne, Gilbert, Lester, Wills, Gary
Building innovative m-learning systems can be challenging, because innovative technology is tied to innovative practice, and thus the design process needs to consider the social and professional...
A Framework for Pedagogical Feedback in the Motor Skill Domain (2009)
P Iskandar, Yulita Hanum, Gilbert, Lester, Wills, Gary
With increasingly rapid development in Computer-based Sport Training (CBST), feedback plays an important role in both coaching and learning. A good CBST system includes not only good training...
An E-learning Support Toolkit for Social Work Students on Placement (2009)
Zhang, Pei, Wills, Gary, Howard, Yvonne, Oussena, Samia, Kramer, Dean, Barn, Ravinder, ...
Students of the social work professions generally are required to be placed in social work settings and to undergo assessment in the workplace during their training. These students are usually...
Joseph, J.A., Yardley, L., Hare, Jonathan, Osmond, Adrian, Yang , Yang, Weal, Mark, ...
LifeGuide is a software package that allows health professionals and researchers with no programming skills to easily and flexibly create, evaluate and modify behavioural interventions. An...
Designing authoring tools for the creation of on-line behavioural interventions (2009)
Osmond, Adrian, Hare, Jonathan, Price, Joseph, Smith, Ashley, Weal, Mark, Wills, Gary, ...
Behavioural interventions are used by social scientists to effect change in a person’s behaviour. The LifeGuide project is developing tools to enable the easy creation, deployment and trialling of...
A Semantic System for Rapid Information Search and Access (2009)
Guan, Tao, Fowler, David, Crowder, Richard, Shadbolt, Nigel, Tao, Feng, Wills, Gary
How to reuse existing data to support applications is an essential issue in various domains. This paper presents semantic approaches to search and access information rapidly in engineering design...
JISC Report on E-Assessment Quality (REAQ) in UK Higher Education (2009)
Gilbert, Lester, Gale, Veronica, Wills, Gary, Warburton, Bill
Commissioned by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in 2008, the ‘Report on Summative e-Assessment Quality (REAQ)’ project surveyed quality assurance (QA) activities commonly...
LifeGuide: A platform for performing web-based behavioural interventions (2009)
Hare, Jonathan, Osmond, Adrian, Yang , Yang, Wills, Gary, Weal, Mark, De Roure, David, ...
Behavioural interventions are a technique used by social scientists and health professionals to mediate the behaviour of a subject. Traditionally, interventions take the form of tailored advice given...
LifeGuide: A platform for performing web-based behavioural interventions (2009)
Hare, Jonathon, Osmond, Adrian, Yang, Yang, Wills, Gary, De Roure, David, Joseph, Judith, ...
Interventions designed to influence people's behaviour ('behavioural interventions') are a fundamental part of daily life, whether in the form of personal advice, support and skills training from...
Making Training More Cognitively Effective: Making Videos Interactive (2009)
Cherrett, Tom, Wills, Gary, Price, Joseph, Maynard, Sarah, Dror, Itiel E.
The cost of health and safety failures to UK industry is currently estimated at up to £6.5 billion per annum with the construction sector suffering unacceptably high levels of work related...
Semantic Technologies in Learning and Teaching (SemTech) - JISC Report (2009)
Tiropanis, Thanassis, Davis, Hugh, Millard, David, Weal, Mark, White, Su, Wills, Gary
This report presents and discusses the findings of the SemTech (Semantic Technologies for Learning and Teaching) project that was funded by JISC and commenced its activities in September 2008....
Synchronised Annotation of Multimedia (2009)
Wald, Mike, Wills, Gary, Millard, David, Gilbert, Lester, Khoja, Shakeel, Kajaba, Jiri, ...
Multimedia has become technically easier to create (e.g. recording lectures) but while users can easily bookmark, search, link to, or tag the WHOLE of a podcast or video recording available on the...
ENHANCING LEARNING USING SYNCHRONISED MULTIMEDIA ANNOTATION (2009)
Wald, Mike, Wills, Gary, Millard, David, Gilbert, Lester, Khoja, Shakeel, Kajaba, Jiri, ...
