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I [Dr Ed de Quincey] am currently a Senior Principal Lecturer in the School of Computing and Mathematics at the University of Greenwich and Leader of the Web 2.0/Social Web for Learning Research Group at the eCentre

I have worked in the area of online human behaviour for 9 years, looking into the usability and impact of websites as well as uses of the information that they collect. This has included an investigation into the potential of Twitter to detect disease outbreaks such as Swine Flu, along with colleagues at CeRC. I am using a similar approach to study the impact of the 2012 Olympic Games and the use of social media by charities, as well as investigating the use of other Web 2.0 tools such as Social Bookmarking and twitter to support e-Learning.

I have previously worked as a Researcher at City University, London and am a visiting researcher at the Knowledge Modelling Research Group in the School of Computing and Mathematics at Keele University, where I completed a part time PhD.

I have an updated CV available in pdf format which contains a complete publications list [updated in April 2012].

Research Activities

I am currently a Senior Principal Lecturer at the University of Greenwich (School of Computing and Mathematics), Leader of the Web 2.0/Social Web for Learning Research Group at the eCentre, previously a Researcher at the City eHealth Research Centre (CeRC) at City University, London and a visiting researcher at the Knowledge Modelling Research Group in the School of Computing and Mathematics at Keele University.

→ Categorised list of research publications (pdf) updated April 2012.

Research Interests

Web 2.0 and Social Media

I have recently been involved with research that has investigated the potential of twitter to detect disease outbreaks such as Swine Flu. In collaboration with CeRC at City University, we have so far collected over 3 million tweets that contain the word "flu" and shown that activity on twitter can predict swine flu outbreaks up to 1 week faster than conventional methods currently used by the NHS. This work has received international press coverage (e.g. The Telegraph, The Times of India), was featured by the Health Protection Agency and has been presented at 10 further international conferences (e.g. ESCAIDE, MedInfo) Follow on work, using similar techniques, is investigating the impact of the Olympics and has been presented at the London Olympic Legacies Conference and a collaboration with the Business School at Greenwich is currently investigating the use of social media by Charities.

e-Learning

As an active member of the eCentre at Greenwich and Leader of the Web 2.0 / Social Web for Learning Research Group, I was the technical lead on the TQE funded Social Bookmarking project, which investiged the use of social bookmarking by 200 students and lecturers. A subsection of the preliminary results from this study were presented at eHealth 2010 and the complete results at a number of international conferences and workshops in 2011 (eHealth 2011, eLearning in Health 2011, eTeaching and Learning Workshop 2011, Enhanced and Transformed: Tales from the Digital Age). I have recently finished a complementary project that has looked into the use of twitter by lecturers and students to support learning and engagement. I have also received funding to research how VLE's such as Moodle can support Early Career Researchers.

Elicitation and Evaluation techniques

My PhD research (download thesis pdf) involved 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 undergraduate and post graduate web development modules e.g. paper prototyping, laddering, think aloud etc.

In my last position, I was involved with a team at CeRC who successfully evaluated the SeaLife family of Semantic Web browsers. This was one of the first user-centred evaluations of Semantic browsers details of which have been published in 3 recent papers.

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, a patent, an online search application, winning a design competition for a symposium booklet cover and numerous large scale representations of mathematical numbers e.g. Pi to 1 million digits. I continued this research at City, looking at visualising server logs to identify trends in online user behaviour and search (UMAP 2009).

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 of Computing and Mathematics at Keele, software is being developed that identifies and visualises the features of music that respondents like and dislike.

Publications, Conferences and Workshops

Categorised list available for download (pdf) updated April 2012.

PhD Thesis

• de Quincey, E. (2010) Software support for comparison of media across domains, PhD Thesis, Keele University

