External Publications
76 publications | Trevor Collins
Wolff, A., Mulholland, P. and Collins, T. (2013) Storyscope: Using Theme and Setting to Guide Story Enrichment from External Data Sources, Hypertext and Social Media
Wolff, A., Mulholland, P. and Collins, T. (2013) Modelling the meaning of museum stories, Demo at Museums and the web, Portland, Oregon
d'Aquin, M., Allocca, C. and Collins, T. (2012) DiscOU: A Flexible Discovery Engine for Open Educational Resources Using Semantic Indexing and Relationship Summaries, Demo at International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2012
Wolff, A., Mulholland, P. and Collins, T. (2012) Storyspace: a story-driven approach for creating museum narratives, Hypertext, Milwaukee
Collins, T., Mulholland, P. and Wolff, A. (2012) Web supported emplotment: Using object and event descriptions to facilitate storytelling online and in galleries, Web Science, Evanston, IL, ACM
Mulholland, P., Wolff, A. and Collins, T. (2012) Curate and Storyspace: An ontology and web-based environment for describing curatorial narratives, 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2012), Heraklion, Greece
Mulholland, P., Anastopoulou, S., Collins, T., Feisst, M., Gaved, M., Kerawalla, L., Paxton, M., Scanlon, E., Sharples, M. and Wright, M. (2012) nQuire: Technological Support for Personal Inquiry Learning, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 5, 2, pp. 157-169
Coughlan, T., Adams, A., Collins, T., Davies, S., Lea, J. and Rogers, Y. (2011) Working with "Mission Control" in Scientific Fieldwork: Supporting Interactions between In Situ and Distanced Collaborators, The 2011 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Hangzhou, China
Sharples, M., Collins, T., Feisst, M., Gaved, M., Mulholland, P., Paxton, M. and Wright, M. (2011) A laboratory of knowledge-making for personal inquiry learning, Artificial Intelligence in Education
Mulholland, P., Wolff, A., Collins, T. and Zdrahal, Z. (2011) An Event-Based Approach to Describing and Understanding Museum Narratives, Workshop: Detection, Representation, and Exploitation of Events in the Semantic Web at International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), Bonn, Germany
Collins, T., Lea, J. and Gaved, M. (2010) Remote fieldwork: Using portable wireless networks and backhaul links to participate remotely in fieldwork, The Proceedings of the 9th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2010), Valletta, Malta
Gaved, M., Mulholland, P., Kerrawalla, L., Collins, T. and Scanlon, E. (2010) More notspots than hotspots: Strategies for undertaking networked learning in the real world, The Proceedings of the 9th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2010), Valetta, Malta
Kerawalla, L., Scanlon, E., Gaved, M., Jones, A., Littleton, K., Mulholland, P., Collins, T., Twiner, A., Clough, G., Blake, C., Petrou, M. and Conole, G. (2010) Being a Geographer: the role of mobile, scripted inquiry in mediating embodied meaning-making during Geography fieldtrips, The Proceedings of the 9th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2010), Valetta, Malta
Mulholland, P., Collins, T., Gaved, M., Paxton, M., Feisst, M. and Scanlon, E. (2010) nQuire: A Customizable Toolkit for Inquiry Learning across School, Home and Field Trip Locations, 9th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2010), Valetta, Malta
Adams, A., Davies, S., Collins, T. and Rogers, Y. (2010) Out there and in here: design for blended scientific inquiry learning, 17th Association for Learning Technology Conference ALT-C 2010, Nottingham, UK
Scanlon, E., Kerawalla, L., Twiner, A., Mulholland, P., Collins, T., Jones, A., Gaved, M., Littleton, K., Blake, C. and Conole, G. (2010) Personal Inquiry: scripting support for inquiry learning by participatory design, Computer-Based Learning in Science, Warsaw, Poland
Knoth, P., Collins, T., Sklavounou, E. and Zdrahal, Z. (2010) Facilitating cross-language retrieval and machine translation by multilingual domain ontologies, Workshop: Workshop on Supporting eLearning with Language Resources and Semantic Data at LREC 2010, Valletta, Malta
