Staff Profile

Dr Edward de Quincey
AC4 (Principal Lecturer)
Creative Digital Technologies Department

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8331 8388
Fax: +44 (0)20 8331 8665
Room: QM321
Email:
Personal Web Site

Qualifications
PhD Computer Science, Keele University
MSc I.T., Keele University
BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences, King's College London



External recognition
e-Centre Member: Leader of the Web 2.0 / Social Web for Learning Research Group
Visiting researcher, Knowledge Modeling Group, Keele University
Guest Editor for Compass: The Journal of Learning and Teaching
Editorial Board Member for Compass: The Journal of Learning and Teaching
Reviewer for Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering
Reviewer for Methods of Information in Medicine
eHealth 2010, 2011 Poster Chair
eHealth 2009, 2010, 2011 Technical Program Committee member
e-Health 2013 Technical Program Committee member
COGNITIVE 2009 Technical Program Committee member
APT 2012, 2013 Committee member
Affiliate Member of the BCS

Awards
Apple’s “Featured Web App” (April 2nd, 2008) and an Apple “Staff Pick” for “WebClipr” web application
http://www.apple.com/webapps/utilities/webclipr.html
Bizcom 2008 Winner and National Finalist (£1,000) – Business Idea Competition

Biography
I have worked in the area of online human behaviour for nine years, investigating the usability and impact of websites as well as uses of the information that they collect. This has recently included an investigation into the potential of Twitter to detect disease outbreaks such as Swine Flu that has shown that user activity on twitter can predict an outbreak up to one week faster than traditional methods. This research has received international press coverage e.g. the Telegraph, the Times of India and been presented at a number of international conferences. I am currently a Principal Lecturer in the School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences at the University of Greenwich and the Web 2.0 Research Group Leader at the eCentre.

I have previously been involved in a number of successful EU funded projects as a researcher at City University, London and have a PhD in Computer Science from Keele University.

Research/Scholarly interests
Visualisation
Requirements elicitation
Web usability
Server log analysis
Web 2.0/Social networking
Music categorisation
eHealth
eLearning

Research projects
Co-Investigator on EPSRC Funded iCase Studentship in Real-Time Data Analytics in Social Media
Early Career Researcher Moodle Project Grant (£1,000) for set up and service of an ECR Moodle page
Technical lead on TQE funded “Social Bookmarking” project, which investigated the use of social bookmarking by 200 students and lecturers.
City Commercialisation Grant to fund an MBA student Summer Internship (£1,000)
Funding from CODEE for development of online games to teach differential equations in U.S. Universities ($1,000)
Mercia Spinner Grant (£7,000) for research into the potential uses of elicitation methodologies including software developed as part of my PhD
Collaborator on “Software Visualisation” project with researchers at the Open University (£1,000)
Management of TE3 grant funded (£10,000) “Multimedia Marketing Resource Kit” project
Developer of online resources as part of the TE3 grant funded (£1,000) “Virtual Interviews with micro business entrepreneurs” project


University roles
Chair of the Greenwich Connect Working Group on Social Media

School roles
Retention Coordinator
Undergraduate Projects Coordinator

Course Coordinator 2012/13
Computing Education and Communication
Internet and Web Technologies (Open Source)
Project (CDT)
Project (Information Systems & Multimedia)
User Centered Web Engineering
Work Based Learning Project 2

Selected publications
Publications list (pdf) | Complete CV (pdf)

Book Sections/Chapters
de Quincey, E., Hocking, A., O'Gorman, A., Walker, S., Bacon, L. (2012) The use of Social Bookmarking by Health Care Students to create Communities of Practice. In: Electronic Healthcare. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. In Press
de Quincey, E., Kostkova, P., Jawaheer, G. (2012) Promoting e-Health Resources: Lessons Learned. In: Electronic Healthcare. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. p103-110.
Available at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/h5qp441558755x6k/
Szomszor, M., Kostkova, P., de Quincey, E. (2012) #swineflu: Twitter Predicts Swine Flu Outbreak in 2009. In: Electronic Healthcare. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. In: Electronic Healthcare. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. P18-26.
Available at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/mt12098g21543p0q/
de Quincey, E., Kostkova, P. (2010) Early Warning and Outbreak Detection Using Social Networking Websites: The Potential of Twitter. In: Electronic Healthcare. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer . p21-24.
Available at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/tw07427755x81225/
Oliver, H., Kostkova P., de Quincey, E. (2010) Data Triangulation in a User Evaluation of the Sealife Semantic Web Browsers. In: Electronic Healthcare. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer . p80-87.
Available at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/rl00542136g61x16/
de Quincey, E., Hawksley, C. (2009) Collaborative learning inside and outside of a Wiki Environment. In: Novel Approaches to Promoting Student Engagement. HEA Subject Centre for Information & Computer Sciences, p61-64.
Available at: http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/events/displayevent.php?id=205

