Athena Swan Award Success!
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Anna De Liddo
Senior Research Fellow
Anna De Liddo
Senior Research Fellow
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.
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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
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Piccolo, L., De Liddo, A., Burel, G., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2017) Collective intelligence for promoting changes in behaviour: a case study on energy conservation, AI & SOCIETY, pp. 1-11
Piccolo, L., Baranauskas, C, Fernandez, M., De Liddo, A. and Alani, H. (2014) Energy Consumption Awareness in the Workplace: Technical Artefacts and Practices, IHC 2014 - Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computer Systems, pp. 41-50, Sociedade Brasileira de Computação
De Liddo, A. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2014) New Ways of Deliberating Online: An Empirical Comparison of Network and Threaded Interfaces for Online Discussion, Electronic Participation - 6th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2014, Dublin, Ireland, in eds. Efthimios Tambouris, Ann Macintosh, Frank Bannister, eds. Efthimios Tambouris, Ann Macintosh, Frank Bannister, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8654, pp. 90-101, Springer
Piccolo, L., Alani, H., De Liddo, A. and Baranauskas, C (2014) Motivating online engagement and debates on energy consumption, ACM Web Science 2014, Bloomington, US, pp. 109-118, ACM
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The Open University
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