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Dr Mark Weal 

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Director of the Web Science Institute

Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Web Science and Innovation

Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Human Centred AI

Co-Director of the LifeGuide programme of research

Mark is an Associate Professor in the Web and Internet Science Group in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. He is a Director of the Web Science Institute, the Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Web Science Innovation and the Centre for Doctoral Training in Human Centred AI. Mark is a Web Science Trust Fellow and a member of the University strategic research groups the ECS Centre for Health Technologies and the Centre of Excellence for the Future of Human Communication and the Interdisciplinary Dementia and Ageing Centre (iDeAC).

He is a co-director and the technical lead for the LifeGuide project, a multidisciplinary initiative led by Professor Lucy Yardley that has attracted funding of well over £45 million (from MRC, EPSRC, ESRC, NIHR, EC and medical charities) for the development of online digital public health interventions such as weight management, hand hygiene and smoking cessation, as well as illness management interventions including diabetes, cancer, respiratory conditions and eczema.

In addition to online behaviour change initiatives, Mark's research interests include the application of Semantic Web technologies to pervasive systems and methodologies for the use of social media data to assist in disaster management. Mark has worked for a number of years in the area of information systems, from hypermedia systems for eLearning through to information infrastructures for multi-user pervasive experiences as exemplified by his work on the Equator IRC.

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LifeGuide

The LifeGuide research programme is a multidisciplinary initiative led by Professor Lucy Yardley (Psychology) and Dr Mark Weal (Computer Science) at the University of Southampton. We have developed a unique set of open source software tools, that allows intervention designers with no experience of programming to create interactive web-based interventions to support healthy behaviour.

Social Sciences, Social Data and the Semantic Web (S3W)

The research will be the detailed investigation into if and how Semantic Linked Data might be harnessed for social science research. To achieve this we have drawn together a strong team of social and computational scientists, with a well-established track record of collaboration. This team will be supported by an outstanding Advisory Group of experts, who have already agreed to participate in this project

Personalised long-term follow-up of cochlear implant patients using remote care

A Health Foundation funded project to design, implement and evaluate a person-centred long-term follow-up pathway for cochlear implant users offering a triple approach of remote and self-monitoring, self-adjustment of devices and a personalised online or smartphone intervention package (LifeGuide) for testing their own hearing at home, information, self-rehabilitation, advice, equipment training and troubleshooting.

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Developing a smartphone app to monitor real-world listening behaviour and assess risk factors

A British Tinnitus Association funded project to to create an smartphone app that works unobtrusively in the background, monitoring the sound level output, as well as behaviors such as how volume settings are adjusted, which media apps are being used, and what content is being accessed.

StoryPlaces

A Leverhulme funded project exploring the poetics of location-based narratives.

UBhave

The UBhave project seeks to investigate the power and challenges of using mobile phones and social networking for Digital Behaviour Change Interventions (DBCIs), and to contribute to creating a scientific foundation for digitally supported behaviour change.

WIME: Developing and Evaluating Interventions to Reduce Inappropriate Prescribing of Antibiotics in Primary Care.

The WIME will be targeted at inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics in primary care. It will systematically develop and evaluate theory-based interventions that correspond to the theoretical, modelling and experimental phases of the MRC Framework.

LifeCIT

Development and pilot evaluation of a web-supported programme of Constraint Induced Therapy following stroke (LifeCIT)

OpenImpact

Open Impact is a project to help collect evidence about the impact of research that has been undertaken in UK universities and to provide it to a range of stakeholders (government, funders, press etc) through an independent third party agency (a learned society).

Semantic Technologies in Learning and Teaching (SemTech)

Identifying and quantifying the benefits of Semantic technologies for formal and informal learning.

Grid-Enabled Data Collection and Analysis - Semantic Annotation in Skills-Based Learning

A case study in semantic annotation focused on the research and practice of skills-based learning in the context of health care education.

Electronic Visualisation of nineteenth-century French literary-scientific texts

Created and piloted an interactive electronic visualisation tool to be used in 2008-9 delivery of research-led nineteenth-century French literature and culture teaching using Web 2.0 technologies to allow students to explore the multiple perspectives, themes contexts and timelines within their core texts.

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  • Weal, Mark J., Cruickshank, Don G., Michaelides, Danius T., Millard, David E., De Roure, David C., Hornecker, Eva, Halloran, John and Fitzpatrick, Geraldine (2006) A Reusable, Extensible Infrastructure for Augmented Field Trips. PerEL 2006, 2nd International workshop on Pervasive eLearning in conjunction with PerCom 2006, Pisa, Italy. pp. 201-205 .

  • Weal, Mark J., Cruickshank, Don G., Michaelides, Danius T., Millard, David E., De Roure, David C., Halloran, John, Hornecker, Eva and Fitzpatrick, Geraldine (2006) A persistent infrastructure for augmented field trips. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Ed-Media 06, Orlando, Florida, United States.

  • Jennings, N. R., Cohn, A.C., Fox, M., Long, D., Luck, M.M., Michaelides, D.T., Munroe, S.J. and Weal, M.J. (2006) Interaction, planning and motivation. In, Morris, R., Taressenko, L. and Kenward, M. (eds.) Cognitive systems: Information processing meets brain science. Elsevier, pp. 163-188.

  • Weal, Mark J., Hornecker, Eva, Cruickshank, Don G., Michaelides, Danius T., Millard, David E., Halloran, John, De Roure, David C. and Fitzpatrick, Geraldine (2006) Requirements for In-Situ Authoring of Location Based Experiences. 8th ACM International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 06), Espoo, Finland. 11 - 14 Sep 2006. pp. 121-128 .

