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Mark J. Weal is a researcher affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their work spans several fields of study, particularly within psychology and social sciences. The subfields of focus include sociology and political science, applied psychology, general health professions, developmental and educational psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Weal's main research topics incorporate digital mental health interventions, reading and literacy development, mobile health and mHealth applications, smart grid energy management, building energy and comfort optimization, energy efficiency and management, and the neurobiology of language and bilingualism.

Their recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Using Prior Models of General Appliance Types, 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • The impact of skim reading and navigation when reading hyperlinks on the web, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Assessing the Impact of Engagement and Real-Time Feedback in a Mobile Behavior Change Intervention for Supporting Critical Thinking in Engineering Research Projects, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
  • Telemedicine for Adults With Cochlear Implants in the United Kingdom (CHOICE): Protocol for a Prospective Interventional Multisite Study, 2021, JMIR Research Protocols
  • Attitudes and associated factors of patients' adoption of patient accessible electronic health records in China - A mixed methods study, 2023, Digital Health

The research has been published across diverse venues, including:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
  • JMIR Research Protocols
  • Digital Health

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Weal include:

  • Gemma Fitzsimmons
  • Lewis T. Jayes
  • Denis Drieghe
  • Sascha Miller
  • Lucy Yardley

Best Publications

  • Automatic ontology-based knowledge extraction from Web documents

    H. Alani;Sanghee Kim;D.E. Millard;M.J. Weal

  • Non-intrusive load monitoring using prior models of general appliance types

    Oliver Parson;Siddhartha Ghosh;Mark Weal;Alex Rogers

  • Ambient wood: designing new forms of digital augmentation for learning outdoors

    Y. Rogers;S. Price;G. Fitzpatrick;R. Fleck

  • Ubi-learning integrates indoor and outdoor experiences

    Yvonne Rogers;Sara Price;Cliff Randell;Danae Stanton Fraser

  • An unsupervised training method for non-intrusive appliance load monitoring ☆

    Oliver Parson;Siddhartha Ghosh;Mark J. Weal;Alex Rogers

  • Artequakt: Generating Tailored Biographies from Automatically Annotated Fragments from the Web

    Sanghee Kim;Harith Alani;Wendy Hall;Paul H. Lewis

  • Digital futures? Sociological challenges and opportunities in the emergent semantic web

    Susan Halford;Catherine Pope;Mark J. Weal

  • Automation, Algorithms, and Politics| Bots and Political Influence: A Sociotechnical Investigation of Social Network Capital

    Dhiraj Murthy;Alison B. Powell;Ramine Tinati;Nick Anstead

  • Auld Leaky: A Contextual Open Hypermedia Link Server

    Danius T. Michaelides;David E. Millard;Mark J. Weal;David De Roure

  • Understanding usage of a hybrid website and smartphone app for weight management: a mixed-methods study.

    Leanne G Morrison;Charlie Hargood;Sharon Xiaowen Lin;Laura Dennison

  • Towards Open Adaptive Hypermedia

    Christopher Bailey;Wendy Hall;David E. Millard;Mark J. Weal

  • Common Barriers to the Use of Patient-Generated Data Across Clinical Settings

    Peter West;Max Van Kleek;Richard Giordano;Mark J. Weal

  • Peer-Based Social Media Features in Behavior Change Interventions: Systematic Review.

    Elaheebocus Smra.;M Weal;L Morrison;L Yardley

  • Learning through digitally-augmented physical experiences: Reflections on the ambient wood project.

    Yvonne Rogers;Sara Price;Eric Harris;Ted Phelps

  • Using Hidden Markov Models for Iterative Non-intrusive Appliance Monitoring

    Oliver Parson;Siddhartha Ghosh;Mark Weal;Alex Rogers

  • Semantic Technologies for Learning and Teaching in the Web 2.0 Era

    T. Tiropanis;H. Davis;D. Millard;M. Weal

  • The ambient wood journals: replaying the experience

    Mark J. Weal;Danius T. Michaelides;Mark K. Thompson;David C. DeRoure

  • UbiComp in opportunity spaces: challenges for participatory design

    Eva Hornecker;John Halloran;Geraldine Fitzpatrick;Mark Weal

  • A Framework for Analyzing and Measuring Usage and Engagement Data (AMUsED) in Digital Interventions: Viewpoint

    Sascha Miller;Benjamin Ainsworth;Lucy Yardley;Alexander Milton

  • The literacy fieldtrip: using UbiComp to support children's creative writing

    John Halloran;Eva Hornecker;Geraldine Fitzpatrick;Mark Weal

  • Information Quality Challenges of Patient-Generated Data in Clinical Practice.

    Peter West;Max Van Kleek;Richard Giordano;Mark Weal

  • Semantic Technologies for Learning and Teaching in the Web 2.0 Era: A survey of UK Higher Education

    Thanassis Tiropanis;Hugh Davis;Dave Millard;Mark Weal

Frequent Co-Authors

David De Roure
David De Roure University of Oxford
Lucy Yardley
Lucy Yardley University of Bristol
Wendy Hall
Wendy Hall University of Southampton
Hugh C. Davis
Hugh C. Davis University of Southampton
Gary Wills
Gary Wills University of Southampton
Nigel Shadbolt
Nigel Shadbolt University of Oxford
Luc Moreau
Luc Moreau King's College London
Harith Alani
Harith Alani The Open University
John W. Halloran
John W. Halloran University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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