Kerawalla, L., Scanlon, E., Twiner, A., Mulholland, P., Collins, T., Jones, A., Gaved, M., Littleton, K., Blake, C. and Conole, G. (2010) The challenge of supporting networked personal inquiry learning across the contexts of school club and home, 7th International Conference on Networked Learning, Aalborg, Denmark
Scanlon, E., Kerawalla, L., Gaved, M., Jones, A., Collins, T., Mulholland, P., Blake, C., Petrou, M. and Littleton, K. (2010) The challenge of supporting networked personal inquiry learning across contexts, 7th International Conference on Networked Learning 2010, Aalborg, Denmark
Davies, S., Collins, T., Gaved, M., , J., Valentine, C. and McCann, L. (2010) Enabling remote activity: using mobile technology for remote participation in geoscience fieldwork, Proc. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010 (EGU 2010), Vienna, Austria
Knoth, P., Collins, T., Sklavounou, E. and Zdrahal, Z. (2010) EUROGENE: Multilingual Retrieval and Machine Translation applied to Human Genetics, Demo at 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2010), Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Gaved, M., Collins, T., Mulholland, P., Kerawalla, L., Jones, A., Scanlon, E., Littleton, K., Blake, C., Petrou, M., Clough, G. and Twiner, A. (2010) Using netbooks to support mobile learners' investigations across activities and places, Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 25, 3, pp. 187-200
Whitelaw, L., Collins, T., Zdrahal, Z., Mulholland, P., Potter, L., Scantlebury, N. and Taylor, J. (2009) Pragmatic support for taxonomy-based annotation of digital documents, The Electronic Library. The international journal for the application of technology in information environment., 27, 5, pp. 755-767
Collins, T., Mulholland, P. and Zdrahal, Z. (2009) Using mobile phones to map online community resources to a physical museum space, International Journal of Web Based Communities, 5, 1, pp. 18-32
Zdrahal, Z., Knoth, P., Collins, T. and Mulholland, P. (2009) Reasoning across Multilingual Learning Resources in Human Genetics, ICL 2009, Villach, Austria
Kerawalla, L., Scanlon, E., Jones, A., Collins, T., Conole, G., Gaved, M., Littleton, K., Mulholland, P., Twiner, A. and Blake, C. (2009) Characterising participation trajectories and the negotiation of personalised inquiry learning in the secondary school geography classroom, Proceedings of the British Educational Research Association Conference, Manchester, UK
Kerawalla, L., Scanlon, E., Twiner, A., Gaved, M., jones, A., Littleton, K., Conole, G., Mulholland, P., Collins, T., Blake, C. and Clough, G. (2009) Technological mediation of personal inquiry in UK GCSE geography: opportunities and challenges, Proceedings of CAL'09 Learning in Digital Worlds, Brighton, UK
Novakova, L., Collins, T. and Zdrahal, Z. (2009) Document annotations in genetics domain for Eurogene project, Znalosti 2009, Brno, Czech Republic, pp. 155-166, Vydavatel'stvo STU, Bratislava , 2009. ISBN 978-80-227-3015-0
Holliman, R., Collins, T., Jensen, E. and Taylor, P. (2009) Isotope: Informing Science Outreach and public Engagement Final report of the Nesta-funded Isotope Project, The Open University, UK
Scanlon, E., Conole, G., Littleton, K., Kerawalla, L., Gaved, M., Twiner, A., Collins, T. and Mulholland, P. (2009) Personal Inquiry (PI): Innovations in participatory design and models for inquiry learning, TLRP TEL symposium, American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA
Mulholland, P., Collins, T., Gaved, M., Wright, M., Sharples, M., Greenhalgh, C., Kerawalla, L., Scanlon, E. and Littleton, K. (2009) Activity Guide: An Approach to Scripting Inquiry Learning, Workshop: Intelligent Support for Exploratory Environments at AIED 2009, Brighton, UK
Scanlon, E., Littleton, K., Gaved, M., Kerawalla, L., Mulholland, P., Collins, T., Conole, G., Jones, A., Clough, G., Blake, C. and Twiner, A. (2009) Support for evidence-based inquiry learning: teachers, tools and phases of inquiry, 13th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Amsterdam
Holliman, R., Collins, T., Jensen, E. and Taylor, P. (2009) ISOTOPE: Informing Science Outreach and Public Engagement. Final Report of the NESTA-funded ISOTOPE Project
