Roger Boyle: research and other projects
Roger Boyle is Professor of Computing at the School of Computing at the University of Leeds.
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This page is always slightly out of date.
Academic writing is heavily discipline dependent.
ALiC is resourcing a Computing incarnation of the AWESOME
tool.
For more information:
Prof. Roger Boyle.
Current projects
http://awesome.leeds.ac.uk/home/index.htm
AWESOME
With
Dr Vania Dimitrova,
Dr Lydia Lau,
Dr Royce Neagle
conducted as part of the
Active
Learning in Computing CETL.
2009 - 2010
We are interested in student academic writing skills.
AWESOME is funded by JISC to prepare Web-2 toold to
support this skill.
Fusion
and Visualization of Coronary MRA and DCEMRI
With Mr Constantine
Zakkaroff,
Dr Derek
Magee and
Dr
Sasha Radjenovic.
2008 -
We seek to correlate high resolution 3D MRA imagery with
2D DCEMRI data.
Recognition
via shoes
With Ms Garsah
Al-qarni
2008 -
We seek to build a system that will recognise, or
re-recognise, an individual from footwear.
Analysis of student use of time
With Dr Royce
Neagle
conducted as part of the
Active Learning
in Computing CETL.
2008 -
We are studying how and where students spend their time
physically in studying for a degree: the hypothesis is
that undisciplined and unregulated study time in
isolation, outside the academy, may be detrimental.
Key Publications:
Evolving modes of student use
- whither the VLE?
R D Boyle and R Neagle and N D Efford,
Proceedings of Informatics Education Europe,
Venice,
December 2008.
Data
summaries may be read.
Watermark extraction from archaic documents
With Mr Hazem
Hiary
2006 -
We are looking at using backlighting to extract data
about paper manufacture and marking from difficult and
damaged originals. Artifacts of interest such as
chain-lines and watermarks are often damaged and heavily
obscured, but are of interest to papyrologists and
similar scholars in tracing the origin and manufacture of
paper.
Key Publications:
Watermark location via back-lighting
and recto
removal, R Boyle and H Hiary, IJDAR,
to appear.
The Leeds
Arabic texts projects provides data.
Visual tracking of musical
performance
With Mr Garry
Quested
2006 -
Score following using audio input is already an active area of
research. we seek to discover what independent input may
be available from visual input.
Key Publications:
Polyphonic note tracking using multimodal
retrieval of musical events,
G Quested, R D Boyle and K Ng,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music
Conference (ICMC),
Belfast,
August 2008
Developing UG
internships to feed the teaching-research ethos
conducted as part of the
Active Learning
in Computing CETL.
2005 -
We wish to introduce research into the undergraduate
experience both as curricular material and, more
importantly, as an ethos. We have researched ways of
maximising the intern experience.
Key Publications:
Making Research Internships
Work,
R D Boyle and J Briggs.
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference
Meeting the Growing Demand for Engineers and Their
Educators 2010-2020,
Munich,
November 2007.
Maths matters for Computer Science
- digital materials to motivate and explain mathematics;
conducted as part of the
Active Learning
in Computing CETL.
2005 -
Maths is the standard problem for introductry CS courses
and motivation for is is key: it is simply not enough to
say "This stuff will be useful for you one day". We are
producing materials that put substance into the [true]
statement that will present as short (5 minutes or so)
web-readable "videos".
Key Publications:
Chance
and uncertainty, 2009.
Games, 2009.
Determining the place of computing in the academic
landscape
Ongoing
Issues surrounding the teaching of computing, and why
this might be different to the teaching of other
subjects, are an ongoing concern in university CS
departments.
Key Publications:
Bringing Professionalism to Computer Science,
R D Boyle,
Proc. 3rd Annual Conference on Teaching Computer Science,
31-36,
Dublin City University,
1995
A keynote
address was given at
ITICSE
2008.
We are accumulating
data
to analyse where our students come from.
The value and use of pre-university qualification
for CS degree study
with Dr Martyn
Clark
2001 -
Computing occupies a difficult place on the landscape
with regard to preparation for HE; it is often suggested
that prior qulaifications are detrimental to university
study. We have been interested in the history of this
issue and consider the current state of flux as an area
of study.
Key Publications:
Computer science in English high schools: we
lost the S, now the C is going,
M A C Clark and R D Boyle,
Proceedings of the International Conference on Informatics
in Secondary Schools (ISSEP),
Vilnius, Lithuania,
Springer Verlag LNCS 4226/2006,
83-93,
2006.
Pre-university issues
R D Boyle,
A McGettrick, R D Boyle, R Ibbett, J Lloyd,
G Lovegrove, K Mander,
Grand Challenges in Computing: Education (18-20),
BCS,
2005,
What makes them succeed? Entry, progression and
graduation in Computer Science,
R D Boyle, J E Carter, M A C Clark,
Journal of Further and Higher Education,
26(1), 3-18,
2002,
Understanding and developing the project experience
now being conducted as part of the
Active Learning
in Computing CETL.
1997 -
The project experience is of the highest importance to
students, staff and employers but is often incompletely
understood.
Experience is often concentrated in selected individuals
whose expertise can approach irreplacable, but who
rarely interact with each other. We seek to address
these issues across departments, faculties and
institutions.
Key Publications:
Computer Science Project Work: Principles and
Pragmatics,
S A Fincher, M Petre, M A C Clark, R D Boyle, P Capon,
G Evans, K Mander, W Milne,
Springer Verlag,
2001.
A personal theory of teaching computing through final
year projects,
M A C Clark and R D Boyle,
Computer Science Education,
9, 200-214,
1999.
School of Computing
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
+44 113 343 5487
+44 113 343 5868 (fax)
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