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    • The Student Perspective: Can the Use of Technologies Transform Learning? 

      O'DONNELL, EILEEN (IGI Global, 2012)
      This chapter explores students? perspectives on the transformations that the use of technology has brought to higher education. The use of technologies in higher education facilitates flexible learning environments but ...
    • Technology Enhanced Learning: Students' Views 

      O'DONNELL, EILEEN; SHARP, MARY (2011)
      User feedback is very important in all areas of computer science especially in the development of computer applications. Hence, student feedback on the use of technology enhanced learning in higher education in Ireland ...
    • Linking localisation and language resources 

      Lawless, Seamus; Lewis, David (Springer-Verlag LNCS, 2012)
      Industrial localisation is changing from the periodic translation of large bodies of content to a long-tail of small, heterogeneous translations processed in an agile and demand-driven manner. Software localisation and ...
    • A Framework for the Evaluation of Adaptive IR Systems through Implicit Recommendation 

      O'DONNELL, EILEEN; LAWLESS, SEAMUS; GHORAB, MOHAMMED RAMI ELHUSSEIN; WADE, VINCENT; SHARP, MARY; MULWA, CATHERINE (Springer-Verlag LNCS, 2011)
      Personalised Information Retrieval (PIR) has gained considerable attention in recent literature. In PIR different stages of the retrieval process are adapted to the user, such as adapting the user?s query or the results. ...
    • Enhancing Access to Open Corpus Educational Content: Learning in the Wild 

      HEDERMAN, LUCY MARY; WADE, VINCENT PATRICK; LAWLESS, SEAMUS (2008)
      The World Wide Web (WWW) provides access to a vast array of interconnected educational content on almost every subject imaginable. A great deal of this content is ideal for incorporation into personalised eLearning ...
    • A Web-based Framework for the Evaluation of End-User Experience in Adaptive and Personalised eLearning Systems 

      MULWA, CATHERINE; LAWLESS, SEAMUS; WADE, VINCENT; SHARP, MARY (IEEE, 2011)
      The evaluation of interactive adaptive and personalised systems has long been acknowledged as a difficult, complicated and very demanding endeavour due to the complex nature of these systems. This paper describes a web-based ...
    • The CULTURA Project: CULTivating Understanding and Research through Adaptivity 

      LAWLESS, SEAMUS (2011)
      CULTURA will deliver personalisation and community-aware adaptivity for Digital Humanities communities through an innovative environment which is tailored to the investigation, comprehension and enrichment of digital ...
    • A Proposal for the Evaluation of Adaptive Content Retrieval, Modification and Delivery 

      WADE, VINCENT PATRICK; LAWLESS, SEAMUS; LEVACHER, KILLIAN (2011)
      A key advantage of Adaptive Hypermedia Systems (AHS) is their ability to re-sequence and reintegrate content to satisfy a particular user?s need, context or requirements. However, this requires large volumes of content, ...
    • Multilingual Adaptive Search for Digital Libraries 

      LAWLESS, SEAMUS; GHORAB, MOHAMMED RAMI ELHUSSEIN; O'CONNOR, ALEXANDER; ZHOU, DONG; WADE, VINCENT (LNCS, 2011)
      We describe a framework for Adaptive Multilingual Information Retrieval (AMIR) which allows multilingual resource discovery and delivery using on-the-fly machine translation of documents and queries. Result documents are ...
    • An Evaluation Framework for End-User Experience in Adaptive Systems 

      SHARP, MARY; MULWA, CATHERINE; WADE, VINCENT PATRICK; LAWLESS, SEAMUS (LNCS, 2011)
      The evaluation of adaptive and personalised systems is a difficult, complicated and very demanding endeavour due to the complex nature of these systems and the usability issues encountered. This demonstration introduces a ...
    • An Evaluation Framework for End-User Experience in Adaptive Systems 

      SHARP, MARY; WADE, VINCENT PATRICK; LAWLESS, SEAMUS; MULWA, CATHERINE (2011)
      The evaluation of adaptive and personalised systems is a difficult, complicated and very demanding endeavour due to the complex nature of these systems and the usability issues encountered. This demonstration introduces a ...
    • User-centred Evaluations of Adaptive Systems 

      SHARP, MARY; WADE, VINCENT PATRICK; LAWLESS, SEAMUS; MULWA, CATHERINE (BCS, 2010)
      Adaptive Hypermedia (AH) research is concerned with the dynamic composition and personalisation of hypermedia documents in order to provide more context sensitive retrieval and reuse of digital content. The evaluation of ...
    • The Evaluation of Adaptive and User-Adaptive Systems: A Review 

      SHARP, MARY; WADE, VINCENT; LAWLESS, SEAMUS; MULWA, CATHERINE (2011)
      A current problem with the research of adaptive systems is the inconsistency of evaluation applied to the adaptive systems. However, evaluating an adaptive system is a difficult task due to the complexity of such systems. ...
    • Automatic Metadata Mining from Multilingual Enterprise Content 

      WADE, VINCENT; SAH, MELIKE (2012)
      Personalization is increasingly vital especially for enterprises to be able to reach their customers. The key challenge in supporting personalization is the need for rich metadata, such as metadata about structural ...
    • A Late Fusion Approach to Cross-Lingual Document Re-ranking 

      ZHOU, DONG; WADE, VINCENT PATRICK; LAWLESS, SEAMUS (ACM, 2010)
      The field of information retrieval still strives to develop models which allow semantic information to be integrated in the ranking process to improve performance in comparison to standard bag- of-words based models. ...
    • Dual-Space Re-ranking Model for Document Retrieval 

      ZHOU, DONG; WADE, VINCENT PATRICK; LAWLESS, SEAMUS (2012-02-13)
      The field of information retrieval still strives to develop models which allow semantic information to be integrated in the ranking process to improve perform- ance in comparison to standard bag-of- words based models. A ...
    • Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems in Technology Enhanced Learning: A Literature Review 

      ARNEDILLO, INMACULADA; MULWA, CATHERINE (ACM, 2010)
      This literature review focuses on the educational benefits afforded to learners by Technology Enhanced Learning Environments (TELE) which adapt and personalize the learning experience. More specifically it focuses on ...
    • A Proposal for the Evaluation of Adaptive Information Retrieval Systems using Simulated Interaction 

      MULWA, CATHERINE (ACM, 2010)
      The Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) is involved in building interactive adaptive systems which combine Information Retrieval (IR), Adaptive Hypermedia (AH) and adaptive web techniques and technologies. The ...
    • Authentication and Authorization Mechanisms for Multi-Domain Grid Environments 

      O'CALLAGHAN, DAVID (Springer, 2004-12)
      This article discusses the authentication and the authorization aspects of security in grid environments spanning multiple administrative domains. Achieve- ments in these areas are presented using the EU DataGrid project ...
    • The REL Project: Mobilebased Reliable Relations 

      O'CALLAGHAN, DAVID; Seigneur, Jean-Marc; Argyroudis, Patroklos; Abendroth, Joerg (2004)
      The goal of the REL project is to enable easy, large-scale, anytime anywhere access to, and use of social network services, with the underlying requirements to restrict and control the access to the user's information with ...