Mulholland, P., Wolff, A., Zdrahal, Z. and Collins, T. (2008) Blending coherence and control in the construction of interactive educational narratives from digital resources, Interactive Learning Environments Journal, 16, 3, pp. 283-296, Routlege, Taylor & Francis
Collins, T., Gaved, M., Mulholland, P., Kerawalla, L., Twiner, A., Scanlon, E., Jones, A., Littleton, K., Conole, G. and Blake, C. (2008) Supporting location-based inquiry learning across school, field and home contexts, The Proceedings of the 7th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn-2008), Telford, Shropshire, UK
Scanlon, E., Jones, A., Collins, T., Conole, G., Gaved, M., Kerawalla, L., Littleton, K., Mulholland, P., Twiner, A. and Blake, C. (2008) Investigating Personal Inquiry: An Activity Theory Approach, The Proceedings of the 7th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn-2008)., Telford, Shropshire, UK
Gaved, M., Collins, T., Bartlett, J., Davies, S., Valentine, C., McCann, L. and Wright, M. (2008) ERA: On-the-fly networking for collaborative geology fieldwork, The Proceedings of the 7th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn-2008), Telford, Shropshire, UK
Zdrahal, Z., Mulholland, P. and Collins, T. (2008) Exploring Pathways across Stories, IEEE SMC Conference Distributed Human-Machine Systems (DHMS 2008), Athers, Grece, pp. 341-346
Mulholland, P., Zdrahal, Z. and Collins, T. (2008) Investigating the Effects of Exploratory Semantic Search on the Use of a Museum Archive, IEEE SMC Conference Distributed Human-Machine Systems (DHMS 2008), Athens, Greece
Whitelaw, L. and Collins, T. (2007) Pragmatic support for taxonomy-based annotation of structured digital documents, The Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2007), Corfu, Greece
Dzbor, M., Stutt, A., Motta, E. and Collins, T. (2007) Representations for semantic learning webs: Semantic Web technology in learning support, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 23, 1, pp. 69-82, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., UK
Mulholland, P., Gaved, M., Zdrahal, Z., Collins, T. and Heath, T. (2006) Using ICT to support public and private community memories: case studies and lessons learned, Constructing and sharing memory: community informatics, identity and empowerment, Prato 2006, Prato, Italy Proceedings of Constructing and sharing memory: community informatics, identity and empowerment, Prato 2006
Collins, T., Jones, A. and Potter, S. (2006) Research Presentations, in eds. Stephen Potter, Doing Postgraduate Research, Sage
Mulholland, P., Collins, T. and Zdrahal, Z. (2005) Bletchley Park Text: Using mobile and semantic web technologies to support the post-visit use of online museum resources, Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2005, 24
Collins, T., Mulholland, P. and Zdrahal, Z. (2005) Semantic browsing of digital collections, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 05), Galway, Ireland, pp. 157-141
Mulholland, P., Collins, T. and Zdrahal, Z. (2005) Spotlight browsing of resource archives, ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT 05), Salzburg, Austria
Mulholland, P., Collins, T. and Zdrahal, Z. (2004) Story Fountain: Intelligent support for Story Research And Exploration, ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2004), Island of Madeira, Portugal, pp. 62-69
Collins, T., Mulholland, P. and Zdrahal, Z. (2004) Community story exchange Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, pp. 74-78, IEEE Computer Society
Mulholland, P., Zdrahal, Z. and Collins, T. (2004) Supporting the exploration and use of heritage stories, Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, pp. 79-83, IEEE Computer Society
Collins, T. and Fung, P. (2003) Novice cognitive modellers using a visual programming language, CALRG, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University Technical report 193
Collins, T., Mulholland, P., Zdrahal, Z. and Bradbury, D. (2003) Methodology and Tools to Support Storytelling in Cultural Heritage Forums, 2nd International Workshop on Presenting and Exploring Heritage on the Web (PEH 2003). In conjunction with DEXA 2003 In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Presenting and Exploring Heritage on the Web (PEH 2003).
