Diane Arbus
Biography
Mark Weal is a member of the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group and Learning Societies Lab, founder member of the Pervasive Systems Centre and a Web Science Trust Fellow. His current research interests include the application of Semantic Web technologies to pervasive systems. Mark has worked for a number of years in the area of information systems, from hypermedia systems for eLearning through to information infrastructures for multi-user pervasive experiences as exemplified by his work on the Equator IRC. Mark's work has been extensively cross disciplinary, engaging with teachers, archivists and nursing practitioners amongst others.
Projects
LifeGuide
LifeGuide is a node of the National Centre for e-Social Science developing software that will allow researchers to easily and flexibly create and modify internet-delivered behavioral interventions.
Semantic Technologies in Learning and Teaching (SemTech)
Identifying and quantifying the benefits of Semantic technologies for formal and informal learning.
Grid-Enabled Data Collection and Analysis - Semantic Annotation in Skills-Based Learning
A case study in semantic annotation focused on the research and practice of skills-based learning in the context of health care education.
Electronic Visualisation of nineteenth-century French literary-scientific texts
Created and piloted an interactive electronic visualisation tool to be used in 2008-9 delivery of research-led nineteenth-century French literature and culture teaching using Web 2.0 technologies to allow students to explore the multiple perspectives, themes contexts and timelines within their core texts.
Contact
School of Electronics & Computer Science,
University of Southampton,
Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
Telephone: +44 (023) 80 599400
FAX: +44(023) 80 592865
mjw@ecs.soton.ac.uk