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View article: Holding a lead, or the tail wagging the dog? Exploring educator influence over the behaviour of AI Digital Assistants
Holding a lead, or the tail wagging the dog? Exploring educator influence over the behaviour of AI Digital Assistants Open
As GenAI tools become more pervasive in learning, the ways in which educators can influence the behaviour of these systems should be a focus for research and innovation. As part of designing and trialling an institutional AI digital assist…
A Design-Based Research Approach to What Distance Learners Expect and Value from an Institutional AI Digital Assistant Open
The rapid evolution of Generative AI (Gen AI) and its integration into higher education necessitates a critical evaluation of teaching and learning practices. Many students already use publicly available AI Digital Assistants (p-AIDA) such…
Developing an Institutional AI Digital Assistant in an Age of Industry 5.0 Open
In Industry 5.0 it is essential that humans are in the loop of technology integration of industry processes. With the advancements of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), a lot of new opportunities and challenges for learning and te…
Students’ Perceptions of AI Digital Assistants (AIDAs): Should Institutions Invest in Their Own AIDAs? Open
This mixed methods study explores 315 distance learning students’ perceptions of artificial intelligence digital assistants (AIDAs) over an 11-month period in three distinct studies. The research investigates student perspectives on both a…
Best Practices for the Responsible Adoption of Generative AI in Higher Education Open
In this paper, we propose a set of best practices for the responsible adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education. These best practices provide a comprehensive framework for higher education institutions to effe…
Towards Computer-Using Personal Agents Open
Computer-Using Agents (CUA) enable users to automate increasingly-complex tasks using graphical interfaces such as browsers. As many potential tasks require personal data, we propose Computer-Using Personal Agents (CUPAs) that have access …
View article: Semantic Web and Creative AI -- A Technical Report from ISWS 2023
Semantic Web and Creative AI -- A Technical Report from ISWS 2023 Open
The International Semantic Web Research School (ISWS) is a week-long intensive program designed to immerse participants in the field. This document reports a collaborative effort performed by ten teams of students, each guided by a senior …
An institutional AI digital assistant: what do distance learners expect and value? Open
The rapid evolution of Generative AI (Gen AI) and its integration into higher education necessitates a critical evaluation of teaching and learning practices. Many students already use publicly available AI digital assistants (p-AIDA) like…
I would love this to be like an assistant, not the teacher: a voice of the customer perspective of what distance learning students want from an Artificial Intelligence Digital Assistant Open
With the release of Generative AI systems such as ChatGPT, an increasing interest in using Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been observed across domains, including higher education. While emerging statistics show the popularity of using AI…
View article: Trust, Accountability, and Autonomy in Knowledge Graph-Based AI for Self-Determination
Trust, Accountability, and Autonomy in Knowledge Graph-Based AI for Self-Determination Open
Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have emerged as fundamental platforms for powering intelligent decision-making and a wide range of Artificial Intelligence (AI) services across major corporations such as Google, Walmart, and AirBnb. KGs complement M…
Decency and Decentralisation: Verifiable Decentralised Knowledge Graph Querying Open
Increasing interest in decentralisation for data and processing on the Web brings with it the need to re-examine methods for verifying data and behaviour for scalable multi-party interactions. We consider factors relevant to verification o…
Towards Decentralised Learning Analytics (Positioning Paper) Open
When students interact with an online course, the routes they take when navigating through the course can be captured. Learning Analytics is the process of measuring, collecting, recording, and analysing this Student Activity Data. Predict…
Armour Open
Large-scale and distributed systems are good examples where the experimental approach is necessary. Such systems are built using very advanced features that have several multi-level interlinks/dependencies, which make it very difficult to …
FORGE: An eLearning Framework for Remote Laboratory Experimentation on FIRE Testbed Infrastructure Open
The Forging Online Education through FIRE (FORGE) initiative provides educators and learners in higher education with access to world-class FIRE testbed infrastructure. FORGE supports experimentally driven research in an eLearning environm…
ECIAO: Bridging EU-China Future Internet Common Activities and Opportunities Open
The ECIAO project supported EU-China co-operation on activities related to Future Internet Experimental Research (FIRE) and IPv6 deployment. Strengthening EU-China joint research efforts on the Future Internet by facilitating the trialling…
Next Generation Internet Research and Experimentation Open
The Internet as we know it today is a critical infrastructure composed by communication services and end-user applications transforming all aspects of our lives. Recent advances in technology and the inexorable shift towards everything con…
View article: Knowledge Graphs Evolution and Preservation -- A Technical Report from ISWS 2019
Knowledge Graphs Evolution and Preservation -- A Technical Report from ISWS 2019 Open
One of the grand challenges discussed during the Dagstuhl Seminar "Knowledge Graphs: New Directions for Knowledge Representation on the Semantic Web" and described in its report is that of a: "Public FAIR Knowledge Graph of Everything: We …
Towards Complete Decentralised Verification of Data with Confidentiality: Different ways to connect Solid Pods and Blockchain Open
Over-centralisation of data leads to tampering and sharing user information without the consent of the owners. This problem has been studied extensively in recent times providing separate solutions involving distributed storage, Blockchain…
COVID-19 Antibody Test Certification: There's an app for that Open
Goal: As the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2019/2020 unfolds, a COVID-19 'Immunity Passport' has been mooted as a way to enable individuals to return back to work. While the quality of antibody testing, the availability of vaccines, and the like…
Toward the Next Wave of Services: Linked Services for the Web of Data Open
It has often been argued that Web services would have a tremendous impact on the Web, as a core enabling technology supporting a highly efficient service-based economy at a global scale. However, despite the outstanding progress in the are…
A Case Study on the Decentralisation of Lifelong Learning Using Blockchain Technology Open
Blockchain technology provides a decentralised peer-to-peer infrastructure, supporting openness, transparency, accountability, identity management and trust. As such, the Blockchain has the potential to revolutionise education in a number …
Blockchain Applications in Lifelong Learning and the Role of the Semantic Blockchain Open
The emergence of the blockchain promises to revolutionise not only the financial world but also lifelong learning in various ways. Blockchain technology offers opportunities to thoroughly rethink how we find educational content and tutorin…
The FAIR TRADE Framework for Assessing Decentralised Data Solutions Open
Decentralised data solutions bring their own sets of capabilities, requirements and issues not necessarily present in centralised solutions. In order to compare the properties of different approaches or tools for management of decentralise…
Linked Data on theWeb and its Relationship with Distributed Ledgers (LDOW/LDDL) Open
Decentralised data solutions bring their own sets of capabilities, requirements and issues not necessarily present in centralised solutions. In order to compare the properties of different approaches or tools for management of decentralise…
Peer-reviews on the blockchain Open
Peer-reviewing holds a significant importance in the process of scientific publishing. The process of peer-reviewing has been criticized for its defects, but research communities have faith in it, and hence, it is perceived as the backbone…
3rd International Workshop on Linked Data and Distributed Ledgers Chairs' Welcome & Organization Open
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the WWW 2018 3rd International Workshop on Linked Data and Distributed Ledgers (LD-DL). We envision the workshop as a forum for researchers and practitioners from Distributed Ledgers and Linked Da…
ScienceMiles Open
Peer-reviewing is a community-driven activity where volunteer researchers assess the work of other researchers. Peer-reviewing is an important and time-consuming activity that has very little recognition. This lack of incentive may lead to…
Building the Future Internet through FIRE Open
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Linked Data Indexing of Distributed Ledgers Open
Searching for information in distributed ledgers is currently not an easy task, as information relating to an entity may be scattered throughout the ledger with no index. As distributed ledger technologies become more established, they wil…