John Domingue's profile document
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John Domingue
John Domingue
John
Domingue
Professor of Computer Science
johndomingue
I am a Professor of Computer Science [1] at the Knowledge Media Institute [2], the Open University's technology research and innovation centre, and the President of STI International [3], a semantics focused networking organisation. I have published over 280 refereed articles (h-index 57) in the areas of semantics, the Web, distributed ledgers and eLearning. My current work focuses on how a combination of blockchain and Linked Data technologies can be used to process personal data in a decentralised trusted manner and how this can be applied in the educational domain [4].
I serve as the leader of the first of five themes, on University Learners, for the £20M funded Institute of Coding [5] which aims to increase the number and diversity of computing graduates in the UK as well as enhancing the connection between university teaching and corporate training.
Since January 2019, I have played a leading role in the EU funded QualiChain project [6] which has the aim of revolutionising public education and its relationship to the labour market and policy making by disrupting the way accredited educational titles and other qualifications are archived, managed, shared and verified, taking advantage of blockchain, semantics, data analytics and gamification technologies.
Until February 2020 I was also a key player in the European Blockchain Observatory [7] supporting the European Commission on road-mapping the future of this technology in a number of key sectors.
February 2020 saw the start of a new EU project, DEL4All [8], where under my leadership the OU will aid in road-mapping how education will be transformed due to the impact of blockchains, AI, data and augmented and virtual reality technologies.
In 2017 my research in blockchains and education was referenced in the Joint Research Centre Policy Report Blockchain in Education for the European Commission [9]. Prof. Domingue has given many talks on his work including at the Royal Institution in 2018 [10] and at TEDx [11].
Very recently my focus has centred on our blockchain based platform could be applied for COVID-19 Anti Body Test and Vaccination certification which has attracted attention from the media [12].
Last year I became a Fellow of the British Blockchain Association [13].
[1] http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/domingue/
[2] http://kmi.open.ac.uk/
[3] https://www.sti2.org/
[4] http://blockchain.open.ac.uk
[5] https://instituteofcoding.org/
[6] https://qualichain-project.eu/
[7] https://www.eublockchainforum.eu/
[8] https://www.del4all.eu/
[9]Â https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC108255/jrc108255_blockchain_in_education%281%29.pdf#page=66
[10] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wwYDMdji3k
[11] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPefcmWFWyM&t=6s
[12] https://blockchain.open.ac.uk/#covid-19
[13] https://www.britishblockchainassociation.org/fellowship
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John Domingue's participation in bkd
bkd
bkd
Bayesan Knowledge Discoverer tool
BKD is a knowledge discovery tool which can extract reusable knowledge from databases, using sound accountable statistical methods, even when data is missing or incomplete.
John Domingue's participation in ENRICH
ENRICH
ENRICH
1998-10-01
2001-03-31
Enriching Representations of Work to Support Organisational Learning
The Enrich Project aims to develop tools and methodologies for integrating working and learning within knowledge intensive organisations. It builds upon our existing technologies supporting web based collaboration, agents and knowledge modelling. The ENRICH project will foster the use of knowledge-enriched intranets to provide the means for sharing expertise.
John Domingue's participation in Virtual Participant
Virtual Participant
Virtual Participant
Tool for monitoring, recording and recognising current topics of discussion
The Virtual Participant is an agent that participates in electronic conferences. It monitors the current topics of discussion, and when it recognises a topic that has been discussed previously, for example, in a previous year, it posts a message telling the conference about the previous discussion. The Virtual Participant was first assessed over two years in First Class conferences for the OUBS course B882 Creative Management. At the moment new versions of the Virtual Participant are being planned and developed, to support learning in an industrial setting.
John Domingue's participation in Clockwork
Clockwork
Clockwork
Creating Learning Organizations by means of Contextualized Knowledge-Rich Work Artefacts
This project aims to support knowledge sharing within distributed teams, knowledge reuse within an organization and collaboration and trade between engineering companies. The Clockwork approach will combine knowledge-rich dynamical simulation tools, formal documentation and informal design rationale to closely integrate working, learning, collaboration and negotiation, within and between organizations.
John Domingue's participation in University for Industry Observatory
University for Industry Observatory
University for Industry Observatory
Using KMi technologies for integrating web documents with formal representations of knowledge
The aim of this project is to provide an 'observatory' for the University of Industry (learning direct) which collects together related work on distance education. This work builds on a number of KMi projects including the Enrich and KMi planet projects.
John Domingue's participation in PatMan
PatMan
PatMan
1998-01-01
2000-01-31
PATient Workflow MANagement System
The PATMAN project aims at promoting an effective and efficient health-care delivery by providing integrated support for tackling medical and organizational issues during patient management. In the context of this project we are developing knowledge management technology to support the formalization and access to documents describing medical guidelines; thus providing a means of teaching healthcare professionals.
John Domingue's participation in WebOnto
WebOnto
WebOnto
Browse and edit knowledge models over the web
WebOnto is a tool providing web-based visualisation, browsing and editing support for developing and maintaining ontologies and knowledge models specified in OCML. An ontology can be seen as a model of the conceptual structure of some domain and WebOnto provides the means for graphically representing this.
John Domingue's participation in PlanetOnto
PlanetOnto
PlanetOnto
Web based news server, which facilitates lab-related items of interest in KMi to a wider community
The use of KMi Planet on a day-to-day basis has highlighted a number of knowledge management issues: how to provide semantic search and knowledge retrieval facilities in an effective and sustainable way; how best to provide individualised presentations and news alerts; how best to emulate the behaviour of a newsroom team. To address these challenges we have developed an integrated suite of tools, which is called PlanetOnto. These tools allow ontology-driven document formalization and augment standard browsing and search facilities with deductive knowledge retrieval. In addition, the PlanetOnto architecture includes specialized agents, which provide personalised news feeds and alerts and can proactively identify potentially interesting news items.
John Domingue's participation in Ibrow
Ibrow
Ibrow
2000-02-01
2003-01-31
An Intelligent Brokering Service forKnowledge-Component Reuse onthe World-Wide Web
The IBROW-3 project is developing an intelligent broker, which will make it possible to configure a knowledge-based system from software components distributed over the World-Wide-Web. This project builds on our previous work on reusable ontologies and problem solving methods.
