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Hugh C. Davis

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University of Southampton: School of Electronics and Computer Science


Hugh Davis is the Head of the Learning Technology Research Group within the 5* research School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton. He is also the University Director of Education with responsibility for eLearning strategy. He has been involved in hypertext research since the late 1980’s and has interests in the applications of hypertext for learning, open hypertext systems and architectures for adaptation and personalisation. He has extensive publications in these fields, and experience of starting a spin-off company with a hypertext product. His recent research interests revolve around Web and Grid service frameworks for eLearning and he has a particular focus on the assessment domain. He has led many projects focussing on both the technology and application of e-learning.

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Millard, David E., Bailey, Christopher P., Boulain, Philip, Chennupati, Swapna, Davis, Hugh C., Howard, Yvonne and Wills, Gary (2008): Semantics on demand: Can a Semantic Wiki replace a knowledge base?. In New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 14 (1) pp. 95-120

In the same way that Wikis have become the mechanism that has enabled groups of users to collaborate on the production of hypertexts on the web, Semantic Wikis promise a future of collaboration on the production of semantically linked and ontologically structured hypertexts. In this paper we describe our efforts to convert an existing ontologically structured web site called Framework Reference Model for Assessment (FREMA) into a Semantic Wiki specifically to enable community contribution. We compare a number of existing Semantic Wikis, and explore how the notion of semantics-on-demand affects a system's ability to control the creation of useful ontologies and annotations. The FREMA case study introduces a number of the problems we encountered and solved, and sets the template for others considering implementing web-based knowledge bases using Semantic Wikis. Our conclusions will contribute to the agenda for those implementing the next generation of Semantic Wikis.

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Ounnas, Asma, Millard, David E. and Davis, Hugh C. (2007): A metrics framework for evaluating group formation. In: GROUP07: International Conference on Supporting Group Work 2007. pp. 221-224. Available online

Many approaches to learning and teaching rely upon students working in groups. So far, many Computer-Supported Group Formation systems have been designed to facilitate the formation of optimal groups in learning. However, evaluating the quality of automated group formation is not always well reported. In this paper we propose a metrics framework for evaluating group formation based upon a model for constraint satisfaction-based group formation.

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Al-Khalifa, Hend S. and Davis, Hugh C. (2007): Towards better understanding of folksonomic patterns. In: Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2007. pp. 163-166. Available online

Folksonomies provide a free source of keywords describing web resources; however, these keywords are free form and their semantics spans multiple contextual dimension. In this paper, we present a pragmatic experiment that analyzes folksonomies using three classification categories: Personal, Factual and Subjective, in order to gain more understanding of the types of tags used in the social tagging process. The rational for this work was to measure the potential portion of folksonomy tags that might be helpful when considering the creation of structured metadata.

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Ounnas, Asma, Davis, Hugh C. and Millard, David E. (2007): Towards Semantic Group Formation. In: Spector, J. Michael, Sampson, Demetrios G., Okamoto, Toshio, Cerri, Stefano A., Ueno, Maomi and Kashihara, Akihiro (eds.) ICALT 2007 - Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies July 18-20, 2007, Niigata, Japan. pp. 825-827. Available online

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Al-Khalifa, Hend S. and Davis, Hugh C. (2007): Replacing the Monolithic LOM: A Folksonomic Approach. In: Spector, J. Michael, Sampson, Demetrios G., Okamoto, Toshio, Cerri, Stefano A., Ueno, Maomi and Kashihara, Akihiro (eds.) ICALT 2007 - Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies July 18-20, 2007, Niigata, Japan. pp. 665-669. Available online

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Wang, Chu, Davis, Hugh C., Dickens, Kate, Wills, Gary and White, Su (2007): Finding the Right Tool for the Community: Bringing a Wiki-Type Editor to the World of Reusable Learning Objects. In: Spector, J. Michael, Sampson, Demetrios G., Okamoto, Toshio, Cerri, Stefano A., Ueno, Maomi and Kashihara, Akihiro (eds.) ICALT 2007 - Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies July 18-20, 2007, Niigata, Japan. pp. 454-456. Available online