  • Halloran, John, Hornecker, Eva, Fitzpatrick, Geraldine, Weal, Mark J., Millard, David E., Michaelides, Danius T., Cruickshank, Don G. and De Roure, David C. (2006) The Literacy Fieldtrip: Using UbiComp to Support Children's Creative Writing. 5th International Conference for Interaction Design and Children, Tampere, Finland. 06 - 08 Jun 2006. pp. 17-24 .

  • Hornecker, Eva, Halloran, John, Fitzpatrick, Geraldine, Weal, Mark J., Millard, David E., Michaelides, Danius T., Cruickshank, Don G. and De Roure, David C. (2006) UbiComp in Opportunity Spaces: Challenges for Participatory Design. Participatory Design Conference (PDC '06), Trento, Italy. 30 Jul - 04 Aug 2006. pp. 47-56 .

  • Halloran, John, Hornecker, Eva, Fitzpatrick, Geraldine, Weal, Mark J., Millard, David E., Michaelides, Danius T., Cruickshank, Don G. and De Roure, David C. (2006) Unfolding understandings: co-designing UbiComp In Situ, over time. Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems archive, in Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Designing Interactive systems, University Park, PA, United States. pp. 109-118 .

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  • Rogers, Yvonne, Price, Sara, Fitzpatrick, Geraldine, Fleck, Rowanne, Harris, Eric, Smith, Hilary, Randell, Cliff, Muller, Henk, O'Malley, Claire, Stanton, Danäe, Thompson, Mark and Weal, Mark J. (2004) Ambient Wood: Designing New Forms of Digital Augmentation for Learning Outdoors. Third International Conference for Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2004), Maryland, United States. 31 May - 02 Jun 2004. pp. 1-9 .

  • Millard, David E., De Roure, David C., Michaelides, Danius T., Thompson, Mark K. and Weal, Mark J. (2004) Navigational Hypertext Models For Physical Hypermedia Environments. Hypertext 2004. The Fifteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Santa Cruz, CA, United States. 08 - 12 Aug 2004. pp. 110-111 .

  • Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Millard, David E., Weal, Mark J., Hall, Wendy, Lewis, Paul H. and Shadbolt, Nigel (2004) Using Protege for Automatic Ontology Instantiation. 7th International Protégé Conference, Bethesda, Maryland, United States. 05 - 08 Jul 2004.

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  • Kim, Sanghee, Alani, Harith, Hall, Wendy, Lewis, Paul, Millard, David, Shadbolt, Nigel and Weal, Mark (2002) Artequakt: Generating Tailored Biographies from Automatically Annotated Fragments from the Web. Workshop on Semantic Authoring, Annotation & Knowledge Markup (SAAKM’02), the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (ECAI’02), Lyon, France. 20 - 25 Jul 2002. pp. 1-6 .

  • Chalmers, Matthew, Brown, Barry, Benford, Steve, Dalton, R, Dalton, N, Galani, Areti, Greenhalgh, Chris, MacColl, Ian, Michaelides, Danius T., Millard, David E., Randell, Cliff, Steed, Anthony, Rodden, Tom, Taylor, Ian and Weal, Mark J. (2002) Blurring the boundaries of the Mackintosh room. CHI 2002 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. 19 - 24 Apr 2002.

  • Rogers, Yvonne, Price, Sara, Harris, Eric, Phelps, Ted, Underwood, Mia, Wilde, Danielle, Muller, Henk, Randell, Cliff, Stanton, Danae, Neale, Helen, Thompson, M., Weal, Mark and Michaelides, Danius T (2002) Learning through digitally-augmented physical experiences: Reflections on the ambient wood project. Equator Project 19pp.

  • Sinclair, Patrick, Martinez, Kirk, Millard, David and Weal, Mark J. (2002) Links in the Palm of your Hand: Tangible Hypermedia using Augmented Reality. The Thirteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Maryland, United States. pp. 127-136 .

  • De Roure, David C., Cruickshank, Don G., Michaelides, Danius T., Page, Kevin R. and Weal, Mark J. (2002) On Hyperstructure and Musical Structure. The Thirteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2002), Maryland, United States. 10 - 14 Jun 2002. pp. 95-104 .

  • Weal, Mark J., Bernstein, Mark and Millard, David E. (2002) On Writing Sculptural Hypertext. The Thirteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Maryland, United States. pp. 65-66 .

  • Griffiths, Jon, Millard, David E., Davis, Hugh, Michaelides, Danius T. and Weal, Mark J. (2002) Reconciling Versioning and Context in Hypermedia Structure Servers. Nürnberg, Peter J. (ed.) Metainformatics International Symposium, MIS 2002, Esbjerg, Denmark. 06 - 09 Aug 2002. pp. 118-131 .

  • MacColl, Ian, Millard, David E, Randell, Cliff, Steed, Anthony, Brown, Barry, Benford, Steve, Chalmers, Matthew, Conroy, Ruth, Dalton, Nick, Galani, Areti, Greenhalgh, Chris, Michaelides, Danius T, Rodden, Tom, Taylor, Ian and Weal, Mark (2002) Shared visiting in EQUATOR city. CVE '02: 4th international conference on Collaborative virtual environments, Bonn, Germany. pp. 88-94 .

  • Bailey, Christopher, Hall, Wendy, Millard, David E. and Weal, Mark J. (2002) Towards Open Adaptive Hypermedia. De Bra, Paul, Brusilovsky, Peter and Conejo, Ricardo (eds.) 2nd International Conference, Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, Málaga, Spain. 28 - 30 May 2002. pp. 36-46 .

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