Journal Papers
Pantin, H., de Quincey, E. (2012) How is responsibility for group work shared in a GCSE Drama class? Drama Research: International journal of drama in education Vol. 3 No. 1: April 2012
de Quincey, E., Kostkova, P. Jawaheer, G., Farrell, D., McNulty, C., Weinber, J. (2011) Evaluating the Online Activity of Users of the e-Bug Website. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 66 (suppl5). v45-v49. ISSN 0305-7453 (print) 1460-2091 (online)
Kostkova P, Farrell D, de Quincey E, Weinberg J, Lecky D, McNulty C. (2010) eBug-teaching children hygiene principles using educational games. Studies in health technology and informatics. 2010;160:600-604.
Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20841757
Oliver, H., Diallo, G., de Quincey, E., Alexopoulou, D., Habermann, B., Kostkova, P., Schroeder, M., Jupp, S., Khelif, K., Stevens, R., Jawaheer, G., Madle, G. (2009) A User-Centred Evaluation Framework for the Sealife Semantic Web Browsers. BMC BioInformatics, Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences, 2008, BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 (Suppl 10):S14.
Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19796398
Petre, M., de Quincey, E. (2006) A gentle overview of software visualization. Computer Society of India Communications. August, 6-11. ISSN 0970-647X
Petre, M., de Quincey, E. (2006) A gentle overview of software visualization. Autumn 2006 PPIG newsletter.
Available at: http://www.ppig.org/newsletters/2006-09.html

