Research Ideas

These are some topics that I am interested in and in which I'd be keen to work with others on joint projects or just discuss ideas
 

• Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
• Computer Supported Cooperative Learning (CSCL)
• Collaboration in Digital Libraries
• Interactive Learning Environments
• Designing Interfaces for the above
• Interfaces as Notations
• Interfaces as a medium of communication between people
• Explicit representation in interfaces of abstractions such as plans, goals & heuristics
• Algorithm Animation
• Visualisation of process (especially what has been done using a system to facilitate help-giving)
• Designing interfaces for coping with failure: (users getting stuck and needing help)
• Low cost interface design techniques
• Artificial Life, especially the visualisation of the underlying algorithms
• Learning from Computer Simulations
• Systems to teach conceptually difficult or counter-intuitive ideas, including probability, risk & emergent behaviour
• Informal Learning, including 'Over the shoulder learning' in offices
• Incremental learning of how to use software
• Misconception Diagnosis, student modelling
• Explanation by use of examples
• Efficient help giving (co-located and remote) and technologies to support it
• Learning efficient search skills
• Evaluation of CSCW
• Collaborative technology in courts and law offices
• Interfaces for information search
• Integrating ethnographic techniques into the systems design process

Some of these are based on research I've done, some are spin-offs from it and some are new departures based on general interest