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Al-Khalifa, Hend S. and Davis, Hugh C. (2006): The evolution of metadata from standards to semantics in E-learning applications. In: Proceedings of the Seventeenth ACM Conference on Hypertext 2006. pp. 69-72. Available online

Metadata attempts to describe the content, format, purpose and structure of data. Over the past few years, the IEEE-LOM standard has dominated the metadata world in e-learning applications. However, with the advent of the Semantic Web, e-learning applications are beginning to evolve their metadata representation from these standards by adding semantic structure or by converting entirely to semantic representations of structure. This shift enables the implementation of a range of new tools which can reason over the metadata, providing added value from the stored data. This review paper summarizes this evolution of metadata used in e-learning applications from standards to semantic representation.

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Bailey, Chris, Zalfan, Mohd T., Davis, Hugh C., Fill, Karen and Conole, Grainne (2006): Panning for Gold: Designing Pedagogically-inspired Learning Nuggets. In Educational Technology & Society, 9 (1) pp. 113-122

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Millard, David E., Bailey, Christopher, Davis, Hugh C., Gilbert, Lester, Howard, Yvonne Margaret and Wills, Gary (2006): The e-Learning Assessment Landscape. In: ICALT 2006 - Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies 5-7 July, 2006, Kerkrade, The Netherlands. pp. 964-966. Available online

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White, Su, Hooper, Clare J., Carr, Leslie, Griffith, Timothy P., Davis, Hugh C. and Wills, Gary (2006): ANNANN - Next Steps for Scaffolding Learning About Programs. In: ICALT 2006 - Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies 5-7 July, 2006, Kerkrade, The Netherlands. pp. 227-231. Available online

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Abdullah, Nor Aniza and Davis, Hugh C. (2005): A Real-Time Personalization Service for SCORM. In: ICALT 2005 - Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies 05-08 July, 2005, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. pp. 61-63. Available online

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Power, Guillermo, Davis, Hugh C., Cristea, Alexandra I., Stewart, Craig D. and Ashman, Helen (2005): Goal Oriented Personalisation with SCORM. In: ICALT 2005 - Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies 05-08 July, 2005, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. pp. 467-471. Available online

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Tao, Feng, Millard, David E., Woukeu, Arouna and Davis, Hugh C. (2005): Managing the Semantic Aspects of Learning Using the Knowledge Life Cycle. In: ICALT 2005 - Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies 05-08 July, 2005, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. pp. 575-579. Available online

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Tao, Feng, Millard, David E., Woukeu, Arouna and Davis, Hugh C. (2005): Semantic Grid Based e-Learning Using the Knowledge Life Cycle. In: ICALT 2005 - Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies 05-08 July, 2005, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. pp. 954-955. Available online

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Wills, Gary B., Gilbert, Lester, Gee, Quintin, Davis, Hugh C., Miles-Board, Timothy, Millard, David E., Carr, Les, Hall, Wendy and Grange, Simon (2005): Towards Grid Services for a Virtual Research Environment. In: ICALT 2005 - Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies 05-08 July, 2005, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. pp. 863-867. Available online

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Davis, Hugh C. and White, Su (2001): Linking Experiences: Issues Raised Developing Linkservices for Resource Based Learning and Teaching. In: ICALT 2001 2001. pp. 401-404.

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Davis, Hugh C. (1995): To Embed or Not to Embed. In Communications of the ACM, 38 (8) pp. 108-109

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Publication statistics

Publication period:1995-2008
Publication count:17
Number of co-authors:34



Productive colleagues

Hugh C. Davis's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Wendy Hall:56
David E. Millard:32
Alexandra I. Cristea:24


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Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:

David E. Millard:7
Gary Wills:4
Su White:3

 

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