Alumni Member
Tamara Sumner (Alumni) 
University of Colorado at Boulder
Tamara Sumner is an Assistant Professor with the Center for LifeLong Learning and Design (L3D) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research interests include human-computer interaction, design support systems, and educational technology. Lately, she has been applying these interests towards the design of innovative scholarly technologies such as e-journals and digital libraries.
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Ekuban, A., Dimes, R. and Motta, E. (2026). SABRINA: The Stakeholder Advocate. In: 25th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2026), 29 Sep - 01 Oct 2026, Turin, Italy. https://oro.open.ac.uk/112369/.
Terziyan, V., Vitko, O., Terziyan, O. and Antonini, A. (2026). Architectural Taxonomy of LLM and Knowledge Graph Hybrids for Trustworthy AI. Zenodo (Preprint). https://oro.open.ac.uk/112107/.
Terziyan, V., Antonini, A., Vitko, O. and Terziyan, O. (2026). Quantum Hybridization: Toward Intelligent Hybrids That Are Smarter and Safer Than Their Constituents. Zenodo (Preprint). https://oro.open.ac.uk/112106/.
Kaikova, O., Terziyan, V., Antonini, A. and Onder Ozdemir, N. (2026). Educating for Trustworthy Hybrid AI: Curriculum-Level Hybridization in an MSc AI Program. Zenodo (Preprint). https://oro.open.ac.uk/112105/.
Benatti, F., Campbell, S. and Antonini, A. (2026). Connected Collaborations: Remediating Immersive Reading for Mental Wellbeing through AI. In: 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext (HT '26), 14-18 Sep 2026, London, UK. https://oro.open.ac.uk/111936/.
Alani, H. and Burel, G. (2026). Resistance in the Wild: Reactions to Automated Corrections of False Claims on Platform X. In: 18th International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 24-27 Aug 2026, Rabat, Morocco. https://oro.open.ac.uk/112063/.
Aggarwal, T., Salatino, A., Osborne, F. and Motta, E. (2026). Benchmarking Resource-Efficient LLMs for Research Topic Ontology Generation in the Biomedical Field. In: Workshop on LLM-driven Knowledge Graph and Ontology Engineering (llms4kgoe) 2026 co-located with ESWC 2026, 11 May 2026, Dubrovnik, Croatia. https://oro.open.ac.uk/112032/.
Anastasiou, L., Moro, A., Ardito, A., Concilio, G., De Ambrosis, F., Medina, T., Acerbi, E. and De Liddo, A. (2026). From Streets to Screens: A Digital Platform for Mapping Urban Narratives and Scaling Civic Dialogue. In: Maciel, Cristiano; Lucio Spano, Davide; Ardito, Carmelo; Freire, André and Prates, Raquel eds. Blending Experiences in Interaction Design: INTERACT 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 16479. Springer, pp. 301–312. https://oro.open.ac.uk/112037/.
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/.
Tech Reports
JIME: An Interactive Journal for Interactive Media
Techreport ID: kmi-01-02
Date: 2001
Author(s): Simon Buckingham Shum and Tamara Sumner
Redesigning the Peer Review Process: A Developmental Theory-in-Action
Techreport ID: kmi-00-12
Date: 2000
Author(s): Tamara Sumner, Simon Buckingham Shum, Michael Wright, Nathalie
Bonnardel and Aline Chevalier
Managing Persistent Discourse: Organizational Goals and Digital Texts
Techreport ID: kmi-98-03
Date: 1998
Author(s): Tamara Sumner, Simeon Yates, Simon Buckingham Shum and Jane Perrone








