John Lee

Roles

• Professor of Digital Media
• Deputy Director of HCRC
  and member of the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC)
• Programme Director of the MSc/Diploma in Design and Digital Media in Edinburgh College of Art
• Co-convener of the University's IT Futures Group
• Organiser of the Design and Informatics Research Programme
• Contributor to the Topics in Cognitive Modelling course

• Manager of IDEA Lab -- an initiative funded within the School of Science and Engineering to fund Proof of Principle Prototyping Projects that seed innovative research developments
• Co-ordinator of the Edinburgh-Stanford Link research and commercialisation programme
• Academic course organiser of the Informatics Entrepreneurship courses
• Course organiser of Human Communication 1 in the School of Informatics

Research

A recently completed collaborative project continued an investigation of the paradigm of "Vicarious Learning", as part of the national Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP). This concept is being pursued further: a small Principal's e-Learning Fund project has developed an interface for student communities to re-use video recordings of tutorials as a learning resource. A prototype of this system (which we call "YouTute") is being put into use with several courses in Informatics. This work has been recognised by the Chancellor's Award for Teaching 2009.

My other activities centre around several themes:

• the relationship between language and other modalities
• information technology in support of design and learning
• communication, information management and knowledge representation in urban and similar contexts -- as part of the COST Action C21 (Towntology) (which has recently concluded).

I maintain an international bibliography of works by, and book-length works devoted to, the late philosopher of language and many other things, Nelson Goodman.

Contacting me

Last updated: February 2012