Publications

• See also some unpublished material that never quite made it into print
• See a few presentations

Awaiting publication

• Malins, J., Watt, S., Liapis, A., & McKillop, C. (2006, under revision).
  Tools to enhance creativity in virtual teams.
  In S. MacGregor & T. Torres (Eds.), Virtual teams and creativity: managing virtual teams effectively for higher creativity.

• Watt, S. N. K. (2006, in press).
  Text categorisation and genre in information retrieval.
  In A. Goker & J. Davies (Eds.) Information Retrieval, John Wiley & Sons.

• Watt, S. N. K. (awaiting publication).
  Can people think? Or machines? A unified protocol for Turing testing.
  Invited chapter in R. Epstein (Ed.) The Turing Test Sourcebook: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer.

2006

• Chakraborti, S., Lothian, R., Wiratunga, N., Watt, S. (2006).
  Sprinkling: supervised latent semantic lndexing.
  In the proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2006: 510-514.

• Chakraborti, S., Lothian, R., Wiratunga, N., Orecchioni, A., & Watt, S. (2006).
  Fast case retrieval networks for textual data.
  In the proceedings of the European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ECCBR 2006.

2005

• Sun, Y. Harper, D. J. and Watt, S. N. K. (2005).
  Aiding Comprehension in Electronic Books Using Contextual Information.
  In the Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), Vienna, Austria, September, 2005.

• Liu, B., Harper, D. J. and Watt, S. N. K. (2005).
  Information sharing through rational links and viewpoint retrieval.
  SIGIR 2005: pp.639-640

2004

• Whitelock, D., Watt, S., Raw, Y. & Moreale, E. (2004).
  Analysing tutor feedback to students: first steps towards constructing an electronic monitoring system.
  Association for Learning Technology Journal, 11(3), 31-42, ISSN 0968-7769.

• Chakraborti, S., Watt, S., & Wiratunga, N. (2004).
  Introspective Knowledge Acquisition in Case Retrieval Networks for Textual CBR.
  Proceedings of the 9th UK CBR Workshop , Cambridge, UK, on December 13th 2004.

• Goker, A., Watt, S., Myrhaug, H. I., Whitehead, N., Yakici, M., & Bierig, R. (2004).
  Ambient personalised and context-sensitive information systems for mobile users.
  Second International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence , on November 2004.

• Liu, B., Harper, D., & Watt, S. (2004).
  Supporting federated information sharing communities.
  The 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

• Mulholland, P., & Watt, S. (2004).
  Cognitive modelling and cognitive architectures.
  In Braisby, N. & Gellatly, A. (Eds.), Oxford University Press , Oxford (ISSN/ISBN: 0-19-927376-6 )

• Sun, Y., Harper, D., & Watt, S. (2004).
  Design of an e-book user interface and visualizations to support reading for comprehension.
  SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

• Watt, S. (2004).
  Context in Active Groups.
  SIGIR 2004 workshop on Information Retrieval in Context , on July 2004.

2003

• McKillop, C., Mackintosh, B., and Watt, S. N. K. (2003).
  Psychology experiments on the Internet: an evaluation of the impact on distance education students
  Open Learning

• Moreale, E., & Watt, S. N. K. (2003).
  An Agent-Based Approach to Mailing List Knowledge Management.
  Agent Mediated Knowledge Management, International Symposium AMKM 2003

• Watt, S. N. K. (2003).
  Search::FreeText
  Perl module available from CPAN: http://www.cpan.org/.

2002

• Watt, S. N. K., Simpson, C. A., McKillop, C., and Nunn, V. (2002)
  Electronic course surveys: does automating feedback and reporting give better results?
  Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 27(4), pp. 325-337

• Thomas, M. and Watt, S. N. K. (2002)
  Intelligent instant messaging agents to support collaborative learning
  In the proceedings of HCI'2002, the 16th British HCI Group Annual Conference.

• Moreale, E. and Watt, S. N. K. (2002)
  Organisational information management and knowledge discovery in email within mailing lists
  In the proceedings of IDEAL'02, the Third International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning.

• Whitelock, D., Watt S. N. K., Moreale, E., and Raw Y. (2002)
  What measures do we need to build an electronic monitoring tool for postgraduate tutor marked assignments?
  In the proceedings of CAA'2002 (Loughborough University).

