http://stadium.open.ac.uk/prolearn/ Prolearn media replays en-gb Thu, 31 May 2007 22:59:36 +0100 KMi Stadium http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Event Homepage Welcome to the launch page for attending this hybrid physical/virtual event online. As a 'virtual participant' you will be using some of the e-PhD tools developed at the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute, which we will be discussing on the day. These will enable you to:receive the live webcast of the event with audio, video, slides and live demos of e-PhD tools (see bottom of this web page for entry link)have a visual presence at the event with a lo-fi video image of yourself displayed to other virtual participants, and in the venue for co-located participants to see (Click here to enter e-PhD Hexagon)post comments and questions to the event during discussion feedback sessions (use button on this web page)What you will see when you are set up Check your setup Programme13:00 - 14:00 Lunch14:00 - 17:00 Workshop http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=551 http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=551&scheduleid=511 Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:00:00 +0000 Prof. Wendy Stainton Rogers Dr Simon Buckingham Shum <email@domain.com> The British Learning Association prepresents an extensive network of expertise for the advancement for both techniques and technologies for learning, within the UK and nationally. http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=536 http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=536&scheduleid=491 Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:30:00 +0000 Brian Merison <email@domain.com> This extract is taken from the Corporate University Handbook, by Gower publishing. The chapter that it introduces evaluates key emerging technologies which will influence the future of the Corporate University. The presentation talks about the concept of the expanding infosphere of technology as a model for understanding technical innovation. The problem for futurologiest is how to measure the value of each innovation. New wireless technologies are used to illustrate this idea. http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=483 http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=483&scheduleid=409 Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:00:00 +0100 Dr Peter Scott <email@domain.com> A short introduction to the Network of Excellence, ProLearn. This talk will give you an overview of the goals of this network and some of the specific work packages. Download XO Replay (38.2Mb ZIP file) http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=468 http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=468&scheduleid=400 Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:00:00 +0100 Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nejdl <email@domain.com> In 2010, will research still be published primarily as prose? This question is designed to focus imagination on a complementary infrastructure that is 'native' to the network paradigm, enabling new kinds of knowledge dissemination, peer review, debate, and analysis of ideas. In this introduction I provide a brief update on the progress of the Scholarly Ontologies project, which has been building an environment to enable analysts to model the contested claims and arguments in a field. End-user communities that we are targetting include students, educators, researchers, consultants, librarians and publishers, working individually or collaboratively. I describe the rationale behind the underlying discourse representation scheme, user interfaces designed to deliver a semantic annotation environment that is usable by people who are not ontology engineers, and the new kinds of search and visualization services that become possible when a research field is rendered as an argument network. Related Links Scholarly Ontologies Project www.VisualizingArgumentation.info http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=487 http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=487&scheduleid=413 Tue, 8 Jun 2004 10:00:00 +0100 Dr Simon Buckingham Shum <email@domain.com> This short presentation introduces Prolearn Workpackage 2 - Interactive Media and gives an brief overview of the key topics and deliverables. The ProLearnTV concept is presented and the issues concerning the telepresence framework used and how content may be managed are discussed. Key issues are that Prolearn partners should be able, now, to contribute relevant, short and integrated ProlearnTV segments to be hosted on the ProlearnTV portal site. http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=461 http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=461&scheduleid=393 Tue, 25 May 2004 13:00:00 +0100 Dr Peter Scott <email@domain.com> The AKT consortium researches applications of Advanced Knowledge Technologies. The CoAKTing work in that consortium explores the use of advanced collaborations tools supporting teams working across the Internet. In this presentation Dr Simon Buckingham Shum discusses an extreme example of such collaboration, the challenge facing NASA in working with remote scientific teams on Mars. In an April/May 2004 field trial investigating future technologies to support manned surface exploration on Mars, the NASA Ames Mobile Agents project evaluated CoAKTinG systems from The Open University's Knowledge Media Institute (Compendium and BuddySpace) and Southampton University's Intelligence-Agents-Multimedia Group (Meeting Replay). Related Links Replay a full KMi seminar by NASA Mobile Agents project lead, Maarten Sierhuis. EPSRC/e-Science CoAKTinG Project: CoAKTinG PowerPoint slides in the ProLearn TV webcast: 10Mb ZIP download Field reports posted during the NASA Mobile Agents field trial: This report presents some reflections on the use of Compendium in the Mars Desert Research Station field trial, and on the role of the 'Remote Science