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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Cancellieri, M. (2026). Managing AI Bot Access to Open Scholarly Infrastructures. In: COAR Annual Conference, 01-03 Jun 2026, Braga, Portugal. https://oro.open.ac.uk/110445/.
Buran, L., Dhir, A., Jurasz, O., Pavón Pérez, Á. and Morales Tirado, A. (2026). Centre for Protecting Women Online response to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women’s Call for comments - Draft general recommendation on gender stereotypes. Centre for Protecting Women Online / United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. https://oro.open.ac.uk/110415/.
Buran, L., Dhir, A., Jurasz, O., Pavón Pérez, Á., Morales Tirado, A. and Fernandez, M. (2026). Centre for Protecting Women Online's response to Home Office consultation: Consultation on a new legal framework for law enforcement use of biometrics, facial recognition and similar technologies. Centre for Protecting Women Online / Home Office. https://oro.open.ac.uk/110416/.
D’Amico, S., Maurino, A., Osborne, F. and Sperlì, G. (2026). Evaluating the effectiveness of fine-tuning in financial NLP: The case of Social Trading Action Detection. Information Processing and Management, 63(8), https://oro.open.ac.uk/110360/.
Rienties, B., Coughlan, T., Domingue, J. and Herodotou, C. (2026). New systems of learning for distance learning institutions? A six-study review of implementing AIDA. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 10 https://oro.open.ac.uk/110134/.
Breuer, T., Cancellieri, M., El-Ebshihy, A., Fröbe, M., Galuščáková, P., Goeuriot, L., Iturra-Bocaz, G., Keller, J., Knoth, P., Kruff, A.K., Mulhem, P., Piroi, F., Pride, D., Schaer, P. and Schwab, D. (2026). Evaluating Information Retrieval Models Along Time: The LongEval Lab at CLEF 2026. In: Campos, Ricardo; Jatowt, Adam; Lan, Yanyan; Aliannejadi, Mohammad; Bauer, Christine; MacAvaney, Sean; Anand, Avishek; Ren, Zhaochun; Verberne, Suzan; Bai, Nan and Mansoury, Masoud eds. Advances in Information Retrieval. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 16486) & ECIR: European Conference on Information Retrieval. Cham, CH: Springer, pp. 345–353. https://oro.open.ac.uk/110022/.
Martinez, B.O., Piano, L., Carta, S.M., Manca, M.M., Motta, E., Pompianu, L., Salluzzi, G. and Annoni, M. (2026). KG4CUT: an ontology to facilitate cutting tool selection and interoperability. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing (Early access). https://oro.open.ac.uk/110026/.
Anastasiou, L. and De Liddo, A. (2026). The Synthetic Persona Fallacy in HCI-Q Methodology. In: Hybrid Human-Machine Intelligence (HHAI 2026), 08-10 Jul 2026, Brussels, Belgium. https://oro.open.ac.uk/109895/.
Rosiński, C., Rudnicka, E., Pride, D., Monteil, A., Oleksy, M., Foppiano, L., Dočekal, M., Cancellieri, M., Scalbert, S., Romary, L., Umerle, T. and Knoth, P. (2026). SoFAIR Dataset - A multidisciplinary dataset of research papers annotated with software mentions. Scientific data (Early access). https://oro.open.ac.uk/109795/.
Zhang, W., Tangi Perrault, S., Yeo, S., Pei, J., De Liddo, A., Veri, F., Flechtner, M. and Saggion, H. (2026). AI Agents and the Future of Deliberation: Designing Human–AI Collaboration for Democratic Dialogue. In: 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 13-17 Apr 2026, Barcelona, Spain. https://oro.open.ac.uk/109779/.
Farrell, T. (2026). [Book Review] Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India’s Lost Technological Revolution By Dwaipayan Banerjee. Princeton University Press, 2026. International Journal of Asian Studies (Early access). https://oro.open.ac.uk/109748/.
Fernandez, M., Pavón Pérez, Á., Ghia, D., Giallongo, D., Quercia, D., Cerquitelli, T. and Yaqub, M. (2026). Assessing the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Gender Disparities in the Labour Market. The Centre for Protecting Women Online, The Open University. https://oro.open.ac.uk/109668/.
Pavón Pérez, Á., Farrell, T., De Kock, C., Jurasz, O., Nozza, D. and Fernandez, M. (2026). Still Unsafe: What’s Holding Us Back on Online Safety for Women. AI and Ethics, 6 https://oro.open.ac.uk/109623/.
Sabou, M., Tsaneva, S., Fernandez, M., Poveda, M. and Suárez-Figueroa, M.C. (2026). Human-centric Evaluation of Semantic Resources: A Systematic Mapping Study. ACM Computing Surveys, 58(10), https://oro.open.ac.uk/109349/.
Mikroyannidis, A. and Armakolas, S. (2026). Mind-Size Bites, Macro Impact: A Research-Based Framework for Experiential Learning in Online Microlearning Targeting Mental Health Counsellors. In: 20th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED 2026), 2-4 Mar 2026, Valencia, Spain. https://oro.open.ac.uk/109147/.
Mikroyannidis, A., Kwarteng, J., Third, A., Domingue, J. and Tarrant, D. (2026). Learning with Responsible AI: Perceptions and Experiences of Learners in Online Professional Education. In: 20th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED 2026), 2-4 Mar 2026, Valencia, Spain. https://oro.open.ac.uk/109149/.
De Liddo, A., Anastasiou, L. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2026). Human/AI Collective Intelligence for Deliberative Democracy: A Human-Centred Design Approach. In: Pournaras, Evangelos; Majumdar, Srijoni; Hausladen, Carina and Helbing, Dirk eds. Handbook of Democracy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing (In Press). https://oro.open.ac.uk/109046/.
Salatino, A., Osborne, F., Recupero, D.R., Angioni, S. and Motta, E. (2026). Does Diversity of Expertise Drive Citation Impact? Evidence from Computer Science. Scientometrics, 131 pp. 1119–1146. https://oro.open.ac.uk/109014/.
Polilli, W., Antonini, A., Platani, C., Stagnari, F. and Galieni, A. (2026). Enhancing Morpho-Kinematic analysis for Plant Water Stress Classification through Leaf Movements. Smart Agricultural Technology, 13 https://oro.open.ac.uk/108947/.
Anastasiou, L. and De Liddo, A. (2025). BCause: Human-AI collaboration to improve hybrid mapping and ideation in argumentation-grounded deliberation. In: GenAICHI: CHI 2025 Workshop on Generative AI and HCI, 26 Apr - 01 May 2025, Yokohama, Japan. https://oro.open.ac.uk/108723/.
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
