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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Vincent, T. and Whalley, P. (1999). The Web: enabler or disabler. In: Eisenstadt, Marc and Vincent, Tom eds. The Knowledge Web: Learning and Collaborating on the Net. Routledge, pp. 31–46. https://oro.open.ac.uk/108595/.
Larasati, R. (2026). Explainable AI Approach to Compare Predictive Drivers of Student Success for Disabled and Non-Disabled Learners. In: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Teacher Education (ICAITE 2025), 07-09 Dec 2025, Kyoto, Japan. https://oro.open.ac.uk/108447/.
Kwarteng, J., Third, A., Mikroyannidis, A., Tarrant, D. and Domingue, J. (2026). SAGE-RAI: Design Patterns for Transparent RAG Systems. In: The ACM Web Conference 2026 (WWW '26), 13-17 Apr 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. https://oro.open.ac.uk/108348/.
Bayer, V. (2026). Leveraging Learning Analytics to Support Institutional Efforts in Addressing Awarding Gaps. [Thesis] https://oro.open.ac.uk/107979/.
Bongini, P., Rossolini, M., Maurino, A. and Osborne, F. (2025). The information power of social media for investment decisions: an AI-driven analysis of Reddit posts. Journal of Financial Management, Markets and Institutions, 13(02), https://oro.open.ac.uk/107939/.
Cancellieri, M., El-Ebshihy, A., Fink, T., Fröbe, M., Galuščáková, P., Gonzalez-Saez, G., Goeuriot, L., Iommi, D., Keller, J., Knoth, P., Mulhem, P., Piroi, F., Pride, D. and Schaer, P. (2025). LongEval at CLEF 2025: Longitudinal Evaluation of IR Systems on Web and Scientific Data. In: 16th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2025, 9-12 Sep 2025, Madrid, Spain. https://oro.open.ac.uk/107796/.
Polilli, W., Galieni, A., Platani, C., Stagnari, F. and Antonini, A. (2026). Automated classification of plant water status through morpho-kinematic monitoring of plant movement. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 241 https://oro.open.ac.uk/107801/.
Fernandez, M., Jurasz, O. and Pavón Pérez, Á. (2025). Submission to the Call for inputs by UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls to the 2026 Thematic Report on Gender Equality, the Digital Space and the Age of Artificial Intelligence. United Nations Working Group on discrimination against women and girls. https://oro.open.ac.uk/107480/.
Mikroyannidis, A., Perifanou, M. and Economides, A.A. (2025). Enhancing Language Learning with Generative AI: The Case of the OpenLang Network Platform. Computers, 14(12), https://oro.open.ac.uk/107547/.
Murgia, M., Dessi, D., Osborne, F., Buscaldi, D., Motta, E. and Recupero, D.R. (2025). CiteGen: A Web Application for Citation Recommendation Powered by LLMs and Knowledge Graphs. In: The Semantic Web: ESWC 2025 Satellite Events, 01-05 Jun 2025, Portoroz, Slovenia. https://oro.open.ac.uk/107360/.
Sides, T., Kbaier, D., Farrell, T. and Third, A. (2025). Bridging trust gaps: Stakeholder perspectives on AI adoption in the United Kingdom NHS primary care. Digital Health, 11 https://oro.open.ac.uk/107412/.
Burel, G., Lisena, P., Daga, E., Troncy, R. and Alani, H. (2025). ClimateSense at CheckThat! 2025: Combining Fine-tuned Large Language Models and Conventional Machine Learning Models for Subjectivity and Scientific Web Discourse Analysis: Notebook for the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2025. In: CLEF 2025, Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization, In CheckThat! Lab, 09-12 Sep 2025, Madrid, Spain. https://oro.open.ac.uk/107353/.
Marston, H., Brittain, K. and Antonini, A. (2025). Written Evidence PAS0035. [Written evidence to the Economic Affairs Committee: Preparing for an Ageing Society Inquiry]. UK Government - Economic Affairs Committee. https://oro.open.ac.uk/106986/.
Burel, G. and Alani, H. (2025). ClimaFactsKG: Towards an Interlinked Knowledge Graph of Scientific Evidence to Fight Climate Misinformation. In: 5th International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge: Representation, Discovery, and Assessment, 02 Nov 2025, Nara, Japan. https://oro.open.ac.uk/107352/.
Birti, M., Maurino, A. and Osborne, F. (2025). Optimizing Large Language Models for ESG Activity Detection in Financial Texts. In: ICAIF ’25: 6th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance, 15-18 Nov 2025, Singapore, Singapore. https://oro.open.ac.uk/107288/.
Pride, D., Guenci, M., Docekal, M., Peroni, S. and Knoth, P. (2025). Identifying and classifying software mentions in full text scholarly documents. In: 25th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2025), 15-19 Dec 2025, Online. https://oro.open.ac.uk/107241/.
Staudinger, M., Kusa, W., Cancellieri, M., Pride, D., Knoth, P. and Hanbury, A. (2025). Compare: A Framework for Scientific Comparisons. In: CIKM ’25, 10-14 Nov 2025, Seoul, Republic of Korea. https://oro.open.ac.uk/107232/.
Brown, V., Larasati, R., Kwarteng, J. and Farrell, T. (2025). Understanding AI and Power: Situated Perspectives from Global North and South Practitioners. AI & Society (Early Access). https://oro.open.ac.uk/107004/.
Collins, T.D., Butler, D., Gretton, S. and Williams, N. (2025). From the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to the Scholarly Institution: A STEM Perspective. Teaching and Learning Inquiry, 13 pp. 1–17. https://oro.open.ac.uk/106966/.
Ghafourian, Y., Hanbury, A. and Knoth, P. (2025). Ranking to Learn: Human Experts, Search Engines, or LLMs for Learning Guidance. In: TPDL 2025 – 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, 23 to 26 Sep 2025, Tampere, Finland. https://oro.open.ac.uk/106883/.
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