John Domingue's participation in KMi Planet
KMi Planet
KMi Planet
Online Newspaper
KMi Planet is an online newspaper managed entirely by intelligent agent software. The software undertakes the mundane tasks of alerting readers, soliciting, gathering, and formatting stories, integrating these tasks in a compelling fashion with minimal overheads for the in-house reporters and maximal benefit for readers. KMi Planet has been used successfully for a number of years and now contains 100+ stories. A number of customised versions are now running in corporate and educational enviroments.
John Domingue's participation in ScholOnto
ScholOnto
ScholOnto
2001-02-01
2004-01-31
Build and deploy a prototype infrastructure for making scholarly claims
The Scholarly Ontologies project is investigating new ways for distributed research communities to track and interpret their literatures. The ClaiMaker system enables researchers to make and contest 'Claims' by semantically connecting concepts. The resulting network of claims and arguments then supports novel forms of literature search and browsing.
John Domingue's participation in Internet Software Visualization Lab (ISVL)
Internet Software Visualization Lab (ISVL)
Internet Software Visualization Lab (ISVL)
Synchronous and asynchronous communication medium
The Internet Software Visualization Lab (ISVL) allows demonstrations to be staged over the web, providing a rich synchronous and asynchronous communication medium through which student/tutor groups can share and clarify hitherto opaque programming scenarios, even over low bandwidth connections.
John Domingue's participation in Internet Reasoning Service (IRS)
Internet Reasoning Service (IRS)
Internet Reasoning Service (IRS)
KMi's Semantic Web Services framework
The Internet Reasoning Service - IRS - is a Semantic Web Services framework, which allows applications to semantically describe and execute web services. The IRS supports the provision of semantic reasoning services within the context of the Semantic Web.
John Domingue's participation in AKT
AKT
AKT
2000-10-01
2006-09-30
Advanced Knowledge Technologies
The AKT project aims to develop the next generation of knowledge technologies to support organizational knowledge management. AKT will look at all aspects of knowledge management from acquiring and maintaining knowledge to publishing and sharing it. We intend to address all these closely related issues in an integrated approach, making use of recent developments in artificial intelligence, psychology, linguistics, multimedia and Internet technology. The AKT consortium comprises five UK universities and is funded by a 7M GBP, 6-year EPSRC grant in the context of the Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations programme.
John Domingue's participation in OPAL
OPAL
OPAL
Online Personal Academic Librarian
This project is to help digital libraries provide some level of effective automated help desk support outside office hours. The project will put in place and evaluate the helpfulness of a model autonomous help desk support system, which will recognise frequently asked questions when they are asked
out of office hours, and will provide the enquirer with help immediately it is needed. The project is being run by the Open University Library and the Knowledge Media Institute, in partnership with Birkbeck College and Leicester University.
John Domingue's participation in climateprediction.net
climateprediction.net
climateprediction.net
State-of-the-art simulation of the climate system
The climateprediction.net [http://climateprediction.net] is a state-of-the-art simulation of the climate system which runs on PCs. Project participants will be able to download and run different parametrizations of a climate simulation program, thus providing data for studying climate change. The collaborators in this large-scale e-Science project are The Open University, the universities of Oxford and Reading, Rutherford Appleton Labs, and The MetOffice.
KMi's role in the project is to develop a robust semantic web portal for the estimated 2 million participants. A mixture of technologies will be used, including integrated discussion forums, a web-based news service, conferencing services and social areas using the latest instant messaging programs. This portal will also use state-of-the-art semantic web technology (developed in KMi) to provide fully customisable 'semantic filters' that can be placed over any web-based document (whether local or remote), and provide the user with the context of identified 'concepts-of-interests'.
John Domingue's participation in Magpie
Magpie
Magpie
The semantic filter
Magpie adds an ontology based semantic layer onto web pages on-the-fly as they are browsed. Magpie automatically highlights key
items of interest, and for each highlighted
term it provides a set of 'services' (e.g. contact details, current projects, related people) when you right-click on the item.
John Domingue's participation in DOT.KOM
DOT.KOM
DOT.KOM
2002-10-01
2005-03-31
Designing adaptive infOrmation exTraction from text for KnOwledge Management
DotKom aims to support knowledge management within large corporation through a combination of information extraction and knowledge management technologies. A current problem with both of these technologies is that they are hard-to-use and require extensive expertise. DotKom will provide user-friendly *adaptive* information extraction tools which give instantaneous feedback on the current status of the information extraction learning process and the automatically constructed knowledge acquisition mechanisms.
John Domingue's participation in DIP
DIP
DIP
2004-01-01
2006-12-31
Data, Information and Process Integration with Semantic Web Services
DIP is an Integrated Project under the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme.The mission of DIP is to further develop Semantic Web and Web Service technologies for Semantic Web Services. DIP will define and implement additional layers of functionality on top of the current Web Service technology stack. Additionally, DIP will apply Semantic Web Services infrastructure to real world scenarios within e-work, e-commerce and e-government.
http://dip.semanticweb.org
John Domingue's participation in MIAKT
MIAKT
MIAKT
2002-01-09
2005-03-15
Medical Images & Advanced Knowledge Technologies
MIAKT is a joint initiative between the AKT Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) and the Medical Imaging and Signals(MIAS)IRC. The aim of the project is to apply the capabilities of AKT and MIAS to collaborative medical problem solving using knowledge services provided via the e-Science Grid infrastructure.
John Domingue's participation in OntoWeaver
OntoWeaver
OntoWeaver
an ontology-based approach to web site design and development
OntoWeaver is an ontology-based approach, which provides high level support for web site design and development. It relies on the following major components to achieve its task: i) a site view ontology, which provides fine-grained modelling support for user interfaces and navigation structures of the target web site, ii) a presentation ontology, which provides high level support for the specification of layouts and presentation styles for user interface elements, and iii) a customization framework, which exploits the declarative specification of the target web site and provides comprehensive customization support at design time as well as run time.
John Domingue's participation in Living Human Digital Library
Living Human Digital Library
Living Human Digital Library
2006-02-01
2009-01-31
Technical infrastructure for the Living Human Project
LHDL is a STREP Project under the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme. It starts in February 2006 and runs for 3 years.
The major mission of LHDL is to further develop interactive digital library services to access collections of complex biomedical data on the musculoskeletal apparatus.