Audio and Video has become easier to record and store but while users can easily bookmark, search, link to, or tag the WHOLE of a recording available on the web (e.g. YouTube) they cannot easily...
Synote: enhancing multimedia e-learning with synchronised annotation (2009)
Li, Yunjia, Wald, Mike, Khoja, Shakeel, Wills, Gary, Millard, David, Kajaba, Jiri, ...
This paper discusses the development of a collaborative hypertext application named Synote. Multimedia has become technically easier to create, but while the WHOLE of a media resource can be easily...
AN OPEN HYPERMEDIA SOLUTION TO INFORMATION OVERLOAD IN INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS. (2008)
Richard Crowdert, Gary Wills, Ian Heath, Wendy Hall
The information resources required within the manufacturing environment.is constantly increasing. Managing these resources to enable uses to find vital information is now becoming a critical issue....
A Four Dimensional Model of Formal and Informal Learning (2008)
Chen, Wen-Pin, Millard, David, Wills, Gary
Learning systems focused on collaborative learning are often described in terms of formal and informal learning, however definitions of formal and informal learning vary, which makes it difficult to...
Reducing latency when using Virtual Reality for teaching in sport (2008)
P Iskandar, Yulita Hanum, Gilbert, Lester, Wills, Gary
Latency is a frequently cited shortcoming of Virtual Reality (VR) applications. To compensate for excessive latency, prediction mechanisms may use sophisticated mathematical algorithms, which may not...
Demystifying the Educational Benefits of Different Gaming Genres (2008)
Frazer, Alex, Argles, David, Wills, Gary
As research continues into the use of computer games for educational purposes, educators still appear reluctant to incorporate them into their teaching. One contributing factor to this reluctance is...
Community in Tension (CiT) (2008)
Parker, Marlon, Wills, Gary, Wills, Julia
The development and availability of Information Communication Technology (ICT) impacts many sectors yet a digital divide is still present amongst citizens in communities. Not only is there a digital...
An Empirical Comparison of Two Agile Projects in the Same Organization (2008)
Abbas, Noura, Gravell, Andrew, Wills, Gary
The appearance of Agile methods has been the most noticeable change to software process thinking in the last fifteen years[1]. The main goal of this research is to investigate the quality of Agile...
Knowledge-Based Repository to Support Engineering Design. (2008)
Crowder, Richard, Wong, Sylvia, Shadbolt, Nigel, Wills, Gary
Manufacturers are currently shifting their focus from selling products to providing services, hence the product’s designers must increasingly consider life-cycle requirements, in addition to...
Assessment Delivery Engine for QTIv2 Tests (2008)
Wills, Gary, Hare, Jonathan, Kajaba, Jiri, Argles, David, Gilbert, Lester, Millard, David
The IMS Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) standard has not had a great take-up in part due to the lack of tools. In the 2006 JISC Capital, three Assessment projects were commissioned: item...
The Same, But Different: The Educational Affordances of Different Gaming Genres (2008)
Frazer, Alex, Argles, David, Wills, Gary
As research continues into the use of computer games for educational purposes, the differences between different gaming genres become increasingly more important. These differences, however, appear...
Multimedia Annotation and Community Folksonomy Building (2008)
Wald, Mike, Wills, Gary, Millard, David, Gilbert, Lester, Khoja, Shakeel, Kajaba, Jiri, ...
Multimedia has become technically easier to create (e.g. recording lectures) but while users can easily bookmark, search, link to, or tag (i.e. classify) the WHOLE of a podcast or video recording...
Secure Certification for e-Portfolios (2008)
Chen-Wilson, Lisha, Newcombe, Patrick, Royce, Piers, Ong, Samuel, Wonnacott, Timothy, Wills, Gary, ...
In a number of countries, students build up portfolios of their achievements as they study. These are then presented when they apply for jobs or for further study. Various projects exist which are...
