Full name: Lynda Hardman
Formal name: Prof.dr. L. Hardman
Function: MT member
Email: Lynda.Hardman@cwi.nl
Telephone: +31(0)20 592 4147
Room: L332
Homepage: http://www.cwi.nl/~lynda
Department: Information Access
Formal name: Prof.dr. L. Hardman
Function: MT member
Email: Lynda.Hardman@cwi.nl
Telephone: +31(0)20 592 4147
Room: L332
Homepage: http://www.cwi.nl/~lynda
Department: Information Access
Research
Hardman was head of the Interactive Information Access research group until the end of 2010.
Current research interests include creating linked-data driven, user-centric applications for exploring media content and investigating user-centric interaction design in the context of developing technologies. Her current main research project is Fish4Knowledge, investigating user interfaces for exploring repositories of fish videos for biologists. Previous projects include EventMedia within the PetaMedia network of excellence, K-Space NoE and MultimediaN/E-Culture.
She is part-time professor of multimedia interaction at the University of Amsterdam, in the Informatics Institute.
Career
| 2013 - | Theme-coordinator Information - Information |
| 2013 - | Scientific staff member IA - Information access |
| 2011 - 2012 | Scientific staff member INS2 - Interactive Information Access |
| 2011 - 2012 | Leader Scientific Cluster INS - Information Systems |
| 2009 - | Full professor University of Amsterdam |
| 2001 - 2008 | Full professor University of Eindhoven |
| 1999 - 2010 | Group leader INS2 - Interactive Information Access |
| 1997 - 1998 | Scientific staff member INS2 - Interactive Information Access |
| 1992 - 1996 | Scientific staff member AA3 - Interoperable multimedia systems |
Selected Academic Activities
| 2012 - | Board member Informatics Europe |
| 2011 - | Member advisory board Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands |
| 2011 - 2012 | Action line leader EIT ICT Labs - ICT-mediated Human Activity |
| 2010 | Organizer Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Summer School on Multimedia Semantics - [SSMS 2010] |
| 2010 | Keynote lecture Pittsburgh, PA, USA - IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing - [ICSC] |
| 2009 - | Professor by special appointment Universiteit van Amsterdam - [UvA] |
| 2008 | Program chair Koblenz, Germany - International Conference on Semantics and Digital Media Technology - [SAMT] |
| 2008 - 2009 | Guest editor Journal: IEEE Intelligent systems - [IS] - Volume: 24 - Number: 2 - Special Issue on AI and Cultural Heritage |
| 2007 - 2008 | Guest editor Journal: ACM Multimedia Systems Journal on Canonical Processes of Media Production |
| 2005 - | Member editorial board Journal: New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia |
| 2005 - | Member editorial board Journal: Journal of Web Semantics - [JWS] |
Selected Publications
| R. Arndt, R. Troncy, S. Staab, Lynda Hardman. COMM: A core ontology for multimedia annotation. Handbook on Ontologies, 2009. |
| A.K. Amin, S. Townsend, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Lynda Hardman. Fancy a drink in Canary Wharf? A user study on location-based mobile search. Proceedings of IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2009 (12), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5726, Uppsala, Sweden, 736–749, 2009. |
| Lynda Hardman, Z. Obrenovic, F.-M. Nack, Brigitte Kerhervé, Kurt Piersol. Canonical processes of semantically annotated media production. ACM Multimedia Systems Journal 14, 327–340, 2008. |
| S. Bocconi, F.-M. Nack, Lynda Hardman. Automatic generation of matter-of-opinion video documentaries. Journal of Web Semantics 6, 139–150, 2008. |
| A.K. Amin, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Lynda Hardman, A. van Nispen. Understanding cultural heritage experts’ information seeking needs. Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2008. |