Team Facilitator' (i.e. Compendium mapper) which tries to characterise for a broad audience the role and skillset of such a person. Other reports on Crew 29's experiences with Compendium (use on 'Mars' by the crew for planning surface explorations, and analyzing data, and by the scientists on 'Earth' to discuss the crew's decisions) are listed chronologically here. Collaboration tools Compendium knowledge mapping and meeting capture tool. BuddySpace location aware instant messaging and presence. http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=482 http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=482&scheduleid=408 Sat, 1 May 2004 14:00:00 +0100 Dr Simon Buckingham Shum <email@domain.com> The UK government seeks to overcome the 'digital divide', and offering "internet access for all who want it" by 2005. It is unlikely, however, that this will be achieved through government funded interventions focussing primarily on achieving physical access to the internet. My research considers that a possible solution may be found in the emerging phenomenon of grassroots initiated networked communities. These are communities of locality that have developed their own internet and/or intranet infrastructure with minimal external support. The first year of research was chiefly concerned with investigating issues surrounding the digital divide, technology adoption and sustainability. The initial findings will be presented, and the second year research introduced. In my second year I will be focussing on social software; considering whether web based collaborative tools can support the sustained development of networked communities. Download PowerPoint Presentation (1Mb ZIP file) http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=486 http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=486&scheduleid=412 Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:30:00 +0100 Mark Gaved <email@domain.com> DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications) is a flexible digital radio access technology for cordless communications in residential, business and public environments. Designed for short-range use as an access mechanism to the main networks, DECT offers cordless voice, fax, high speed data and multimedia communications, wireless local area networks and wireless PBX. It thus has applications in the factory, office, home and public areas. For network operators DECT is also a cost-effective and flexible alternative to conventional cable/fiber connections into customers' premises, by providing "Wireless Local Loop". Frequency bands have been made available for DECT in more than 100 countries worldwide. DECT services are compatible with GSM and ISDN and dual-mode DECT/GSM handsets are available. In a large number of countries DECT operates in a protected band, i.e. no interference from other technologies. ETSI DECT is one of the technologies the IMT-2000 specification. Note: the presentation is in German. The original web page for this presentation is http://www.ant.uni-hannover.de/Lehre/Kn/MIN.html http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=480 http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=480&scheduleid=406 Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:00:00 +0100 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Jobmann <email@domain.com> This presentation was recorded during Jornada "Desplegando IPv6" and the QuickTime version has been reproduced with kind permission by Juan Quemada. Abstract pending. Download Slide Presentation (222Kb PDF file) Note: the presentation is in Spanish. The original web page for this presentation is http://www.6sos.org/eventos.php http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=516 http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=516&scheduleid=453 Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:00:00 +0000 Eva Castro <email@domain.com> This presentation was recorded during Jornada "Desplegando IPv6" and the QuickTime version has been reproduced with kind permission by Juan Quemada. Abstract pending. Download Slide Presentation (542Kb PDF file) Note: the presentation is in Spanish. The original web page for this presentation is http://www.6sos.org/eventos.php http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=519 http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=519&scheduleid=455 Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:00:00 +0000 Javier Sedano <email@domain.com> This presentation was recorded during Jornada "Desplegando IPv6" and the QuickTime version has been reproduced with kind permission by Juan Quemada. Abstract pending. Download Slide Presentation (353Kb PDF file) Note: the presentation is in Spanish. The original web page for this presentation is http://www.6sos.org/eventos.php http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=517 http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=517&scheduleid=454 Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:30:00 +0000 David Fernández <email@domain.com> This talk looks at research aimed at extending the tradition of hypermedia support for decision-making, as in argumentation systems, and sense-making, as in spatial hypertext and concept mapping, by building on recent work in the conflict resolution and mediation fields. In these fields, the problems groups face are primarily with each other, as opposed to with subject matter. Facilitators must expressly address the emotional as well as more cognitive dimensions of a dispute situation. Mediation of such disputes often takes place in a highly charged environment, requiring great care and skill on the part of the facilitator. Traditional conflict resolution and mediation methods focused on rationalist approaches to surfacing issues and forging solutions. Recently, techniques such as transformative mediation (shifting the emphasis away from solution-finding toward individual empowerment and mutual recognition) and aesthetic intervention (using