Recent conference presentations
de Quincey, E., Hocking, A., O’Gorman, A., Walker, S., Bacon, L. (2011) The use of Social Bookmarking by Health Care Students to create Communities of Practice. e-Health 2011.
de Quincey, E., Hocking, A., O’Gorman, J., Walker, S., Bacon, L. (2011) Using Social Bookmarking to create and share centralised collections of healthcare related resources. eLearning in Health 2011.
Available at: http://www.health.heacademy.ac.uk/ea/elh/elhwpabstracts13052011
de Quincey, E., Hocking, A., O’Gorman, J., Walker, S., Bacon, L. (2011) The Use Of Social Bookmarking By Students Across Disciplines. eTeaching and Learning Workshop 2011.
Available at: http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/events/displayevent.php?id=252
de Quincey, E., Kostkova, P., Jawaheer, G. (2010) Promoting e-Health Internet Resources effectively: Tips and Tricks from NeLI promotion strategies. e-Health 2010.
Szomszor, M., Kostkova, P., de Quincey, E. (2010) #swineflu: Twitter Predicts Swine Flu Outbreak in 2009. e-Health 2010.
Kostkova, P., Szomszor, M., de Quincey, E., Jawaheer, G. (2010) The Potential of Twitter for Early Warning and Outbreak Detection. Abstract in the Proceedings of the Joint IPCAN/IFIC conference, 29th August – 1st September 2010, Cape Town, South Africa.
de Quincey, E. & Quinney, D. (2010) An Online Application for Exploring Differential Equations. 1st One-Day Workshop on "Next Generation Learning: Using Games and Animation in Education".
Available at: http://www.eddequincey.com/papers/ngl_2010.pdf
Wiseman, S., Kostkova, P., de Quincey, E. (2010) National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC) - tackling the challenge of conveying guidance during the Swine influenza A(H1N1) outbreak. Abstracts of the Tenth Congress of the International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC2009). International Journal of Infection Control, North America, 5, jan. 2010.
Available at: http://www.ijic.info/article/view/5308/3651.
Wiseman, S., Kostkova, P., de Quincey, E., Jawaheer, G. (2010) Providing guidance during the swine flu outbreak in 2009: An evaluation study of the National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC). Poster and Abstract in the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Infectious Diseases (ICID), March 9-12th 2010, Miami, Florida, US.
Also published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases - March 2010 (Vol. 14, Supplement 1, Page 105)
Available at: http://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(10)01759-5/abstract
Kostkova, P., de Quincey, E., Jawaheer, G. (2010) The potential of social networks for early warning and outbreak detection systems: the swine flu Twitter study. Poster and Abstract in the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Infectious Diseases (ICID), March 9-12th 2010, Miami, Florida, US. Also published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases - March 2010 (Vol. 14, Supplement 1, Pages 384-385).
Available at: http://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(10)00507-2/abstract
de Quincey, E & Kostkova, P, Wiseman, S. (2009) An investigation into the potential of Web 2.0 websites to track disease. Poster and abstract in the Proceedings of the Infection 2009 conference, Birmingham, UK, 11-13th November 2009.
de Quincey, E., Oliver, H., Kostkova, P., Jawaheer, G., Madle, G., Diallo, G., Alexopoulou, D., Schroeder, M., Habermann, B., Khelif, K., Jupp, S., Stevens, R. (2009) Mining for Patterns of Semantic Link Usage: Do Domain Users Actually Like Semantic Browsing? wi-iat, vol. 3, pp.50-53, 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology.
Available at: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5285090
de Quincey, E & Kostkova, P. (2009) An investigation into the potential of social networking sites to predict disease outbreak. Abstract in the Proceedings of the ESCAIDE 2009 conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 26th-28th October 2009.
Wiseman, S., Kostkova, P., de Quincey, E. (2009) National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC) - tackling the challenge of conveying guidance during the Swine influenza A(H1N1) outbreak. Abstract in the Proceedings of the 10th Congress of the International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC), Vilnius, Lithuania, 8-10th October 2009
Oliver, H., Kostkova P., de Quincey, E. (2009) Data Triangulation in a User Evaluation of the Sealife Semantic Web Browsers. E-Health 2009.
de Quincey, E., Kostkova, P. (2009) Early Warning and Outbreak Detection Using Social Networking Websites: The Potential of Twitter. e-Health 2009.
de Quincey, E., Kostkova, P., Farrell, D. (2009) Visualising web server logs for a Web 1.0 audience using Web 2.0 technologies: eliciting attributes for recommendation and profiling systems. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Adaptation and Personalization for Web 2.0 in connection with UMAP 2009, June 22-26, 2009, Trento, Italy.
Available at: http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-485/
Kostkova, P., Jawaheer, G., de Quincey, E., Madle, G., Wiseman, S. (2009) National Electronic Library of Infection (NeLI/NRIC) - the Best Available Evidence Online: 9 Years of Experience. IST-Africa 2009 Conference Proceedings, Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds), IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-905824-11-3.
Available at: ftp://lenst.det.unifi.it/pub/LenLar/proceedings/2009/istafrica09/eHealth/Application/ISTAfrica2009_Paper_ref_198.pdf
Oliver, H., Jupp, S., de Quincey, E., Alexopoulou, D., Habermann, B., Khelif, K., Kostkova, P., Jawaheer, G., Stevens, R., Ferguson, G., Surendranath, V., Wiseman, S., Mani-Saada, J., Diallo, G., Dietze, H., Madle, G., Weinberg, J., Schroeder, M. (2009) Evaluating the user experience of the Sealife Semantic Web browsers. Abstract in the Proceedings of the 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 15, Supplement 4, Helsinki, Finland, 16-19 May 2009.
Available at: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/eccmid19/abstract.asp?id=75898
de Quincey, E., Hawksley, C. (2008) Collaborative learning inside and outside of a Wiki Environment. In the Proceedings of ICS Novel Approaches to Promoting Student Engagement Workshop.
Available at: https://sites.google.com/a/ulster.ac.uk/student-engagement-workshop/provisional-programme/poster-presentations


School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
University of Greenwich
Old Royal Naval College
Park Row
London SE10 9LS
UK