Dr Michael Twidale
Email: twidale@uiuc.edu
Position: Not Here!
My current home page is located there.
This one just serves as an archive of work undertaken at Lancaster
Research Interests
- Digital Libraries; interface, learning and collaboration issues
- Interactive Learning Environments
- Collaborative Learning
- Computer Supported Cooperative Work
- The development of interfaces to support the articulation of plans,
goals and beliefs, as well as
permitting the expression of ambiguous or imprecise concepts such as ideas and
designs.
- Evaluation techniques for the above, focussing on informal, formative,
ethnographic methods
- Notations to support metacognition and problem solving.
Current projects
ARIADNE: an interface for collaborative database browsing.
Evaluation of CSCW systems
The Designers' NotePad: a tool to support the early stages of design, writing and the
organising of ideas by use of concept mapping.
FINLAND: a learning environment for Discounted Cash Flow which provides an interface
to make explicit the use of formulae, plans and goals in problem solving.
Other Interests
Graphical representations of reasoning
Supporting learning with computer simulations
Evaluation of Learning Environments
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Plain Text Version
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Various activities relating to
teaching and advanced learning technology