LHDL aims to create the technical infrastructure for the Living Human Project (LHP). LHP will create a silico model of the human musculo-skeletal apparatus wich can predict how mechanical forces are exchanged internally and externally, from the whole body down to the protein level. This model should be designed as an infrastructure that can be updated and extended whenever new data and algorithms become available. LHDL aims to develop this infrastructure.
John Domingue's participation in LUISA
LUISA
LUISA
2006-03-01
2008-08-31
Learning Content Management System Using Innovative Semantic Web Services Architecture
LUISA is a STREP Project under the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme. LUISA will apply the semantic web service framework, architecture and tools developed with the DIP project, including IRS-III, to eLearning. More specifically, LUISA will create a rich flexible infrastructure supporting the development and reuse of learning materials for both learners and educators. The enhanced architecture will open new possibilities in the automation of learning object discovery, selection, composition and negotiation, within a distributed service architectures seamlessly integrated through ontologies. The longterm goal for LUISA is to shift the paradigm in eLearning from one based on learning objects to one based on semantic web services.
John Domingue's participation in SUPER
SUPER
SUPER
2006-04-01
2009-03-31
Semantics Utilised for Process management within and between EnteRprises
Business Process Management focuses on managing the execution of IT-supported business operations from a business expert's process view rather than from a technical perspective. The underlying motivation for BPM is that organizations need to continuously align their running business processes, as executed within multiple heterogeneous systems, with the required processes as derived from business needs. BPM has gained significant attention in both research and industry, and a range of BPM tools are available. However, the degree of mechanization in BPM is currently very limited. The major obstacle preventing a coherent view on business processes is that the business processes are not accessible to machine reasoning. Additionally, businesses cannot query their process space by logical expressions, e.g. in order to identify activities relevant to comply with regulations.
Founded on ontologies Semantic Web technology provides scalable methods and tools for the machine-readable representation of knowledge. Semantic Web Services (SWS) make use of Semantic Web technology to support the automated discovery, substitution, composition, and execution of software components (Web Services). BPM is a natural application for Semantic Web and SWS technology, because the latter provide large-scale, standardized knowledge representation techniques for executable artefacts. The goal of the project is to combine Semantic Web services and Business Process Management, and develop one consolidated technology.
http://www.ip-super.org
John Domingue's participation in GenAI-OU
GenAI-OU
GenAI-OU
Generative AI at the Open University
Together with colleagues from IET, LDS and other OU schools and units, we are looking into the ways that Generative AI, such as ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, can enhance teaching and learning at the OU. Towards this goal, we are developing, testing and evaluating Generative AI prototypes for improving OU module production and for offering personalised learning services to our students.
John Domingue's participation in Storymaking Project
Storymaking Project
Storymaking Project
Design and evaluation of a story metadata scheme and annotation environment
Stories are our most primitive, and enduring, means of human communication. We are interested in stories as a medium for knowledge sharing amongst practitioners, and from a knowledge media perspective, we are investigating how they can be mediated in new ways via the Web.
John Domingue's participation in Hypermedia Discourse
Hypermedia Discourse
Hypermedia Discourse
Conceptual foundations and practical tools at the nexus of Deliberation, Argumentation and Software
Our focus is on what we are finding to be a powerful and intruiging intersection: the meeting of Hypermedia and Discourse theory and technology. Our interests are both conceptual, and intensely practical: the co-evolution of digital tools and associated work practices for sensemaking.
John Domingue's participation in PowerMagpie
PowerMagpie
PowerMagpie
2006-10-01
A semantically-enhanced web browser
PowerMagpie is a new generation semantically-enhanced web browser, which is able to dynamically identify and bring into a web browsing session any available semantic markup, which can be found on the Semantic Web.
In contrast with previous systems, such as Magpie, which can only use information from a specific, pre-selected ontology, PowerMagpie accesses the whole of the Semantic Web through the Watson gateway and intelligently selects and presents to the user relevant information, drawn from millions of existing semantic web documents.
As a result, PowerMagpie avoids the brittleness of earlier semantic browsers and defines a novel, very powerful approach to web browsing in the age of the Semantic Web.
John Domingue's participation in SOA4All
SOA4All
SOA4All
2008-03-01
2011-02-28
Creating a Web of Billions of Services
SOA4All is an Integrated Project under the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme. The SOA4All consortium - comprising 17 leading partner institutions from academia and industry - aims at improving the state of the art in Service-oriented Architectures to enable the service-oriented paradigm to be deployed on a web-scale. These ambitious goal will be achieved by integrating and enhancing existing Web 2.0, Semantic Web, and SOA technologies, leveraging current service oriented infrastructures to a Web of Billions of Services.
John Domingue's participation in Service Web 3.0
Service Web 3.0
Service Web 3.0
2008-01-01
2010-12-31
Coordinating the research, standardization, and dissemination activites creating the internet of billions of web services.
It is the mission of Service Web 3.0 to address these emerging developments and contribute to the implementation of framework programmes and their projects, and support the preparation of future community research and technological development.
The focus of Service Web 3.0 will be to:
<ul>
<li class="list"><span class="body">Create, maintain, and publish roadmaps as a means to plan and coordinate framework and community activities for a future service world</span></li>
<li class="list"><span class="body">Set-up of dedicated cross-project clusters focusing on Semantic Web Services within STI International</span></li>
<li class="list"><span class="body">Provide information material such as white papers, feasibility studies, promotional movies for raising the awareness for the technology in industry, introducing new business models and systematically facilitating Semantic Web Services and Semantic Web technology adoption, in particular for SMEs</span></li>
<li class="list"><span class="body">Support standardization activities for semantic service descriptions</span></li>
<li class="list"><span class="body">Exploit synergies through networking and cross-fertilization with other research and network projects related to this area</span></li>
<li class="list"><span class="body">Organize special focused conferences and seminars</span></li></ul>
John Domingue's participation in NoTube
NoTube
NoTube
2009-02-01
2012-01-31
Networks and Ontologies for the Transformation and Unification of Broadcasting and the intErnet
The ultimate goal of this project is to develop flexible/adaptive end-to-end architecture, based on semantic technologies, for personalised creation, distribution and consumption of TV content. The project will take a user-centric approach to investigate fundamental aspects of consumers' content-customisation needs, interaction requirements and entertainment wishes, which will shape the future of the "TV" in all its new forms. "New technology is transforming the TV industry", says Mark Thomson, BBC CEO for Observer. Watching TV more and more happens together with PC-related activities, e.g. chatting with friends, talking on the phone, searching on the Internet for related info about programs. Already in 2000, the trend was by "couch-and-mouse toys serving 27 million Americans who were able to watch TV and surf the Web at the same time - the "telewebbers". Nowadays, digital video-recording software provides the facility to "time-shift" live television programming through a PC (e.g. via TiVo and ReplayTV). Companies are attempting to bundle "an electronic program guide into its software, along with personal viewing agents that can recommend broadcasted programs based on your viewing habits" . For example, while watching "Dancing with the stars", you can vote for your favourite couple, read their biographies, find other programs this week where they appear, record your favourite dances and send them to friends; you can also join live chats during the program. However, "such interactive services stay TV-centric (in the device sense of the term TV) and use Internet and digital technology only to enhance the entertainment that you expect to see when you plop yourself down in front of the tube."
