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Papers by Halimat Alabi
Developing Effective Educational Experiences through Learning Analytics
Visualizations are quickly becoming an integral part of learning analytics for knowledge discover... more Visualizations are quickly becoming an integral part of learning analytics for knowledge discovery, sensemaking, and insight. Empowering educators and learners, visualizations make data graphically accessible through a range of perceptual modes. As the embodiment of learners' data, visualizations give them a thing to reflect upon, potentially arriving at insights they may otherwise not have. Visualizations aid educators in behavioral monitoring, formative feedback provision, and strategic intervention. They support learners' motivation and self-regulation, focusing attention on the behaviors associated with academic success. As a mechanism for joint knowledge work, visualizations are collaboratively used to produce, translate, and facilitate communication around shared learning artifacts. This visualization survey explores disposition, predictive, semantic, discourse, collaborative and social learning analytics tools within a variety of learning spaces. In their entirety, th...
This work is dedicated to three beloved individuals, Lorraine Alabi, Ifetayo Alabi, and Krusheska... more This work is dedicated to three beloved individuals, Lorraine Alabi, Ifetayo Alabi, and Krusheska Quiros. Mum, thank you for your unceasing belief in my ability to succeed, and for imbuing me with a deep respect for the many opportunities that education may provide. Your lifemodeling a woman with equal parts ingenuity and kindness, grit and empathy, strength and intelligencemade everything I do and have done possible. You taught me how to work and how to hold hope, both incredibly important abilities when undertaking an endeavour of this magnitude. I am grateful for you and your endless demonstrations of love. I hope to continue your legacy for the rest of my days. Ifetayo Zarine, my golden child, you are my inspiration and my light, and I love you with my whole heart. I believe that children choose their parentsyou timed your entry into this world to be present for every one of my degrees. You contributed to this work; doing this with you by my side every step of the way was precious, as it reinforced who I am holding hope for. I want you to have the tools to be able to create opportunities for yourself, to never be afraid to take chances because you are solid in your belief in your many abilities. With this, my final degree, I pass the torch on to you. As you make your way in the world, I hope you never lose your curiosity. Your vision is uniquely yours; I hope you never stop questioning, dreaming, or making. You will always have my love and support; it is an honour to be your mother. Krusheska, you joined this PhD journey at the most difficult point. Thank you for making me and this work a priority in your life from day one. You put in more hours with me at the library than many who worked there, and your intellectual contributions helped me translate my handwaving to text, with a very fancy pen to boot! You held it down at home while everything in our lives drastically changed, supporting me through one of the most challenging years of my life. Simply put, you are the ride or die of my dreams. I look forward to many more adventures with, and time to enjoy the fruit of our labour.
International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, 2017
Expect inherent uncertainties in health-wearables data to complicate future decision making conce... more Expect inherent uncertainties in health-wearables data to complicate future decision making concerning user health.
Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Adjunct Publication - UbiComp '14 Adjunct, 2014
Proceedings of the extended abstracts of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI EA '14, 2014
ABSTRACT This is a humorous video exploring how I found my research question, or rather, how it f... more ABSTRACT This is a humorous video exploring how I found my research question, or rather, how it found me. The journey touches upon many aspects of computing including: ubiquitous computing, data mining, DIY culture, rapid prototyping, personal, learning, and visual analytics.
A mixed methods approach was undertaken in this exploratory study to better understand how learne... more A mixed methods approach was undertaken in this exploratory study to better understand how learners perceive and utilize learning analytics visualizations during online discussions activities. Internal conditions such as goal orientation and numeracy were measured alongside the external conditions created by the discussion structure and learning analytics. Our results emphasize key factors that should be considered when designing learning analytics tools.
