Streamline :: Blog :: Project team members

As this community is our directory entry and over the next week hopefully a few more people will drop by I thought I would run through our project team. They are all signed up to Emerge but may not all have found their way round yet. Once I misrepresent them no doubt they will all shout! We're all at Leeds Met except Ben.

Starting with me - Janet Finlay, Professor of Interactive Systems and project leader. My interests in a nutshell are around student and staff experience of learning technology. I am particularly interested in blogging, online communities, podcasting and learning objects/repositories.  My background is human-computer interaction and more specifically recently design patterns - so have interests in the UIDM and the use of patterns in Emerge from that perspective. But on Streamline my role is capturing and analysing user workflows and evaluating tools - and of course keeping things going! 

Other team members (in no particular order):

Stuart Hirst - Stuart has introduced himself so no need for me to do it for him - http://emerge.elgg.org/stuartlhirst/weblog/. His role is to support the technical side of tool development.

Likewise Dr Jill Taylor has started her own blog. Her role in Streamline is particularly to provide expertise in ePortfolios which we will be exploring for the management of learning objects. 

Dr Tony Renshaw is a Research Fellow specialising in usability evaluation and eye tracking. His role on the project is to evaluate existing and newly developed tools and help with capturing data for the domain and scenario modelling.

Dr Rodney Brunt has expertise in indexing and information retrieval. His role in the project is to look at the metadata issues from this perspective and help develop effective metadata capture techniques.

Dr Elizabeth Guest specialises in artificial intelligence, particularly natural language processing and pattern recognition. She has been developing new techniques in this area which she will apply particularly to the resource discovery problem on this project, as well as advising on technical issues when the going gets tough!

Last but definitely not least we have Dr Ben Ryan. Ben works for Kainao Ltd, a company that specialise in learning object repository tools. He has previously worked on the HLSI repository project and, along with Stuart and myself, on the European project Replika, both of which developed tools for managing learning object and metadata creation. His main role on the project is technical and e-Framework/e-learning standards guru!

So that is our current project team - we also expect to recruit a dedicated Research Officer soon.

We look forward to discussions with you.