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Reproducing "Show, attend and tell: Neural image caption generation with visual attention" (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, H., & Brailsford, T. (2023). Reproducing "Show, attend and tell: Neural image caption generation with visual attention". Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2589(1), Article 012012. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2589/1/012012

This paper replicates the experiment presented in the work of Xu et al. [1], and examines errors in the generated captions. The analysis of the identified errors aims to provide deeper insight into the underlying causes. This study also encompass... Read More about Reproducing "Show, attend and tell: Neural image caption generation with visual attention".

Towards idea mining: Problem-solution phrase extraction from text (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Liu, H., Brailsford, T., Goulding, J., Maul, T., Tan, T., & Chaudhuri, D. (2023). Towards idea mining: Problem-solution phrase extraction from text. In W. Chen, L. Yao, T. Cai, S. Pan, T. Shen, & X. Li (Eds.), Advanced Data Mining and Applications 18th International Conference, ADMA 2022, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, November 28–30, 2022, Proceedings, Part II (3-14). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22137-8_1

This paper investigates the feasibility of problem-solution phrases extraction from scientific publications using neural network approaches. Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory with Conditional Random Fields (Bi-LSTM-CRFs) and Bidirectional Encoder... Read More about Towards idea mining: Problem-solution phrase extraction from text.

Towards idea mining: Problem-solution phrases extraction from text (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Liu, H., Brailsford, T., Goulding, J., Maul, T., Tan, T., & Chaudhuri, D. (2022). Towards idea mining: Problem-solution phrases extraction from text. In W. Chen, L. Yao, T. Cai, S. Pan, T. Shen, & X. Li (Eds.), ADMA 2022: Advanced Data Mining and Applications (3–14). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22137-8_1

This paper investigates the feasibility of problem-solution phrases extraction from scientific publications using neural network approaches. Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory with Conditional Random Fields (Bi-LSTM-CRFs) and Bidirectional Encoder... Read More about Towards idea mining: Problem-solution phrases extraction from text.

Enhancing reflective learning experiences in museums through interactive installations (2018)
Journal Article
Hai, H., Lo, W. H., Ng, H. H., Brailsford, T., & O'Malley, C. (2018). Enhancing reflective learning experiences in museums through interactive installations

In this study we examine the effect that several technological affordances have upon the experiences of children while visiting a museum, focusing upon engagement, discussion and reflection. The museum is the Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum in Malacca, M... Read More about Enhancing reflective learning experiences in museums through interactive installations.

Towards computation of novel ideas from corpora of scientific text (2015)
Journal Article
Liu, H., Goulding, J., & Brailsford, T. (2015). Towards computation of novel ideas from corpora of scientific text. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9285, 541-556. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23525-7_33

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. In this work we present a method for the computation of novel ‘ideas’ from corpora of scientific text. The system functions by first detecting concept noun-phrases within the titles and abstracts... Read More about Towards computation of novel ideas from corpora of scientific text.

The ethical and social implications of personalization technologies for e-learning (2014)
Journal Article
Toms, E. G., Sheng, Q. Z., Cristea, A. I., Ashman, H., Brailsford, T., Stewart, C., …Wade, V. (2014). The ethical and social implications of personalization technologies for e-learning. Information and Management, 51(6), 819-832. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2014.04.003

Personalization in information systems can be considered beneficial but also ethically and socially harmful. Like many other technologies, the uptake of personalization has been rapid, with inadequate consideration given to its effects. Personalizati... Read More about The ethical and social implications of personalization technologies for e-learning.

On the Turing Completeness of the Semantic Web (2014)
Journal Article
Pourabdollah, A., & Brailsford, T. (2014). On the Turing Completeness of the Semantic Web. Theory of Computing Systems, 56(2), 291-308. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00224-014-9536-x

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. The evidenced fact that “Linking is as powerful as computing” in a dynamic web context has lead to evaluating Turing completeness for hypertext systems based on their linking model. The same evaluatio... Read More about On the Turing Completeness of the Semantic Web.

Translation techniques in cross-language information retrieval (2012)
Journal Article
Zhou, D., Truran, M., Brailsford, T., Wade, V., & Ashman, H. (2012). Translation techniques in cross-language information retrieval. ACM Computing Surveys, 45(1), 1-44. https://doi.org/10.1145/2379776.2379777

Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) is an active sub-domain of information retrieval (IR). Like IR, CLIR is centered on the search for documents and for information contained within those documents. Unlike IR, CLIR must reconcile queries and... Read More about Translation techniques in cross-language information retrieval.

