Research
1 - 20 of 20 projects found.
Companions: Intelligent, Persistent, Personalised Multimodal Interfaces to the Internet
Participants: Professor Yorick Wilks
Companions is developing a virtual conversational 'Companion': an agent that stays with the user for long periods of time, develops a relationship and 'knows' its owner's preferences and wishes, communicating primarily by using and understanding speech.
Cybertrust: The tension between privacy and security in an e-society
Participants: Professor William H. Dutton
Perceptions of trust in online activities are significant factors influencing the kinds and extents of Internet use and interactions: this work draws on Oxford Internet Survey (OxIS) data to explore and refine key social determinants of cybertrust.
Development and Broadband Internet Access in East Africa
Participants: Dr Mark Graham
By using surveys, interviews and in-depth observations, this project examines the expectations and stated potentials of broadband Internet in East Africa and compares those expectations to on-the-ground effects that broadband connectivity is having.
Digital Choices and the Reconfiguring of Access
Participants: Professor William H. Dutton
Research on how the use of the Internet in different, overlapping and interacting arenas is shaped by everyday and strategic choices about the design and use of the technology.
GNS: Global Network of Societies Project
Participants: Professor William H. Dutton, Professor Pekka Himanen and Tal Samuel-Azran
Are the new ICTs being used in ways that reinforce existing structures of power and influence, but on a global scale? How is the diffusion of the Internet related to, and implicated in, other global societal trends?
Participants: Simon Bastow, Professor Patrick Dunleavy, Tobias Escher, Professor Helen Margetts, Oliver Pearce and Jane Tinkler
Research dedicated to improving knowledge and understanding of e-government and the impact of web-based technologies on government.
Humanities Information Practices
Participants: Smiljana Antonijevic, Anne Beaulieu, Monica Bulger, Dr Annamaria Carusi, Tim Davies, Grace de la Flor, Dr Kathryn Eccles, Dr Marina Jirotka, Christine Madsen, Dr Eric T. Meyer, Dr Ralph Schroeder, Melissa Terras, Claire Warwick, Tim Webmoor and Sally Wyatt
Many humanities scholars are enthusiastic users of digital resources, however there is a potential mismatch between what (and how) resources are offered, and how scholars might use them. How should they be designed to ensure maximum use by scholars?
Participants: Dr Ian Brown, Professor William H. Dutton and Professor Jonathan Zittrain
A programme of seminars, forums and conferences informing our research on Internet governance.
Me, My Spouse and the Internet: Meeting, Dating and Marriage in the Digital Age
Participants: Professor William H. Dutton, Dr Nai Li and Monica Whitty
The project uses survey data from Australian and UK couples to look at the significance and impact of the Internet on intimate relationships, including how people use ICTs to meet each other and maintain relationships, and how ICTs affect their behaviour.
OeSS: The Oxford e-Social Science Project
Participants: Dr Annamaria Carusi, Professor Paul Allan David, Dr Matthijs den Besten, Professor William H. Dutton, Dr Marina Jirotka, Dr Eric T. Meyer, Michael Parker, Justine Pila, Professor Tina Piper, Dr Ralph Schroeder, Dr Michael J. Spence and Professor David Vaver
The Oxford e-Social Science project aims to understand how e-Research projects negotiate various social, ethical, legal and organizational forces and constraints, in order to help researchers avoid these problems when building scientific collaborations.
Participants: Dr Grant Blank, Professor William H. Dutton, Professor Helen Margetts and Bianca Reisdorf
Research on access, use and attitudes to the Internet in Britain based on biennial surveys covering (for example) digital and social inclusion and exclusion, social networking, safety and privacy concerns, Internet regulation, and behaviour.
OXLab: Oxford eXperimental Laboratory
Participants: Ingrid Boxall, Tobias Escher, Peter John, Professor Helen Margetts and Dr Nir Vulkan
Oxford eXperimental Laboratory is undertaking laboratory-based experiments (eg information-seeking tasks) on networked computers in two disciplines: Economics (interactive decision making) and Political Science (evaluating government information online).
PEACH: Presence Research in Action
Participants: Dr Eric T. Meyer, Dr Ralph Schroeder and Malte Ziewitz
Presence research focuses on understanding and controlling the cognitive experience of being somewhere, or someone: we are analysing social impact scenarios to raise and address potential ethical and policy issues relating to Presence technologies.
Participants: Dr Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, Dave Birch, Dr Sacha Brostoff, Dr Ian Brown, Fadhila Haeri Mazanderani, Dr Tristan Henderson, David Houghton, Dr Adam Joinson, Miguel Malheiros, Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen, Chrysanthi Papoutsi, Iain Parris, Professor Angela Sasse and Dr Asimina Vasalou
Privacy Value Networks (PVNets) is producing an empirical base for developing concepts of privacy across contexts and timeframes, addressing a current lack of clarity of what privacy is and what it means to stakeholders in different usage scenarios.
Participants: Professor Jonathan Zittrain
A leading independent authority on trends in badware and its distribution, and a focal point for the development of collaborative, community-minded approaches to stopping badware. The main focus is on research and public education.
Participants: Maja Andjelkovic, Professor William H. Dutton and Jessica Richman
The Fifth Estate is a research project designed to examine critically the Internet's role in enabling new forms of democratic accountability and voice, comparable to the press of an earlier era.
Participants: Sue Cranmer, Dr Chris Davies, Dr Rebecca Eynon, Professor John Furlong, Jenny Good, Stuart Lee and Lars Malmberg
This project, which is part of its Becta's major programme of research in support of the Government's Harnessing Technology strategy, looks at the learning opportunities afforded by young people's uses of new technologies in their everyday lives.
The Learning Companion: an embodied conversational agent for learning
Participants: Dr Chris Davies, Dr Rebecca Eynon and Professor Yorick Wilks
The Learning Companion project aims to evaluate the feasibility of a computer-based digital tool to help adults whose engagement with learning is tentative or hard to sustain make productive use of the Internet for achieving their own learning projects.
Participants: Dr Colin Blackman, Dr Ian Brown, Professor Jonathan Cave, Simon Forge, Dr Karmen Guevara, Lara Srivastava, Professor Motohiro Tsuchiya and Malte Ziewitz
The Internet Futures project will produce a single preferred vision of a 'Future Internet' for Europe by researching possible social, psychological, technological and economic options for its further development and their likely socio-economic impacts.
Participants: Dr Grant Blank and Professor William H. Dutton
The World Internet Project (WIP) carries out panel surveys in over twenty countries to help understand how individuals adopt and use the Internet and other technologies, as well as the resulting social, economic, political and everyday-life implications.
Last updated on: 9 March 2010