John Domingue's participation in mEducator
mEducator
mEducator
2009-05-01
2012-04-30
Multi-type Content Repurposing and Sharing in Medical Education
mEducator Best Practice Network (BPN) aims to implement and critically evaluate existing standards and reference models in the field of e-learning in order to enable specialized state-of-the-art medical educational content to be discovered, retrieved, shared and re-used across European higher academic institutions.
John Domingue's participation in SWEET
SWEET
SWEET
Semantic Web sErvice Editing Tool
SWEET: Semantic Web sErvice Editing Tool is the first tool developed for the semi-automatic acquisition of semantic RESTful service descriptions, aiming to support a higher level of automation of common RESTful service tasks, such as discovery and composition.
John Domingue's participation in SugarTube
SugarTube
SugarTube
Semantic Searching
Searching for information, data, and multimedia resources that are semantically related is a key feature of future Internet. Today's path to achieving that vision lies through the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud of RDF data. SugarTube (Semantics Used to Get Annotated video Recording) is a Web3.0 application to search for videos through RDF-based annotated video stored as part of the Open University Broadcast Unit's learning material. The fundamental technology used to develop the application is Semantic Web Services. Users can search based on keywords, textual analysis of related documents, URLs, or geographical maps. Moreover, SugarTube gathers more useful data from the LOD cloud to enrich the search results, such as related events, people, knowledge, websites, geo-location, maps, and additional video streams from YouTube, the BBC, and OpenLearn.
John Domingue's participation in SEALS
SEALS
SEALS
2009-06-01
2012-06-30
Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale
The goal of the SEALS project is to provide an independent, open, scalable, extensible and sustainable infrastructure (the SEALS Platform) that allows the remote evaluation of semantic technologies thereby providing an objective comparison of the different existing semantic technologies. This will allow researchers and users to effectively compare the available technologies, helping them to select appropriate technologies and advancing the state of the art through continuous evaluation.
The SEALS Platform will provide an integrated set of semantic technology evaluation services and test suites. They will be used in two public and worldwide evaluation campaigns. The results of these evaluation campaigns will be used to create semantic technology roadmaps identifying sets of efficient and compatible tools for developing large-scale semantic applications.
The semantic technology evaluation services will initially be available for five different types of technologies (ontology engineering tools, storage and reasoning systems, matching tools, semantic search tools, and semantic web service tools) and for different evaluation criteria (interoperability, scalability, etc.). The platform will provide easy and free access to the evaluation services and to the results of the evaluations performed.
John Domingue's participation in iServe
iServe
iServe
Where Linked Data Meets Services
iServe is a platform for publishing Semantic Web Services as linked data, no matter their original format. iServe addresses the publication of services from a novel perspective based upon lessons learnt from the evolution of the Web of Data. It transforms service annotations expressed in a variety of formats including SAWSDL, OWL-S and MicroWSMO into what we refer to as Linked Services – linked data describing services – that can directly be interpreted by state of the art Semantic Web technologies for their discovery and further processing.
John Domingue's participation in SOFI
SOFI
SOFI
2010-06-01
2012-05-31
Service Offering for the Future Internet
The goal of SOFI is to complement EU R&D projects in the area of Internet of Services, Software and Virtualisation (Objective 1.2) through specific support activities. SOFI aims to ensure the position of European research as a leader in the definition and realisation of the theoretical and technological foundations of the Future Internet of Services, as well as European industry's competitive advantage in the creation of value and new opportunities from its use. SOFI will build upon and complement the current efforts around the Future Internet Assembly, and particularly the service related working groups, most specifically the Future Internet Service Offer WG (FISO).
John Domingue's participation in Annomation
Annomation
Annomation
Semantically annotating motion video
Video is a big part of the Web: we download billions of videos from YouTube every month, stream Hollywood movies and TV programmes, and educate ourselves with iTunes U podcasts. But finding the right video now is a bit like finding the right Web page was back in the 1990s: we are limited to searching the smattering of keywords that occured to the video's creator. Annomation makes it easy for people to add semantic annotations using Web 3.0 techniques: videos, and segments in the video, can be described by links to concepts in DBpedia, the Library of Congress and Dewey classifications, geographical data sets, and other parts of the Semantic Web Linked Data Cloud.
John Domingue's participation in SmartLink
SmartLink
SmartLink
SeMantic Annotation enviRonmenT for Linked Services
Smart Link is short for "SeMantic Annotation enviRonmenT for Linked Services". Simply put, it is an easy-to-use Web application aiding users in the creation of Linked Services - semantic service annotations following Linked Data (http://linkeddata.org/) principles. Amongst other things, it provides an interface to populate and query the Linked Services repository iServe (http://iserve.kmi.open.ac.uk).
SmartLink builds on existing technologies and standards to enable wide reach of its annotations. Users can annotate arbitrary services - whether REST-ful or WSDL/SOAP-based - via a simple Web form. Annotations are stored in RDF following established service schemas, namely WSMO-Lite (http://cms-wg.sti2.org/TR/d11/) and the Minimal Service Model (MSM, http://iserve.kmi.open.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Simple_vocabulary) which follow a light-weight approach to Semantic Web Services. Storage of annotations is spread across two public RDF-stores: iServe (http://iserve.kmi.open.ac.uk) handles all functional properties defined in the MSM schema while an additional and SmartLink-specific SESAME repository hosts further non-functional service properties. A unified interface to store and query annotations across both repositories is provided by SmartLink.
John Domingue's participation in Blockchain
Blockchain
Blockchain
The reach of blockchain technology will expand into the education sector.