DELIVERY OF QTIv2 QUESTION TYPES (2008)
Wills, Gary, Davis, Hugh, Gilbert, Lester, Hare, Jonathon, Howard, Yvonne, Jeyes, Steve, ...
The IMS Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) standard identifies sixteen different question types which may be used in on-line assessment. While some partial implementations exist, the R2Q2...
An E-Learning Framework for Assessment (FREMA) (2008)
Wills, Gary, Bailey , Christopher, Davis , Hugh, Gilbert , Lester, Howard , Yvonne, Jeyes, Steve, ...
This paper reports on the FREMA (e-Framework Reference Model for Assessment) project that aimed at creating a Reference Model for the Assessment Domain; a guide to what resources (standards,...
A Delivery Engine for QTI Assessments (2008)
Wills, Gary, Hare, Jonathan, Kajaba, Jiri, Argles, David, Gilbert, Lester, Millard, David
The IMS Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) standard has had a restricted take-up, in part due to the lack of tools. This paper describes the ‘ASDEL’ test delivery engine, focusing upon its...
Semantics on Demand: Can a Semantic Wiki Replace a Knowledge Base? (2008)
Millard, David, Bailey, Christopher, Boulain, Philip, Chennupati, Swapna, Howard, Yvonne, Davis, Hugh, ...
In the same way that Wikis have become the mechanism that has enabled groups of users to collaborate on the production of hypertexts on the web, Semantic Wikis promise a future of collaboration on...
Towards A New Authoring Methodology for Large- Scale Hypermedia Applications (2008)
Ian Heath, Wendy Hall, Richard Crowder, Gary Wills, Jim Ballantyne
As the amount of information technology increases, managing information resources, so that the correct people can find the information easily, becomes a critical issue. Hypermedia systems are...
Adaptive Link Services for the Semantic Web (2008)
Thanyalak Maneewatthana, Gary Wills, Wendy Hall
Abstract. There are shortcomings in using the Web to publish information which are information overload and lost in hyperspace. The aim of the research is investigating how the Semantic web, open...
Towards Semantic Web Support for Writing Project Proposals (2008)
Timothy Miles-board, Intelligence Agents, Gary Wills
Writing technical project proposals is a task that needs convenient access to a wide range of information. The Web provides some support for this activity in the form of search engines (to discover...
Gary Wills, Timothy Miles-board, Christopher Bailey, Leslie Carr, Wendy Hall, Simon Grange
A digital archive, together with its users and its contents, does not exist in isolation- there is a cycle of activity which provides the context for the archive’s existence, and which the archive...
ABSTRACT The Case for Explicit Knowledge in Documents (2008)
The Web is full of documents which must be interpreted by human readers and by software agents (search engines, recommender systems, clustering processes etc.). Although Web standards have addressed...
Marlon Parker, Cornell Stofberg, Isabella Venter, Gary Wills
QUALITY IN A SMALL TO MEDIUM MEDICAL PRACTICE Data is said to be of a required quality, if the data conforms to a defined specification and this specification correctly reflects its intended use. The...
The e-Learning Assessment Landscape (2008)
David E. Millard, Christopher Bailey, Hugh C. Davis, Lester Gilbert, Yvonne Howard, Gary Wills
Assessment is one of the more established areas of e-learning. However, it cannot be described as mature due to the disparate nature of the tools and standards available. As part of our efforts...
Personalised Navigation System with Multidimensional (2008)
Panchit Longpradit, Christopher Bailey, Wendy Hall, Gary Wills
Abstract. Adaptive hypermedia techniques provide users with personalisation of contents and links. Some of the criticisms of adaptive systems are that users do not always understand why the system is...
ABSTRACT Demo Abstract: Bringing the Semantic Web to the Office Desktop (2008)
Leslie Carr, Timothy Miles-board, Gary Wills, Arouna Woukeu
Many Semantic Web applications address the needs of human readers of the Web (e.g. searching, annotating), but these technologies can also address the needs of human writers of the Web. The WiCK...
