Information Systems Group

Information Systems research has a technology transfer focus that adds a new business-oriented view to existing information retrieval and systems expertise and bridges the gaps with other research groups. The group has three main themes: business information systems, learning technologies, and user-centred information retrieval.

Researchers: Ian Allison, Peter Lowit, Dawei Song

• Research Students: Dahiru Abubakar, Fitzgerald Blake, Malcolm Clark, Leszek Kaliciak, Henrique Narciso, Nuka Nwiabu, Lei Wang, Peng Zhang
• Previous Members:Ralf Bierig, Ulises Cerviño Beresi, Hannah Cumming, Ayse Göker, David Harper, Daqing He, David Hendry, Bin Hu, Ivan Koychev, Joemon Jose, Gheorghe Muresan, Mourad Mechkour, Sri Nuti, Jeanette Rey, Zia Syed, Yixing Sun, Fiona Walsh, Stuart Watt, Murat Yaciki and Jan-Jaap Ydens

Projects

• Meet-O-Matic
• Active Groups — knowledge sharing tools for email
• KTP — Marcliffe
• KTP — Commercial Microbiology
• KTP — Hector Russell
• KTP — McCalls

• Open Mentor

• iSee — supporting e-book comprehesion
• AmbieSense - ambient, personalised, and context-sensitive information systems for mobile users
• ProfileSkim — an intelligent document browser
• SmartWeb — a centre of excellence for intelligent Web technologies
• Facilitating Information Retrieval By User-Adaptive Learning
• WebCluster — mediated access to the web