Collins, T., Mulholland, P., Zdrahal, Z. and Bradbury, D. (2003) Methodology and Tools to Support Storytelling in Cultural Heritage Forums, Workshop: Presenting and Exploring Heritage on the Web at International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2003), Prague, Czech Republic
Collins, T. (2003) Applying software visualization technology to support the use of evolutionary algorithms, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 14, 2, pp. 123-150
Collins, T. (2003) Visualizing Evolutionary Computation Advances in Evolutionary Computation, eds. A Ghosh S Tsutsui, pp. 95-116, Springer Verlag
Collins, T. and Mulholland, P. (2002) A Cultural Heritage Forum Celebrating Technological Innovation at Station X, the IEEE International workshop on Presenting and Exploring Heritage on the Web (PEH'02) in conjunction with DEXA 2002, Aix En Provence, France The Proceedings of the IEEE International workshop on Presenting and Exploring Heritage on the Web (PEH'02)
Mulholland, P. and Collins, T. (2002) Using Digital Narratives to Support the Collaborative Learning and Exploration of Cultural Heritage, Workshop: Presenting and Exploring Heritage on the Web at 13th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2002), Aix en Provence, France
Mulholland, P. and Collins, T. (2002) Using Digital Narratives to Support the Collaborative Learning and Exploration of Cultural Heritage, the IEEE International workshop on Presenting and Exploring Heritage on the Web (PEH'02) in conjunction with DEXA 2002, Aix En Provence, France The Proceedings of the IEEE International workshop on Presenting and Exploring Heritage on the Web (PEH'02)
Collins, T. and Fung, P. (2002) A visual programming approach for teaching cognitive modelling, Computers and Education Journal, 39, 1, pp. 1-18
Mulholland, P., Zdrahal, Z. and Collins, T. (2002) CIPHER: Enabling Communities of Interest to Promote Heritage of European Regions, cultivate interactive journal, 8
Collins, T., Mulholland, P. and Watt, S. (2001) Using Genre to Support Active Participation in Learning Communities, The European Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (Euro CSCL'2001), Maastricht, Holland, pp. 156-164
Collins, T. and Fung, P. (2000) Visual programming for cognitive modelling: A teaching perspective, CALRG, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University Technical report 194
Collins, T. and Fung, P. (2000) Hank a visual programming language: Its use as an introduction to cognitive modelling, CITE, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University Technical report 259
Collins, T. and Fung, P. (1999) Cognitive Modelling for Psychology Students: The Evaluation of a Pragmatic Approach to Computer Programming for Non Programmers, the 7th International Conference on Computers in Education, Osaka, Japan The Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computers in Education, pp. 216 223, CALRG, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University Technical report 183
Collins, T. (1999) Henson: A visualization framework for genetic algorithm users, the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'99), Washington, DC The Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'99), pp. 562 569, ieee publishing house
Collins, T. (1999) Evaluating Hank, a cognitive modelling language for psychologists, The Eleventh Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 11), Sheffield, UK The Eleventh Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 11)
Collins, T. (1998) Understanding Evolutionary Computing: A hands on approach, Part of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Anchorage, Alaska The Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC'98), morgan kaufman publishing house
Collins, T. (1998) The Application of Software Visualization Technology to Evolutionary Computation: A case study in genetic algorithms
Collins, T. (1997) Understanding Evolutionary Computing: A hands on approach, KMi Technical report 48
Collins, T. (1997) Using Software Visualization technology to help evolutionary algorithm users validate their solutions, The Seventh International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA'97), Michigan, MI The Proceedings of The Seventh International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA'97), eds. Thomas Baeck, pp. 307 314, morgan kaufman publishing house
Collins, T. (1997) Using Software Visualization technology to help Genetic Algorithm Designers, The Ninth Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 9), Sheffield, UK The Ninth Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 9), pp. 43-51
Collins, T. (1996) The Genotypic Space Mapping: Population Visualization for Genetic Algorithms, KMi Technical report 39
Collins, T. (1996) The Visualization of Genetic Algorithms Design Survey, the First Student Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG), Matlock, UK The Proceedings of the First Student Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG), pp. 35 - 52, group d publishing house
Dybowski, R., Collins, T. and Weller, P. (1996) Visualization of binary string convergence by Sammon mapping, the Fifth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming (EP'96), San Diego, CA The Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming (EP'96), eds. LJ Fogel PJ Angeline Thomas Baeck, pp. 377 383, mit publishing house
Collins, T. (1995) The Visualization of Genetic Algorithms Related Work, KMi Technical report 19
Routen, T. and Collins, T. (1993) Visualization of AI Techniques, the International Conference on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (COMPUGRAPH), Alvor, Portugal The Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (COMPUGRAPH), pp. 274 282, acm publishing house
Collins, T. (1993) The Visualization of Genetic Algorithms
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