Dr Paul Mulholland

Senior Research Fellow

My research is concerned with developing computational tools and methods to help people make sense of information, and develop and express their ideas. I have been a Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on 12 national or European projects delivering outcomes including: technologies for the visitor use of archives and museum collections, mobile applications for formal and informal learning, automated narrative generation tools, and semantic and knowledge technologies for school and work-based learning. I have a first degree in psychology, a Masters degree in computing and PhD in cognitive science. I have published over 100 conference and journal articles. I am also Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Human Computer Studies.

As part of the European Union Horizon 2020 SPICE project I am working on tools and methods to support Citizen Curation, in which citizens are supported in developing personal interpretations of cultural artefacts, sharing their own perspective and understanding the perspectives of others.

Within the European Union Horizon 2020 Polifonia project I am working on the use of visualisation, gesture and haptic interfaces to create novel ways of interacting with musical content.

I work with Paul Warren investigating the usability of languages such as SPARQL for querying data.

In the OCGM project I worked with Terri Cole (University of Bournemouth) and the NCA comparing methods for assessing the risk posed by Organised Crime Groups.

I co-supervise PhD students carrying out research on topics such as tools for managing information overload, wearable sensors to support rehabilitation, end-user music programming, and tools for the development of musical skill.

I am interested in supervising further PhDs students related to my interests, in particular on topics concerned with technologies and methods to support Citizen Curation, and human interaction with complex data sources and notations.

I am a Deputy Associate Dean (Postgraduate Research Students) for the STEM faculty and chair of the university's Research Degrees Examination Result Approval Committee (RDRAC).

Keywords

human computer interaction, technology enhanced learning, museum informatics, digital narratives, digital humanities, music computing

Publications

Carvalho, Jason, Daga, Enrico, Mulholland, Paul, Asprino, Luigi, Uwasomba, Chukwudi, Daquino, Marilena, Gangemi, Aldo, Maguire, Mark and Stoneman, Adam ,(2024). Integrating Citizen Experiences in Cultural Heritage Archives with a Linked non-Open Data Hub. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (Early access).

Samela, Laura, Daga, Enrico and Mulholland, Paul ,(2024). Investigating Vividness Bias in Language Models Through Art Interpretations. In: ELMKE: Evaluation of Language Models in Knowledge Engineering 1st Workshop co-located with EKAW-24, 26 Nov 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Warren, Paul, Mulholland, Paul, Daga, Enrico and Asprino, Luigi ,(2024). Path-based and triplification approaches to mapping data into RDF: User behaviours and recommendations. Semantic Web (Early access).

Mulholland, Paul, Van Kranenburg, Peter, Carvalho, Jason and Daga, Enrico ,(2024). Supporting the End-User Curation of Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs. In: 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT '24), 10-13 Sep 2024, PoznaÅ, Poland.

Bayer, Vaclav, Mulholland, Paul, Hlosta, Martin, Farrell, Tracie, Herodotou, Christothea and Fernandez, Miriam ,(2024). Coâcreating an equality diversity and inclusion learning analytics dashboard for addressing awarding gaps in higher education. British Journal of Educational Technology, 55(5), pp. 2058â2074.

Islam, Riasat, Bennasar, Mohamed, Holland, Simon, Mulholland, Paul and Price, Blaine ,(2024). Democratizing Clinical Movement Analysis: Assessing the Versatility of MoJoXlab with Open-protocol Inertial Sensors. Procedia Computer Science, 246 pp. 2360â2369.

Herodotou, Christothea, Shrestha, Sagun, Comfort, Catherine, Fernandez, Miriam, Andrews, Heshan, Mulholland, Paul, Bayer, Vaclav, Maguire, Claire and Lee, John ,(2023). PVC-Challenges Response: A student facing dashboard for online undergraduate students. Quality Enhancement and Innovation, The Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK..

Morales Tirado, Alba, Carvalho, Jason, Ratta, Marco, Uwasomba, Chukwudi, Mulholland, Paul, Barlow, Helen, Herbert, Trevor and Daga, Enrico ,(2024). Musical Meetups Knowledge Graph (MMKG): a collection of evidence for historical social network analysis. In: ESWC 2024: The 21st Extended Semantic Web Conference, 26-30 May 2024, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece.

Seago, Allan, Holland, Simon and Mulholland, Paul ,(2004). Synthesizer user interface design - lessons learned from a heuristic review. Department of Computing, The Open University.

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