Michael Twidale

Background

Selected Publications

Research Interests

• Evaluating the learnability of novel devices
• End user innovation and appropriation of technologies
• Computer supported cooperative work
• Computer supported collaborative learning
• User interface design and evaluation
• User error analysis
• Overlooked problems in cyberinfrastructure
• Collaborative data quality improvement
• Collaborative information retrieval
• Visualisation of information and algorithms
• Development of interfaces to support the articulation of plans, goals and beliefs
• The interlinking of LIS, Digital Libraries, CSCW, CSCL and HCI
• Distance Education: technologies to support the learning of technical subjects
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Research Projects

• The Eclectic Design Research Group. A group of people exploring a range of different high speed, low cost methods to tackle research questions in CSCW and HCI
• XE: Extreme Evaluation
• The Usability of Open Source Software
• Over The Shoulder Learning. An investigation of informal workplace learning of computer applications, and the development of functionalities and interfaces to support the process
• CSC* The interactions, actual and potential, between computer supported cooperative work, computer supported collaborative learning and computer supported collaborative play. These can occur at work, in the classroom, in public spaces or in the home
• Web mash-ups as resources for rapid collaborative application development
• The Cyberdocent. An investigation of the possibilities of using advanced networked technologies in museums
• Information Quality Processes in Wikipedia

Courses Taught Fall 2012

Courses Taught Previously