The Social Web provides a vast source of user-generated content embedding different views on real life events and activities. Although there is a notable effort to utilise this content in personalisation applications, the existing approaches do not exploit the diversity of individual viewpoints for user modelling and adaptation. On the other hand, the semantic web community has developed extens...

Most electronic documents have a predefined structure, and a visualization of a document is adjusted to this structure. In many cases, however, it is desirable to have different visual representations of the document. This becomes especially important if there is additional information available, for instance, annotations. This paper introduces Magic Pages, a user interface technique that suppo...

MViews is a new approach to building Integrated Software Development Environments (ISDEs). Graph-based representations of software system data, and multiple views of this data, are kept consistent via graph components responding to descriptions of changes made to other components. This technique supports integrated, bi-directionally consistent graphical (interactively-edited) and textual (free-...

Many modelling languages have both a textual and a graphical form. The relationship between these two forms ought to be clear and concrete, but is instead commonly underspecified, weak, and informal. Further, processes and tool support for modelling often do not treat both forms as first-class citizens, instead choosing to favour one as the “real” representation and the other as a derivable rep...

Social user-generated content (e.g. comments, blogs) will play a key role in learning environments providing a rich source for capturing diverse viewpoints; and is particularly beneficial in ill-defined domains that encompass diverse interpretations. This paper presents ViewS a framework for capturing viewpoints from user-generated textual content following a semantic sensing approach. It perfo...

Technological advancements in the life sciences have enabled biologists to generate high volumes of heterogeneous, multimedia data. The challenge today lies in correlating and integrating the information in ways that promote a holistic understanding of the underlying biological phenomena. This paper presents our research in designing an experiential information interaction environment for query...

Searching the web Searching information on the web is becoming a daily activity for many. The web is growing at a phenomenal rate; some sources say there are currently over 2.5 billion pages available and this number is increasing by 7.3 million pages per day [1,2]. Despite this complexity current search engines do an amazing job. However, search results are mostly presented in rank-ordered lis...

This paper describes a demonstration of the SHriMP visualization tool. SHriMP provides a flexible and customizable environment for exploring software programs. It supports the embedding of multiple views, both graphical and textual within a nested graph display of a program’s software architecture. SHriMP has recently been redesigned and reimplemented using Java Bean components. These APIs allo...