Book Chapters/Sections

• de Quincey, E., Hocking, A., O'Gorman, A., Walker, S., Bacon, L. (2012) The use of Social Bookmarking by Health Care Students to create Communities of Practice. In: Electronic Healthcare. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer.
• de Quincey, E., Kostkova, P., Jawaheer, G. (2012) Promoting e-Health Resources: Lessons Learned. In: Electronic Healthcare. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. p103-110.
• Szomszor, M., Kostkova, P., de Quincey, E. (2012) #swineflu: Twitter Predicts Swine Flu Outbreak in 2009. In: Electronic Healthcare. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. In: Electronic Healthcare. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. P18-26.
• de Quincey, E., Kostkova, P. (2010) Early Warning and Outbreak Detection Using Social Networking Websites: The Potential of Twitter. In: Electronic Healthcare. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer . p21-24.
• Oliver, H., Kostkova P., de Quincey, E. (2010) Data Triangulation in a User Evaluation of the Sealife Semantic Web Browsers. In: Electronic Healthcare. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer . p80-87.
• de Quincey, E., Hawksley, C. (2009) Collaborative learning inside and outside of a Wiki Environment. In: Novel Approaches to Promoting Student Engagement. HEA Subject Centre for Information & Computer Sciences, p61-64.

Journal Publications

• de Quincey, E., Kostkova, P. Jawaheer, G., Farrell, D., McNulty, C., Weinberg, J. (2011) Evaluating the Online Activity of Users of the e-Bug Website. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2011:66(suppl 5):v45-v49
• Kostkova P, Farrell D, de Quincey E, Weinberg J, Lecky D, McNulty C. (2010) eBug-teaching children hygiene principles using educational games. Studies in health technology and informatics. 2010;160:600-604.
• Quinney, D., de Quincey, E. (2010) An Online Application for Exploring Differential Equations. CODEE. In Press.
• Oliver, H., Diallo, G., de Quincey, E., Alexopoulou, D., Habermann, B., Kostkova, P., Schroeder, M., Jupp, S., Khelif, K., Stevens, R., Jawaheer, G., Madle, G. (2009) A User-Centred Evaluation Framework for the Sealife Semantic Web Browsers. BMC BioInformatics, Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences, 2008, BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 (Suppl 10):S14.
• Petre, M., de Quincey, E. (2006) A gentle overview of software visualization. Computer Society of India Communications. August, 6-11. ISSN 0970-647X
• Petre, M., de Quincey, E. (2006) A gentle overview of software visualization. Autumn 2006 PPIG newsletter.

