Research

Member of the Advisory Board of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (IJAIED)

A member of the HOMEWORK team investigating the use of interactive educational TV in the school and home.

A member of the REVEEL team investigating the evidence for the effectiveness of e-learning in the post-16 sector.

An investigator managing an EPSRC Platform Grant to the Human Centred Technology Research Group.

A member of the Mediate team developing the Magnetic Resonance Tutor. This is a tutoring and decision support system for use by radiologists who are learning to interpret MR images of the brain, particularly images presenting diseases that are acknowledged to be hard to differentiate.

A member of the Crusade team investigating the use of multiple representations in learning Java programming.

Co-author of a survey on Developing the Attributes of Medical Professional Judgement and Competence

Co-organizer of the The Interactive Educational Content Forum.

Co-organizer of the Help Seeking and Help Provision Workshop at AIED2001.

Co-organizer of the Workshops on Modelling Human Teaching Tactics and Strategies at ITS2000 in Montreal and Modelling Human Teaching Tactics and Strategies at ITS2004 in Maceio, Brazil. The purpose of this workshop is to explore the issues concerned with capturing human teaching tactics and strategies as well as attempts to model and evaluate those tactics and strategies in systems.

Co-organizer of the Workshop on Motivation and Affect in Educational Software at AIED2005 in Edinburgh.

Sponsor of the Human Centred Technology Postgraduate Workshops in Brighton, 1997-2006.

Here is the EPSRC final report on the 1999 workshop.