Communications of the ACM, Nov 20, 2018
Expect inherent uncertainties in healthwearables data to complicate future decision making concer... more Expect inherent uncertainties in healthwearables data to complicate future decision making concerning user health. BY BRAN KNOWLES, ALISON SMITH-RENNER, FOROUGH POURSABZI-SANGDEH, DI LU, AND HALIMAT ALABI key insights ˽ Unlike popular use scenarios involving today's consumers, more ambitious future use of health wearable data can be expected to involve even less tolerance for data uncertainty. ˽ Here, we explore the effect of uncertainty on several forward-looking scenarios in which health-wearable data is used to guide critical health decision making. ˽ Areas in need of further research include how to provide users access to confirmatory evidence of reliability, preserve provenance of uncertainties, and tailor communication about uncertainties to users.
ACM SIGHIT Record, Jan 1, 2012
This paper presents a review and summary of the 2011 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (... more This paper presents a review and summary of the 2011 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC 2011). This was the second annual VAHC workshop and it was held in late October in conjunction with the IEEE VisWeek Conference. The primary goal of the VAHC workshop is to bring together researchers and clinicians to discuss the areas in healthcare that can benefit the most from advances in visualization and analytic systems. This review summarizes the event and provides information on how to access the electronic proceedings. In addition, we seek volunteers who are interested in helping to organize future VAHC workshops.
The Journal of the …, Jan 1, 2001
The noise emissions from a compressor station, part of a wastewater treatment plant, were investi... more The noise emissions from a compressor station, part of a wastewater treatment plant, were investigated. The noise was a source of annoyance to a nearby residential subdivision. Initial measurements made on the site revealed salient tonal components. Further ...
Proceedings of the 10th SIGPLAN symposium on …, Jan 1, 2011
... http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1731849.1731856 [3] Chandrika Jayant, Christine Acuario, William J... more ... http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1731849.1731856 [3] Chandrika Jayant, Christine Acuario, William Johnson, Janet Hollier, and Richard Ladner. ... January 2011), 37-42.DOI=10.1145/ 1948954.1948960 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1948954.1948960 [13] Markel Vigo, Amaia Aizpurua ...
Developing Effective Educational Experiences through Learning Analytics
Visualizations are quickly becoming an integral part of learning analytics for knowledge discover... more Visualizations are quickly becoming an integral part of learning analytics for knowledge discovery, sensemaking, and insight. Empowering educators and learners, visualizations make data graphically accessible through a range of perceptual modes. As the embodiment of learners' data, visualizations give them a thing to reflect upon, potentially arriving at insights they may otherwise not have. Visualizations aid educators in behavioral monitoring, formative feedback provision, and strategic intervention. They support learners' motivation and self-regulation, focusing attention on the behaviors associated with academic success. As a mechanism for joint knowledge work, visualizations are collaboratively used to produce, translate, and facilitate communication around shared learning artifacts. This visualization survey explores disposition, predictive, semantic, discourse, collaborative and social learning analytics tools within a variety of learning spaces. In their entirety, th...
This work is dedicated to three beloved individuals, Lorraine Alabi, Ifetayo Alabi, and Krusheska... more This work is dedicated to three beloved individuals, Lorraine Alabi, Ifetayo Alabi, and Krusheska Quiros. Mum, thank you for your unceasing belief in my ability to succeed, and for imbuing me with a deep respect for the many opportunities that education may provide. Your lifemodeling a woman with equal parts ingenuity and kindness, grit and empathy, strength and intelligencemade everything I do and have done possible. You taught me how to work and how to hold hope, both incredibly important abilities when undertaking an endeavour of this magnitude. I am grateful for you and your endless demonstrations of love. I hope to continue your legacy for the rest of my days. Ifetayo Zarine, my golden child, you are my inspiration and my light, and I love you with my whole heart. I believe that children choose their parentsyou timed your entry into this world to be present for every one of my degrees. You contributed to this work; doing this with you by my side every step of the way was precious, as it reinforced who I am holding hope for. I want you to have the tools to be able to create opportunities for yourself, to never be afraid to take chances because you are solid in your belief in your many abilities. With this, my final degree, I pass the torch on to you. As you make your way in the world, I hope you never lose your curiosity. Your vision is uniquely yours; I hope you never stop questioning, dreaming, or making. You will always have my love and support; it is an honour to be your mother. Krusheska, you joined this PhD journey at the most difficult point. Thank you for making me and this work a priority in your life from day one. You put in more hours with me at the library than many who worked there, and your intellectual contributions helped me translate my handwaving to text, with a very fancy pen to boot! You held it down at home while everything in our lives drastically changed, supporting me through one of the most challenging years of my life. Simply put, you are the ride or die of my dreams. I look forward to many more adventures with, and time to enjoy the fruit of our labour.
