Full name: Lynda Hardman
Formal name: Prof.dr. L. Hardman
Function: MT member, Theme coordinator

Email: Lynda.Hardman@cwi.nl
Telephone +31(0)20 592 4147
Room:  L332
Homepage:  http://www.cwi.nl/~lynda
Research groups:
(INS2) Interactive 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 -	Onderzoeker E INS2 - Interactive 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
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.

All publications (link to repository)