Blockchain is most commonly known as the technology underpinning the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. But in recent years the open source code of the Bitcoin blockchain has been taken and extended by many groups to expand its capabilities. KMi will look at how blockchain technology can enhance the leaner experience, storing all learning outcomes in an expanding eportfolio for all students.
John Domingue's participation in VPH-Share
VPH-Share
VPH-Share
2011-03-01
2015-02-28
Virtual Physiological Human: Sharing for Healthcare
VPH-Share will provide the organisational fabric (the infostructure) realised as a series of services, offered in an integrated framework, to expose and to manage data, information and tools, to enable the composition and operation of new VPH workflows and to facilitate collaborations between the members of the VPH community.
John Domingue's participation in PlanetData
PlanetData
PlanetData
2011-10-01
2012-09-30
Large-Scale Data Management
The PlanetData Network of Excellence aims to establish an interdisciplinary, sustainable European community of researchers, helping organizations to expose their data on the Web in a useful way, by conducting interdisciplinary research on
� the Web‐friendly representation, robust integration, and scalable transmission, processing, and management of stream‐like data, such as sensors, news stories, and microblog entries;
� the assessment and improvement of the quality of large open data sets of various modalities, and the augmentation of these data sets with self‐descriptive metadata giving an account of quality and contextual aspects; and
� the accountable usage of Web‐based data sets taking into consideration provenance, privacy, trust, and access rights.
KMI has a sub-project in PlanetData, called ParkMe: Linked Open Parking Data, which works on a mobile and Web application that combines geographic data and parking space information with user location, social networks and other data sources in order to let its users conveniently find parking and related value-add services when coming to work or driving into town.
John Domingue's participation in Linked USDL
Linked USDL
Linked USDL
Linked Unified Service Description Language
Linked USDL aims to better promote and support the use of the Unified Service Description Language (USDL) on the Web. USDL is a platform-neutral language for describing services consolidated from SAP Research projects. The kinds of services targeted for coverage by USDL include human services (e.g., consultancy), business services (e.g. purchase order requisition), software services (e.g., WSDL and RESTful services), infrastructure services (e.g., CPU and storage services), etc.
John Domingue's participation in OmniVoke
OmniVoke
OmniVoke
A Framework for Automating the Invocation of Web APIs
OmniVoke is a framework that aims to automating the invocation of generic Web APIs. It provides a unique entry point for the invocation of most Web APIs that can be found on the Web. The framework abstracts away the heterogeneities of different APIs and consequently eliminates the need for developing a custom tailored client per Web API. OmniVoke relies on non-intrusive semantic annotations of HTML pages describing Web APIs, in order to capture both their semantics as well as the information necessary to carry out their invocation. The framework developed is based on RESTful principles to simplify its use and to adequately exploit the Web infrastructure for scalability.
John Domingue's participation in PT Anywhere
PT Anywhere
PT Anywhere
PT Anywhere offers a network simulation environment via a web interface.
PT Anywhere offers a network simulation environment via a web interface that can be accessed from any web browser or as a widget inside an interactive eBook. PT Anywhere is based on the Packet Tracer network simulator for Windows and Linux developed by the Cisco Networking Academy.
Rather than replicate Packet Tracer's functionality in a web application, PT Anywhere is offering its basic functionality from a minimalistic interface that can be adapted to different learning contexts and purposes. PT Anywhere is available as a widget that can be embedded inside an online course, a Learning Management System (like Moodle or Sakai), or an interactive eBook (like Apple's iBooks).
PT Anywhere has been jointly developed by the Open University and Cisco in the context of the projects FORGE and Open Networking Lab.
John Domingue's participation in EUCLID
EUCLID
EUCLID
2012-05-01
2014-04-30
EdUcational Curriculum for the usage of LInked Data
As the popularity of Linked Data increases, so does the demand for data practitioners possessing the skills and knowledge necessary to understand its main concepts, and apply the associated technologies for data-analytics purposes. The availability of such expertise is a driver for the sustainable future development of the Linked Data community. It can be achieved through targeted knowledge transfer, in particular through easily accessible training programs addressing the real needs of data practitioners, as proposed in the EUCLID project.
EUCLID will facilitate professional training for data practitioners aiming to use Linked Data in their daily work, through a curriculum implemented as a combination of living learning materials and activities (eBook series, webinars, face-to-face training), validated by the user community through continuous feedback.
John Domingue's participation in FORGE
FORGE
FORGE
2013-10-01
2016-09-30
Forging Online Education through FIRE
Forging Online Education through FIRE (FORGE) is a project bringing the FIRE and eLearning worlds together. FORGE will align FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) with the ongoing education revolution. This project will specify development methodologies and best practices for offering FIRE experimentation facilities to learners and to the learning community in general. FORGE relates to communications and IT, as well as to other disciplines including the physical and social sciences. It will lead to a strong connection between the learning community and existing FIRE platforms and supporting tools.
The eLearning community will benefit from the use of very high performance facilities, provided as reusable learning solutions. Educators, content providers and students will acquire access to world-class facilities and use them to create and execute scientific experiments. The FIRE eLearning tools and services developed by FORGE, as well as the associated learning materials will be made available as OERs, so that they can be reused and repurposed by the eLearning community for a variety of learning contexts. Finally, FIRE will benefit through the addition of an ever-growing set of FIRE-specific learning materials for an increasing number of FIRE-based students, leading to increased awareness and use. The openness and reusability of FIRE will be promoted to the eLearning community, thus leading to the development of new FIRE facilities and the extension of existing ones in order to address specific learning requirements.
John Domingue's participation in CARRE
CARRE
CARRE
2013-11-01
2016-10-31
Personalised patient empowerment for cardiorenal comorbidities
The CARRE project investigates information and communication technologies for empowering patients with comorbidities (multiple co-occurring medical conditions), or persons with increased risk of such conditions, especially in the case of chronic cardiac and renal disease patients.
KMi will provide the semantic "glue" linking biometric sensor data, medical ontologies and Linked Data together for patient-focused decision support and medical education.
The CARRE project has received a 3-year EC funding from the European Community 7th Framework Programme FP7-ICT-2013 work programme under grant agreement no. 611140.
John Domingue's participation in ACQUA
ACQUA
ACQUA
2014-07-01
Automatic Community-based Question Answering
ACQUA is looking at the discretised version of linguistic features of each candidate answer and predicts which answer is going to be marked as "accepted". Past knowledge such as user reputation or future knowledge, such as score of the answers is not taken into account. Hence, ACQUA can predict which answer is going to get accepted in real-time settings with minimum resources.