International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, 2017
Expect inherent uncertainties in health-wearables data to complicate future decision making conce... more Expect inherent uncertainties in health-wearables data to complicate future decision making concerning user health.
Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Adjunct Publication - UbiComp '14 Adjunct, 2014
Proceedings of the extended abstracts of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI EA '14, 2014
ABSTRACT This is a humorous video exploring how I found my research question, or rather, how it f... more ABSTRACT This is a humorous video exploring how I found my research question, or rather, how it found me. The journey touches upon many aspects of computing including: ubiquitous computing, data mining, DIY culture, rapid prototyping, personal, learning, and visual analytics.
A mixed methods approach was undertaken in this exploratory study to better understand how learne... more A mixed methods approach was undertaken in this exploratory study to better understand how learners perceive and utilize learning analytics visualizations during online discussions activities. Internal conditions such as goal orientation and numeracy were measured alongside the external conditions created by the discussion structure and learning analytics. Our results emphasize key factors that should be considered when designing learning analytics tools.
Communications of the ACM, Nov 20, 2018
Expect inherent uncertainties in healthwearables data to complicate future decision making concer... more Expect inherent uncertainties in healthwearables data to complicate future decision making concerning user health. BY BRAN KNOWLES, ALISON SMITH-RENNER, FOROUGH POURSABZI-SANGDEH, DI LU, AND HALIMAT ALABI key insights ˽ Unlike popular use scenarios involving today's consumers, more ambitious future use of health wearable data can be expected to involve even less tolerance for data uncertainty. ˽ Here, we explore the effect of uncertainty on several forward-looking scenarios in which health-wearable data is used to guide critical health decision making. ˽ Areas in need of further research include how to provide users access to confirmatory evidence of reliability, preserve provenance of uncertainties, and tailor communication about uncertainties to users.
ACM SIGHIT Record, Jan 1, 2012
This paper presents a review and summary of the 2011 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (... more This paper presents a review and summary of the 2011 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC 2011). This was the second annual VAHC workshop and it was held in late October in conjunction with the IEEE VisWeek Conference. The primary goal of the VAHC workshop is to bring together researchers and clinicians to discuss the areas in healthcare that can benefit the most from advances in visualization and analytic systems. This review summarizes the event and provides information on how to access the electronic proceedings. In addition, we seek volunteers who are interested in helping to organize future VAHC workshops.
The Journal of the …, Jan 1, 2001
The noise emissions from a compressor station, part of a wastewater treatment plant, were investi... more The noise emissions from a compressor station, part of a wastewater treatment plant, were investigated. The noise was a source of annoyance to a nearby residential subdivision. Initial measurements made on the site revealed salient tonal components. Further ...
Proceedings of the 10th SIGPLAN symposium on …, Jan 1, 2011
... http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1731849.1731856 [3] Chandrika Jayant, Christine Acuario, William J... more ... http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1731849.1731856 [3] Chandrika Jayant, Christine Acuario, William Johnson, Janet Hollier, and Richard Ladner. ... January 2011), 37-42.DOI=10.1145/ 1948954.1948960 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1948954.1948960 [13] Markel Vigo, Amaia Aizpurua ...