KMi is a diverse and multidisciplinary R&D lab that has been at the forefront of innovation since 1995, conducting research in computing technologies for social and environmental good. Our research spans Semantic Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Educational Media, Social Data Science, Scholarly Data, Blockchain, Citizen Science, Collective Intelligence, Smart Cities, and others.
Upcoming Seminar
Using AI to capture representations of the political discourse in the news
This event will take place on Tuesday 28 January 2025
Prof Enrico Motta - KMi, The Open University
In recent years, the debate about the democratic health of the UK’s media landscape has intensified, with several commentators and scholars highlighting a rather distorted system,...
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Joined OU as web developer from July 2021, my day-to-day activities involved working on accessibility projects, styling and developing new and existing websites.
Miriam Fernandez is a Professor of Responsible Artificial Intelligence at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), Open University (OU), UK. Her research agenda revolves around advancing Responsible AI,...
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Publications
Herodotou, C., Carr, J., Shrestha, S., Comfort, C., Bayer, V., Maguire, C., Lee, J., Mulholland, P. and Fernandez, M. (2025) Prescriptive analytics motivating distance learning student action: A case study of a student-facing dashboard, LAK25: The 15th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK 2025), Dublin, Ireland
Ao, S. (2025) Building Trustworthy AI: Uncertainty Quantification and Failure Detection in Large Vision-Language Models
Daga, E. (2025) Process Knowledge Graphs (PKG): Towards unpacking and repacking AI applications, Journal of Web Semantics, 84
