Intelligent support for learning and knowledge communities

In collaborative and interdisciplinary research at the London Knowledge Lab with colleagues from the Institute of Education and other partners in Further and Higher education, we are developing personalised, adaptive tools for supporting learning communities and fostering the discovery and assimilation of knowledge.

To realize this vision, we are researching in areas including

Funded Projects

Publications

The Design of Teacher Assistance Tools in an Exploratory Learning Environment for Mathematics Generalisation. Darren Pearce-Lazard, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Eirini Geraniou. Proc. ECTEL 2010, pp 260-275, Springer, 2010.

Awareness in P2P groupware systems: a convergence of contextual computing, social media and semantic web, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Fatos Xhafa. Presented at the Workshop on Future Learning Landscapes, at ECTEL 2010, September 2010.

Layered Learner Modelling in ill-defined domains: conceptual model and architecture in MiGen, Manolis Mavrikis, Sergio Gutierrez-Santos, Darren Pearce-Lazard, Alexandra Poulovassilis, George Magoulas. Proc. Workshop on Intelligent Tutoring Technologies for Ill-Defined Problems and Ill-Defined Domains, at ITS 2010, June 2010. Full paper

Requirements for Distributed Event-Based Awareness in P2P Groupware Systems, Fatos Xhafa, Alex Poulovassilis. Proc. AINA Workshops 2010 (IEEE 24th Int. Conf. on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops), pp 220-225.

de Freitas S., Rebolledo-Mendez G., Liarokapis F., Magoulas G.D., Poulovassilis A., Learning as immersive experiences: Using the four-dimensional framework for designing and evaluating immersive learning experiences in a virtual world. British Journal of Educational Technology, 41(1) pp 69-85.

Flexible Querying of Lifelong Learner Metadata, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Peter Wood, Proc. 1st Int. Workshop on Semantic Web in Higher Education (SemHE), at ECTEL 2009.

The Conceptual and Architectural Design of a System Supporting Exploratory Learning of Mathematics Generalisation, Darren Pearce, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Proc. ECTEL 2009, pp 22-36, Springer, 2009.

Searching for "People Like Me" in a Lifelong Learning System, Nicolas van Labeke, George D. Magoulas, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Proc. ECTEL 2009, pp 106-111, Springer, 2009. Full paper

Developing an evaluation methodology for immersive learning experiences in a virtual world, de Freitas, S. Rebolledo-Mendez, G., Liarokapis, F., Magoulas, G., Poulovassilis, A., Proc, 2009 Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, IEEE, pp 43-50.

Using Similarity Metrics for Matching Lifelong Learners, N.Van Labeke, A.Poulovassilis and G.Magoulas, Proc. 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS'2008), July 2008, Springer, pp 142-151.

L4All: a Web-Service Based System for Lifelong Learners, S. de Freitas, I. Harrison, G. Magoulas, G. Papamarkos, A. Poulovassilis, N. Van Labeke, A. Mee, and M. Oliver, In S. Salerno et al. (eds), The Learning Grid Handbook: Concepts, Technologies and Applications, Volume 2: The Future of Learning , IOS Press, 2008.

Designing services-enabled personalisation for planning of lifelong learning based on individual and group characteristics, H. Baajour, G. Magoulas, A. Poulovassilis, Proc. Workshop on Personalisation in E-Learning Environments at Individual and Group Level, 11th International Conference on User Modeling (UM 2007), Corfu, 25-29 June 2007, pp. 8-15.

Modelling the Lifelong Learner in a services-based environment, H.Baajour, G.Magoulas, A.Poulovassilis, Proc. 2nd International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA 07), Wrexham, September 2007.

The development of a system for supporting the lifelong learner, S.de Freitas, I.Harrison, G.Magoulas, A.Mee, F.Mohamad, M.Oliver, G.Papamarkos, A.Poulovassilis. British Journal of Educational Technology, 37(6), pp 867-880, November 2006. Special Issue on Collaborative e-Support for Lifelong Learning.

L4All - a web-service based system for Lifelong Learners , S.de Freitas, G.Magoulas, M.Oliver, G.Papamarkos, A.Poulovassilis, I.Harrison, A.Mee. Proceedings of eChallenges'2006 (Workshop on Next Generation in Technology Enhanced Learning), 25-27 October 2006, Barcelona. IOS Press, pp 1477-1484.

A services-enabled environment for personalising Lifelong Learning Pathways , G.Magoulas, G.Papamarkos, A.Poulovassilis. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Applying Service Oriented Architectures to Adaptive Information Systems, at AHM'2006, Dublin, 20-23 June, 2006. (Lecture Notes in Learning and Teaching, Weibelzahl, S. and Cristea, A. (eds), pp 140-147, ISSN 1649-8623).

Event-Condition-Action Rule Languages on RDF metadata in P2P environments, G.Papamarkos, A.Poulovassilis and P.T.Wood. Technical Report BBKCS-05-05 . Final version appears in Computer Networks 50(10), July 2006, pp 1513-1532.

Adaptive Personalisation in Self e-Learning Networks Keenoy K., Poulovassilis A., Christophides V., Rigaux P., Papamarkos G., Magkanaraki A., Stratakis M., Spyratos N., Wood P., in Proceedings 1st International Workshop on Distributed e-Learning Environments (held in conjunction with the 1st International ELeGI Conference on Advanced Technology for Enhanced Learning), Naples, March 14, 2005. BCS Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC).

Personalisation Services for Self e-Learning Networks Keenoy K., Poulovassilis A., Christophides V., Rigaux P., Papamarkos G., Magkanaraki A., Stratakis M., Spyratos N., Wood P.T., in Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Engineering 2004 (ICWE 2004), Munich, Germany, July 28-30, 2004, LNCS, 3140 pp 215-219

Web Dynamics, M.Levene and A.Poulovassilis (eds), Springer 2004 (see in particular Section IV - Personalised Access to the Web).

Event-Condition-Action Rule Languages for the Semantic Web, G.Papamarkos, A.Poulovassilis and P.T.Wood. Proc. Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases, at VLDB'03, Berlin, September 2003.