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Continue reading →: Knowledge Ergonomics (That Thing We Do)
For the last few years I’ve been involved in research and development projects where the goal has been to design, build and evaluate useful and useable knowledge and information interfaces. But I’ve always had a problem articulating this as a research challenge. It’s related to Human Computer Interaction (HCI) but…
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Continue reading →: Killer Semantics: The Challenges of Linked Data in Higher EducationThis week I was at ECTEL – The European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning. The main event for me was actually the workshop for Semantic Technology in Higher Education (SEMHE), where I was on a discussion panel at the end of the day considering potential roadmaps for semantic technology adoption…
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Continue reading →: District 9: A Watchmen moment?
District 9, the new film directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by Peter Jackson, is getting a lot of good press. Critics like the vision of the young director: “District 9 proves that genre films, besides being a hell of a lot of fun, can say things you hadn’t considered…
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Changing the Blog Roll
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Continue reading →: Changing the Blog RollIt was about two and half years ago that I belatedly jumped on the blog bandwagon. I had resisted for a few years because I already had a perfectly serviceable website, but by the beginning of 2007 it was increasing apparent that if I wanted to continue to teach and…
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Continue reading →: Adolescent 30’s: Grand Theft Morality
Two years ago I wrote how the arrival of a bouncy baby Wii for my birthday had caused me to revert to childhood, well my birthday has rolled around again and this year I received a much more mature and responsible present: an XBox 360. I know, I know (holds…
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Continue reading →: Thank you for the Music
For over two years now we have been able to download music online – and by music I of course mean music that you have rights to, music that you own, music with no Digital Rights Management (DRM). In fact the trickle of real music download sites became a flood…
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Continue reading →: Torchwood Ex Machina
The BBC have just screened the final episode of the five night Torchwood season three, Children of Earth, and already the fan sites are exploding with debate about characters lost, plot holes, and open endings. I don’t normally watch Torchwood, but I was pleasantly surprised by the mini-series. It was…
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Continue reading →: Ticket to Ride – New UK MapA few years ago I created a UK board for Ticket To Ride, the excellent board game from Days of Wonder. Since then the board has been downloaded thousands of times, and I’ve received loads of kind comments from players around the world who have tried it out. Earlier this…
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Continue reading →: Prepare for DisruptionBack in November I wrote a blog article on the momentum that was building behind Open Educational Resources (OER) and I have just published a similar essay in the Language and Linguistics Area Studies (LLAS) Liaison magazine. When I was writing the article I was hoping to address many of…
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Continue reading →: Web Literacy RevisitedHow do modern students study, and how good are they at it? That’s the question posed by the emerging topic of digital literacy. Last week I attended the Shock of the Old event in Oxford that addressed this question. The topic of digital literacy is particular interesting to me because…
Welcome,
I’m David
I am Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK within the Data, Intelligence, and Society group in ECS. I am also Head of the Education Group within ECS with the goal of improving education across the whole of Electronics and Computer Science in a meaningful, healthy, and sustainable way.
My research roots are in Hypertext, but my current interests are in Interactive Digital Narratives, Mixed Reality Games, and AI Knowledge Interfaces.
David Millard 