HCI and the Web (2012)
Book Chapter
Ashman, H., Brailsford, T., Burnett, G., Goulding, J., Moore, A., Stewart, G., & Truran, M. (2012). HCI and the Web. In J. A. Jacko (Ed.), Human Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications (565-588). CRC Press

Web browsers have no inherent way of presenting the structure and interrelationships of data of any sort. For example, there is no way to visualize even the simple interrelationships of web documents, such as “Where can I go from here?” or “Which doc... Read More about HCI and the Web.

Generating unambiguous URL clusters from web search (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Smith, G., Brailsford, T., Donner, C., Hooijmaijers, D., Truran, M., Goulding, J., & Ashman, H. (2009). Generating unambiguous URL clusters from web search. . https://doi.org/10.1145/1507509.1507514

This paper reports on the generation of unambiguous clusters of from clickthrough data from the MSN search query log (the RFP 2006 dataset). Selections (clickthroughs) by a user from a single query can be assumed to have some semantic relevance, and... Read More about Generating unambiguous URL clusters from web search.

Evaluating Learning Style Personalization in Adaptive Systems: Quantitative Methods and Approaches (2009)
Journal Article
Brown, E. J., Brailsford, T. J., Fisher, T., & Moore, A. (2009). Evaluating Learning Style Personalization in Adaptive Systems: Quantitative Methods and Approaches. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2(1), 10-22. https://doi.org/10.1109/TLT.2009.11

It is a widely held assumption that learning style is a useful model for quantifying user characteristics for effective personalized learning. We set out to challenge this assumption by discussing the current state of the art in relation to quantitat... Read More about Evaluating Learning Style Personalization in Adaptive Systems: Quantitative Methods and Approaches.

Cultural artefacts in education: Analysis, ontologies and implementation (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Stewart, C., Chandramouli, K., Cristea, A., Brailsford, T., & Izquierdo, E. (2008, December). Cultural artefacts in education: Analysis, ontologies and implementation. Paper presented at 2008 International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, Wuhan, China

Adaptive web technologies are often used in distance learning scenarios with little regard for learners’ cultural background. The CAE questionnaire determines the cultural artefacts that influence a learners behaviour within an educational environmen... Read More about Cultural artefacts in education: Analysis, ontologies and implementation.

The global perpetual dictionary of everything (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Ashman, H. L., Zhou, D., Goulding, J., Brailsford, T., & Truran, M. (2007, June). The global perpetual dictionary of everything. Paper presented at The Thirteenth Australasian World Wide Web Conference (AusWeb07), New South Wales, Australia

Knowledge organising systems aim to classify, store, organise and structure data for the purposes of retrieval. They usually rely on algorithms designed to automate these functions. However a largely untapped but highly accurate resource which can co... Read More about The global perpetual dictionary of everything.

Adaptive hypermedia system interoperability: A 'real world' evaluation (2007)
Journal Article
Cristea, A., Stewart, C., Brailsford, T., & Cristea, P. (2007). Adaptive hypermedia system interoperability: A 'real world' evaluation

Adaptive Hypermedia (AH) authoring is widely acknowledged to be complex and time consuming, yet this vital process is rarely evaluated. Recent research has approached the authoring problem by ensuring that previously created materials can be converte... Read More about Adaptive hypermedia system interoperability: A 'real world' evaluation.

Disambiguation and unknown term translation in cross language information retrieval (2007)
Book Chapter
Zhou, D., Truran, M., & Brailsford, T. (2007). Disambiguation and unknown term translation in cross language information retrieval. In C. Peters, V. Jijkoun, T. Mandl, H. Müller, D. Oard, A. Peñas, …D. Santos (Eds.), Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval (64-71). Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science

In this paper we present a report on our participation in the CLEF 2007 Chinese-English ad hoc bilingual track. We discuss a disambiguation strategy which employs a modified co-occurrence model to determine the most appropriate translation for a give... Read More about Disambiguation and unknown term translation in cross language information retrieval.

Wang cube simulator for self-assembly (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Ellabaan, M., & Brailsford, T. (2006, December). Wang cube simulator for self-assembly. Paper presented at ITI 4th International Conference on Information & Communications Technology (ICICT2006)

Self-assembly is a process by which simple objects autonomously assemble into complex system. Self-assembly process is ubiquitous in nature of the world. It may occur in levels ranging from nanoscale to astronomical scale. Self-assembly is an importa... Read More about Wang cube simulator for self-assembly.

