SILVER: Semantic Interactive Learning Visualisation Environment Research
Lead Research Organisation:
The Open University
Department Name: Knowledge Media Institute
Abstract
SILVER will develop new methods, tools and applications for knowledge visualisation in learning. The R&D addresses the creation of intelligent learning objects with semantic metadata, reasoning about complex situations, the visualisation of domain knowledge and knowledge structures. The authoring and delivery environment will exploit interactive whiteboards for knowledge visualisation, and online PCs & mobile devices for input, interaction and personalised access. It will deliver semantic-based visualisation of the community's knowledge, goals, reasoning, usage & assessment, and online presence. The project partners will produce a toolkit for building Visual Interactive Presentations with semantic reasoning and visualisation, and exemplary applications for education and business training. SILVER will enable future development of learning resources, knowledge visualisation and reasoning in educational, training, corporate and consumer use.
Publications
Collins T
(2012)
Web supported emplotment
Mulholland P
(2008)
Blending coherence and control in the construction of interactive educational narratives from digital resources
in Interactive Learning Environments
Mulholland P.
(2008)
Learning through the construction and use of intelligent image narratives.
in Narrative Interactive Learning Environments
Mulholland, P
(2009)
Intelligent support for inquiry learning from images: a learning scenario and tool
Pavel G
(2010)
Progress towards intelligent support for human articulation of concepts from examples
in International Journal of Knowledge and Learning
Pavel G.
(2009)
How do some concepts vanish over time?
in The 18th Annual Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning
Wolff A
(2010)
Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management
| Description | The research produced methods for associating key concepts and interpreting visual images and for learning lessons by comparing and contrasting images and annotations. |
| Exploitation Route | The approach has been to new domains, esp. cultural heritage and education. Some of these spin-off results are in routine use. |
| Sectors | Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Description | The project has developed a machine learning based methods and algorithms for the interpretation of visual data. The methods have been further adapted and extended in the project that followed: Decipher and Eurogene (both CEC supported), CORE and Retain (Jisc supported). Eurogene has been used as an environment for education European geneticists, CORE has become the UK Open Access aggregator. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2011 |
| Sector | Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Policy & public services |
| Description | FP7 |
| Amount | € 507,767 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 01/2011 |
| End | 12/2013 |
| Description | Decipher |
| Organisation | Dublin Institute of Technology |
| Country | Ireland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Research into the interpretation of heritage objects |
| Collaborator Contribution | Coordination, development of interfaces for interaction with heritage objects,experiments and evaluation |
| Impact | See the list of publications |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Title | Decision Tree to support learning from images |
| Description | machine learning algorithms to identify patterns of learning using visual images |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | The method has been reused in another projects, 2 PhD theses are based on these principles |
| Description | AIED |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Knowledge dissemination at the international conference Citation of the paper |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| URL | http://iaied.org/conf/event/1 |
| Description | Focus groups |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 20 teachers attended the focus groups to help with the development of the technology, then the technology was tested in a group of about 60 pupils New methods for scaffolding learners to understand the complex issues of sustainable development were developed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Hypertext |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Knowledge dissemination at the international conference Paper citation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| URL | http://ht2010.org |
| Description | KSEM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Knowledge dissemination at the international conference paper citation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| URL | http://www.ulster.ac.uk/ksem2010 |