KMi postgraduate student Clara Mancini successfully defended her doctoral dissertation during a thesis viva today. She has been recommended for the award of a Ph.D. after minor revisions. Clara's thesis, entitled 'Towards Cinematic Hypertext', breaks new ground in probing the very nature of coherence in hypertext, using the notion of 'cognitive coherence relations', and look…
The Library and KMi held a digital libraries seminar on Wednesday December 10 at the Knowledge Media Institute. Presentations: An incremental usability and accessibility evaluation framework for digital libraries by Panyiotis Zaphiri and Terry Hoi-Yan Ma (City University, London) Making sense of digital libraries with scholarly ontologies by Victoria Uren and Gary Li (KMi).
Brought up by Darryl Ince (hasnt been up himself for a while 🙂 Keith is evidently the external assessor, for M150. Comp Sci based at Kent Uni). Keith is a PVC in Kent and interested in *IT and new tech and knowledge strategy*. Showed him lots of cool stuff; but I aint sure he got…
PKS and I had an interesting morning with Roger Fennemore and a couple of dudes he brought in (David Bellin and Graham Miller). These folks had an interest in the old online sport concept. Both are from the world of TV and media, and with Roger's new role on the board of Sport England, he…
Peter Whalley and Peter Scott met with James Bentley the Director of the Manufacturing Foundation to discuss potential project links. The Foundation is deeply concerned at the lack of interest in engineering as a career amongst school-leavers and sees the 11-12 year old age group as the key to retrieving this situation. A project proposal…
I recently presented at the Association of Internet Researchers 2003 conference in Toronto. The keynote speakers were Lucy Suchman (Lancaster University), Pierre Levy (University of Ottawa), Steve Jones (Co-founder of AoIR, University of Illinois) and Jane Fountain (Center for Digital Government Research and Practice). Panels included the digital divide, blogging, ehealth, gaming, online learning, research…
Peter Whalley today hosted a visit from Dennis Brennan of Brennan & Whalley Limited and Ian Smith Director of the Papplewick Pumping Station. Brennan & Whalley (no relation) are designers with a wealth of experience in presenting concepts to the public. They were very interested in the work of Peter Whalley and John Linney in…
David Vincent, the new PVC (Strategy, Planning & External Affairs), has requested a personal demo of Compendium from Simon Buckingham Shum.
Chris Candlin is visiting (seconded to) FELS from his home in Macquarie, Sydney. He will be working in batches of time at various locations. He is a linguist with an interest in Health so a few health-related folks met to touch base and brief him on what is going on atm. Who was there: C.N.Candlin,…
A JIME submission was made by Simon Buckingham Shum to the Royal Society Working Group on communicating the results of new scientific research. The Royal Society has set up a working group to carry out a study on best practice in communicating the results of new scientific research to the public. The study has been…