the creation and consideration of art objects as the means for articulation of nuance and emotional expressiveness in dialogue) have expanded the range of options that mediators and facilitators have to bring about reconciliation. Practitioners of such methods must draw on their own aesthetic and empathic skills in order to guide participants through sessions effectively. Self-reflection on these issues and experiences appears to be key in the ongoing improvement and effectiveness of such practices. In the first four months of my doctoral research at KMi, I have focused on three related questions: What could participatory hypermedia contribute to aesthetic intervention and transformative mediation practices? What is the role of the practitioner/facilitator of such efforts, in particular the required ethical and aesthetic competencies, especially in terms of the creation and shaping of hypermedia artifacts? What are the existing and needed affordances of Compendium for such work? I will describe the results of my initial literature review and experiments. Related Links: Al Selvin's Notes from Talk http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=485 http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=485&scheduleid=411 Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:30:00 +0000 Al Selvin <email@domain.com> In this talk I will discuss the various issues associated with the development and maintenance of semantic web sites, i.e., web sites augmented with semantic information, expressed using web-based knowledge representation languages, such as RDF or OWL. I will begin the presentation by discussing the nature of semantic web sites and I will illustrate the various roles semantics can play, such as providing information about web resources, structuring the architecture of a site, or even providing the globality of a site specification, as in the OntoWeaver approach. Having distinguished between different kinds of semantic web sites, I will then discuss the kind of functionalities that a semantic approach enables. In particular, I will use the KMi web site as a test case and present a number of semantics-enabled services, providing support for query answering, information visualization and browsing, and user customization. In the talk I will also address the pragmatic issues associated with constructing semantic web sites, such as how to address the annotation bottleneck. Hence, the purpose of the talk is two-fold: i) to illustrate the various issues associated with engineering semantic information on the web, and ii) to stimulate a discussion within KMi, both to gain an understanding of the advantages and costs associated with adding semantic information to the KMi web site, and to brainstorm about the kind of functionalities that such enhancement could enable. Download PowerPoint Presentation (4.8Mb ZIP file) http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=484 http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=484&scheduleid=410 Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:30:00 +0000 Prof. Enrico Motta <email@domain.com> The synchronous (real-time) presence of peer-group members can enhance the emotional well-being of tele-workers and improve problem solving performance and situated learning. To promote the deployment of next-generation presence-awareness tools in collaborative environments, we have implemented an open-source cross-platform Instant Messaging and geo-location tool called BuddySpace, which provides multiple views of collaborative workgroups based on the concept of 'active dots on geographically-accurate detailed maps', and augmented by a variety of semantically-based services. BuddySpace is being deployed in several innovative contexts, including distributed computing projects and distance learning courses at The Open University in order to create new models of peer collaboration for sharing the right knowledge with the right people in the right places at the right time. http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=399 http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=399&scheduleid=264 Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:00:00 +0000 Professor Marc Eisenstadt <email@domain.com> This presentation was recorded during the Third Internet Next Generation Workshop and this QuickTime version has been reproduced with kind permission by Juan Quemada. Abstract pending. Download Slide Presentation (1.3Mb PDF file) Note: The original web page for this presentation is http://internetng.dit.upm.es/english/jing-en2003.html http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=522 http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=522&scheduleid=458 Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:00:00 +0100 Dr. David Larrabeiti <email@domain.com> This presentation was recorded during the Third Internet Next Generation Workshop and this QuickTime version has been reproduced with kind permission by Juan Quemada. Abstract pending. View Slide Presentation Note: The original web page for this presentation is http://internetng.dit.upm.es/english/jing-en2003.html http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=521 http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=521&scheduleid=457 Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:40:00 +0100 Ivan Herman <email@domain.com> This presentation was recorded during the Third Internet Next Generation Workshop and this QuickTime version has been reproduced with kind permission by Juan Quemada. Abstract pending. Download Slide Presentation (1.0Mb PDF file) Note: the presentation is in Spanish. The original web page for this presentation is http://internetng.dit.upm.es/english/jing-en2003.html http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=520 http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?s=32&whichevent=520&scheduleid=456 Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:00:00 +0100 Azucena Hernandez <email@domain.com>