ACQUA makes use of the StackExchange API, fetches all answers and analyses them. Our web service is then highlighting one answer indicating it as the "accepted".
This work has been funded by the CARRE project.
John Domingue's participation in EDSA
EDSA
EDSA
2015-02-02
2018-01-31
European Data Science Academy
Data explosion on the web, fuelled by social networking, micro-blogging, as well as crowdsourcing, has led to the Big Data phenomenon. This is characterized by increasing volumes of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data, originating from sources that generate them at an increasing rate. This wealth of data provides numerous new analytic and business intelligence opportunities to various industry sectors. Therefore, more and more industry sectors are in need of innovative data management services, creating a demand for Data Scientists possessing skills and detailed knowledge in this area. Ensuring the availability of such expertise will prove crucial if businesses are to reap the full benefits of these advanced data management technologies, and the know-how accumulated over the past years by researchers, technology enthusiasts and early adopters.
The European Data Science Academy (EDSA) will establish a virtuous learning production cycle whereby we: a) analyse the required sector specific skillsets for data analysts across the main industrial sectors in Europe; b) develop modular and adaptable data science curricula to meet these needs; and c) deliver training supported by multiplatform and multilingual learning resources based on our curricula. The curricula and learning resources will be continuously evaluated by pedagogical and data science experts during both development and deployment.
John Domingue's participation in GreenDATA
GreenDATA
GreenDATA
2015-12-01
Capturing and sharing renewable energy generation data.
A new project to capture, store and share power generation and use data from domestic renewable energy installations, including solar, wind and solar/geo thermal sources. We will employ low-cost off-the-shelf systems, such as the emon Pi, to send data to a central data store and allow students and courses to query that data in a wide variety of ways.
John Domingue's participation in SlideWiki
SlideWiki
SlideWiki
2016-01-01
2018-12-31
Large-scale pilots for collaborative OpenCourseWare authoring, multiplatform delivery and Learning Analytics
A major obstacle to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and quality of education in Europe is the lack of widely available, accessible, multilingual, timely, engaging and high-quality educational material (i.e. OpenCourseWare). The creation of comprehensive OpenCourseWare (OCW) is tedious, time-consuming and expensive with the effect that often courseware employed by teachers, instructors and professors is incomplete, outdated, inaccessible to those with disabilities and dull.
With the open-source SlideWiki platform (available at SlideWiki.org) the effort of the creation, translation and evolution of highly-structured remixable OCW can be widely shared (i.e. crowdsourced).
Similarly to Wikipedia for encyclopaedic content, SlideWiki allows to collaboratively create comprehensive OCW (curricula, slide presentations, self-assessment tests, illustrations etc.) online in a crowdsourcing manner:
1. to semi-automatically translate this content into more than 50 different languages and
2. to improve the translations in a collaborative manner and
3. to support engagement and social networking of educators and learners around that content.
Several hundred comprehensive course materials are available in SlideWiki in dozens of languages. In this large-scale trial project, we will further mature the SlideWiki technology platform, integrate it with a state-of-the-art MOOC delivery platform and perform four large-scale trials in:
1. secondary education,
2. vocational and professional training,
3. higher education and
4. community-driven open-education.
Each of these large-scale trials will be performed with hundreds of educators and thousands of learners in countries all over Europe. A particular focus of the technology development and testing in the trials will be the suitability for academics, teachers and learners with disabilities.
John Domingue's participation in Open Blockchain
Open Blockchain
Open Blockchain
Investigating The Potential Of Blockchains
A blockchain is a publicly shared immutable ledger � an append only log of transactions which uses crypto-currency techniques to minimise any security risk. Transactions are contained in blocks which are linked together through a series of hash pointers. Any tampering of a block can be detected since the hash pointer to it would no longer be valid. As a ledger system it is very open. In addition to the source code being openly available a key feature of blockchains is that in principle every user has their own copy of the entire blockchain. In fact, there is no central or master copy simply the multiple copies held by the volunteers in the user community. Volunteers are rewarded for their effort through a number of algorithmic processes which can result in payment. Small payments can be attached to individual transactions. Consensus on what types of blocks and transactions can be part of the blockchain is automatically reached according to whether the majority of blockchain holders accept newly proposed blocks. This attribute leads to a system where consensus is hardwired into the software. Without the need for any central control or mediator blockchains allow for leaderless democracy - a new way of governing human behaviour online through "one computer one vote". In this way, a blockchain can act as a provenance protocol for sharing data across disparate semi-trusting organizations.
John Domingue's participation in HUB4NGI
HUB4NGI
HUB4NGI
2017-01-01
2018-12-31
Unlocking the value of the Next Generation Internet
HUB4NGI is the first Coordination and Support Action dedicated to transforming the Next Generation Internet initiative into an increasingly dynamic, collaborative, vibrant and participatory Research and Innovation Ecosystem.
HUB4NGI aims to offer a collaborative platform capable of effectively supporting and coordinating activities across the whole NGI context by combining knowledge, tools and processes to reach and engage top-notch Internet researchers and innovators.
The selected and carefully designed activities HUB4NGI will pursue have been organised around 5 main work packages: the NGI APPROACH, the NGI GUIDE, the NGI CATALYST, the NGI BOOST and the NGI FIGHTER. By close interaction of these activities, HUB4NGI is covering strategy and operation by:
Defining a methodology for collecting and assessing the information in the NGI domain.
Grounding the NGI vision, strategy and plans.
Accelerating the NGI programme implementation.
Running community building and outreach activities.
HUB4NGI will ultimately help the whole NGI community to grow and liaise with relevant European, international, national and regional initiatives.
John Domingue's participation in Institute of Coding
Institute of Coding
Institute of Coding
2018-01-25
2022-01-31
Unlock your talent
The Institute of Coding is a collaboration between the UK Government, more than 60 universities, big players in the tech industry, SMEs, industry groups, experts in non-traditional learning and professional bodies. Led by the University of Bath, the world-leading consortium aims to strengthen the UK's position globally in computing and IT, address the UK digital skills gap and create opportunities for more computer science graduates. Funding is comprised of £20 million from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and a further £20 million in matched funding from industry.
Its work will cover five broad areas: University Learners (led by the OU), the Digital Workforce, Digitalising the Professions, Widening Participation, and Knowledge Sharing and Sustainability.
