Alumni Member
Stuart Watt (Alumni) 
The Robert Gordon University, Scotland
My intelligent agent Luigi acts as a personal assistant to arrange meetings via e-mail and the web. I am currently exploring a number of other personal agent applications.
Now at School of Computing, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland
News
Publications
Lupi, L., Brooker, S., Fedriga, R., Picca, D. and Antonini, A. (2026). From Gardens to Landscapes: a new Foundation for Hypertext in the Age of Agentic LLMs. In: HT '26: 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext, 14-18 Sep 2026, London, UK. https://oro.open.ac.uk/111888/.
Adamou, A., Antonini, A., Benatti, F., Blackburn-Daniels, S., Brooker, S., Domingue, J., Matravers, D., Teo Pedretti, C. and Picca, D. (2026). Hypertextuality of Littorals: a Gap Analysis. In: HT '26: 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext, 14-18 Sep 2026, London, UK. https://oro.open.ac.uk/111890/.
Brooker, S., Benatti, F., Pisarski, M. and Adamou, A.E. (2026). HT '26: Proceedings of the 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. https://oro.open.ac.uk/111940/.
Graciotti, A., Piano, L., Lazzari, N., Daga, E., Tripodi, R., Presutti, V. and Pompianu, L. (2025). KE-MHISTO: Towards a Multilingual Historical Knowledge Extraction Benchmark for Addressing the Long-Tail Problem. In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, 27 Jul - 1 Aug 2025, Vienna, Austria. https://oro.open.ac.uk/111852/.
Ramzan, F., Salatino, A., Osborne, F., Reforgiato Recupero, D. and Motta, E. (2026). CSO Classifier 4. 0: Software for efficient ontology-based topic annotation in computer science. SoftwareX, 35 https://oro.open.ac.uk/111829/.
Fadda, M., Motta, E., Osborne, F., Reforgiato Recupero, D. and Salatino, A. (2026). Generating knowledge graphs from news articles via multi-agent claim extraction and attribution. Knowledge-Based Systems, 352 https://oro.open.ac.uk/111827/.
Rienties, B., Bektic, D., Coughlan, E., Coughlan, T., Domingue, J., Edwards, C., Ekuban, A., Herodotou, C., Kwarteng, J., Sanders, C., Tessarolo, F. and Ullmann, T. (2027). A five-study Design-Based Research Approach to co-design an Institutional AI Digital Assistant. Computers & Education, 256 https://oro.open.ac.uk/111778/.
Fernandez, M., Pavón Pérez, Á., Giallongo, D., Ghia, D., Yaqub, M., Quercia, D. and Cerquitelli, T. (2026). When AI Enters the Workplace, Who Faces Greater Risks? A Gendered Analysis. In: Ninth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES'26), 12-14 Oct 2026, Malmö, Sweden. https://oro.open.ac.uk/111750/.
Fadda, M., Motta, E., Osborne, F., Recupero, D.R. and Salatino, A. (2026). From Text to Triples: A Neuro-Symbolic Pipeline for Structured Claim Extraction. In: ESWC’26: 5th Workshop on LLM-Integrated Knowledge Graph Generation from Text (TEXT2KG),, 10-14 May 2026, Dubrovnik, Croatia. https://oro.open.ac.uk/111732/.
Picca, D., Antonini, A., Mulholland, P. and Pisarski, M. (2026). Introduction to the Special Issue on Hypermedia Systems. ACM Transactions on the Web, 20(3), https://oro.open.ac.uk/111649/.
Mikroyannidis, A. (2026). Decentralised Online Learning. In: Fullwood, Chris; Branley-Bell, Dawn; Orchard, Lisa J.; Limniou, Maria and Stefanova, Vasilena eds. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cyberpsychology. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 1–5. https://oro.open.ac.uk/111577/.
Anastasiou, L., Elguendouze, S., Efstathiou, I., Mariani, I., Cabrio, E., Villata, S., Karacapilidis, N., Concilio, G., Rizzo, F., Greco, S., Jermini, C., Coppola, C., Apostolopoulou, A., Domalis, G., Tsakalidis, D. and De Liddo, A. (2026). ORBIS: An AI-Enabled Architecture for Scaling Online Deliberation. In: Aikins, Stephen Kwamena and Dimitrijevska-Markoski, Tamara eds. Artificial Intelligence and Government. Cham: Springer Nature, pp. 89–118. https://oro.open.ac.uk/111452/.
Mariani, I., Anastasiou, L., Elguendouze, S., Rizzo, F., Concilio, G., Cabrio, E., Villata, S., Efstathiou, I., Domalis, G. and De Liddo, A. (2026). Enhancing Democratic Deliberations with AI: Insights from the ORBIS Co-creation Journey. In: Aikins, Stephen Kwamena and Dimitrijevska-Markoski, Tamara eds. Artificial Intelligence and Government. Cham: Springer Nature, pp. 221–251. https://oro.open.ac.uk/111451/.
Fadda, M., Motta, E., Osborne, F., Reforgiato Recupero, D. and Salatino, A. (2026). Integrating Large Language Models and knowledge graphs to capture political viewpoints in news media. EPJ Data Science, 15(1), https://oro.open.ac.uk/111485/.
Daga, E., Tamma, V. and Payne, T.R. (2026). Knowledge Graph Re-engineering Along the Ontological Continuum. In: EKAW 2026: The 25th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, 29 Sep - 01 Oct 2026, Turin, Italy. https://oro.open.ac.uk/111017/.
Anastasiou, L. and De Liddo, A. (2026). The Synthetic Persona Fallacy in HCI-Q Methodology. In: Alimardani, Maryam; Lenaerts, Tom; Meyer-Vitali, André; Nowé, Ann; Vennekens, Joost and Wang, Shenghui eds. HHAI 2026 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 423. London, UK: IOS Press, pp. 22–35. https://oro.open.ac.uk/110888/.
Bolanos Burgos, F., Salatino, A.A., Osborne, F. and Motta, E. (2026). Modelling and classifying the components of literature reviews: a novel annotation schema and evaluation of transformer models. PeerJ Computer Science, 12 https://oro.open.ac.uk/110897/.
Aggarwal, T., Salatino, A., Osborne, F. and Motta, E. (2026). Leveraging Large Language Models for Generating Research Topic Ontologies: A Multi-Disciplinary Study. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 17(5), https://oro.open.ac.uk/110795/.
Bowers, L.J., Sharma, N., Hancock, J., Lakeman Fraser, P., Newman, J., Cheng, K., Manches, A., Colucci-Gray, L. and Siddharthan, A. (2026). Sensing Nature: A School-ground Haptic Map and Tactile Garden for Texture Exploration. In: Proceedings of the 25th Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC ’26), 22-25 Jun 2026, Brighton, UK. https://oro.open.ac.uk/110764/.
Manches, A., Hancock, J., Colucci-Gray, L. and Siddharthan, A. (2026). The role of touch in children's engagement with nature: implications for design. In: Proceedings of the 25th Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC ’26), 22-25 Jun 2026, Brighton, UK. https://oro.open.ac.uk/110763/.
Tech Reports
Using genre to support active participation in learning communities
Techreport ID: kmi-00-13
Date: 2000
Author(s): Trevor Collins, Paul Mulholland and Stuart Watt
Oracles, Bards, and Village Gossips, or, Social Roles and Meta Knowledge Management
Techreport ID: kmi-99-09
Date: 1999
Author(s): Simon Masterton and Stuart Watt
Seeing things as people: anthropomorphism and common-sense psychology
Techreport ID: kmi-98-02
Date: 1998
Author(s): Stuart Watt