Evaluation of interoperability of adaptive hypermedia systems: Testing the MOT to WHURLE conversion in a classroom setting (2005)
Presentation / Conference
Cristea, A. I., Stewart, C., Brailsford, T., & Cristea, P. (2005, July). Evaluation of interoperability of adaptive hypermedia systems: Testing the MOT to WHURLE conversion in a classroom setting. Paper presented at A3EH Workshop at the AIED 2005 Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The creation process of adaptive hypermedia is rarely evaluated. Moreover, conversion between different adaptive hypermedia systems has barely been proposed, yet alone tested in realistic settings. This paper presents the evaluation of the interopera... Read More about Evaluation of interoperability of adaptive hypermedia systems: Testing the MOT to WHURLE conversion in a classroom setting.

'Authoring once, delivering many': Creating reusable adaptive courseware (2005)
Journal Article
Stewart, C., Cristea, A., Brailsford, T., & Ashman, H. L. (2005). 'Authoring once, delivering many': Creating reusable adaptive courseware

This paper addresses the issue of creating reusable adaptive courseware from the point of view of the author (teacher or instructor). We illustrate the idea of reusability under the motto "Authoring Once, Delivering Many" by showing the conversion pr... Read More about 'Authoring once, delivering many': Creating reusable adaptive courseware.

Patterns in authoring of adaptive educational hypermedia: A taxonomy of learning styles (2005)
Journal Article
Brown, E., Cristea, A., Stewart, C., & Brailsford, T. (2005). Patterns in authoring of adaptive educational hypermedia: A taxonomy of learning styles

This paper describes the use of adaptation patterns in the task of formulating standards for adaptive educational hypermedia (AEH) systems that is currently under investigation by the EU ADAPT project. Within this project, design dimensions for high... Read More about Patterns in authoring of adaptive educational hypermedia: A taxonomy of learning styles.

Integration of learning style theory in an adaptive educational hypermedia (AEH) system (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Brown, E., & Brailsford, T. (2004, September). Integration of learning style theory in an adaptive educational hypermedia (AEH) system. Paper presented at ALT-C 2004, Exeter, UK

Adaptive educational hypermedia (AEH - a branch of web-based learning) systems seek to personalise the learning experience for their users. User modelling can be performed using various criteria, such as prior ability or domain-specific knowledge, in... Read More about Integration of learning style theory in an adaptive educational hypermedia (AEH) system.

Links for learning: Linking for an adaptive learning environment (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Moore, A., Stewart, C., Martin, D., Brailsford, T., & Ashman, H. (2004, February). Links for learning: Linking for an adaptive learning environment. Paper presented at IASTED International Conference on Web-based Education (WBE 2004), Innsbruck, Austria

The automated generation of links within a body of educational material is critical to the cost-effective implementation of Technology Based Learning. This paper describes the linking system used by WHURLE - an adaptive web-based integrated learning... Read More about Links for learning: Linking for an adaptive learning environment.

Unified hyperstructures for bioinformatics: Escaping the application prison (2004)
Journal Article
Moore, A., & Brailsford, T. (2004). Unified hyperstructures for bioinformatics: Escaping the application prison

The Next Big Thing in hypertext will be unifying different applications in bioinformatics through the ZigZag paradigm, allowing this field to live up to its promise of revolutionising the pharmaceutical industry. The paper outlines ZigZag, Ted Nelson... Read More about Unified hyperstructures for bioinformatics: Escaping the application prison.

User control of adaptation in an automated web-based learning environment (2002)
Presentation / Conference
Brailsford, T., Ashman, H., Stewart, C., Zakaria, M. R., & Moore, A. (2002, November). User control of adaptation in an automated web-based learning environment. Paper presented at First International Conference on Information Technology & Applications (ICITA 2002). Bathurst, Australia, Bathurst, Australia

Adaptive hypertext provides a powerful approach to the problems of providing information that is appropriate to the diverse needs of users, and it is most commonly implemented in education. In this paper we describe how an experimental XML- based ada... Read More about User control of adaptation in an automated web-based learning environment.

