Senior Research Fellow
Senior Research Fellow
My research is concerned with developing computational tools and methods to help people make sense of information, and develop and express their ideas. I have been a Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on 12 national or European projects delivering outcomes including: technologies for the visitor use of archives and museum collections, mobile applications for formal and informal learning, automated narrative generation tools, and semantic and knowledge technologies for school and work-based learning. I have a first degree in psychology, a Masters degree in computing and PhD in cognitive science. I have published over 100 conference and journal articles. I am also Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Human Computer Studies.
As part of the European Union Horizon 2020 SPICE project I am working on tools and methods to support Citizen Curation, in which citizens are supported in developing personal interpretations of cultural artefacts, sharing their own perspective and understanding the perspectives of others.
I work on OUAnalyse, which applies machine methods to detect students who are at risk of failing. Currently, we are developing an Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Learning Analytics (LA) Dashboard to better understand which assignments seem to be causing more difficulties to BAME students in order that they can be adapted.
Within the European Union Horizon 2020 Polifonia project I am working on the use of visualisation, gesture and haptic interfaces to create novel ways of interacting with musical heritage.
I work with Paul Warren investigating the usability of languages such as SPARQL for querying data.
In the OCGM project I worked with Terri Cole (University of Bournemouth) and the NCA comparing methods for assessing the risk posed by Organised Crime Groups.
I co-supervise PhD students carrying out research on topics such as tools for managing information overload, wearable sensors to support rehabilitation, end-user music programming, and tools for the development of musical skill.
I am interested in supervising further PhDs students related to my interests, in particular on topics concerned with technologies and methods to support Citizen Curation, and human interaction with complex data sources and notations.
The OU has been highly commended at the Higher Education Strategic Planners Association (HESPA) Awards for its innovative use of data to enhance student success....Read more
The Open University proudly announces its success in the highly competitive AI Fairness Innovation Challenge delivered by the UK’s Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and Innovate UK....Read more
KMi’s OU Analyse, also known as the Early Alert Indicators Dashboard (EAID), is widely used at the OU to enhance student retention and has been highlighted as part of the inaugural issue of Academic Quality & Standards....Read more
The OU Analyse team, which works to identify students at the university who may need extra support, has been awarded the prestigious Educational Dataset Prize by the Educational Data Mining Society for their remarkable work with the ‘OULAD’ dataset....Read more
Supporting Citizen Curation at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)...Read more
Query non-RDF resources with SPARQL....Read more
Find out more about IMMA artworks. How do IMMA artworks make you think? How do they make other people think?...Read more
Mulholland, P., Stoneman, A, Carvalho, J., Daga, E. and Maguire, M (2023) Deep Viewpoints: Scripted Support for the Citizen Curation of Museum Artworks, Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT '23), Rome, Italy
Bonnin, G., Bayer, V., Fernandez, M., Herodotou, C, Hlosta, M. and Mulholland, P. (2023) CERSEI: Cognitive Effort Based Recommender System for Enhancing Inclusiveness, 18th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2023, Aveiro, Portugal
Mulholland, P., Stoneman, A, Barker, N, Maguire, M, Carvalho, J., Daga, E. and Warren, P. (2023) The Sound of Paintings: Using Citizen Curation to Explore the Cross-Modal Personalization of Museum Experiences, Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH) at UMAP '23, Limassol, Cyprus
Tirado, A, Carvalho, J., Mulholland, P. and Daga, E. (2023) Musical Meetups: a Knowledge Graph approach for Historical Social Network Analysis, Proceedings of the ESWC 2023 Workshops and Tutorials. Semantic Methods for Events and Stories (SEMMES), Hersonissos, Greece
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Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
United Kingdom