Department of Electronics and Computer Science, (2008)
Gary Wills, Harith Alani, Ronald Ashri, Richard Crowder, Yannis Kalfoglou, Sanghee Kim
Abstract. While knowledge is viewed by many as an asset, it is often difficult to locate particular items within a large electronic corpus. This paper presents an agent based framework for the...
Adaptive Personal Information Environment based on Semantic Web (2008)
Thanyalak Maneewatthana, Gary Wills, Wendy Hall
In order to support knowledge workers during their tasks of searching, locating and manipulating information, a system that provides information suitable for a particular user’s needs, and that is...
Community Tools for Repurposing Learning Objects (2008)
Chu Wang, Kate Dickens, Hugh C Davis, Gary Wills
Abstract. A critical success factor for the reuse of learning objects is the ease by which they may be repurposed in order to enable reusability in a different teaching context from which they were...
Assessment Delivery Engine for QTIv2 Tests. (2008)
Wills, Gary, Gilbert, Lester, Hare, Jonathan, Kajaba, Jiri, Argles, David, Millard, David
The IMS Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) standard has not had a great take-up in part due to the lack of tools. This paper describes the ‘ASDEL’ test delivery engine, focusing upon its...
Abstract Building a Virtual University for Orthopaedics (2008)
Grainne Conole, Gary Wills, Leslie Carr, Lucile Vadcard, Wendy Hall, Simon Grange
The development of a Virtual Orthopaedic University is underpinned by a pedagogical approach built on current education research in terms of learning being situated and authentic; with learners...
mPLAT Mobile Placement Learning and Assessment toolkit for Healthcare Students (2008)
Faulds, Sue, Howard, Yvonne, Zhang, Pei, Millard, David, Wills, Gary, Gobbi, Mary
(Semantic Web) Services for e-Learning (2008)
Millard, David, Doody, Karl, Davis, Hugh, Gilbert, Lester, Howard, Yvonne, Tao, Feng, ...
Service-Oriented Architectures are becoming a popular system paradigm in e-learning, and there are several efforts to create community driven service frameworks. In this paper, we argue that these...
(Semantic Web) Services for e-Learning (2008)
Millard, David, Doody, Karl, Davis, Hugh, Gilbert, Lester, Howard, Yvonne, Tao, Feng, ...
Service-Oriented Architectures are becoming a popular system paradigm in e-learning, and there are several efforts to create community driven service frameworks. In this paper, we argue that these...
An Inquiry-led Personalised Navigation System (IPNS) using multi-dimensional linkbases (2008)
Longpradit, Panchit, Hall, Wendy, Walters, Robert, Gilbert, Lester, Gee, Quintin, Wills, Gary
The simplicity of the hypertext model behind the World Wide Web is a factor in its success, but this simplicity brings limitations. One of these limitations is embedding links in documents. Open...
Mobile VLE vs. Mobile PLE: How Informal is Mobile Learning? (2008)
Chen, Wen-Pin, Millard, David, Wills, Gary
Mobile Learning Systems are often described as supporting informal learning; as such they are a good fit to the idea of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs), software systems that users choose and...
Historical Roots of Agile Methods: Where did “Agile Thinking” Come from? (2008)
Abbas, Noura, Gravell, Andrew, Wills, Gary
The appearance of Agile methods has been the most noticeable change to software process thinking in the last fifteen years [16], but in fact many of the “Agile ideas” have been around since...
Department of Electronics and Computer Science, (2007)
Gary Wills, Harith Alani, Ronald Ashri, Richard Crowder, Yannis Kalfoglou, Sanghee Kim
Abstract. While knowledge is viewed by many as an asset, it is often difficult to locate particular items within a large electronic corpus. This paper presents an agent based framework for the...
AnnAnn and AnnAnn.Net : Tools for Teaching Programming (2007)
Hooper, Clare, Carr, Leslie, Davis, Hugh, Millard, David, White, Su, Wills, Gary
It is difficult for a student to learn about programs and to understand the rational that went into the development of the parts that led to the whole. Tools for explaining this essentially dynamic...
