KMi is a multidisciplinary R&D lab that has been at the forefront of innovation for the past 20 years. We lead in a number of areas, including Semantic Technologies, Educational Media, Social Media Analysis, Big Data, Smart Cities, IoT and others.
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I am a PhD student at KMi, Open University working under the supervision of Dr. Harith Alani and Dr. Miriam Fernandez. My interests are around mining and understanding what the users talk about over...
I am interested in using insights from cognitive psychology to understand how people make sense of information. My Ph.D. thesis looked at Description Logics, a class of languages used to create...
Testimonials
"If you are or want to be a brilliant mind, this is where you want to be!"
Valentina Presutti, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies, Italy
"I cannot imagine going to a conference without experiencing deep scientific conversations with KMiers!"
Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM: Graduate School & Research Center, France
"Top location for SW research for decades and going strong!"
Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, USA
Publications
Siddharthan, A., Ponnamperuma, K., Mellish, C., Zeng, C., Heptinstall, D., , A., Benn, S. and Wal, R. (2019) Blogging Birds: Telling informative stories about the lives of birds from telemetric data, Communications of the ACM, 62, 3, pp. 68-77, ACM
Mudd, T., Holland, S. and Mulholland, P. (2019) Nonlinear dynamical processes in musical interactions: Investigating the role of nonlinear dynamics in supporting surprise and exploration in interactions with digital musical instruments, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 128, pp. 27-40
Sharma, N., Colucci-Gray, L., Siddharthan, A., Comont, R. and Wal, R. (2019) Designing online species identification tools for biological recording: the impact on data quality and citizen science learning, PeerJ, 6:e5965, pp. 24 pages
Recent Seminars
Shang Gao - University of Tennessee
Deep Learning for Information Extraction from Cancer Pathology Reports
This event took place on Tuesday 19 March 2019
Monica Ihli - Assistant Professor Librarian, University of Tennessee Libraries
Acknowledgement Lag, Impact, and Community Formation: Data-Driven Approaches for Describing Research Outcomes
This event took place on Monday 28 January 2019
Dr. Matti Nelimarkka - Aalto University, Department of Computer Science
Participation and Human-Computer Interaction
This event took place on Wednesday 23 January 2019
Dr. Ewan Colman
Social behavior and the spread of disease in animal populations
This event took place on Monday 10 December 2018