For university students, the Institute will deliver a range of industry-accredited courses that include top quality computer science teaching alongside the business skills, interpersonal skills and real-world experience required for success in the digital economy. Learners in industry will benefit from courses designed to ensure that their skills are up-to-date. The Institute will also work with outreach and community groups, schools and FE colleges to encourage a larger number of currently under-represented groups into digital education.
John Domingue's participation in Up2U
Up2U
Up2U
2017-01-01
2019-12-31
Bridging the gap between schools and universities through informal education
The key objective of the project is to bridge the gap between secondary schools and higher education & research by better integrating formal and informal learning scenarios and adapting both the technology and the methodology that students will most likely be facing in universities.
We are focusing on the context of secondary schools, often referred to as high schools, which provide secondary education between the ages of 11 and 19 depending on the country, after primary school and before higher education.
This initiative aims to respond to the requirements of a clear mandate from the European Commission allied with the provision of new cloud-based tools and services to enhance primary and secondary education in Europe.
Up2U is a 36 month collaborative project with 5M Euro funding that kicked off in January this year. This project is coordinated by GÉANT and gathers 18 partners from 12 countries across Europe including NRENs, traditional and open universities, infrastructure providers and two commercial partners.
John Domingue's participation in IMPAQT
IMPAQT
IMPAQT
2018-05-01
2021-05-01
Intelligent management system for integrated multi-trophic aquaculture
Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) is acknowledged as a promising solution for the sustainable development of aquaculture. However, IMTA has been only tested at very small scale in Europe, while management of large-scale IMTA areas remains difficult.
The high level ambition of Impaqt project is to drive a paradigm shift in EU Industry, paving the way to both a more environmentally friendly and more efficient/higher yielding European Industry. To that respect, Impaqt proposes an intelligent management platform for IMTA. Impaqt will develop and deploy novel sensors and data sources, together with smart systems required for long term autonomous monitoring in the field. An advanced IMTA model will be provided which yields spatially explicit information on how the different farm components interact with the environment on the scale of an ecosystem and that can be used for planning decisions by both farmers and regulators. Last but not least, an integrated management system, operating at the scale of an IMTA farm and comprising analytics and decision support functionalities, will be developed to enable enhanced operational decisions for animal welfare, production optimization, environmental protection and food quality assessment.
Impaqt systems and models will be validated in 6 pilots (Scotland, The Netherlands, Ireland, Turkey and China), addressing inland, coastal and offshore aquaculture. Impaqt will demonstrate the eco-intensification of EU aquaculture, by demonstrating the eco-efficiency and the environmental impacts minimized, the socioeconomic benefits and ecosystem services enabled, as well as the transition towards a circular economy business model. Impaqt brings together a considerable range of partners including 14 academic/research organizations, 4 SMEs and 3 large industries, all leaders in their respective fields/business, while aims to effectively transfer the project’s results to relevant stakeholders through training activities. Impaqt is a Horizon 2020 project
John Domingue's participation in QualiChain
QualiChain
QualiChain
2019-01-01
2021-12-31
Decentralised Qualifications' Verification and Management for Learner Empowerment, Education Reengineering and Public Sector Transformation
QualiChain targets the creation, piloting and evaluation of a decentralised platform for storing, sharing and verifying education and employment qualifications and focuses on the assessment of the potential of blockchain technology, algorithmic techniques and computational intelligence for disrupting the domain of public education, as well as its interfaces with private education, the labour market, public sector administrative procedures and the wider socio-economic developments.
The project focuses more specifically on the assessment of the implications (technical, political, socio-economic, legal and cultural) as well as the impact - in terms of benefits and risks - of the prescribed solution's utilisation, whose disruptive potential lies both in the exploitation of the innovative features of the aforementioned individual technologies, as well as in their unique combination in a new territory for the provision of a set of baseline services (Awards / Qualifications Archiving; Awards / Qualifications Verification; Qualifications Portfolio Management) and a number of value-adding services (Career Counselling and Intelligent Profiling and Competency Management including Recruitment; Competencies Evaluation and Development; Consulting and Decision Support).
The proposed solution will be piloted through four representative scenarios: (i) lifelong learning; (ii) smart curriculum design; (iii) staffing the public sector; (iv) providing HR consultancy and competency management services.
John Domingue's participation in Peer Miles
Peer Miles
Peer Miles
2017-10-01
2020-09-30
Recognition and rewards for peer reviewers
Researchers spend considerable time in reviewing articles for workshops, conferences and journals. Such efforts of researchers need to be acknowledged, accumulated and incentivised. We are focusing on accumulating the reviewing efforts of researchers across multiple research events (e.g., workshops and conferences), and bringing decentralisation to the process of finding reviewers for research events. We would also focus on developing an ecosystem of research events where reviewers can be incentivised with spendable incentives. For more information, please visit https://peermiles-project.kmi.open.ac.uk/
John Domingue's participation in DEL4ALL
DEL4ALL
DEL4ALL
2020-01-01
2021-12-31
Digital Enhanced Learning for All
The main goal of DEL4ALL is to transform the current European research and innovation initiatives in the area of digital enhanced learning into an increasingly cohesive, dynamic, participatory and sustainable ecosystem, capable of effectively stimulating collaboration among all key players in an inclusive an impactful way. While consolidating outcomes of ongoing projects by analysing best-practice and success stories at the benefit of the whole community, dedicated dissemination and stakeholders' engagement activities will ensure to inject into the broader Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative. DEL4ALL will guide the community and its efforts in a forward-looking perspective, analysing challenges and opportunities offered by the increasing adoption of digital technologies, such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, etc., for more inclusive and personalised learning solutions. This will be done by engaging experts in a multidisciplinary perspective to understand legal, organisational and technological defies to overcome, especially to scale up such solutions. This shall be the basis for providing guidelines on future research directions, as well as policy recommendations to transition from Horizon 2020 to Horizon Europe.
