Social network visualization in collaborative work and learning

Summary

This project involves exploring ways in which Web 2.0 tools can increase productivity and improve learning experiences.

Supervisor(s)

Dr Rafael A. Calvo

Research Location

Electrical and Information Engineering

Program Type

Synopsis

The recent social phenomenon of Web 2.0 applications, such as facebook, linkedin, and myspace, has brought in a new era of online social interaction. Increasingly they are being used for professional and educational purposes.

We are focusing on developing new text-mining techniques such as clustering and automatic summarization, and using them in realistic scenarios.

Keywords

text-mining, social networks, web applications

Opportunity ID

The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is: 277

Other opportunities with Dr Rafael A. Calvo

• Semantic awareness in collaborative writing
• Automatic mapping of concepts and relationships
• Evaluation of classification algorithms for Brain Computer Interfaces
• Multimodal emotion recognition
• Multimodal approaches for detecting attention in Human-Computer Interaction