Conference Publications

• Garsten, N., de Quincey, E. (2012) Tweeting Credibility and Thankfulness: An Exploratory Study of Charity Twitter Accounts in the UK.EUPRERA Spring Symposium. In Press.
• de Quincey, E., Hocking, A., O'Gorman, A., Walker, S., Bacon, L. (2011) The use of Social Bookmarking by Health Care Students to create Communities of Practice. e-Health 2011.
• de Quincey, E., Hocking, A., O'Gorman, J., Walker, S., Bacon, L. (2011) Using Social Bookmarking to create and share centralised collections of healthcare related resources. eLearning in Health 2011.
• de Quincey, E., Hocking, A., O'Gorman, J., Walker, S., Bacon, L. (2011) The Use Of Social Bookmarking By Students Across Disciplines. eTeaching and Learning Workshop 2011.
• de Quincey, E., Kostkova, P., Jawaheer, G. (2010) Promoting e-Health Internet Resources effectively: Tips and Tricks from NeLI promotion strategies. e-Health 2010.
• Szomszor, M., Kostkova, P., de Quincey, E. (2010) #swineflu: Twitter Predicts Swine Flu Outbreak in 2009. e-Health 2010.
• Kostkova, P., Szomszor, M., de Quincey, E., Jawaheer, G. (2010) The Potential of Twitter for Early Warning and Outbreak Detection. Abstract in the Proceedings of the Joint IPCAN/IFIC conference, 29th August – 1st September 2010, Cape Town, South Africa.
• de Quincey, E. & Quinney, D. (2010) An Online Application for Exploring Differential Equations. 1st One-Day Workshop on "Next Generation Learning: Using Games and Animation in Education".
• Wiseman, S., Kostkova, P., de Quincey, E. (2010) National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC) - tackling the challenge of conveying guidance during the Swine influenza A(H1N1) outbreak. Abstracts of the Tenth Congress of the International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC2009). International Journal of Infection Control, North America, 5, jan. 2010.
• Wiseman, S., Kostkova, P., de Quincey, E., Jawaheer, G. (2010) Providing guidance during the swine flu outbreak in 2009: An evaluation study of the National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC). Poster and Abstract in the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Infectious Diseases (ICID), March 9-12th 2010, Miami, Florida, US. Also published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases - March 2010 (Vol. 14, Supplement 1, Page 105)
• Kostkova, P., de Quincey, E., Jawaheer, G. (2010) The potential of social networks for early warning and outbreak detection systems: the swine flu Twitter study. Poster and Abstract in the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Infectious Diseases (ICID), March 9-12th 2010, Miami, Florida, US. Also published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases - March 2010 (Vol. 14, Supplement 1, Pages 384-385).
• de Quincey, E & Kostkova, P, Wiseman, S. (2009) An investigation into the potential of Web 2.0 websites to track disease. Poster and abstract in the Proceedings of the Infection 2009 conference, Birmingham, UK, 11-13th November 2009.
• de Quincey, E., Oliver, H., Kostkova, P., Jawaheer, G., Madle, G., Diallo, G., Alexopoulou, D., Schroeder, M., Habermann, B., Khelif, K., Jupp, S., Stevens, R. (2009) Mining for Patterns of Semantic Link Usage: Do Domain Users Actually Like Semantic Browsing? wi-iat, vol. 3, pp.50-53, 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology.
• de Quincey, E & Kostkova, P. (2009) An investigation into the potential of social networking sites to predict disease outbreak. Abstract in the Proceedings of the ESCAIDE 2009 conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 26th-28th October 2009.
• Wiseman, S., Kostkova, P., de Quincey, E. (2009) National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC) - tackling the challenge of conveying guidance during the Swine influenza A(H1N1) outbreak. Abstract in the Proceedings of the 10th Congress of the International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC), Vilnius, Lithuania, 8-10th October 2009
• Oliver, H., Kostkova P., de Quincey, E. (2009) Data Triangulation in a User Evaluation of the Sealife Semantic Web Browsers. E-Health 2009.
• de Quincey, E., Kostkova, P. (2009) Early Warning and Outbreak Detection Using Social Networking Websites: The Potential of Twitter. e-Health 2009.
• de Quincey, E., Kostkova, P., Farrell, D. (2009) Visualising web server logs for a Web 1.0 audience using Web 2.0 technologies: eliciting attributes for recommendation and profiling systems. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Adaptation and Personalization for Web 2.0 in connection with UMAP 2009, June 22-26, 2009, Trento, Italy.
• Kostkova, P., Jawaheer, G., de Quincey, E., Madle, G., Wiseman, S. (2009) National Electronic Library of Infection (NeLI/NRIC) - the Best Available Evidence Online: 9 Years of Experience. IST-Africa 2009 Conference Proceedings, Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds), IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-905824-11-3.
• Oliver, H., Jupp, S., de Quincey, E., Alexopoulou, D., Habermann, B., Khelif, K., Kostkova, P., Jawaheer, G., Stevens, R., Ferguson, G., Surendranath, V., Wiseman, S., Mani-Saada, J., Diallo, G., Dietze, H., Madle, G., Weinberg, J., Schroeder, M. (2009) Evaluating the user experience of the Sealife Semantic Web browsers. Abstract in the Proceedings of the 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 15, Supplement 4, Helsinki, Finland, 16-19 May 2009.
• de Quincey, E., Hawksley, C. (2008) Collaborative learning inside and outside of a Wiki Environment. In the Proceedings of ICS Novel Approaches to Promoting Student Engagement Workshop.

