The XSPAN Team

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Heriot-Watt University University of Edinburgh       Principal Investigators: Dr. Albert Burger Prof. Jonathan Bard     Prof. Bonnie Webber Co-Investigators: Dr. Werner Nutt     Dr. Patrik O'Brian Holt   Researchers: Dr. Gus Ferguson Dr. Stuart Aitken   Kenneth McLeod  Sarah Luger   Patrik O'Brian Holt   Patrik is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University. with a background in Experimental Cognitive Psychology, Statistical Modelling and Cognitive Science. He is a founding member of the Image Systems Engineering Laboratory (ISEL).   His current research interests include: Design of Highly Interactive Systems for Computer Based Learning; the Semantic Web and very smart tree structures; reliability and validity of measuring usability and learning; Medical eLearning; evolutionary programming and genetic algorithms for knowledge-mining in clinical cancer genetics; visualisation and visual enhancements in medical imaging using statistics; statistical methods and models; reliability and validity studies; measuring usability; tools and techniques for measuring web site usability; evaluation of learning systems; evaluation of Medical systems.   Email: WWW:   http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ph           Heriot-Watt University University of Edinburgh       Students: Aba-Sah Dadzie (PhD. Student)   Previous Students: Stefan Wagner (MSc. Student 2001/2002) Roman Korf (MSc. Student 2002/2003)   Samuli Mustonen (MSc. Student 2002/2003)     Gopee Ajit Kumar (MSc. Student 2003/2004)