2001

• Collins, T. D., Mulholland, P., and Watt, S. N. K. (2001)
  Using genre to support active participation in learning communities
  In the Proceedings of Euro-CSCL 2001, Maastricht, NL.

2000

• Masterton, S. J., and Watt, S. N. K. (2000)
  Oracles, bards, and village gossips, or, social roles and meta knowledge management
  Information Systems Frontiers, 2 (3/4), Special Issue on Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory

• Woodward, K. and Watt, S. N. K. (2000)
  Science and society: knowledge in medicine
  In: Goldblatt , D. (ed.) Knowledge and Knowing. London, Routledge.

• Gove, J. and Watt, S. N. K. (2000)
  Identity and gender
  In: Woodward, K. (ed.): Questioning Identity. London, Routledge, pp.44-77.

• Mulholland, P. and Watt, S. N. K. (2000).
  Learning by building: a visual modelling language for psychology students
  Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 11 (5), 481-504.

1999

• Mulholland, P., and Watt, S. N. K. (1999)
  Programming with a purpose: Hank, gardening, and schema theory
  Paper presented at the Psychology of Programming Interest Group, University of Leeds, UK.

1998

• Watt, S. N. K. (1998)
  Psychological agents and the new Web media
  In Eisenstadt, M., and Vincent, T. (eds) (1998; paperback edition 2000) The Knowledge Web: Learning and Collaborating on the Net, London, Kogan Page.

• Mulholland, P., and Watt, S. N. K. (1998)
  Hank: a friendly cognitive modelling language for psychology students
  In the Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, VL '98, Nova Scotia, Canada.

• Watt, S. N. K. and Mulholland, P. (1998).
  Hank: A cognitive modelling language for humans
  In the Proceedings of the Computers in Psychology Conference, CiP98, University of York.
  (Abstract on CiP web site)

• Mulholland, P., and Watt, S. N. K. (1998)
  Hank: a friendly cognitive modelling language for psychology students
  Paper presented at the Psychology of Programming Interest Group, Open University, UK.

• Watt, S. N. K. (1998)
  Syntonicity and the psychology of programming
  Paper presented at the Psychology of Programming Interest Group, Open University, UK.

• Watt, S. N. K. (1998)
  Modelling common-sense psychology and the false belief test
  Paper presented at the Second European Cognitive Modelling Conference, Nottingham, UK.

1997

• Watt, S. N. K. (1997)
  Seeing things as people: anthropomorphism and common-sense psychology
  Unpublished PhD thesis, Department of Psychology, The Open University.
  (Available as PDF file, 340 pages, 1.12MB download)

• Watt, S. N. K. (1997)
  The Lion, the Bat, and the Wardrobe: myths and metaphors in cognitive science
  In S. O Nuallain, P. Mc Kevitt, and E. Mac Aogain (eds.) "Two Sciences of Mind: Readings in Cognitive Science and Consciousness."
  Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• Watt, S. N. K. (1997)
  Naive psychology and the inverted Turing test
  PSYCOLOQUY 7(14).

1996

• Watt, S. N. K. (1996)
  Artificial societies and psychological agents
  British Telecom Technology Journal, 14(4)

1995

• Watt, S. N. K. (1995)
  A brief naive psychology manifesto
  INFORMATICA 19(4), November 1995.

• Watt, S. N. K. (1995)
  Pride and prejudice: four decades of Lisp
  in M. Woodman (ed.) "Programming Languages: Practice and Experience." Chapman and Hall.

• Watt, S. N. K. (1995)
  Teaching through electronic mail
  KMI Technical Report KMI-TR-15, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, UK.

• Watt, S. N. K., Zdrahal, Z., and Brayshaw, M. C. (1995)
  Multiple agent systems for configuration design
  in the proceedings of AISB'95, Sheffield, UK. IOS Press.

1994

• Watt, S. N. K. (1994)
  Froglet: A source-level stepper for Lisp
  KMI Technical Report KMI-TR-10, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, UK.

