The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) was set up in 1995 in recognition of the need for the Open University to be at the forefront of research and development in a convergence of areas that impacted on the OU's very nature: Cognitive and Learning Sciences, Artificial Intelligence and Semantic Technologies, and Multimedia. We chose to call this convergence Knowledge Media.
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The focus of my research is to construct Semantic Web descriptions of real services, by exploiting information available on the Web. My aim is to extract explicit information, such as service...
I am a research fellow at the Knowledge Media institute (KMi) of the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK. The major common point between all my research activities is the Semantic Web, and...
Publications
Saif, H., He, Y., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2014) Semantic Patterns for Sentiment Analysis of Twitter, The 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Riva del Garda - Trentino Italy
Piccolo, L., Baranauskas, C., Fernandez, M., De Liddo, A. and Alani, H. (2014) Energy Consumption Awareness in the Workplace: Technical Artefacts and Practices, IHC 2014 - Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computer Systems, (accepted for publication)
Drachsler, H., Stoyanov, S., d'Aquin, M., Herder, E., Guy, M. and Dietze, S. (2014) An Evaluation Framework for Data Competitions in TEL, 8th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, ECTEL
Recent Seminars
Dr. Paul Wilson - Lecturer, School of Design, University of Leeds
Designed visualisation: good design doing good?
This event took place on Tuesday 29 July 2014
PhD Researcher Prashant Aparajeya
Point-based medialness for shape representation, recognition and movement computing
This event took place on Wednesday 16 July 2014
Andrew Smith - The Open University
Teaching the Internet over the Internet
This event took place on Monday 07 July 2014
Dr Brian Plüss
The Election Debate Visualisation (EDV) Project
This event took place on Thursday 19 June 2014
