Biography

I have researched and taught in the area of online human behaviour for 18 years, looking into the design, usability and impact of digital products as well as uses of the information that they collect. I have worked at Keele since 2014 in the School of Computer Science and Mathematics, holding the roles of Programme Director and Director of Education. My work has received funding of around £1.67 million equivalent from funders such as the AHRC, EPSRC, HEFCE, OfS and KTP and I have an established national profile in Education, recognised through Senior Fellowship of the HEA.

I have previously worked as a Principal Lecturer at the University of Greenwich, and a Researcher at City University, London.

Qualifications

PhD Computer Science, Keele University
MSc I.T., Keele University
BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences, King's College London
SFHEA Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

External recognition

Examining
• External Examiner at Harper Adams University - MSc Data Science for Global Agriculture, Food and Environment. (2021-2025)
• External Assessor at Middlesex University - MSc User Experience Design (2021)
• External Examiner at Department of Computer Science, Brunel University – BSc Computer Science (2019-2023)
• External Assessor at School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Bangor University (2019)
• External Adviser at University of Greenwich – Postgraduate Computing Programmes (2018)
• External Examiner at Glasgow Caledonian University - BSc Computer Games: Indie Development (2014-2018)
• External Adviser at University of Worcester – MComp (2016)
• PhD Internal Examiner (3 Vivas, 2017 - current)

Journals
• Guest Editor and Editorial Board Member for Compass: The Journal of Learning and Teaching (from 2010)
• Reviewer for International Journal of Medical Informatics, Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), Cognitive Systems Research, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, JMIR Serious Games, Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering, Methods of Information in Medicine, Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ecological Informatics.

Conferences
• Programme Chair for BCS HCI 2020 Conference (postponed to 2022).
• Organising Committee member for One-day symposium on Ethnicities, Counter-publics, Appropriation and Social Media 2017, APT 2012-2018, ACM Digital Health 2015-2016, eHealth 2009-2011
• TPC and Reviewer for IEEE Globecom: Workshop on the Social Collaborative Internet, e-Health 2013-2015, IADIS International Conference e-Health 2012-2020, Employer Engagement in a Digital Age 2012, COGNITIVE 2009.
• Poster/Demo Chair for ACM Digital Health 2016 at WWW2016, ACM Digital Health 2015 at WWW2015.
• Poster Chair for eHealth 2011, eHealth 2010
• Reviewer for British HCI 2018-2021, BCS International Software Quality Management (SQM) and INSPIRE conferences

Research and scholarship

I am currently interested in the following areas:

  • Usability, User-centred Design and Requirements’ elicitation
  • Social Media Analytics
  • Learning Analytics
  • eHealth
  • eLearning
  • Visualisation

Funded Research Projects

  • Principal Investigator on Breath of Life funded (£9,622) “User modelling, adaptation and personalisation for Clinical Guidelines Mobile Apps” (January 2021-2023) 
  • Principal Investigator on Bedside Clinical Guidelines Partnership funded (£97,411) Bedside Clinical Guidelines App: Stage 2 (January 2021-2023)
  • Co-Investigator on QR funded (£13,000) “Developing strategies to ensure that those in digital poverty are not excluded from the implementation of the NHS digital policies.”
  • Co-Investigator on AHRC funded (£415,968) “#ContestingIslamophobia: Representation and appropriation in mediated activism” (September 2020-2023).
  • Principal Investigator on Office for Students funded (£624,556) “Employer and Student-Centred Design of a Conversion MSc in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (with degree pathways)” (April 2020-2023).
  • Co-Investigator on RDF funded (£1,330) “User centered design of decision support tools for physiotherapists in the assessment and management of paediatric shoulder instability”. (2019-2020)
  • Principal Investigator on Jisc funded (£19,980) “Embedding Learning Analytics into Programme Review and Curriculum Design” (2019-2020).
  • Co-Investigator on ILAS/KISI Funded Workshops (£3,748) “Shared Parenting in Post Separation/Divorce Families” (2018).
  • Principal Investigator on HEFCE Catalyst Funded (£99,790) “Learner Centred Design for Learning Analytics”. (2016-2018).
  • PhD studentship award from the University Hospitals of North Midlands (UHNM) Trust Charity and ACORN (£56,244) “Guidelines for the Production of Medical Guideline Mobile Applications” (2017-2020).
  • Co-Investigator on British Council/Newton Funded (£37,500) “Towards Precision Agriculture” (2017-2018).
  • Co-Investigator on British Academy Grant (£9,357) “Who speaks for Muslims? Political frictions and the politics of appropriation in social media” (2017).
  • PhD studentship award from the Libyan Government (£51,000) for an “Investigation into the issues surrounding the acceptance of VLEs for e-Learning” (2016-2019).
  • Co-Investigator on KTP awarded project (£131,004) with KBC Process Technology Ltd (2016-2018).
  • Principal Investigator on TIPS funded project (£4,315.10) on “Factors for Consideration in Learning Analytics” (2015-2016).
  • Funding for Graduate Internships (equiv. £5,000) with Social Care Network Solutions Ltd on a Mobile Motivation Project (2015).
  • Co-Investigator on EPSRC Funded iCase Studentship (£68,000) in Real-Time Data Analytics in Social Media (2013-2016).
  • Co-supervising a PhD (equiv. £14,182) with the Department of Family Care and Mental Health, University of Greenwich investigating Mental Health Issues and Social Media (2013-2020).
  • Early Career Researcher Moodle Project Grant (£1,000) for set up and service of an ECR Moodle page (2012).
  • Co-Investigator /Technical lead on TQE funded “Social Bookmarking” project (£5,000), which investigated the use of social bookmarking by 200 students and lecturers.
    http://www2.gre.ac.uk/research/centres/ecentre/projects/social-bookmarking
  • City Commercialisation Grant (£1,000) to fund an MBA student Summer Internship (2009).
  • Funding from CODEE (£750) for development of online games to teach differential equations in U.S. Universities (2008).
  • Mercia Spinner Grant (£7,000) for research into the potential uses of elicitation methodologies (2007).
  • Collaborator on “Software Visualisation” project (£1,000) with researchers at the Open University (2006).
  • Management of TE3 grant funded (£10,000) “Multimedia Marketing Resource Kit” project (2006).
  • Developer of online resources as part of the TE3 grant funded (£1,000) “Virtual Interviews with micro business entrepreneurs” project (2005).