From collaborative virtual research environment SOA to teaching and learning environment SOA (2006)
Gilbert, Lester, Sitthisak, Onjira, Sim, Yee Wai, Wang, Chu, Wills, Gary
Please, cite this publication as: Gilbert, L., & Sitthisak, O. (2006). From collaborative virtual research environment SOA to teaching and learning environment SOA. Proceedings of International...
Dr. Hugh Davis, Lester Gilbert, Hugh Davis, David E. Millard, Gary Wills, Lester Gilbert, ...
Project Web URL www.frema.ecs.soton.ac.uk Programme Name (and number) e-Framework Programme Manager Heather Williamson
A Grid Services Implementation for a Virtual Research Environment (2005)
Wills, Gary, Gilbert, Lester, Gee, Quintin, Davis, Hugh Charles, Miles-Board, Timothy, Millard, David, ...
In the past, virtual learning and research environments have typically been implemented as monolithic systems. Current research focuses on creating such environments from selected Grid and Web...
A Grid Services Implementation for a Virtual Research Environment (2005)
Wills, Gary, Gilbert, Lester, Gee, Quintin, Davis, Hugh Charles, Miles-Board, Timothy, Millard, David, ...
In the past, virtual learning and research environments have typically been implemented as monolithic systems. Current research focuses on creating such environments from selected Grid and Web...
Towards a Knowledge-Aware Office Environment (2004)
Carr, Leslie, Miles-Board, Timothy, Wills, Gary, Woukeu, Arouna, Hall, Wendy
The objective of the Semantic Web is to make the Web amenable to computer processing, and hence to improve the value that humans can obtain from it. One of the oft-touted user benefits is improved...
The designers’ workbench: Using ontologies and constraints for configuration,” in (2004)
David W. Fowler, Derek Sleeman, Gary Wills, Terry Lyon, David Knott
Typically, complex engineering artifacts are designed by teams who may not all be located in the same building or even city. Additionally, besides having to design a part of an artifact to be...
The designers’ workbench: Using ontologies and constraints for configuration,” in (2004)
David W. Fowler, Gary Wills, Derek Sleeman, Terry Lyon, David Knott
Rolls-Royce plc
The designers’ workbench: Using ontologies and constraints for configuration,” in (2004)
David W. Fowler, Gary Wills, Derek Sleeman, Terry Lyon, David Knott
Rolls-Royce plc
Rethinking Web Design Models: Requirements for Addressing the Content (2003)
Woukeu, Arouna, Carr, Les, Wills, Gary, Hall, Wendy
The objective of hypermedia design models is to produce a well-organised web site. The organisation is undertaken at the level of a particular building-block – an abstract data unit which may match...
Evaluation of a hypermedia maintenance support application (2003)
Richard Crowder, Gary Wills, Wendy Hall
A large hypermedia application has been developed to demonstrate the concept of factory wide hypermedia to support the maintenance of a major process line. As part of its development cycle, the...
Rethinking Web Design Models: Requirements for Addressing the Content (2003)
Arouna Woukeu, Leslie Carr, Gary Wills, Wendy Hall
The objective of hypermedia design models is to produce a well-organised web site. The organisation is undertaken at the level of a particular building-block -- an abstract data unit which may match...
Wills, Gary, Kim, Sanghee, Ashri, Ronald
This report presents the design issues of an agent-based expert finder system. In particular, it focuses on collaborative activities where a multidiscipline team were drawn from the researchers and...
A review of the benefits of using hypermedia manuals (2001)
Richard Crowder, Y W Sim, Gary Wills
The acceptance of a hypermedia system to support maintenance applications is to a large extent dependant on the ability to convince management that the system will prove beneficial. This paper...
Rethinking Web Design Models: Requirements for Addressing the Text (2001)
Arouna Woukeu, Leslie Carr, Gary Wills, Wendy Hall
The objective of hypermedia design models is to produce a well-organised web site. The organisation is undertaken at the level of a particular building-block – an abstract data unit which may match...