Technical note user modelling, and adaptive hypermedia frameworks for education (2002)
Journal Article
Zakaria, M. R., & Brailsford, T. (2002). Technical note user modelling, and adaptive hypermedia frameworks for education. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 8(1), 83-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614560208914737

In this paper, we give an overview of the hybrid model, which is a generic user model that is based on measuring and classifying users' knowledge with respect to multiple knowledge domains simultaneously. In addition, we demonstrate how that model is... Read More about Technical note user modelling, and adaptive hypermedia frameworks for education.

Towards a framework to effective web-based distributed learning (2001)
Presentation / Conference
Brailsford, T. J., Moore, A., Stewart, C. D., Zakaria, M. R., Choo, B. S., & Davies, P. M. (2001, May). Towards a framework to effective web-based distributed learning. Poster presented at Tenth International World Wide Web Conference, Hong Kong, China

Developing web-based learning materials gives rise to a number of pedagogic problems. Learners are highly diverse in respect to their pedagogical requirements, and the implementation of an effective web-based learning strategy must avoid placing a he... Read More about Towards a framework to effective web-based distributed learning.

Knowledge Tree: Putting discourse into computer-based learning (1997)
Journal Article
Brailsford, T., Davies, P., Scarborough, S., & Trewhella, W. (1997). Knowledge Tree: Putting discourse into computer-based learning. ALT-J, 5(1), 19-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/0968776970050104

Most CBL materials currently in use model only the declarative aspects of the learning process. If such courseware is used without careful planning, this can be dangerous because one of the most fundamental aspects of education is the dialogue that o... Read More about Knowledge Tree: Putting discourse into computer-based learning.

Authorware professional: Multi-platform icon authoring (1992)
Journal Article
Davies, P., Scarborough, S., & Brailsford, T. (1992). Authorware professional: Multi-platform icon authoring

This paper describes the use of a multi-platform icon authoring development environment to create flexible CBT material without the need for conventional programming skills.

Real users, real results: examining the limitations of learning styles within AEH
Presentation / Conference
Brown, E., Fisher, T., & Brailsford, T. Real users, real results: examining the limitations of learning styles within AEH. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 18th conference on Hypertext and hypermedia (HT 07)

This paper examines the current state of AEH (adaptive educational hypermedia) research into explicit learning style modelling for user personalisation. It addresses the problem of non-naïve test subjects, who are often in user trials, thus contribut... Read More about Real users, real results: examining the limitations of learning styles within AEH.

Guideline for developing mobile technology to support note taking activity in field trip
Presentation / Conference
Allwihan, R., Brailsford, T., & Cobb, S. Guideline for developing mobile technology to support note taking activity in field trip. Paper presented at 4th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies

Field note is a combination between raw data and ideas that represents the process of transformation of observed interaction to written. This paper is a part of research aims to investigate methods to embed mobile technology in the field trips to sup... Read More about Guideline for developing mobile technology to support note taking activity in field trip.

Personally tailored teaching in WHURLE using conditional transclusion
Presentation / Conference
Moore, A., Brailsford, T. J., & Stewart, C. D. Personally tailored teaching in WHURLE using conditional transclusion. Paper presented at 12th ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT 01)

The emergence of Technology Based Learning has generated a number of pedagogic problems related to learner diversity.. In this paper we present an interim snapshot of a prototype XSLT / XML hypermedia learning environment able to respond adaptively t... Read More about Personally tailored teaching in WHURLE using conditional transclusion.

Autonavigation, links and narrative in an adaptive web-based integrated learning environment
Presentation / Conference
Brailsford, T. J., Stewart, C. D., Zakaria, M. R., & Moore, A. Autonavigation, links and narrative in an adaptive web-based integrated learning environment. Paper presented at Proc. of The 11th International World Wide Web Conference

The WWW is having increasingly profound effects upon education at all levels. When carefully implemented, web-based educational technologies can offer a cost-efficient means of maintaining teaching quality in the face of almost universally declining... Read More about Autonavigation, links and narrative in an adaptive web-based integrated learning environment.

Pluggable user models for adaptive hypermedia in education
Presentation / Conference
Zakaria, M. R., Moore, A., Stewart, C. D., & Brailsford, T. J. Pluggable user models for adaptive hypermedia in education. Paper presented at Fourteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT 03)

Most adaptive hypermedia systems used in education implement a single user model – inevitably originally designed for a specific set of circumstances. In this paper we describe an architecture that makes use of XML pipelines to facilitate the impleme... Read More about Pluggable user models for adaptive hypermedia in education.

