Alumni Member
Tom Heath (Alumni) 
Research Student
My PhD research focused on using the semantic web to support recommendation-seeking in social networks. Specifically it aimed to: understand how people use word of mouth within their social networks to locate information or explore particular topics; model these processes so they can be replicated in an online environment; build semantic web-based systems that support people in these locating and exploring tasks by making use of their social context.
Keys: semantic web, trust, social networks, recommender systems, known person recommendation, user experience, online tasks, user context, personal context, revyu, hoonoh
News
Publications
Heath, T. (2008). Information-seeking on the Web with Trusted Social Networks - from Theory to Systems. [Thesis] https://oro.open.ac.uk/59990/.
Heath, T., Motta, E. and Petre, M. (2006). Person to person trust factors in word of mouth recommendation. In: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'06), 22-27 Apr 2006, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23640/.
Heath, T., Motta, E. and Petre, M. (2007). Computing word-of-mouth trust relationships in social networks from Semantic Web and Web 2. 0 data sources. In: The 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007), 03-07 Jun 2007, Innsbruck, Austria. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23610/.
Heath, T., Motta, E. and Dzbor, M. (2005). Uses of contextual information to support online tasks. In: 1st AKT Doctoral Symposium, 14-16 Jun 2005, Milton Keynes, UK. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23665/.
Heath, T., Motta, E. and Dzbor, M. (2005). Context as foundation for a semantic desktop. In: 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005), 6-10 Nov 2005, Galway, Ireland. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23654/.
Heath, T., Dzbor, M. and Motta, E. (2005). Supporting user tasks and context: challenges for Semantic Web research. In: UserSWeb: Workshop on End User Aspects of the Semantic Web, 29 May - 1 Jun 2005, Heraklion, Greece. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23669/.
Heath, T. and Motta, E. (2006). Reviews and ratings on the Semantic Web. In: 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2006), 05-09 Nov 2007, Atlanta, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23613/.
Heath, T. and Motta, E. (2006). Personalizing relevance on the Semantic Web through trusted recommendations from a social network. In: The 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006), 11-14 Jun 2006, Budva, Montenegro. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23636/.
Heath, T. and Motta, E. (2008). Ease of interaction plus ease of integration: combining Web2. 0 and the Semantic Web in a reviewing site. Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 6(1), pp. 76–83. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23500/.
d'Aquin, M., Motta, E., Dzbor, M., Gridinoc, L., Heath, T. and Sabou, M. (2008). Collaborative semantic authoring. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23(3), pp. 80–83. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23499/.
Mulholland, P., Gaved, M., Collins, T., Zdrahal, Z. and Heath, T. (2006). Using ICT to support public and private community memories: case studies and lessons learned. In: Proceedings: 3rd Prato International Community Informatics Conference (CIRN 2006): Constructing and Sharing Memory, 9-11 Oct 2006, Monash Centre, Prato, Italy. https://oro.open.ac.uk/17111/.
Heath, T. and Motta, E. (2008). Revyu: Linking reviews and ratings into the Web of Data. Journal of Web Semantics: Science Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 6(4), pp. 266–273. https://oro.open.ac.uk/12794/.
Gaved, M., Heath, T. and Eisenstadt, M. (2006). Wikis of Locality: Insights from the Open Guides. In: ACM 2006 International Symposium on Wikis: WikiSym '06, 21-23 Aug 2006, Odense, Denmark. https://oro.open.ac.uk/6206/.
Tech Reports
User Interaction and Uptake Challenges to Successfully Deploying Semantic Web Technologies
Techreport ID: kmi-06-18
Date: 2006
Author(s): Tom Heath, John Domingue, Paul Shabajee
The Modelling, Capture, and Use of Social Context in Online Tasks
Techreport ID: kmi-05-10
Date: 2005
Author(s): Tom Heath
