Outputs (21)

Personalisation and recommendation for mental health apps: A scoping review (2024)
Journal Article

Personalisation, which tailors to individual preferences, is considered a possible route for improving engagement with digital mental health (DMH) products. Despite claims about the presence and importance of personalised features, evidence about the... Read More about Personalisation and recommendation for mental health apps: A scoping review.

A framework for the estimation of air quality by applying meteorological images: Colours-of-the-Wind (COLD) (2023)
Journal Article

This paper presents a new framework, “colours-of-the-wind” (COLD), which is designed to estimate air quality based on images from meteorological cameras, data analytics techniques, and the application of deep learning. Existing air quality estimation... Read More about A framework for the estimation of air quality by applying meteorological images: Colours-of-the-Wind (COLD).

Development and evaluation of a mobile app to support reading education (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We report on the design, development and evaluation of an app to support teachers in the teaching of reading at primary level. The app was developed with two main features: book levelling, where a book photograph, OCR and a simple machine learning mo... Read More about Development and evaluation of a mobile app to support reading education.

Engagement with optional formative feedback in a portfolio-based digital design module (2023)
Journal Article

Design skills are considered important in software engineering, and formative feedback may facilitate the learning process and help students master those skills. However, little is known about student usage of and reaction to the feedback and its imp... Read More about Engagement with optional formative feedback in a portfolio-based digital design module.

The application of eye-tracking technology in architecture engineering and construction industry: A systematic review (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Despite the scholarly attention on eye-tracking technology in the AEC industry, no studies thus far have attempted to aggregate the findings or knowledge. To bridge this gap and to better understand the state-of-the-art of eye-tracking technology’s a... Read More about The application of eye-tracking technology in architecture engineering and construction industry: A systematic review.

Genre analysis of movies using a topic model of plot summaries (2021)
Journal Article

Genre plays an important role in the description, navigation, and discovery of movies, but it is rarely studied at large scale using quantitative methods. This allows an analysis of how genre labels are applied, how genres are composed and how these... Read More about Genre analysis of movies using a topic model of plot summaries.

Interaction and engagement with an anxiety management app: Analysis using large-Scale behavioral data (2018)
Journal Article

© Paul Matthews, Phil Topham, Praminda Caleb-Solly. Background: SAM (Self-help for Anxiety Management) is a mobile phone app that provides self-help for anxiety management. Launched in 2013, the app has achieved over one million downloads on the iOS... Read More about Interaction and engagement with an anxiety management app: Analysis using large-Scale behavioral data.

Data literacy conceptions, community capabilities (2016)
Journal Article

To delineate and describe the data literacy concept, a core set of data competencies are identified, and a further four varieties – each with a different focus of attention – are described. These are named research (an academic focus), classroom (a s... Read More about Data literacy conceptions, community capabilities.

Going meta: Norm formation and enactment on the stack exchange network (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents research into the way norms are developed, expressed and enforced on sites that are part of the Stack Exchange (SE) social question-answering network. This network has a number of topical knowledge exchange communities using simil... Read More about Going meta: Norm formation and enactment on the stack exchange network.

Social epistemology and online knowledge exchange (2015)
Thesis

This document summarises the submitted research which has investigated online knowledge exchange and related it to the philosophical field of social epistemology. The broad aims have been: firstly to investigate what social epistemology theory can of... Read More about Social epistemology and online knowledge exchange.

Mental health app design – a journey from concept to completion (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The development of a mental health app, one with significant potential for impacting on and transforming peoples’ lives, requires a diligent approach for integrating and delivering clinical expertise which is to be used by a vulnerable user group. T... Read More about Mental health app design – a journey from concept to completion.

Use of credibility heuristics in a social question-answering service (2015)
Journal Article

Introduction.This study looked at the effect of community peripheral cues (specifically voting score and answerer's reputation) on the user's credibility rating of answers. Method. Students in technology and philosophy were asked to assess the credi... Read More about Use of credibility heuristics in a social question-answering service.

Search delegation, synthesists and expertise on social media (2014)
Journal Article

Background. Social media often adds a layer of intermediation between sources and information consumer, with users outsourcing some of the information work to others. Social media “synthesists” have been identified as a group of volunteer information... Read More about Search delegation, synthesists and expertise on social media.

Knowledge fixation and accretion: Longitudinal analysis of a social question-answering site (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate longitudinal features of an established social question-answering (Q&A) site to study how question-answer resources and other community features change ov... Read More about Knowledge fixation and accretion: Longitudinal analysis of a social question-answering site.

Evaluating and enriching online knowledge exchange: A socio-epistemological perspective (2012)
Book Chapter

We apply approaches from social epistemology and social psychology to the study of knowledge in online communities. We first provide a descriptive analysis of knowledge behaviours informed by social psychology and in particular Arie Kruglanski’s lay... Read More about Evaluating and enriching online knowledge exchange: A socio-epistemological perspective.

Interactive multimedia ethnography: Archiving workflow, interface aesthetics and metadata (2012)
Journal Article

Digital heritage archives often lack engaging user interfaces that strike a balance between providing narrative context and affording user interaction and exploration. It seems nevertheless feasible for metadata tagging and a "joined up" workflow to... Read More about Interactive multimedia ethnography: Archiving workflow, interface aesthetics and metadata.

A real-world mobile interaction design task (2011)
Journal Article

Sociable knowledge sharing online: Philosophy, patterns and intervention (2010)
Journal Article

Purpose – This paper seeks to outline a social epistemological and ethical warrant for engaging in knowledge exchange on the social web, and to emphasise sociocognitive and emotional factors behind motivation and credibility in communities supported... Read More about Sociable knowledge sharing online: Philosophy, patterns and intervention.

A Malawian school library: Culture, literacy and reader development (2010)
Journal Article

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the success and suitability of a Western-donated school library in furthering the aims of literacy and reader development in Malawi. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative, case study approach was taken usi... Read More about A Malawian school library: Culture, literacy and reader development.

Library and Information Management at the University of the West of England (2010)
Journal Article

Introduction to a special issue of ASLIB Proceedings (Vol 62, 2010) on library and information studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

Human-in-the-loop topic modelling: Assessing topic labelling and genre-topic relations with a movie plot summary corpus
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A much-used but not yet mainstream text analysis approach, topic modelling allows the identification of lexical themes for a document collection. Against principles for interpretable AI and sociotechnical design, there are definite strengths from its... Read More about Human-in-the-loop topic modelling: Assessing topic labelling and genre-topic relations with a movie plot summary corpus.