Practical applitudes: Case studies of applications of the ZigZag hypermedia system
Presentation / Conference
Moore, A., Goulding, J., Brailsford, T., & Ashman, H. Practical applitudes: Case studies of applications of the ZigZag hypermedia system. Paper presented at Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia

ZigZag is a paradigm of hypermedia that consists of a multidimensional system of principled interconnections. Its basic features and specifications are now well known, but despite this, very few practical applications have been described or discussed... Read More about Practical applitudes: Case studies of applications of the ZigZag hypermedia system.

Authoring and delivering adaptive courseware
Presentation / Conference
Stewart, C., Cristea, A., Moore, A., Brailsford, T., & Ashman, H. Authoring and delivering adaptive courseware. Paper presented at International Workshop on Authoring of Adaptive and Adaptable Educational Hypermedia, AH2004, Workshop proceedings (part II), Eindhoven, Netherlands

Adaptive Educatiooal Hypermedia (AEH) may be the answer to the imperative need of personalization in web-based education. Up to now, however, adaptive hypermedia environments have focussed more on end- deliveIY, and less on the authoring problems. Th... Read More about Authoring and delivering adaptive courseware.

Adapting for visual and verbal learning styles in AEH
Presentation / Conference
Brown, E., Stewart, C., & Brailsford, T. Adapting for visual and verbal learning styles in AEH. Paper presented at Advanced Learning Technologies, 2006. Sixth International Conference on

This paper describes how visual and verbal learning styles have been successfully integrated into an adaptive educational environment. User trials of this system were carried out, to determine the effect of the adaptation, and although these user tri... Read More about Adapting for visual and verbal learning styles in AEH.

Reappraising cognitive styles in adaptive web applications
Presentation / Conference
Brown, E., Brailsford, T., Fisher, T., Moore, A., & Ashman, H. Reappraising cognitive styles in adaptive web applications. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web (WWW 06)

The mechanisms for personalisation used in web applications are currently the subject of much debate amongst researchers from many diverse subject areas. One of the most contemporary ideas for user modelling in web applications is that of cognitive s... Read More about Reappraising cognitive styles in adaptive web applications.

LLAMA: automatic hypertext generation utilizing language models
Presentation / Conference
Zhou, D., Goulding, J., Truran, M., & Brailsford, T. LLAMA: automatic hypertext generation utilizing language models. Paper presented at Eighteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT07)

Manual hypertext construction is labour intensive and prone to error. Robust systems capable of automatic hypertext generation (AHG) could be of direct benefit to those individuals responsible for hypertext authoring. In this paper we propose a novel... Read More about LLAMA: automatic hypertext generation utilizing language models.

Designing a mobile academic peer support system
Presentation / Conference
AlSugair, B., Hopkins, G., FitzGerald, E., & Brailsford, T. Designing a mobile academic peer support system. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 26th Annual BCS Interaction Specialist Group Conference on People and Computers

In this paper, we discuss work in progress into the design of a mobile academic peer support system that enables 11-to-14 year old children to request and provide academic help to each other. Our proposed system was designed based on background resea... Read More about Designing a mobile academic peer support system.

Revealing the hidden rationality of user browsing behaviour
Presentation / Conference
Brown, E., Brailsford, T., Fisher, T., & van der Eijk, C. Revealing the hidden rationality of user browsing behaviour. Paper presented at Proceedings of the eighteenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia

In this paper, we analyse web log data from user trials of the WHURLE-LS adaptive educational hypermedia (AEH) system from a behavioural perspective. This system allows users to switch from one presentational mode to another (visual, verbal or neutra... Read More about Revealing the hidden rationality of user browsing behaviour.

Ambiguity and unknown term translation in CLIR
Presentation / Conference
Zhou, D., Truran, M., & Brailsford, T. J. Ambiguity and unknown term translation in CLIR. Paper presented at CLEF (Working Notes)

In this paper we present a report on our participation in the CLEF Chinese-English ad hoc bilingual track, and we discuss a disambiguation strategy which employs a modified co-occurrence model to determine the most appropriate translation for a given... Read More about Ambiguity and unknown term translation in CLIR.

G con: A graph-based technique for resolving ambiguity in query translation candidates
Presentation / Conference
Zhou, D., Truran, M., Brailsford, T., Ashman, H., & Goulding, J. G con: A graph-based technique for resolving ambiguity in query translation candidates. Paper presented at 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing

In the field of cross-language information retrieval (CLIR), the resolution of lexical ambiguity is a key challenge. Common mechanisms for the translation of query terms from one language to another typically produce a set of possible translation can... Read More about G con: A graph-based technique for resolving ambiguity in query translation candidates.