1993

• Domingue, J., Motta, E. and Watt, S. N. K. (1993)
  The emerging Vital workbench
  in `Knowledge acquisition for knowledge-based systems' (eds. Aussenac, N., Boy, G., Gaines, B., Linster, M., Ganascia, J.-G. and Kodratoff, Y.), the 7th European knowledge acquisition workshop, EKAW'93, Toulouse and Caylus, France. Springer-Verlag. September 1993.

• Watt, S. N. K. (1993)
  A fractal geometry of the mind
  HCRL technical report no. 109.

• Watt, S. N. K. (1993)
  Fractal behaviour analysis
  in "Prospects for artificial intelligence" (eds. A. Sloman, D. Hogg, G. Humphreys, A. Ramsay, D. Partridge), IOS Press, 1993. Also reprinted in AISB quarterly, summer issue 1993, and available as HCRL technical report no. 102.

• Watt, S. N. K. (1993)
  Role conflict in groupware
  in the proceedings of the first International Conference on Intelligent Cooperative Information Systems. Rotterdam, Netherlands. Springer-Verlag. May 1993. Also available as HCRL technical report no. 101.

• Watt, S. N. K. (1993)
  Managing text objectively
  in the proceedings of the fourth Database and Expert Systems Applications conference. Prague, Czech Republic. Springer-Verlag. September 1993. Also available as HCRL technical report no. 110.

1992

• Watt, S. N. K., Motta, E., and Domingue, J. B. (1992)
  Architecture of the Vital workbench
  HCRL technical report no. 92, November 1992.

1991

• Roth A. and Watt, S. N. K. (1991)
  All constraint is NOT evil...
  .EXE Magazine, 6(2), pp21-27 (July 1991).

• Watt, S. N. K. (1991)
  Remote message passing prototype for the Vital project
  HCRL technical report no 82. December 1991.

• Domingue, J. B. and Watt, S. N. K. (1991)
  Graphical user interface and windowing in the Vital project
  HCRL technical report no. 84. December 1991.

• Motta, E., Stutt, A. W., O'Hara, K., Kuusela, J., Toivonen, H., Reichgelt, H., Watt, S. N. K., Aitken, S., and Verbeck, F. (1991)
  Vital knowledge representation language specification
  HCRL technical report no. 81.

1990

• Evertsz, R., Dalgarno, A. M., Forster, G. A., and Watt, S. N. K. (1990)
  Syllabus: a solution to the school timetabling problem
  I n the proceedings of the first European conference on the practical application of Lisp, Cambridge, UK.

• Watt, S. N. K. (1990)
  Experiences programming the Macintosh toolbox with Common Lisp and the CLOS
  In the proceedings of the first European conference on the practical application of Lisp, Cambridge, UK.

1988

• Watt, S. N. K. (1988)
  Expert System Builder
  In the proceedings of the 9th AFCEA conference, Brussels, Belgium. 1988.

Unpublished papers and materials

• Watt, S. N. K. (ed). (2005).
  Initial report of the Principal’s working group on the future of learning.
  Available at: http://www.rgu.ac.uk/celt/home/page.cfm.

• Watt, S. N. K. (unpublished, written circa 1997)
  Carry On Up the Evolutionary Ladder: Relativity, Evolution, and Consciousness

• Watt, S. N. K. (unpublished PhD thesis, written circa 1997)
  Seeing things as people: anthropomorphism and theory of mind in mixed societies

Other public outputs

• Watt, S. N. K., Whitelock, D. M., Craw, I., Sheikh, H. (2005).
  Open Mentor: an open source mentoring tool for tutors.
  Web application, developed in Java using the Spring framework and Hibernate database access.

• Eisenstadt, M., & Watt, S. N. K. (1998-2005).
  Meet-O-Matic - http://www.meetomatic.com/.
  Web application, developed in Apache ASP and Perl (first version) and PHP (second version).

• Watt, S. N. K. (2003).
  Search::FreeText.
  Free text search component written in Perl, available through CPAN).

• Watt, S. N. K., & Mulholland, P. (1998-2003).
  'Hank' program, cognitive modelling environment - http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/hank/.
  Written in Common Lisp for Windows PCs.

• Watt, S. N. K. , & Motta, E. (1995).
  'Ousel' program, knowledge engineering environment.
  Written in Common Lisp for Windows PCs.