John Domingue's participation in COVID-19 Research
COVID-19 Research
COVID-19 Research
2020-03-20
A view of our labs response to the pandemic
Within KMi we have been shocked and saddened by the devastating impact the global pandemic is having and like many wish to do what we can to help. To this end we have mobilised our knowledge and media research and innovation expertise, to support the Open University's collective response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Our academics are, for example, tracking the extent of false information about the virus so that it can be brought to the attention of policymakers and have developed the world's first privacy-preserving verifiable digital COVID-19 vaccination/antibody test certificate.<br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rcGVY-XcHWo" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
John Domingue's participation in 3D Audio
3D Audio
3D Audio
3-Dimensional Audio Virtual Environments
The current state of the art in digital audio and desktop computing means that the real-time generation of rich audio virtual environments (AVEs) is now possible. Work is ongoing towards the application of such AVEs within education, with a key target group being blind students.
The overall objectives for the research are:
- To provide the foundation scientific and technical research needed to enable the development of a system, for an educational context, that facilitates the computer generation of 3-dimensional AVEs.
- To demonstrate and evaluate the application of 3D AVEs in giving access for people with a visual impairment to current and emerging approaches in educational multi-media and computer based learning.
<strong>Audio Virtual Environments</strong>
Much promise has been held up, and some demonstrated, for the application of virtual worlds in education. The ability to learn through exploring worlds that would be otherwise inaccessible because of their size, location, time-scale or dangerous nature is attractive and offers potential benefit at all levels of education. This has applications in a wide range of subject areas; a few examples could include:
- exploration of atomic structures, the solar system, or observation of magnetic field patterns
- hypermedia stories and social or language learning scenarios
- exploration within the human body, intracellular processes, bio-tech procedures
- staged development of practical skills
Now if this approach and its associated benefits is to be extended to visually impaired sighted students then the creation of rich audio virtual worlds that faithfully convey what is conventionally offered in the visual medium is needed. There is still much basic research towards the practical implementation of such audio worlds. This is particularly the case as the target is that these implementations will be readily achieved in the classroom or student's home with minimal specialised and only relatively low cost computing and audio facilities. This is the context of an ongoing collaborative work between the Multi-media and Enabling Technology Group at the Open University and the Sensory Disabilities Research Unit at the University of Hertfordshire.
<strong>Advances in Human Computer Interaction</strong>
The creation of rich audio virtual environments also presents the opportunity of realising audio user interfaces with comparable complexity and utility to standard GUIs. Thus the approach holds the potential of enhanced access to the ubiquitous GUI based software for sight impaired computer users. Thus the work has implications far beyond educational applications of virtual environments.
The researchers maintain that is not appropriate to just translate the metaphors common in GUIs (i.e. the desk top/office metaphor spatially arranged according to the limits of the VDU) to an audio representation of the same. Vision is a spatially dominant sense, where as hearing is predominantly temporal and the spatial acuity of the 2 modalities is very different. Recognising these issues empirical work is to be undertaken to evaluate alternative metaphors with the aim of improving the human computer interaction especially for visually impaired people.
John Domingue's participation in AI4EDI
AI4EDI
AI4EDI
AI technologies to tackle EDI related issues
AI is here. We interact with AI technology every time we search online, interact on a social media platform or use a credit card. We know that AI can be a force for good, for example, OU Analyse uses machine learning to help identify students at risk of failing. Given the ubiquity of this technology, it is important though that we understand its potential impact, good and bad, for all users. Within AI4EDI we will highlight EDI issues related to AI research and innovation. In particular, how AI can help address EDI issues, such as the awarding gap for black students, and EDI challenges that can be present in AI systems, such as data and decision-making bias.
John Domingue's participation in OpenSTEM Africa Blockchain
OpenSTEM Africa Blockchain
OpenSTEM Africa Blockchain
2021-09-01
2022-07-31
Leveraging Blockchain for OpenSTEM Africa
This project, led by WELS and funded by HEIF, is developing a business case and implementation model which leverages blockchain capacity to create a smart and sustainable future for OpenSTEM Africa, BlueScreenIT's education offerings and explores the wider potential for this model across the Open University. The key project objectives are to work collaboratively with BluescreenIT to:
- keep track of existing patterns of OpenSTEM resource use to understand actual and potential demand better
- monetise where appropriate additional delivery to ensure both sustainability and expanded project reach
- validate the integrity of high value Open Educational Resources (OER) such as onscreen science applications
- use blockchain to feasibly manage existing and expanded delivery in diverse and complex educational contexts by reducing the administrative cost and overheads through the use of smart contracts and other measures
- use blockchain (particularly through the use of smart contracts) to monitor and manage expansions of both existing content and platform usage to allow a wider range of users to access and benefit from this content in new creative ways. In particular, use blockchain to facilitate opportunities to licence and appropriately charge for educational resources to be used on various platforms
- integrate this business case and implementation model with relationships in developing countries and organisations and foundations involved in international development
- use this expansion of provision to facilitate wider additional sales such as activities and CPD training
- use this business case and implementation model as a template for other projects in BluescreenIT, WELS, STEM and across the Open University as a whole
- be consistent with the ethics around the use of OER whilst recognising the context of OER provision - particularly around the amount of available grant funding - has changed
- scope the possibility of an OpenSTEM Africa app which can be used in various ways with blockchain
John Domingue's participation in SAGE-RAI
SAGE-RAI
SAGE-RAI
2023-12-01
2025-05-31
Smart Assessment and Guided Education with Responsible AI
Can responsible Generative AI (GenAI) lead to improved student outcomes? In SAGE-RAI, we utilise partner-applied education-oriented GenAI tools to explore this. Inspired by Bloom's 1984 study on 1-to-1 teaching's efficacy and the potential for cost-effective, scalable personalised education, we aim to unlock this potential. Addressing tutor limitations in accommodating large cohorts, we investigate how responsible GenAI can enhance tutoring, offer tailored more personalised learning experiences and generate student feedback. Our goal is to create a platform supporting assessment and student guidance while responsibly applying GenAI, addressing challenges of misinformation, copyright, and bias. The journey embodies educational innovation for better outcomes.
John Domingue's participation in Alice Project
Alice Project
Alice Project
Personal Web Shopping Experience
Currently shopping on the internet is often not a pleasant experience. Finding the right product can take considerable time, browsing related products is often not possible and websites can feels anonymous. Imagine if the experience was more like visiting your local corner shop. Within a friendly local shop the customer is attended by an agent which understands his or her needs, the relationships between the store's product lines and the specifics of the local community. We aim to construct a personal web shopping assistant that uses a variety of knowledge sources to create a personalised shopping experience. This project is being carried out in conjunction with the Icelandic internet company INNN (www.innn.com) who will licence the resultant technologies eventually selling a software product and service.