Teaching

  • CSC-10040 Introduction to Interaction Design
  • CSC-10056 Communication, Confidence and Competence
  • GCP-10005 A digital life: challenges and opportunities
  • CSC-20041 Software Engineering
  • CSC-30021 Computing in Education
  • CSC-40102 AI and Data Science Ambassador Scheme

Further information

Selected Publications

  • De Quincey E and Parker M. 2021. User-Centred Guidelines for the Design of Curriculum Analytics Dashboards. In Visualizations and Dashboards for Learning Analytics. Springer Nature. doi>
  • Mitchell J, de Quincey E, Pantin C, Mustfa N. 2021. 15 Usability Recommendations for Delivering Clinical Guidelines on Mobile Devices. BCS Learning & Development. doi> link> full text>
  • de Quincey E and Mitchell J. 2021. Using Card Sorting to Design Faceted Navigation Structures. BCS Learning & Development. doi> link> full text>
  • Philp F, Faux-Nightingale A, Woolley S, de Quincey E, Pandyan A. 2021. Implications for the design of a Diagnostic Decision Support System (DDSS) to reduce time and cost to diagnosis in paediatric shoulder instability. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak, 78, vol. 21(1). link> doi> full text>
  • Mitchell J, De Quincey E, Pantin C, Mustfa N. 2020. The Development of a Point of Care Clinical Guidelines Mobile Application Following a User-Centred Design Approach. Design, User Experience, and Usability. Case Studies in Public and Personal Interactive Systems.. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12202. Springer, Cham. link> doi> link> full text>

