E-mail: e.de.quincey@cs.keele.ac.uk
Phone: 01782 733246
Room: CR122
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I am currently a member of the Knowledge Modelling Research Group in the School of Computing and Mathematics at Keele University. The Group's research is primarily about knowledge; how to elicit it from people, how to model it, how to test it for accuracy, and how to teach it. The Group's website contains further information about the areas of research that we are currently involved with as well as several blog articles describing recent findings and the techniques we use.
Elicitation techniques
My PhD research involves using a technique called Card Sorts to elicit the attributes of web pages and music that people are interested in. As part of this I have developed an online card sorting tool which allows researchers to perform card sorts with a variety of media i.e. photos, music, not just words which previous tools were restricted to.I am also researching a range of elicitation, development and evaluation techniques for constructing websites as part of an undergraduate web development module e.g. paper prototyping, laddering, think aloud etc.
Visualisation
An other area of research that I am interested in is visualisation, in particular methods for representing large amounts of code and data. There have been several outputs from this research including a paper in CSIC and PPIG, winning a design competition for a symposium booklet cover and numerous large scale representations of mathematical numbers e.g. Pi to 1 million digits.
Music Categorisation
Following on from my PhD research, I have been investigating people's perceptions and categorisations of music and comparing them to automated methods. In collaboration with other researchers within the School, software is being developed that identifies and visualises the features of music that respondents like and dislike.
de Quincey, E., Hawksley, C. (2008) Collaborative learning inside and outside of a Wiki Environment, proceedings of ICS Novel Approaches to Promoting Student Engagement Workshop Under Review
de Quincey, E., Rugg, G. (2007) "Drying up" in card sorts: a possible explanation. In Progress
Petre, M., de Quincey, E. (2006) A gentle overview of software visualisation jointly published in the Computer Society of India Communications (CSIC) and Autumn 2006 PPIG newsletter. This is available online via the September 2006 PPIG newsletter.
de Quincey, E., Kyriacou, T. Musical Similarity: A Comparison of Card Sorts and Frequency/Rhythm Fingerprints
Mercia Spinner Grant for Design Recognition Project
TE3 funded Multimedia Marketing Resource Kit
TE3 funded Virtual Interviews with micro business entrepreneurs
E-mail: r.b.eyre@cs.keele.ac.uk
Phone: 01782 733435
Room: CR110
MSc Teaching Fellow
Following 32 years working in retail banking, specialising in corporate finance, I retired to establish and property investment company. In my spare time I completed an HNC Computing course and, later, BSc Computer Science at Keele. My other main interests include walking and climbing.
