Congratulations to our new Professors!
We are delighted that our colleagues Anna De Liddo and Miriam Fernandez have been awarded their chairs....Read more
Anna De Liddo
Professor of Human-Computer Interaction
Anna De Liddo
Professor of Human-Computer Interaction
My research focuses on the socio-technical factors influencing the design and uptake of Collective Intelligence infrastructures. These are online environments which seek to improve collective awareness of the changing environment, and collective capacity to make the best use of expertise to problem solve, and adapt appropriately. I have particular interests in knowledge construction through discourse, and the role of technology in scaffolding dialogue and argumentation in contested domains, in which there is more than one point of view. The approaches I work with are network-centric, modelling and visualizing ideas and arguments as networks of nodes which can be analysed for topographical and semantic patterns.
As background, I am an Urban Planner and Designer; I took a BSc in Civil Engineering, a MSc in Transport Planning at Polytechnic of Bari, Italy, and a MSc in Environmental Policy and Management at Institut National des Sience Appliquees in Lyon (France). I gained my PhD in Urban and Environmental Planning at Polytechnic of Bari, Italy, investigating ICT for Participatory Planning and Deliberation. In this respect I am interested in investigating tools to support knowledge representation, structuring and management, particularly with regards to collaborative decision-making processes in Environmental and Urban Planning domain.
Anna is President-elect of the SIG on Cognitive Science Research
Dr Anna De Liddo (Senior Research Fellow and lead of the IDea research team) has been invited to become President-elect of the SIG (Special Interest Group) on Cognitive Science Research in IS of the Association for Information Systems for 2021-2023....Read more
KMi Celebrates International Women's Day 2021
Happy International Women’s Day 2021! This year’s theme is #ChooseToChallenge and we invite you to join in the many celebrations in KMi and around the Open University....Read more
Kicking off the Decentralised Web
KMi researchers are among the leaders of a new group of academics, aDecentWeb, which aims to create a web where individuals and organisations remain in control....Read more
DebateHub
Debate Hub is a tool for online communities to collectively organize and progress good ideas forward...Read more
LiteMap
LiteMap is a Web tool for mapping out visually the content of online debates across different forums and Websites....Read more
Election Debate Visualization
The EDV Project will provide radically new ways for the public to replay the televised debates from the next UK general election...Read more
Quinto, I., Landoli, L and De Liddo, A. (2021) Designing online collaboration for the individual and social good: A collective argumentation approach, 27th Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2021, Virtual, Online
De Liddo, A. and Strube, R (2021) Understanding Failures and Potentials of Argumentation Tools for Public Deliberation, C&T '21: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies - Wicked Problems in the Age of Tech, Seattle WA., USA
Anastasiou, L. and De Liddo, A. (2021) Making sense of online discussions: can automated reports help?, CHI EA '21: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan
Larasati, R., De Liddo, A. and Motta, E. (2021) AI Healthcare System Interface: Explanation Design for Non-Expert User Trust, ACM IUI 2021. Workshop 7: Transparency and Explanations in Smart Systems - TExSS
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Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
United Kingdom
