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Contact Information
Dr Gary Wills
Room 3201
Learning Societies Lab,
Department of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton,
SO17 1BJ

Electronic mail address
gbw@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Office phone
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 2831
FAX number
+44 (0)23 8059 2865

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Research Interests  Academic CV   Lecturing  Professional bodies

Department
Gary Wills is a Senior Lecturer, at the University of Southampton.

He is based in the Learning Societies Lab (previously in the IAM Group formerly the Multimedia Research Group ) within the School of Electronics and Computer Science, part of the Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics .

Biography

Gary Wills is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Southampton. He graduated from the University of Southampton with an Honours degree in electromechanical engineering, and then a PhD in Industrial hypermedia systems.
He is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the Institute of Engineering Technology. Gary is also a Fellow of the Higher Educational Academy. He is also an adjunct professor at the Cape Peninsular University of Technology.
Gary’s main administrative role within the school is joint programme co-ordinator for the IT in Organisation degree programme.
 

Research Interests

Gary’s main research interests are in Personal Information Environments (PIEs) and their application to industry, medicine and education. PIE systems are underpinned by Service Oriented Architectures, adaptive systems and advanced knowledge technologies. He is also conducting research into assessment systems, serious games and the use of mobile technology for learning and teaching.

A description of the current and previous projects can be found at the project page.
 

Academic CV
Standard University Academic CV [Upon request]

Current School Duties
joint ITO programme co-ordinator with Dr David Argles

Current Group Responsibilities
Post-graduate induction training (IAM & LSL research Groups)
Group Budgets

Previous School Duties
Examination officer (responsible for the ITO programme)

Current Lecturing
I am currently teaching, in ECS.:

INFO1003: Web Design  (Module Leader) [Syllabus]

INFO1005: Information Systems Strategy (Module Leader) [Syllabus]

INFO2010: Information Systems and Contexts [Syllabus]

INFO2011: Second Integrative Project (Module Leader) [Syllabus]

INFO3003: Industrial & Commercial Systems [Syllabus]

INFO6005: Rich Internet Applications (Module Leader)  [Syllabus]

Level H (III) Project Key Words

hypermedia-web,  Web-technologies,  knowledge-management ,  information-management,  adaptive-hypermedia,  human-computer-interaction,  hypermedia-education,  computers-education, Learning-environments, games-education
assessment-education, Web-services,
 

Previously Taught

In ECS:

At New College

* also taught at Dorchester Adult Education Centre

 

Professional bodies:

CEng: Chartered Engineer
MIEE: Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.
MILT: Member of the Institute for Learning and Teaching

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