Full Publications Listshow

Journal Articles

  • de Quincey E and Mitchell J. 2022. Card Sorting for User Experience Design. Interacting with Computers, 442-457, vol. 33(4). doi> link> full text>
  • Philp F, Faux-Nightingale A, Woolley S, de Quincey E, Pandyan A. 2022. Evaluating the clinical decision making of physiotherapists in the assessment and management of paediatric shoulder instability. Physiotherapy, 46-57, vol. 115. link> doi> full text>
  • Philp F, Faux-Nightingale A, Woolley S, de Quincey E, Pandyan A. 2021. Implications for the design of a Diagnostic Decision Support System (DDSS) to reduce time and cost to diagnosis in paediatric shoulder instability. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak, 78, vol. 21(1). link> doi> full text>
  • Poole E, Giraud E, de Quincey E. 2020. Tactical interventions in online hate speech: The case of #stopIslam. New Media and Society, 1415-1442, vol. 23(3). doi> link> full text>
  • Poole EA, Giraud E, de Quincey E. 2019. Contesting #StopIslam: The Dynamics of a Counter-narrative Against Right-wing Populism. Open Library of Humanities, vol. 5(1). doi> full text>
  • Poole E, De Quincey EJ, Giraud E. 2018. Contesting #stopIslam: Tensions around hate speech on social media. British Academy Review, 16-18. full text>
  • Quincey ED, Turner M, Williams N, Kyriacou T. 2016. Learner Analytics; The Need for User-Centred Design in Learning Analytics. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Ambient Systems, Article 9, vol. 16. doi> link> full text>
  • de Quincey EJ, Kyriacou T, Turner M. 2016. Data Mining for Learning Analytics; does lack of engagement always mean what we think it does?. Journal of Academic Development and Education, Article 6. full text>
  • Winandy M, Kostkova P, de Quincey E, St Louis C, Szomszor M. 2016. Follow #eHealth2011: Measuring the Role and Effectiveness of Online and Social Media in Increasing the Outreach of a Scientific Conference. J Med Internet Res, e191, vol. 18(7). link> doi>
  • de Quincey E, Pantin T, Kyriacou T, Williams N. 2014. Potential of Social Media to Determine Hay Fever Seasons and Drug Efficacy. Planet@ Risk, Article 4, vol. 2.
  • de Quincey E and Quinney D. 2014. AN ONLINE APPLICATION FOR EXPLORING DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS.
  • Lecky DM, McNulty CAM, Adriaenssens N, Herotová TK, Holt J, Kostkova P, Merakou K, Koncan R, Olczak-Pienkowska A, Avô AB, others. 2011. Development of an educational resource on microbes, hygiene and prudent antibiotic use for junior and senior school children. Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, v23-v31, vol. 66.
  • de Quincey E, Kostkova P, Jawaheer G, Farrell D, McNulty CAM, Weinberg J, Goossens H, Adriaenssens N, De Corte S, Holt J, others. 2011. Evaluating the online activity of users of the e-Bug web site. Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, v45-v49, vol. 66.
  • McNulty CAM, Lecky DM, Farrell D, Kostkova P, Adriaenssens N, Herotová TK, Holt J, Touboul P, Merakou K, Koncan R, others. 2011. Overview of e-Bug: an antibiotic and hygiene educational resource for schools. Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, v3-v12, vol. 66.
  • de Quincey E, Hocking A, O Gorman J, Walker S, Bacon L. 2011. S4W1: Using social bookmarking to create and share centralised collections of healthcare related resources. Day 1-27 June 2011 (pm), 24.
  • Lecky DM, McNulty CAM, Adriaenssens N, Herotová TK, Holt J, Touboul P, Merakou K, Koncan R, Olczak-Pienkowska A, Avô AB, others. 2011. What are school children in Europe being taught about hygiene and antibiotic use?. Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, v13-v21, vol. 66.
  • Wiseman S, Kostkova P, de Quincey E, Jawaheer G. 2010. Providing guidance during the swine flu outbreak in 2009: An evaluation study of the National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC). International Journal of Infectious Diseases, e105, vol. 14.
  • Kostkova P, de Quincey E, Jawaheer G. 2010. The potential of social networks for early warning nad outbreak detection systems: the swine flu Twitter study. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, e384-e385, vol. 14.
  • Oliver H, Diallo G, de Quincey E, Alexopoulou D, Habermann B, Kostkova P, Schroeder M, Jupp S, Khelif K, Stevens R, others. 2009. A user-centred evaluation framework for the Sealife semantic web browsers. BMC bioinformatics, S14, vol. 10.
  • Kostkova P, Jawaheer G, de Quincey E, Madle G, Wiseman S. 2009. National electronic library of infection (NeLI/NRIC)-the best available evidence online: 9 years of experience.
  • Quincey ED, De Quincey E, Jawaheer G. 2009. The potential of twitter for early warning and outbreak detection. City.
  • de Quincey E, Kostkova P, Farrell D. 2009. Visualising web server logs for a Web 1.0 audience using Web 2.0 technologies: eliciting attributes for recommendation and profiling systems. Adaptation and Personalization for Web 2.0, 69.
  • Kostkova P, Farrell D, de Quincey E, Weinberg J, Lecky D, McNulty C. 2009. eBug–teaching children hygiene principles using educational games. Studies in health technology and informatics, 600-604, vol. 160.
  • de Quincey E and Hawksley C. 2008. Collaborative Learning Inside and Outside of a Wiki Environment: Experience from a Master’s Course. Novel Approaches to Promoting Student Engagement, 61.
  • Petre M and de Quincey E. 2006. A gentle overview of software visualisation. PPIG News Letter, 1-10.

