I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at Open Lab. My research interest lies in the improvement of interactions between humans and AI by integrating Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) approaches with Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies that facilitate effective collaboration and co-creation. I am particularly interested in the empirical understanding of the future of AI-powered interactive systems with ethical, legal, and societal values, through developing and experimenting with intelligent software and hardware that enable and advance creativity, productivity, adaptability, participation, diversity, inclusion, and heterogeneity, in a range of areas including education, design, publicity, and wellbeing. For more information, see my Newcastle University profile.
I’m a Co-I on EPSRC funded AGENCY: Assuring Citizen Agency in a World with Complex Online Harms (EP/W032481/1), which aims to establish interdisciplinary scientific methods, technology, and collaborative societal approaches to provide online agency to people in a world with complex online harms.
My up-to-date publication list is on Google Scholar. Please get in touch on Twitter and LinkedIn.
2025
WellnessSpace: Transforming Social Media Through Adaptive Well-being Intelligence
2025 – The 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)
FretMate: ChatGPT-Powered Adaptive Guitar Learning Assistant
2025 – The 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)
2024
ARElight: Context Sampling of Large Texts for Deep Learning Relation Extraction
2024 – The 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR)
Automated Generation of ICD-11 Cluster Codes for Precision Medical Record Classification
2024 – International Journal of Computers Communications & Control
Comparative Efficacy of 2D and 3D Virtual Reality Games in American Sign Language Learning
2024 – 31st IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces
Impact of Personalised AI Chat Assistant on Mediated Human-Human Textual Conversations: Exploring Female-Male Differences
2024 – 29th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'24)
Enhancing User Experience in Chinese Initial Text Conversations with Personalised AI-Powered Assistant
2024 – CHI EA '24: Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
LBKT: A LSTM BERT-based Knowledge Tracing Model for Long-Sequence Data
2024 – 20th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2024)
Element-conditioned GAN for graphic layout generation
2024 – Neurocomputing
Hand gesture recognition for user-defined textual inputs and gestures
2024 – Universal Access in the Information Society
The Face of Deception: The Impact of AI-Generated Photos on Malicious Social Bots
2024 – IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
The Effects of Gamification on Students’ Flow Experience: A Controlled Experimental Study
2024 – IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)
The Relationship Between Students’ Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Their Behavior within Educational Systems
2024 – IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)
2023
Complex Online Harms and the Smart Home: A Scoping Review
2023 – Future Generation Computer Systems
Emocolor: An assistant design method for emotional color matching based on semantics and images
2023 – Color Research and Application
Towards Student Behaviour Simulation: A Decision Transformer Based Approach
2023 – Augmented Intelligence and Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 19th International Conference, ITS 2023
User-Defined Hand Gesture Interface to Improve User Experience of Learning American Sign Language
2023 – Augmented Intelligence and Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 19th International Conference, ITS 2023
Language as a latent sequence: Deep latent variable models for semi-supervised paraphrase generation
2023 – AI Open
Sim-GAIL: A Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning Approach of Student Modelling for Intelligent Tutoring Systems
2023 – Neural Computing and Applications
Reimagining AI Governance: a Response by AGENCY to the UK Government's White Paper AI Regulation
2023 –
A Visualization Method of Knowledge Graphs for the Computation and Comprehension of Ultrasound Reports
2023 – Biomimetics
Label-based Topic Modeling to Enhance Medical Triage for Medical Triage Robots
2023 – Studies in Informatics and Control
2022
Novel Decision Forest Building Techniques by Utilising Correlation Coefficient Methods
2022 – 23rd International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks
Fine-grained Main Ideas Extraction and Clustering of Online Course Reviews
2022 – AIED 2022: Artificial Intelligence in Education
AI?driven user aesthetics preference prediction for UI layouts via deep convolutional neural networks
2022 – Cognitive Computation and Systems
Balancing Fined-Tuned Machine Learning Models Between Continuous and Discrete Variables - A Comprehensive Analysis Using Educational Data
2022 – 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2022)
Contrastive Learning with Heterogeneous Graph Attention Networks on Short Text Classification
2022 – 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
INTERACTION: A Generative XAI Framework for Natural Language Inference Explanations
2022 – International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2022)
Efficient Uncertainty Quantification for Multilabel Text Classification
2022 – International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2022)
Is Unimodal Bias Always Bad for Visual Question Answering? A Medical Domain Study with Dynamic Attention
2022 – IEEE BigData 2022
Fine-grained Main Ideas Extraction and Clustering of Online Course Reviews
2022 – 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2022)
Novel Decision Forest Building Techniques by Utilising Correlation Coefficient Methods
2022 – Engineering Applications of Neural Networks: 23rd International Conference, EAAAI/EANN 2022
SimStu-Transformer: A Transformer-Based Approach to Simulating Student Behaviour
2022 – 23rd International Conference, Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2022)
Tailored gamification in education: A literature review and future agenda
2022 – Education and Information Technologies
