I am a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science (Associate Professor) here at the University of Southampton. I work within the Learning Societies Lab (LSL) and I am also the Senior Admissions Tutor for Computer Science.
I have been involved in Hypertext and Web research for over twelve years, firstly in the area of Open, Adaptive and Contextual hypermedia and more recently in the areas of Web 2.0, Semantic Web, Knowledge and Narrative interfaces, and the emerging discipline of Web Science, particularly the impact of Web Literacy on education and learning. I am interested in the ways that people use information systems in-the-wild, and how we can use emergent social, organisational and semantic structures to help them make sense of their world.
I am currently involved in a number of projects:
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Feel free to email me at dem@ecs.soton.ac.uk if you have any comments or have an interest in any of my work.
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For the last few years I've been involved in research and development projects where the goal has been to design, build and evaluate useful and useable knowledge and information interfaces. But I've always had a problem articulating this as a research challenge. It's related to Human Computer Interaction (HCI) but isn't so much concerned with surface details or visual interfaces, but seems an ...