Chapters

  • De Quincey E and Parker M. 2021. User-Centred Guidelines for the Design of Curriculum Analytics Dashboards. In Visualizations and Dashboards for Learning Analytics. Springer Nature. doi>
  • Garsten N, De Quincey EJ, Bruce I. 2016. The Importance and Art of Articulating Thanks: Lessons From Non-Governmental Organisations (Ngos). In #FuturePRoof: Edition Two. Hall S (Ed.). Sarah Hall.
  • Szomszor M, Kostkova P, De Quincey E. 2012. # swineflu: Twitter predicts swine flu outbreak in 2009. In Electronic Healthcare. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
  • de Quincey E, Kostkova P, Jawaheer G. 2012. Promoting e-Health resources: lessons learned. In Electronic Healthcare. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
  • de Quincey E, Hocking A, O Gorman J, Walker S, Bacon L. 2012. The use of social bookmarking by health care students to create communities of practice. In Electronic Healthcare. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
  • Oliver H, Kostkova P, de Quincey E. 2010. Data triangulation in a user evaluation of the sealife semantic web browsers. In Electronic Healthcare. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
  • de Quincey E and Kostkova P. 2010. Early warning and outbreak detection using social networking websites: The potential of twitter. In Electronic healthcare. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Other

  • Mitchell J, de Quincey E, Pantin C, Mustfa N. 2021. 15 Usability Recommendations for Delivering Clinical Guidelines on Mobile Devices. BCS Learning & Development. doi> link> full text>
  • de Quincey E and Mitchell J. 2021. Using Card Sorting to Design Faceted Navigation Structures. BCS Learning & Development. doi> link> full text>
  • Mitchell J, De Quincey E, Pantin C, Mustfa N. 2020. The Development of a Point of Care Clinical Guidelines Mobile Application Following a User-Centred Design Approach. Design, User Experience, and Usability. Case Studies in Public and Personal Interactive Systems.. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12202. Springer, Cham. link> doi> link> full text>
  • Abuhlfaia K and De Quincey E. 2019. Evaluating the Usability of an e-Learning Platform within Higher Education from a Student Perspective. ICEEL 2019: Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on Education and E-Learning (pp. 1-7). ACM. link> doi> full text>
  • de Quincey E, Briggs C, Kyriacou T, Waller R. 2019. Student Centred Design of a Learning Analytics System. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LEARNING ANALYTICS & KNOWLEDGE (LAK'19) (pp. 353-362). link> doi> full text>
  • De Quincey EJ and Abuhlfaia K. 2018. The Usability of E-learning Platforms in Higher Education: A Systematic Mapping Study. link> doi> link> full text>
  • Al-Janabi MF, de Quincey E, Andras PE, others. 2017. Using supervised machine learning algorithms to detect suspicious URLs in online social networks. Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2017. Keele University. doi> full text>
  • Olorisade BK, De Quincey E, Brereton OP, Andras PE. 2016. A Critical Analysis of Studies that Address the Use of Text Mining for Citation Screening in Systematic Reviews. EASE '16 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering. ACM. doi> full text>
  • de Quincey E, Kyriacou T, Pantin T, ACM. 2016. #hayfever; A Longitudinal Study into Hay Fever Related Tweets in the UK. DH'16: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2016 DIGITAL HEALTH CONFERENCE (pp. 85-89). link> doi> full text>
  • de Quincey E, Kyriacou T, Pantin T, ACM. 2016. #hayfever; A Longitudinal Study into Hay Fever Related Tweets in the UK. DH'16: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2016 DIGITAL HEALTH CONFERENCE (pp. 85-89). link> doi> full text>
  • De Quincey EJ and Stoneham R. 2015. Student Engagement: An evaluation of the effectiveness of explicit and implicit Learning Analytics. Proceedings of ePIC 2014. ADPIOS, Poitiers, France. full text>
  • De Quincey EJ and Stoneham R. 2015. Student Engagement: An evaluation of the effectiveness of explicit and implicit Learning Analytics. Proceedings of ePIC 2014. ADPIOS, Poitiers, France. full text>
  • Jazdarreh A, de Quincey E, McKinnon L. 2015. Design and Development of a Real Time RecSys Based on Location, Mobile device and Tourists Activities.
  • Collins-Eade A, De Quincey EJ, Foster E, Jump L. 2015. An Investigation into the early detection of psychosis and depression in individuals via Social Media (Twitter). Global Risk Forum GRF Davos.
  • de Quincey ED and Kyriacou T. 2015. Factors for Consideration in Learning Analytics; An Investigation into Student Activity on an MLE.
  • de Quincey E and Stoneham R. 2013. Identifying Potential Sources of Data and Metaphors for Learning Analytics and Dashboards. apt2013.
  • de Quincey E and Hocking A. 2012. The use of twitter by students and lecturers: the potential impact on feedback and engagement. Inspiring Teachers: learning and leading in academic practice.

Research themes

Software engineering

School of Computer Science and Mathematics
Keele University
Staffordshire
ST5 5AA