Conference Posters and Presentations

• de Quincey, E., Hocking, A., O'Gorman, J., Walker, S., Bacon, L. (2011) Using Social Bookmarking to create and share centralised collections of online resources. Oral presentation at Enhanced and Transformed: Tales from the Digital Age.
• Hocking, A., O'Gorman, J., de Quincey, E. (2010) The use of Social Bookmarking by health and social care students. Poster presentation at eHealth 2010.
• Lecky, D., de Quincey, E., Phin, N., McNulty, C.A.M. (2010) The use of e-Bug during the pandemic flu outbreak. Poster presentation at Health Protection 2010.
• de Quincey, E. & Peter, S. (2010) Using online social networking services like Twitter to measure the impact of the Olympics before and during the Games. London Legacies Conference 2010.
• Kostkova, P., Farell, D., de Quincey, E., Weinberg, J., Lecky, D., McNulty, C. (2010) eBug – teaching children hygiene principles using educational games. 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics Medinfo 2010.
• Jawaheer, J., de Quincey, E., Wiseman, S., Kostkova, P. (2010) National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC) – conveying guidance during the Swine Flu outbreak: an Evaluation Study. 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics Medinfo 2010.
• de Quincey, E., Kostkova, P., Jawaheer, G. (2010) The Potential of Twitter for Early Warning and Outbreak Detection. Poster presentation at 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics Medinfo 2010.
• Kostkova, P., de Quincey, E., Jawaheer, G. (2010) The potential of Twitter for early warning and outbreak detection. Abstract accepted for 20th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID). Vienna, Austria: 2010.
• de Quincey, E. & Kostkova, P. (2009) Early warning and outbreak detection using social networking websites: the potential of Twitter. Oral presentation at Second International ICST Conference on Electronic Healthcare for the 21st century.
• Oliver, H., Kostkova P. and de Quincey, E. (2009) Data Triangulation in a User Evaluation of the Sealife Semantic Web Browsers. Oral presentation at Second International ICST Conference on Electronic Healthcare for the 21st century.
• de Quincey, E. & Kostkova, P. (2009) Using online social networking services like twitter to detect disease outbreak. Oral presentation at Health Protection 2009, 14-16 September at Warwick University.
• de Quincey, E. (2009) Focusing on your local catchment area and students’ expectations of Computer Science. Oral presentation at Increasing Student Numbers in Computing Workshop, HEA and British Computer Society.

Professional Activities and Memberships

• Leader of the Web 2.0/Social Web for Learning Research Group at the eCentre
• Visiting researcher, Knowledge Modeling Group, Keele University
• Guest Editor for Compass: The Journal of Learning and Teaching
• Editorial Board Member for Compass: The Journal of Learning and Teaching
• Reviewer for Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering
• eHealth 2010, eHealth 2011 Poster Chair
• Committee member: Employer Engagement in a Digital Age 2012, IADIS International Conference, e-Health 2012, eHealth 2011, eHealth 2010, eHealth 2009, COGNITIVE 2009

Invited Talks and Seminars

• Presented "An investigation into the use of twitter by lecturers and students to support UG and PG modules" invited talk at HEA MSOR Using social media to engage students in mathematical sciences
• Presented "The use of social media for trend detection, promotion and sharing in localist activity" at Localism: Widening Horizons for Policy and Practice
• Presented "Social Bookmarking", "Focusing on your local catchment area and students’ expectations of Computer Science" and "Early warning and outbreak detection using social networking websites: the potential of Twitter" seminars at the University of Greenwich
• Presented "National electronic Library of Infection, 2002 - 09 Information online" invited talk at eHealth 2010
• Presented "Potential uses of user activity on online social networking sites" seminar at Keele University
• Presented "Text Visualisation" seminars at the Open University and Loughborough University
• Presented papers related to "Perceptions of Music" to Keele University Research Symposium

Grants and Funded Projects

• Prediction of hay fever seasons via social media (£5,000) Under review
• Early Career Researcher Moodle Project Grant (£1,000) for set up and service of an ECR Moodle page
• Technical lead on a TQE funded "Social Bookmarking" project, which investigated the use of social bookmarking by 200 students and lecturers
• City Commercialisation Grant to fund an MBA student Summer Internship (£1,000)
• Funding form CODEE for development of online games to teach differential equations in U.S.Universities ($1,000)
• Mercia Spinner Grant (£7,000) for research into the potential uses of elicitation methodologies including software developed as part of my PhD
• Collaborator on "Software Visualisation" project with researchers at the Open University (£1,000)
• Management of TE3 grant funded (£10,000) "Multimedia Marketing Resource Kit" project
• Developer of online resources as part of the TE3 grant funded (£1,000) "Virtual Interviews with micro business entrepreneurs" project

Patents

• Method and apparatus for analyzing data files (WO/2010/015829)

Publicity

• Invited talk at eHealth 2010 filmed for MEDI1TV
• The Docklands 24: Let the social networking begin: People the key to recording the Games
• The Daily Telegraph Twitter could help health official track swine flu
• The Times of India Twitter could help track swine flu spread
• The Health Protection Agency (HPA) Social networking sites could detect flu outbreaks faster
• The Week at Keele: Enterprising Keele Students Win Business Ideas Awards

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