Detecting Fine-Grained Emotions on Social Media during Major Disease Outbreaks: Health and Well-being before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic
2022 – AMIA 2021 Annual Symposium
2021
A Brief Survey of Deep Learning Approaches for Learning Analytics on MOOCs
2021 – International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems ITS 2021
A Survey of Collaborative Reinforcement Learning: Interactive Methods and Design Patterns
2021 – DIS '21: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021
Agent-Based Classroom Environment Simulation: The Effect of Disruptive Schoolchildren’s Behaviour Versus Teacher Control over Neighbours
2021 – International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education AIED 2021: Artificial Intelligence in Education
Agent-based Simulation of the Classroom Environment to Gauge the Effect of Inattentive or Disruptive Students
2021 – Intelligent Tutoring Systems 17th International Conference, ITS 2021
Capturing Fairness and Uncertainty in Student Dropout Prediction – A Comparison Study
2021 – Artificial Intelligence in Education: 22nd International Conference, AIED 2021
Computational Model for Predicting User Aesthetic Preference for GUI using DCNNs
2021 – CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction
Early Predictor for Student Success Based on Behavioural and Demographical Indicators
2021 – Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 17th International Conference, ITS 2021
Exploring Bayesian Deep Learning for Urgent Instructor Intervention Need in MOOC Forums
2021 – Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 17th International Conference, ITS 2021
Wide-Scale Automatic Analysis of 20 Years of ITS Research
2021 – Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2021
2020
Does Tailoring Gamified Educational Systems Matter? The Impact on Students' Flow Experience
2020 – The 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
Exploring Navigation Styles in a FutureLearn MOOC
2020 – 16th International Conference, ITS 2020
Is MOOC Learning Different for Dropouts? A Visually-Driven, Multi-granularity Explanatory ML Approach
2020 – 16th International Conference, ITS 2020
Social Interactions Clustering MOOC Students: An Exploratory Study
2020 – 20th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2020)
Temporal Analysis in Massive Open Online Courses – Towards Identifying at-Risk Students Through Analyzing Demographical Changes
2020 – Advances in Information Systems Development: International Systems Beyond 2020
Temporal Sentiment Analysis of Learners: Public Versus Private Social Media Communication Channels in a Women-in-Tech Conversion Course
2020 – 15th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE 2020)
Towards Automatic Flow Experience Identification in Educational Systems: A Qualitative Study
2020 – Anais do XXXI Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação
2019
A Taxonomy of Game Elements for Gamification in Educational Contexts: Proposal and Evaluation
2019 – IEEE 19th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2019)
Analysing Gamification Elements in Educational Environments Using an Existing Gamification Taxonomy
2019 – Smart Learning Environments
Demographical Changes of Student Subgroups in MOOCs: Towards Predicting At-Risk Students
2019 – 28th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2019)
Planning Gamification Strategies based on User Characteristics and DM: A Gender-based Case Study
2019 – 12th International Conference on Educational Data Mining
Predicting MOOCs Dropout Using Only Two Easily Obtainable Features from the First Week’s Activities
2019 – Proceedings of the 15th International Conference in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2019)
Revealing the Hidden Patterns: A Comparative Study on Profiling Subpopulations of MOOC Students
2019 – 28th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2019)
Social Engagement versus Learning Engagement An Exploratory Study of FutureLearn Learners
2019 – IEEE 14th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE 2019)
Towards Automatic Flow Experience Identification in Educational Systems: A Theory-driven Approach
2019 – Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY '19)
Validating the Effectiveness of Data-Driven Gamification Recommendations: An Exploratory Study
2019 – The Brazilian Symposium on Informatics in Education (SBIE 2019) Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação
2018
An intuitive Authoring System for a Personalised, Social, Gamified, Visualisation-supporting e-learning System.
2018 – The 3rd International Conference on Information and Education Innovations (ICIEI'18)
Can Learner Characteristics Predict Their Behaviour on MOOCs?
2018 – The 10th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers (ICETC '18)
Earliest Predictor of Dropout in MOOCs: A Longitudinal Study of FutureLearn Courses
2018 – The 27th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2018)
How is Learning Fluctuating? FutureLearn MOOCs Fine-grained Temporal Analysis and Feedback to Teachers and Designers
2018 – The 27th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2018)
On the need for fine-grained analysis of Gender versus Commenting Behaviour in MOOCs.
2018 – The 2018 The 3rd International Conference on Information and Education Innovations (ICIEI'18)
2017
Connecting Targets to Tweets: Semantic Attention-based Model for Target-Specific stance Detection
2017 – Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2017, 18th International Conference
2016
Designing a Collaborative Group Project Recommender for an E-learning System
2016 – 2016 SAI Computing Conference (SAI)
Learners Thrive Using Multifaceted Open Social Learner Modeling
2016 – IEEE MultiMedia
Motivational Gamification Strategies Rooted in Self-Determination Theory for Social Adaptive E-Learning
2016 – Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2016
2015
Digital Co-design Applied to Healthcare Environments: A Comparative Study
2015 – Human-Computer Interaction -- INTERACT 2015
Digital Co-design: A Future Method?
2015 – The 2015 British HCI Conference on - British HCI '15
Digital Crowdsourcing in Healthcare Environment Co-design
2015 – International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2015)
Students as Customers: Participatory Design for Adaptive Web 3.0
2015 – The Evolution of the Internet in the Business Sector: Web 1.0 to Web 3.0