Are we talking about the same structure?: A unified approach to hypertext links, xml, rdf and zigzag
Presentation / Conference
Pourabdollah, A., Ashman, H., & Brailsford, T. Are we talking about the same structure?: A unified approach to hypertext links, xml, rdf and zigzag. Paper presented at Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia

There are many different hypertext systems and paradigms, each with their apparent advantages. However the distinctions are perhaps not as significant as they seem. If we can reduce the core linking functionality to some common structure, which allow... Read More about Are we talking about the same structure?: A unified approach to hypertext links, xml, rdf and zigzag.

CAE-L: An ontology modelling cultural behaviour in adaptive education
Presentation / Conference
Chandramouli, K., Stewart, C., Brailsford, T., & Izquierdo, E. CAE-L: An ontology modelling cultural behaviour in adaptive education. Paper presented at Third International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP '08)

The presentation of learning materials in Adaptive Education Hypermedia is influenced by several factors such as learning style, background knowledge and cultural background, to name a few. In this paper, we introduce the notion of the CAE-L Ontology... Read More about CAE-L: An ontology modelling cultural behaviour in adaptive education.

Personal services: Debating the wisdom of personalisation
Presentation / Conference
Ashman, H., Brailsford, T., & Brusilovsky, P. Personal services: Debating the wisdom of personalisation. Paper presented at International Conference on Web-based Learning

Personalisation has been seen as the answer to the vast quantity of information now available digitally. Information is tailored to meet each user’s apparent needs, whether making use of Web-based learning materials, purchasing from online sites, acc... Read More about Personal services: Debating the wisdom of personalisation.

Hyperorders and transclusion: understanding dimensional hypertext
Presentation / Conference
Goulding, J. O., Brailsford, T. J., & Ashman, H. L. Hyperorders and transclusion: understanding dimensional hypertext. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 21st ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia

ZigZag is a unique hyperstructural paradigm designed by the hypertext pioneer Ted Nelson. It has piqued a lot of interest in the hypertext community in recent years because of its aim of revolutionizing electronic access to information and knowledge... Read More about Hyperorders and transclusion: understanding dimensional hypertext.

The CAE-L cultural framework: Definition, instances and web service
Presentation / Conference
Stewart, C., Brailsford, T., Chandramouli, K., & Cristea, A. I. The CAE-L cultural framework: Definition, instances and web service. Paper presented at Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on

With the expanding horizons of distributed eLearning, classrooms are increasingly consisting of a mix of different cultures. This paper addresses this factor in adaptive educational systems by presenting a new facet of the standard user model, the CA... Read More about The CAE-L cultural framework: Definition, instances and web service.

Does mobile technology support peer learning for Key Stage 3 children?
Presentation / Conference
Alsugair, B. A., Hopkins, G., Brailsford, T., & FitzGerald, E. Does mobile technology support peer learning for Key Stage 3 children?. Paper presented at Intelligent Environments (IE), 2011 7th International Conference on

It has been estimated that 85.5% ([14]) of school aged children own a mobile phone in the UK from which 29% ([10]) of them access the Internet. It is assumed that this ownership provides the children with the opportunity to establish and maintain soc... Read More about Does mobile technology support peer learning for Key Stage 3 children?.

User centred design and development of an educational force-feedback haptic game for blind students
Presentation / Conference
Petridou, M., Blanchfield, P., Alabadi, R., & Brailsford, T. User centred design and development of an educational force-feedback haptic game for blind students. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Games Based Learning

Integrating game technology into education and learning has had some significant impact on children’s learning and cognitive processes by helping to make learning an even more enjoyable experience. The use of technology in the education of blind chil... Read More about User centred design and development of an educational force-feedback haptic game for blind students.

Capturing experience in the field trip: A comparison study of using mobile devices between geography and architecture students
Presentation / Conference
Allwihan, R., Brailsford, T., & Cobb, S. Capturing experience in the field trip: A comparison study of using mobile devices between geography and architecture students. Paper presented at INTED2013 Proceedings

The rapid development of mobile information technology opens the doors for a variety of ubiquitous services to grow. This paper is a part of research aims to investigate methods of capturing and sharing experience in the field trip by using mobile de... Read More about Capturing experience in the field trip: A comparison study of using mobile devices between geography and architecture students.