Gail Hopkins

Contact

• workRoom C14 Computer Science
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• workn/a
• gail.hopkins@nottingham.ac.uk
• https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/people/gail.hopkins

Teaching Summary

I currently teach various modules related to the following areas:

Human Computer Interaction

Computer Networks

Unix and System and Network Administration

In the past I have also taught modules on Collaboration and Communication Technologies, Virtual Reality and Multimedia, Human Factors, User Interface Design, Unix and Software Tools, Computer Use and Applications, The Internet and the World Wide Web, XML and Advanced Computer Communication.

Research Summary

My research interests currently revolve around social networking, eLearning and collaborative aspects of these from a usability/user experience perspective. I am particularly interested in aspects of… read more

Recent Publications

• COBB, S., BEARDON, L., EASTGATE, R., GLOVER, T., KERR, S., NEALE, H., PARSONS, S., BENFORD, S., HOPKINS, E., MITCHELL, P., REYNARD, G. and WILSON, J., 2002. Applied virtual environments to support learning of social interaction skills in users with Asperger's Syndrome Digital Creativity. 13(1), 11-22
• BENFORD, S.D., FRASER, M.C., REYNARD, G.T., KOLEVA, B. and DROZD, A., 2002. Staging and evaluating public performances as an approach to CVE research In: CVE '02: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Collaborative virtual environments (Bonn, Germany, September 30 - October 02, 2002). 80-87
• BENFORD, S., REYNARD, G., GREENHALGH, C., SNOWDON, D. and BULLOCK, A., 2000. A poetry performance in a collaborative virtual environment IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 20(3), 66-75
• BENFORD, S.D., TAYLOR, I.M., BRAILSFORD, D.F., KOLEVA-HOPKIN, B., CRAVEN, M.P., FRASER, M., REYNARD, G.T. and GREENHALGH, C.M., 1999. Three dimensional visualization of the World Wide Web ACM Computing Surveys. 31(4es), Article 25

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Current Research

My research interests currently revolve around social networking, eLearning and collaborative aspects of these from a usability/user experience perspective. I am particularly interested in aspects of user engagement with social networks and eLearning environments and factors affecting motivation to use these environments. I am also interested in the use of mobile technologies to support learning and how they might impact on community engagement and collaborative opportunities.

• COBB, S., BEARDON, L., EASTGATE, R., GLOVER, T., KERR, S., NEALE, H., PARSONS, S., BENFORD, S., HOPKINS, E., MITCHELL, P., REYNARD, G. and WILSON, J., 2002. Applied virtual environments to support learning of social interaction skills in users with Asperger's Syndrome Digital Creativity. 13(1), 11-22
• BENFORD, S.D., FRASER, M.C., REYNARD, G.T., KOLEVA, B. and DROZD, A., 2002. Staging and evaluating public performances as an approach to CVE research In: CVE '02: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Collaborative virtual environments (Bonn, Germany, September 30 - October 02, 2002). 80-87
• BENFORD, S., REYNARD, G., GREENHALGH, C., SNOWDON, D. and BULLOCK, A., 2000. A poetry performance in a collaborative virtual environment IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 20(3), 66-75
• BENFORD, S.D., TAYLOR, I.M., BRAILSFORD, D.F., KOLEVA-HOPKIN, B., CRAVEN, M.P., FRASER, M., REYNARD, G.T. and GREENHALGH, C.M., 1999. Three dimensional visualization of the World Wide Web ACM Computing Surveys. 31(4es), Article 25
• BENFORD, S., GREENHALGH, C., REYNARD, G., BROWN, C. and KOLEVA, B., 1998. Understanding and constructing shared spaces with mixed-reality boundaries ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 5(3), 185-223
• BENFORD, S., SNOWDON, D., BROWN, C. and REYNARD, G., 1997. Visualising and populating the Web: Collaborative virtual environments for browsing, searching and inhabiting Webspace Computer Networks and ISDN Systems. 29(15), 1751-1762